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Labor Secretary Alex Acosta defended his handling of financier Jeffrey Epstein's 2008 nonprosecution agreements. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance about Acosta's defense.

Rory Power's debut novel combines creeping, corrupting body horror with the intense bonds between teenage girls at an isolated school for a post-apocalypse story that's fresh, horrible and beautiful.

President Trump says he's considering using an executive order to get a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Steve Inskeep talks to commentator Cokie Roberts, who answers listeners' questions.

In her new film, "The Farewell," Awkwafina plays Billi, a woman whose grandmother is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Federal border agencies, nonprofit organizations and towns along the Arizona border are feeling strained from the ongoing migration of asylum seekers.

There are reports that nationwide ICE raids to arrest thousands of undocumented immigrants are set to begin Sunday in at least 10 major cities.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel sat through the German and Danish national anthems at a greeting ceremony in Berlin on Thursday, after she had uncontrolled tremors at three previous public events.

New research finds automation widening the gap between urban and rural areas and dramatically affecting people who didn't go to college or didn't finish high school.

Richard Billingham documented his parents' neglect and abuse in previous documentary projects. His first narrative film captures their brutality even as it affords them some measure of dignity.

It's the biggest settlement yet in the nation's opioid crisis: the company that marketed Suboxone Film, an opioid treatment drug, will pay $1.4 billion to settle claims of fraudulent marketing.