Steve Inskeep

The Trump administration wants to detain migrant families together for as long as their immigration cases are pending.

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's hearing kicked off on Tuesday with loud complaints from Democrats about documents they requested to consider the nomination.

In Detroit, Aretha Franklin gets her final sendoff — in the vintage, white Cadillac hearse that once carried civil rights icon Rosa Parks. Her fans have been celebrating the Queen of Soul all week.

Anand Giridharadas spent time with tech entrepreneurs and affluent elites who want to change the world. But in a new book, he writes that their market-based mantras only maintain inequalities.

The U.S. and Mexico reach an understanding to renegotiate NAFTA. There are primary elections in Arizona and Florida. And, a federal school safety commission holds its final public listening session.

Four primary elections were held Tuesday. Now that West Virginia's House of Delegates voted to impeach the state's supreme court justices, the state Senate will decide their fate.

Four states hold primaries Tuesday ahead of November's midterms. Taliban fighters have attacked the Afghan city of Ghazni. As Turkey's economic troubles spread, a dispute with the U.S. plays a role.

EPA chief Scott Pruitt resigns amid ethics questions. And U.S. tariffs are imposed on $34 billion worth of Chinese imports and China retaliates.

Have Democrats found an election-year message and strategy? And, distillers are worried as U.S. allies respond to President Trump's aggressive trade policies by putting tariffs on bourbon.

The Trump administration is undoing Obama-era guidance to schools on affirmative action. And, an update on last month's shooting of an unarmed black teenager in East Pittsburgh, Pa.

A narrowly divided Senate is putting 2 Republican women and 3 red-state Democrats in the high court spotlight. And, there are reports of new construction at North Korean missile and nuclear sites.

The leftist candidate in Mexico's election wins in a landslide. And, President Trump says he'll focus this week on selecting a Supreme Court nominee to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.

A Yemeni-American who's protested Trump's travel ban reflects on what the high court's decision means for mixed-status families who have been separated by Yemen's civil war and America's ban.

By a 5 to 4 majority, the Supreme Court upheld a modified version of President Trump's travel ban. This was the third version of the ban; Trump narrowed its scope and added non-Muslim countries.

House Republicans are trying for a vote on immigration while primaries test Trump's endorsement. Harley-Davidson announced that it would be moving some production overseas to avoid EU tariffs.

Trump's ramped up rhetoric occurs as agencies scramble to implement his executive order. The focus on immigration may be diverting resources from addressing Trump's core concerns about drug smuggling.

President Trump ended a policy that sent thousands of children to government-run facilities away from their parents. Critics say he created new problems — the children held may be there indefinitely.

The White House is using the separation of migrant children from their parents at the border to pressure Democrats on immigration legislation. The president threatens tariffs on more Chinese goods.

NPR's Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg discusses the implications of Monday's Supreme Court decision on partisan gerrymandering in Wisconsin and Maryland.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen addresses the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy that is separating families who cross the border illegally.