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Jair Bolsonaro is under house arrest for violating pre-trial restrictions ahead of Trump's imposition of tariffs to pressure Brazil for what the U.S. president says is political persecution of his ally.

The government called on the court to reverse an appeals court ruling that found most of President Donald Trump's tariffs are an illegal use of an emergency powers law.

Next week marks 80 years since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Garrett Graff about his book "The Devil Reached Toward The Sky," which recounts the bomb's creation.

The U.S. job market slowed sharply this spring, as President Trump's tariffs took effect. Trump is calling for even higher import taxes in the coming week.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., about Bacon's trip to Mexico to foster cooperation in ongoing trade talks.

The state health official who led Michigan's efforts to build work requirements into Medicaid says other states will soon be learning some very lessons about what is involved and how much it costs.

On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Comedian Marc Maron talks about the ways he feels connected to the partner he lost.

The Trump administration unfroze federal funds set to help bring more EV charging stations to Alaska. The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District's Board of Education adopted a resolution in response to local concerns about immigration enforcement actions. The Alaska Department of Law is asking a judge to toss much of a lawsuit over the state's failure to process food assistance applications on time. Researchers mapped where bird traffic and ship traffic overlap in some of Alaska's waters.

In July and August of 2024 in Bangladesh, student protesters' push for change drove the authoritarian prime minister out of power. Hundreds of demonstrators were killed.

Researchers are mimicking fungi to create a new material to keep Alaskans warm in the winter, and a ballot initiative to broaden Alaska's access to psychedelic natural medicines — like magic mushrooms — took another step forward last month.