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Commentator Cokie Roberts answers listener questions and talks with NPR's Noel King about the history of immigration and asylum laws.

There's a bail review hearing this morning for the suspect of a deadly shooting in Annapolis, Md. Noel King talks with WAMU's Patrick Madden about the latest information.

06-29-18 8:30 AM newcast

Director Debra Granik's new film is based on a true story about a veteran suffering from PTSD who lives secretly in a municipal forest with his teenage daughter.

With the departure of Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court loses a swing vote who has tended to uphold abortion rights. His retirement could reshape the landscape in the battle over abortion.

Protesters across the country are trying to disrupt the operations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Politicians on the left are calling for the agency's abolition. Even some ICE investigators say the agency should be reorganized in the face of pushback to President Trump's immigration crackdown.

The Chicago Crime Commission recently published an update to its gang book. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Columbia University professor Desmond Patton about the book and why it's problematic for communities of color.

Now that President Trump no longer can separate migrant families detained at the border, his administration is preparing to lock them up together — an arrangement with many critics and legal limits.

Construction of the Ottawa Bluesfest's main stage was briefly halted by a nest of eggs, tended by a protected bird. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Monika Melichar who relocated the eggs.

The National Book Foundation has partnered with the Department of Housing and Urban Development on a literacy program aimed at getting books into the hands of kids and adults living in public housing.