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NPR's Noel King talks to John Feeley, who retired as ambassador to Panama last year, about how President Trump's proposed changes to asylum laws might impact migrants.

This year's measles outbreak is the largest in recent memory. But from 1989 to 1991, more than 55,000 people got measles. Federal funding and parents embracing vaccines halted the outbreak.

Sen. Kamala Harris of California was the breakout star of the second part of the Democratic debate — and may have reshaped the contest as she took on former Vice President Joe Biden over race.

Advocates described desperate and squalid scenes in detention facilities. Days later, reporters given a tour of a Border Patrol station at Clint, Texas, saw a clean, orderly facility.

At a time when the United States is enjoying the lowest unemployment rate in a half-century, California's Imperial Valley suffers from a shortage of good jobs.

It's not just "Medicare-for-all" or the Green New Deal that will spark differences among candidates. Trade marks a big divide wedged by the Trump agenda. And what would each tackle first as president?

San Francisco supervisors say they need to protect kids and teens from becoming addicted to nicotine. The dominant vaping company, Juul, is headquartered in the city and hopes to overturn the ban.

The South Bend, Ind., mayor and presidential candidate has been dealing with the aftermath of a fatal shooting in his hometown in which a white officer shot a black man.

"Mr. Pozner has sought for years to try to get these conspiracy theorists to understand that his son really was a person and that his son really did die," attorney Jake Zimmerman told NPR.

Art Laffer received the Presidential Medal of Freedom Wednesday. For decades, Laffer has promoted the idea that tax cuts pay for themselves, against all evidence to the contrary.