Politics & Government

Migrants walk into U.S. custody after crossing the border from Mexico, Ciudad Juarez, Wednesday, March 29, 2023.

The U.S. unveils plan to discourage border crossings when pandemic restrictions lift

7:26pm April 27, 2023

by Joel Rose

The Biden administration's efforts will include new immigration processing centers in Latin America and other measures to discourage illegal border crossings.

An image from a Republican National Committee ad against President Biden features imagery generated by artificial intelligence. The spread of AI-generated images, video and audio presents a challenge for policymakers.

Politics & Government

AI-generated deepfakes are moving fast. Policymakers can't keep up

6:10pm April 27, 2023

by Shannon Bond

Tech companies are in a race to roll out AI chatbots and other tools. As technology gets better at faking reality, there are big questions over how to regulate it.

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With pandemic border restrictions ending, White House discourages illegal crossings

6:00pm April 27, 2023

by Joel Rose

The Biden administration announced a host of changes designed to discourage illegal border crossings. Numbers of people trying to cross are expected to increase when pandemic restrictions lift.

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President Joe Biden reacts as South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol sings the song "American Pie" in the State Dining Room of the White House on Wednesday.

Nuclear deterrence by day, noraebang by night. This head of state does both

5:33pm April 27, 2023

by Mary Yang

But at home, conservative South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol continues to face backlash over women's rights and ties with Japan.

South Korean President Yoon serenades White House with an American rock classic

4:43pm April 27, 2023

South Korean President Yoon serenaded a crowd at the White House with his rendition of Don McLean's classic American Pie.

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What went wrong at Silicon Valley Bank? The Fed is set to release a postmortem report

4:19pm April 27, 2023

The Federal Reserve and the FDIC are set to report Friday on their oversight of two failed banks. The banks' collapse six weeks ago rocked credit markets and raised the risk of recession.

E. Jean Carroll arrives at federal court in New York, on Thursday. The writer told a jury that Donald Trump raped her at a department store in 1990s.

Donald Trump's lawyer cross-examines E. Jean Carroll over her rape accusation

4:12pm April 27, 2023

by The Associated Press

Lawyer Joseph Tacopina irritated Carroll by using the word "supposedly" to cast doubt on her rape claim, drawing an immediate and stern rebuke from the writer. "Not supposedly. I was raped," she said.

Rep. Tricia Cotham, Sen. Michael Lazzara, House Speaker Tim Moore, Phil Berger

N. Carolina GOP seeks big private school voucher expansion

11:22am April 27, 2023

by Associated Press

Public money for private school tuition would be available to all of North Carolina's K-12 students regardless of income under Republican-backed legislation that began advancing in the General Asse

Lawmakers in Montana's House vote to punish transgender lawmaker Rep. Zephyr

9:54am April 27, 2023

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Mara Silvers, a reporter for the Montana Free Press, about why the state's House of Representatives voted to formally discipline transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr.

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Morning news brief

8:14am April 27, 2023

House Republicans pass a partisan bill linking the debt limit to spending cuts. Disney files a lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Montana Republicans vote to punish a transgender lawmaker.

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