A new report by criminal defense lawyers finds judges involved in the cases of people who are unable to pay for attorneys too often put their own fingers on the scales.
Migrants crossing Hungary's border with Serbia are being held in temporary camps with few facilities, and some have tried to break out and make their own way north to Germany.
In a letter obtained by NPR, the Libre Initiative criticized calls made by some of the presidential candidates for mass deportation and ending birthright citizenship.
Donald Trump wrote to CNN's president after the network raised its ad rates for next week's debate. Trump said increased viewer and ad interest is "due 100% to 'Donald J. Trump.' "
Pollster and frequent NPR contributor Andy Kohut was a fierce defender of quality polling and an advocate for finding the resources to do it right in changing times. He died Tuesday at 73.
The former leader of the polling group that calls itself a "fact tank" had been battling a form of leukemia that his son says was first diagnosed in 2009.
NPR's Audie Cornish interviews Demetrios Papademetriou, president of Migration Policy Institute Europe, for a breakdown of where the migrants are coming from and if they qualify as refugees.
Saudi Arabia recently promised aid to Yemen — the country it's been bombing and blockading with U.S. help. But it didn't come through, and the United Nations is now trying to broker a deal to make it happen.