The magnitude 8.1 quake hit off Mexico's southern coast, toppling houses in Chiapas state and causing buildings more than 600 miles away in Mexico City to sway violently.
JR, a French street artist, hasn't answered that question — and that's the point. His massive artwork on the border, which coincided with the decision to rescind DACA, is the "start of a discussion."
NPR's Robert Siegel speaks to Eduardo Mendoza, Direct Relief Mexico's general manager, about the response being coordinated with the impacted areas in Oaxaca and the rest of the country after the earthquake.
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Kimahli Powell, executive director of non-profit, Rainbow Railroad, about the joint program between Powell's organization and the Canadian government to secretly move gay men and women out of Chechnya and into Canada as government-assisted refugees.
Despite its ambitions to create world class academic institutions, China has stepped up efforts to purge its universities of liberal ideas, reversing a general long-term trend towards more academic freedoms.