The Justice Department and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are considering a request from county officials in Memphis, Tenn., regarding federal oversight of the juvenile court system there. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Win McNamee/Getty Images The Justice Department and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are considering a request from county officials in Memphis, Tenn.,

A GAO report questions the quality of a number of Medicare Advantage plans after large numbers of sicker enrollees dropped them. Yellow Dog Productions/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Yellow Dog Productions/Getty Images A GAO report questions the quality of a number of Medicare Advantage plans after large numbers of sicker enrollees dropped them. Yellow

Movie DVD and VCD disks are arranged on a shelf at a store in Pyongyang, North Korea. Alexander F. Yuan/AP hide caption toggle caption Alexander F. Yuan/AP Movie DVD and VCD disks are arranged on a shelf at a store in Pyongyang, North Korea. Alexander F. Yuan/AP When Yeonmi Park was a young girl, she

Adina Acevera and other seniors at Brooklyn’s Macon Library have teams and tournaments, complete with matching shirts, for Xbox bowling. Ina Jaffe/NPR hide caption toggle caption Ina Jaffe/NPR Adina Acevera and other seniors at Brooklyn’s Macon Library have teams and tournaments, complete with matching shirts, for Xbox bowling. Ina Jaffe/NPR For the past three years,

America’s young voters are more likely to be independent than their parents, and in 2016, many millennials flocked behind independent Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images America’s young voters are more likely to be independent than their parents, and in 2016, many millennials

The Trump administration has been remarkably on-message on social media over the past week — that is, if you only look at official Twitter accounts, rather than the president’s personal feed. The administration tweets touted immigration legislation, provided support for the GOP’s health care bill, defended the president’s travel ban and pushed energy policy. Meanwhile,

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: On this weekend when this nation celebrates its independence, we’ll look at another nation living through upheaval. We’re talking about Venezuela, where last Tuesday, a police helicopter was used to attack Venezuela’s Supreme Court and Interior Ministry with grenades and gunfire. That was the latest and perhaps most bizarre development after months

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We’re going to start the program today considering the dilemma of the tiny Persian Gulf nation of Qatar. The country is facing a deadline to agree to a series of demands from Saudi Arabia and three other Arab countries. Saudi Arabia gave Qatar until Sunday evening to meet its demands, which include

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: The hostility against the U.S. media follows a global trend of increased arrests and attacks on journalists worldwide. That’s according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonprofit that advocates for journalists. To hear more about this, we called the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Joel Simon. I started

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now for an update on the latest Republican effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the Senate would not be able to vote on a bill before the July Fourth recess, which means Republicans are still fighting for votes among

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: On this busy travel weekend for Americans, we’ll turn now to President Trump’s efforts to ban people from six predominantly Muslim countries from traveling to the U.S. Now, his initial effort had been blocked by federal judges after it sparked confusion, protests and lawsuits. But five days ago, the Supreme Court said

Pope Francis talks with Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014. Andrew Medichini/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Medichini/AP Pope Francis talks with Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014. Andrew Medichini/AP For the second time in