The Latest A growing number of Israelis are divided over government's denial of Gaza starvation Israel's government and media deny there is a starvation crisis in Gaza -- but some Israelis are starting to doubt that narrative. Eleanor Beardsley Science Researchers find a culprit in sea stars' decline A mysterious disease has been ravaging sea stars off the West Coast, leading to loss of entire kelp forests. Now, researchers have finally identified the culprit, opening new strategies for combatting it. Lauren Sommer National Immigration enforcement brings new level of uncertainty to Montana cherry season Cherry harvesting is an already volatile industry dependent upon weather and market conditions. This summer a new level of uncertainty was added when Montana growers weren't sure if migrant workers would cross state lines after heightened immigration enforcement. Victoria Traxler Politics The Trump administration is removing the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Billy Long is stepping down. Jacob Bogage, White House economic correspondent at the Washington Post, talks with NPR's Ari Shapiro. Jordan-Marie Smith Law & Courts Lawyers, judges see a chilling effect from immigrants' arrests at criminal courthouses As the Trump administration seeks to scale up deportations, ICE agents have been increasingly seen at immigration courts and criminal courthouses. Defense attorneys, prosecutors and judges say they're seeing a chilling effect on criminal proceedings, not only on the defendants but on witnesses and victims. Meg Anderson National Is there anything left to learn about the Russia investigation? Reports say Attorney General Pam Bondi has authorized an investigation into the investigation of Trump's 2016 campaign's relationship with Russia. What is there left to learn? Michael Levitt Week in Review: primary results, Progressive’s success, and Denny Blaine Park Host Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Seattle City Councilperson Joy Hollingsworth, PubliCola’s Erica Barnett, and political consultant Sandeep Kaushik Kevin Kniestedt National Justice Department escalates its campaign against Trump's perceived political enemies The Justice Department is ramping up investigations into New York's attorney general and other frequent targets of President Trump, as it fires longtime FBI officials. Ari Shapiro We've all gotten those hiring scam texts. Instead of deleting, this writer played along Alexander Sammon received a suspicious job recruitment text from someone who claimed to be a hiring manager. He decided to play along to see how far the scam would go, and wrote about it for Slate. Christopher Intagliata National What's happening inside Alligator Alcatraz as a judge halts construction -- for now Civil rights lawyers say many migrant detainees in Florida's so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" are being barred from meeting regularly with attorneys and being held in poor conditions inside the hastily constructed detention facility run by the state of Florida. Jasmine Garsd Prev 1130 of 1649 Next Sponsored
A growing number of Israelis are divided over government's denial of Gaza starvation Israel's government and media deny there is a starvation crisis in Gaza -- but some Israelis are starting to doubt that narrative. Eleanor Beardsley
Science Researchers find a culprit in sea stars' decline A mysterious disease has been ravaging sea stars off the West Coast, leading to loss of entire kelp forests. Now, researchers have finally identified the culprit, opening new strategies for combatting it. Lauren Sommer
National Immigration enforcement brings new level of uncertainty to Montana cherry season Cherry harvesting is an already volatile industry dependent upon weather and market conditions. This summer a new level of uncertainty was added when Montana growers weren't sure if migrant workers would cross state lines after heightened immigration enforcement. Victoria Traxler
Politics The Trump administration is removing the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Billy Long is stepping down. Jacob Bogage, White House economic correspondent at the Washington Post, talks with NPR's Ari Shapiro. Jordan-Marie Smith
Law & Courts Lawyers, judges see a chilling effect from immigrants' arrests at criminal courthouses As the Trump administration seeks to scale up deportations, ICE agents have been increasingly seen at immigration courts and criminal courthouses. Defense attorneys, prosecutors and judges say they're seeing a chilling effect on criminal proceedings, not only on the defendants but on witnesses and victims. Meg Anderson
National Is there anything left to learn about the Russia investigation? Reports say Attorney General Pam Bondi has authorized an investigation into the investigation of Trump's 2016 campaign's relationship with Russia. What is there left to learn? Michael Levitt
Week in Review: primary results, Progressive’s success, and Denny Blaine Park Host Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Seattle City Councilperson Joy Hollingsworth, PubliCola’s Erica Barnett, and political consultant Sandeep Kaushik Kevin Kniestedt
National Justice Department escalates its campaign against Trump's perceived political enemies The Justice Department is ramping up investigations into New York's attorney general and other frequent targets of President Trump, as it fires longtime FBI officials. Ari Shapiro
We've all gotten those hiring scam texts. Instead of deleting, this writer played along Alexander Sammon received a suspicious job recruitment text from someone who claimed to be a hiring manager. He decided to play along to see how far the scam would go, and wrote about it for Slate. Christopher Intagliata
National What's happening inside Alligator Alcatraz as a judge halts construction -- for now Civil rights lawyers say many migrant detainees in Florida's so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" are being barred from meeting regularly with attorneys and being held in poor conditions inside the hastily constructed detention facility run by the state of Florida. Jasmine Garsd