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Bangladeshis who want to work abroad can pay thousands of dollars for a permit. The reward is a chance for a job that allows them to send cash back home. But there's a potential for abuse as well.

U.S. border officials strictly limit the number of asylum seekers they allow to legally cross ports of entry every day, creating an enormous backlog of migrants in places like Matamoros.

The billionaire wants to deploy thousands of satellites in order to provide global Internet, but astronomers say they could create unsightly glare.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a longtime ally of the tobacco industry, is calling to raise the age for the sale of tobacco products to 21. Some who share the goal aren't backing his bill.

Champion James Holzhauer's winning streak ends at 32 games in Monday's viewing. He won more than $2.4 million, the second highest winner in regular-season play.

His resignation letter does not shed new light on the shooter's possible motive. Officials say it suggests the gunman provided no sign of the violence to come.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with David Cooke, district attorney for Macon, Ga., about how prosecutors like himself plan to push back on new anti-abortion laws by not enforcing them.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown will sign a proclamation June 7, declaring it gun violence awareness day.

This week's All Songs Considered features Bon Iver's "Hey, Ma," released just this week, French Vanilla's sax-driven throwback "Suddenly," and more. It'll leave you asking, "What's a porn crumpet?"

Reid Weingarten, a former public corruption prosecutor, was called a conservative toady and a "lefty" the same day in separate cases. But the system resists the will of any individual, he says.