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Sen. Elizabeth Warren was barred from participating in the debate on Sen. Jeff Sessions' nomination for Attorney General after she quoted past criticism of him from Coretta Scott King and Ted Kennedy.

When the Republican National Convention officially gavels into order Monday, some major GOP leaders — including former presidents — will be conspicuously absent.

On this edition we talk about proposed legislation and federal action to log more of Oregon forests. We speak with Oregon Wild's Steve Pedery which opposes the action, and Travis Joseph of the American Forest Resource Council which supports it.

Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman says the president and Fox News host Sean Hannity "speak almost daily." David Edelstein reviews Three Identical Strangers. Paul Greenberg discusses fish oil supplement.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Hadi Pir, vice president of a Yazidi advocacy organization, about how the minority group targeted by ISIS feels about the death of its leader.

Environmental groups warn it'll be disastrous for the Amazon if Jair Bolsonaro is elected president of Brazil. Bolsonaro grew up in a rain forest, in a community that's now deeply divided about him.

On this edition we talk with Oregon Senator Ron Wyden after his recent calls for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. to resign or be fired.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has no plans to rescue the country's businesses beyond small loans for small firms. Hurt by the COVID-19 shutdown, the country's in a deepening recession.

Barred from running against President Vladimir Putin, Russia's opposition leader is training a nationwide network of volunteers who will act as election observers for the March 18 presidential election.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Ashley Tabaddor, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, about the backlog of cases that immigration judges are facing at the U.S. border.