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In the past few years, unemployed workers from developing nations have traveled to the Middle East to find jobs and higher wages. NPR's Philip Reeves visited a northern Indian village to speak to one job-seeker, who worked for a transport company in Iraq and ended up being kidnapped.

NPR's Liane Hansen speaks with journalist Seymour M. Hersh about his forthcoming article in The New Yorker detailing abuse of Iraqis held prisoner by U.S. military authorities in Iraq. The story broke this past week when images of prisoners being tortured and humiliated were broadcast on television and seen around the world on web sites.

As mourners make their way to the National Cathedral, NPR White House correspondent Scott Horsley talks about the ceremony and reflects on notable moments in the former president's career.

Two of the three reservoirs that serve the city are practically empty. In the long term, officials are trying to build more dams and reservoirs. The short term plan is to hope for rain.

Brazil's environment is a global concern. But on the campaign trail, it's struggling to get voters' attention.

On this edition, we talk with Andy McEvoy a scientist at OSU about a new tool which takes into account social vulnerability when assessing a community's fire risk and we also speak with Tarah Heinzen of Food and Water Watch about lax regulation on Oregon factory farms and what that can do to the environment.

The U.S. border with Mexico is a difficult place to patrol. Chris Cabrera, spokesperson for the National Border Patrol Council, speaks with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about what a wall would mean.

Under current law, candidates' campaigns are not allowed to coordinate with superPACs, although they clearly benefit from their messages. As result, candidates have performed feats of verbal gymnastics in order to talk about them. Host Scott Simon speaks with NPR's Peter Overby about the role of superPACs in the presidential race.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to political risk analyst Sebastian Hurtado about recent events in Ecuador, risks to citizens there, and the country's political stability.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Todd Belt of George Washington University about whether there's a strategy behind President Trump's fixation on a UFC fight and building projects across Washington, D.C.