Blog Verité

President Trump travels to the U.S. Southern border Friday in a week when he’s repeatedly threatened to shut that border completely. We hear about how Mexico is responding.

NPR’s Steve Inskeep talks to Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra about his stance on the U.S. government supporting the domestic semiconductor industry and China’s semiconductor ambitions.

Despite a global refugee crisis, the United States is closing its doors. Refugee resettlement is near record lows, even for minorities whose plight the Trump administration has highlighted.

Libya is descending into another bout of factional warfare.

Nine Brunei-owned luxury hotels have deleted their social media accounts following a backlash over the country’s new anti-gay laws.

Two women killed themselves and their six adopted children when they drove off a cliff in California, a coroner’s jury has concluded.

A woman has posted a video on YouTube of herself giving birth, which has been viewed by more than a million people.

The 12 boys who were rescued from a cave in Thailand had to be sedated with the horse tranquilliser ketamine, according to a medical report.

A series of wildfires which broke out in South Korea’s Gangwon Province on Thursday evening have killed one person and forced thousands more to flee.

Saudi Arabia has arrested at least eight writers and bloggers, including two US citizens, in an apparent crackdown on supporters of detained women activists whose trial has drawn global censure, campaigners said Friday. News of the arrests came the morning