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In his book The Latinos of Asia, Anthony Christian Ocampo explores how Filipino-Americans challenge traditional ideas about race and national identity.

House Republicans make their case on Tuesday. They accuse John Koskinen of lying under oath to Congress, and under his watch, emails of a former IRS official that had been subpoenaed were destroyed.

Contestants in the National Spelling Bee will now be required to offer definitions for the words. Audie Cornish talks to sportswriter Stefan Fatsis about the change.

In the age of digital media, many newspapers have been forced to gut their staffs, leading some media analysts to sound the death knell for enterprise reporting and long-form storytelling. Not so fast, say the craft's most passionate advocates.

A group of Arizona educators rallied at the state capitol on Wednesday, demanding a 20 percent pay raise. Republican Gov. Doug Ducey says that's a no-go. Noah Karvelis, an organizer and music teacher, tells NPR's Ailsa Chang about their next steps.

Footage from privately owned surveillance cameras along the Boston Marathon route gave the FBI early clues about the bombing suspects. But the proliferation of cameras in America's big cities raises some tricky questions about the balance between security and privacy.

Robert Siegel speaks with Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst and author of Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden — from 9/11 to Abbottabad, about the alleged link between al-Qaida and Iran.

An overhaul of the country's immigration laws by Congress is not yet a done deal. One change already in place prevents the deportation of young adults brought to the country illegally as children.

The family of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man shot and killed by Sacramento police officers, released the results of an independent autopsy at a news conference.

Nearly a year after jurors failed to reach a verdict on sexual assault charges against Bill Cosby, the comedian is about to be tried again. This time attorneys will be factoring in the impact of the #MeToo movement on the jury.

At least seven companies have pulled their ads from Laura Ingraham's show on Fox News after Ingraham said David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland, Fla., shooting, was whining about college application rejections. Ingraham has apologized for her remarks, but Hogg isn't relenting.

Dee Ford was getting angry tweets when the Kansas City Chiefs' player drew a late penalty against the Patriots and his team lost. A woman named Dee Ford is on Twitter, she gets tweets meant for him.

The U.S. and China are said to be far a part on a trade deal. At the annual World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and China's vice president traded tough words.

Mendez slipped into revolutionary Iran in 1980 and brought out six American diplomats who were granted refuge by the Canadian Embassy. He didn't receive full acclaim until Hollywood made a 2012 movie.

The media is in the spotlight for its coverage of a standoff between Covington Catholic High School students and a Native American elder.

NPR's Mara Liasson joins Lulu Garcia-Navarro to discuss the president's move to sign a bill ending the partial shutdown, and to examine the latest indictment related to the Mueller investigation.

Steve Inskeep talks to Army Staff Sergeant Patricia King about this week's Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to temporarily enforce its plan to ban transgender military personnel.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Huffington Post writer Emma Gray about Monday's episode of The Bachelor, on which a contestant opened up about her sexual assault in an unusually frank and sensitive way.

Rachel Martin talks to Jim Marinitti of the National Air Traffic Controller Association about how the partial government shutdown affects aviation security.

French actress Catherine Deneuve once told fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, "my most beautiful love affair is with you." Now she's auctioning off more than 100 of her YSL haute couture ensembles.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Tracey Winbush, vice chair of the Mahoning County, Ohio, GOP, about her support of Donald Trump as an African-American Republican and the intensity of enthusiasm around this year's election.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Kori Schake of the Hoover Institution about Syria and what may lie ahead now that the U.S. has taken direct military action against the Assad regime.

Fox News' Bill O'Reilly has lost support from advertisers after reports about sexual harassment. NPR's Scott Simon talks to professor Anita Hill about women being harassed in the workplace.

Netflix and other streaming services don't release ratings data. This makes it a hard company to negotiate with and makes it hard for competitors to know what they're up against.

Companies like Nielsen aren't able to easily measure the new ways people watch TV since Netflix and Amazon don't release their viewing numbers. Now a startup called Symphony aims to fill the void.