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  • What do Kalamazoo residents want the city look like in 2025, and how can it happen? A 15 month process to develop a new master plan has been trying to…
  • Singer, guitarist and Country Music Hall of Famer Glen Campbell has died after a very public struggle with Alzheimer's disease. He was 81.
  • Residents on the U.S. island territory of Guam are at the center of an escalating war of words between North Korea and the U.S. Ailsa Chang talks with Mayor Paul McDonald of Agana Heights, Guam.
  • Reports say North Korea has made progress in their nuclear program. Rachel Martin asks the Wilson Center's Robert Litwak, who worked in the Clinton administration, about North Korea's nuclear gains.
  • Unofficial results in Kenya's presidential election put the incumbent in the lead by a healthy margin and his challenger is claiming fraud. Opposition leader Raila Odinga is claiming an elaborate hacking scheme that involves last week's torture and murder of a top election official. The election commission says it will investigate the charge.
  • Disney says that when current contracts expire it will no longer offer new movies and TV shows to Netflix. It's also launching two new streaming services — one for movies and TV and the other an ESPN sports stream. Content creators such as Disney are increasingly questioning their relationships with streaming services like Netflix, as cord cutters erode profits for cable channels.
  • NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Purna Sen, policy director for UN Women, about how some countries are moving to repeal laws that allow rapists to avoid punishment by marrying their victims.
  • (MPRN-Lansing) Michigan needs more asbestos inspectors but doesn’t have the funding to pay for them, according to the Legislature’s Auditor General. The…
  • In Kenya, police fired tear gas and bullets on demonstrators in slums around Nairobi. Kenya's commission on human rights says at least 24 people have been killed since Tuesday's presidential vote.
  • Charlottesville, Va. Vice-Mayor Wes Bellamy talks about the white supremacist rally in the city Saturday and the reaction of the black community there.
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