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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with author Alexandra Fuller about her memoir, Travel Light, Move Fast. It centers on her father, Tim Fuller, a self-exiled black sheep who left England for Africa.

President Trump has signed a presidential memorandum that is designed to increase the number of "permanently disabled veterans" who erase their federal student loan debt.

Fires are always burning in the Amazon. But wildfires have surged 83% since this time last year, according to Brazil's space agency. Satellites have spotted more than 9,500 wildfires this past week.

Why did it take some of the nation's biggest news organizations so long to take seriously the accusations against the late Jeffrey Epstein? Allegations about his behavior go back more than a decade.

Fort Monroe in Virginia is the site where the first enslaved Africans arrived in English North America in 1619. Back then it was called Point Comfort. Commemoration events will be held this weekend.

More than 30,000 asylum-seekers are waiting in border towns such as Nuevo Laredo, where cartels and gangs wreak havoc. Criminal elements target migrants who fled their Central American homes.

NPR's Noel King talks to Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, who is in Jackson Hole for the annual meeting of Fed officials. Chairman Powell is expected to speak.

The site of this month's mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas did more than just kill 22 people, it also hit a public gathering space that united cultures in the cross-border community.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Doug Morton of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center about what satellite imagery can tell us about the cause and extent of the fires in Brazil.

Brazilians have taken to the streets in protest over destruction being done to the Amazon through wildfires and tree cutting. They say the new right-wing president is fueling the destruction.