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NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with David Cooper, senior economic analyst for the Economic Policy Institute, about minimum wage increases in 2019.

When Loan Pham left Vietnam with her family for asylum in the U.S., she brought a backpack of rice with her. She shares the story of her journey for the series What They Took With Them.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who was among the Congressional leaders gathered at the White House Wednesday for a briefing on the president's border wall plans.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Republican political consultant Mike Murphy about what it might take to run a primary against President Trump.

Comic actor-writer Bob Einstein has died of cancer at age 76. Einstein was known for playing Marty Funkhauser on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Super Dave Osborne, a goofy stuntman on late-night TV.

Rachel Martin talks to Mercedes Schlapp, White House director of Strategic Communications, about the stalemate keeping the government partially closed. NPR's Kelsey Snell weighs in on the topic.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Aaron Payment of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe about how the government shutdown is affecting Native American tribes that rely on federal money for things like medical care.

Rachel Martin talks to Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest and a senior analyst at Religion News Service, about Pope Francis' letter to U.S. Bishops about the sexual abuse crisis within the Catholic Church.

An elephant reaches its trunk out of its pen and steals a woman's purse. In a tug of war, the woman manages to retrieve her phone. The elephant got the purse and the mangoes inside.

The Freelancers Hub in New York City opened in October, offering classes as well as tax and legal assistance for independent workers. It's free, and the first of its kind in the country.