Law

Ziggy Torok and Starla Affatati watch helplessly Thursday as the flames of the Holy Fire close in on Torok's home in the Rice Canyon neighborhood of Lake Elsinore, Calif.

National

It's 'All Gonna Burn': As Holy Fire Rages, Authorities Find A Human Suspect

11:04am August 10, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

Forrest Gordon Clark, 51, faces a life sentence if convicted of igniting the Southern California blaze. The wildfire has forced more than 21,000 people to evacuate.

Politics & Government

Prosecutors In Manafort Fraud Trial Called Nearly A Dozen Witnesses

7:58am August 10, 2018

by Carrie Johnson

Jurors in the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort have heard about how he misrepresented his income in order to get bank loans. Prosecutors could wrap their case as early as Friday.

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National

Tennessee Reopens 78-Year-Old Case Of Murdered Black Activist

7:58am August 10, 2018

Rachel Martin talks to Leslie Elaine McGraw, great-grandniece of Elbert Williams, a voting-rights activist who was murdered in 1940. A district attorney announced he was reopening the investigation.

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Morning News Brief

5:06am August 10, 2018

Children in Yemen were killed when a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit their school bus. Prosecutors in the Manafort trial may rest their case Friday. White supremacists converge on Washington, D.C.

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U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, pictured in 2008, has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting immigrants under new rules that largely bar asylum in domestic and gang violence cases.

National

Judge Orders Return Of Deported Asylum-Seekers

9:40pm August 09, 2018

The federal judge issued the order after learning a mother and daughter involved in a lawsuit challenging new asylum rules had been deported despite assurances to the court they would not be removed.

ICE agents make an arrest in Los Angeles on Feb. 7, 2017. Shortly after taking office, President Trump passed an executive order criminalizing anyone in the country illegally.

Journalist: Fear Is A 'Very Powerful Tool' In Trump's Approach To Immigration

1:27pm August 09, 2018

by Terry Gross

Atlantic writer Franklin Foer says President Trump has "radicalized" Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), opening the door for the agency to deport any undocumented immigrant.

Violent Clashes Erupt at "Unite The Right" Rally In Charlottesville

Politics & Government

Tiki Torches, Terror And Tears: One Year After Charlottesville

1:25pm August 09, 2018

What have we learned? Have we learned anything?

President Trump looks on as Judge Brett Kavanaugh speaks after being nominated to the Supreme Court last month.

What A Justice Kavanaugh Could Mean For The Mueller Investigation And Trump

11:39am August 09, 2018

by Nina Totenberg

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh opposes limiting the power of the presidency. That opinion could have profound consequences for the special counsel investigation.

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West Virginia House Panel Votes To Impeach Entire Supreme Court

7:26pm August 08, 2018

by Bill Chappell

The articles of impeachment recommend the entire bench, including its chief justice, be impeached "for maladministration, corruption, incompetency, neglect of duty, and certain high crimes."

An appeals court has ruled in favor of the family of José Antonio Elena Rodríguez, who was shot on the Mexican side of the border at Nogales by an American agent who was on the U.S. side of the border.

National

Federal Court: Border Agent Doesn't Have Immunity In Teen's Killing At Mexican Border

3:42pm August 08, 2018

by Bill Chappell

It would be "bizarre," the majority opinion states, for a border agent to be granted qualified immunity on the grounds that the teenager was not a U.S. citizen.