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Comedian Michelle Wolf's controversial routine at the White House Correspondents' dinner on Saturday has prompted backlash from both sides of the aisle. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly and Audie Cornish preview an interview with Wolf airing tomorrow on WHYY's "Fresh Air."

Last week, the International Association of Athletics Federations issued a new rule that bans women with naturally high testosterone levels from competing unless they medically reduce their testosterone levels. NPR's Audie Cornish talks about the new rule with bioethicist Katrina Karkazis.

One of the most influential business women in the world is from what might seem like an unlikely place — Saudi Arabia. She sat down for a rare interview to discuss what she's done to get more Saudi women into the work force.

Closing arguments in the Department of Justice's lawsuit to block AT&T from buying Time Warner were heard Monday. The trial marks the first time in 40 years the Justice Department has sued to block a merger between companies in different lines of business. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Wall Street Journal telecom reporter Drew FitzGerald.

A major scientific research project announced Monday will focus on the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, which has ice two miles thick. But as the ocean gets warmer, some models predict the glacier could make the global sea level rise by two or three feet over the next hundred years.

Migrants who traveled in a caravan through Central America to the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego face slow processing by U.S. immigration officials.

Thousands of U.S. troops arrived in Vladivostok, Russia, 100 years ago hoping to influence the course of the civil war that raged in the country after the Bolshevik Revolution.

Shah Marai with Agence France-Presse was among those killed in twin suicide blasts in Kabul. "Life seems to be even more difficult than under the Taliban because of the insecurity," he wrote in 2016.

North Korea has agreed to shut down its main nuclear test site called Punggye-ri. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Patrick McEachern, a former intelligence analyst for the State Department.

The city has been monitored by the state of Michigan since December 2014, when city officials retook control after the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.