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Scott Schools, the highest ranking career official at the Justice Department, will soon leave his position. Schools touched sensitive issues at DOJ including the special counsel probe.

Also: North Korea fires its latest projectile; Amnesty International claims Turkey is forcibly returning Syrian refugees; and a Michigan high school creates a hit class in taxidermy.

In softcover fiction, Jill McCorkle's cluster of retirees faces death with humor and sorrow. In nonfiction, Lawrence Wright peeks into the world of Scientology, Simon Garfield charts a history of maps, Jonathan Cott recalls his friendship with John and Yoko, Duncan Wall spins yarns about the circus and Mark Binelli welcomes us to his Detroit.

Also: The White House will propose new carbon cutting goals; more fighting is reported in Benghazi, Libya; and Los Angeles advances to the NHL Stanley Cup finals to meet New York.

Also: Many hikers may be missing in Nepal after a blizzard; Arkansas' voter ID law is overturned; and it's earthquake preparedness day worldwide: in the U.S., it's called the Great Shakeout.

Neither the U.S. nor China publicly announced the meeting in advance and it was not clear which side had proposed it.

DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz says the Republican Party hasn't changed at all since its 2012 losses and continues to alienate "huge swaths of voters."

It is midday on June 30, halfway through the year. Do you know where your money is?

With holiday shopping well underway, Linda Wertheimer talks to tech journalist Rich Jaroslovsky about this year's non-obvious tech gifts. Among his picks is the Fitbit Flex and a talking smoke detector.

A secret underground naval base in Crimea designed to preserve Soviet submarines in case of a nuclear attack is now a museum with an anti-American message.

Ecuador produces some excellent soccer players, but they predominantly come from the same area. The sparsely populated Pacific coast province of Esmeraldas. What makes it Ecuador's soccer hotbed?

In an interview from Puerto Rico, Bad Bunny talks about his influences and the music on his new record.

Ever since they exploded onto the Latin alternative scene in 2009, Colombian electro-tropical group Bomba Estereo has been one of our favorite live bands. Bassist and group mastermind Simon Mejia swings by our studios to share some of the international club hits that inspire his music.

Once a year in Mexico City, hundreds of thousands of Latin-rock fans gather for the Vive Latino Festival. Alt.Latino co-host Jasmine Garsd shares some highlights.

We just got back from one of the biggest music festivals in Latin America, and we've got great new music and stories to share with you.

This week on Alt.Latino, we spin songs that belong as much to decades past as to the present day and age: a Chilean nod to the 1990 documentary 'Paris Is Burning,' an ode to synth-heavy sci-fi soundtracks of the '80s and a punk tribute to '70s Spanish cinema.

Follow the young South African soprano's fairytale rise to fame in a travelogue of classic arias and scenes by Rossini, Delibes and Bellini.

Jim Jarmusch's quietly humorous relationship triptych won the top prize on Saturday. The film about the relationships between siblings, and with their parents, stars Adam Driver, Vicky Krieps and Cate Blanchett.

Wasabi nabbed U.S. dogdom's most prestigious prize after winning the big American Kennel Club National Championship in 2019.

Mike Easley, Jr., U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, recently said during the announcement of a new violent crime prevention initiative that ghost guns are a growing problem in North Carolina.