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Daniel Majok Gai became a "Lost Boy" at age 6 and eventually made it to Denver, where he managed a hubcap business and earned a college degree. Now he's determined to help heal his troubled homeland.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro calls the rule historic. It requires communities that receive federal funds to analyze segregation patterns and come up with plans to reduce it.

The Senate Armed Services Committee holds a confirmation hearing Thursday on the nomination of Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "

Former Undersecretary of Defense Michele Flournoy tells Renee Montagne that the current U.S. policy toward the self-proclaimed Islamic State, also known as ISIS, suffers from creeping incrementalism.

During Prohibition, booze was banned, but "medicinal" spirits weren't, a loophole whiskey makers exploited. That's just one of the tidbits a new book tracing the history of whiskey labels reveals.

TV star Tom Selleck has been accused of stealing water amid California's drought from a neighboring water district. Los Angeles Times reporter Matt Hamilton has been reporting on the the mystery of Magnum PI's water supply.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed a bill on Thursday to remove the Confederate battle flag from the State House grounds. The move comes after hours of legislative debate this week following last month's fatal church shooting in Charleston. The suspect in that crime was seen in pictures holding Confederate flags.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Sen. Mike Lee's office about his First Amendment Defense Act bill, which would protect people who find same-sex marriage contrary to their religion.

Puerto Rico's governor has stepped up efforts to convince Congress to help solve its debt crisis. The U.S. territory wants lawmakers to pass a bill that would extend bankruptcy protection.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with economists Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University and Carmen Reinhart of Harvard's Kennedy School about Greece's debt crisis and the larger implications for the eurozone.