Accusations that child detention facilities on the US-Mexican border are similar to Nazi concentration camps were always likely to be rebuked by the White House – but perhaps no one quite expected Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ line of reasoning. Attorney General Sessions had gone live on the show to defend Donald Trump’s migration family separation policy, which has seen around …

The experts said they had received word that Mohammad Kalhori would be executed after the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. “The Iranian authorities must halt the execution of this juvenile offender and annul the death sentence against him,” the experts said.

The FIFA World Cup in Russia is the most expensive ever, with an official price tag of $15 billion. Close to $3 billion has been spent on 12 new or upgraded stadiums, and at least another $8 billion on infrastructure, including new roads, railroads and airports. Is that a good return for the Russian taxpayer? Professor Leonid Grigoryev, an economist …

Steve Inskeep talks to White House spokesman Hogan Gidley, about the Trump administration’s policy to separate families at the U.S.-Mexico border. NPR’s Mara Liasson weighs in on the conversation.

ADEN (Reuters) – Arab coalition troops stormed the airport in Yemen’s main port Hodeidah on Tuesday and captured large areas of the compound in battles with Iran-aligned Houthis, a Yemeni military source, the UAE news agency and local residents said.