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Two children recently died in Border Patrol custody. In response, volunteers created pop-up clinics and the Department of Homeland Security ordered medical checks on kids in custody.

As Nicaragua cracks down on dissenters and journalists, the U.S. has imposed sanctions and the Organization of American States branded Daniel Ortega's leftist government a dictatorship.

Congolese finally vote today in a long-delayed presidential election, the first democratic transfer of power in a country plagued by violence. Voting was postponed again in Ebola-hit areas.

Election day delays kept polling stations open for hours after they were supposed to close in the capital Kinshasa, with one of the big issues attributed to new voting machines.

Republican Orrin Hatch is leaving the Senate after 42 years. He led bipartisan efforts to get health care for more kids and AIDS patients. He also thrived on donations from the drug industry.

American soybean exports have started to move again, but China and India still aren't buying lentils, garbanzos or peas from the U.S. due to trade wars and tariffs.

Angela Merkel is still the chancellor of Germany and could stay in that job until 2021 — although you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise, given the speculation over who is to be her successor.

Police in New Jersey alerted an animal shelter when a cow was found walking along I-80. The cow suffered cuts and scrapes when it fell out of the trailer.

Worldwide journalism groups are demanding that the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega stop its attacks on journalists. Costa Rica wants an imprisoned TV journalist released too.

Steve Inskeep talks to Kevin Hassett, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, about trade talks and the partial government shutdown. NPR's Scott Horsley weighs in on the discussion.