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Maine Gov. Paul LePage is letting some low-level offenders out of prison. He says the inmates are needed in the work force.

Senate Republicans unveiled a draft of their health care bill on Thursday. Party leaders are hoping for a vote on the legislation next week.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Wesley Lowery, a Pulitzer Prize-winning national reporter for The Washington Post, about his newspaper's police-involved shooting database and why guilty verdicts for police officers are so rare.

NPR's Kelly McEvers interviews Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, who was one of the people who worked on the Senate health care bill, about the last minute negotiations and the finished product.

Over the Baltic Sea, Russian and NATO jet fighters are buzzing each other with ever-closer flybys. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Jorge Benitez of the Atlantic Council about the growing military standoff in northeastern Europe.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill about the Senate Republican health care bill.

After President Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged to lead a group of mayors, governors and CEOs in cutting emissions according to the Paris framework. And now Bloomberg also has a film out documenting coal's rise and fall in America, From the Ashes.

Venezuela is in its third month of protests against the government of Nicolás Maduro. It's also been suffering from shortages in food, medical supplies and basic goods like toilet paper and shampoo. NPR's Audie Cornish talks to one Venezuelan in Caracas about daily life in the country.

Senate Republicans are calling their health care bill the Better Care Reconciliation Act. It shares many provisions with the House's American Health Care Act, but goes further in cutting Medicaid.

The celebrated singer has crafted a rich, rejuvenating album that addresses weighty subjects like suicide and the aftermath of her country's recent political crises.