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The Pentagon plans to build temporary camps for detained immigrants. Here, children of detained migrants are seen at a tent encampment near the U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of entry in Tornillo, Texas.

Pentagon To House Migrants At 2 Military Bases In Texas

Migrant families will be housed at Fort Bliss, an Army base outside El Paso, NPR's Tom Bowman reports. Unaccompanied migrant children will be housed at Goodfellow Air Force Base, outside San Angelo.

The sun flares in the camera lens as it rises behind the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington.

Supreme Court Says Texas Political Map Is Largely Not A Racial Gerrymander

The court said just one district is unconstitutional — House District 90. Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a scathing dissent that was five pages longer than the majority opinion.

Zsa Zsa, an English bulldog, won the World's Ugliest Dog competition this weekend in Petaluma, Calif. She's seen here with her owner, Megan Brainard of Minnesota.

Ooh Zsa Zsa: Rescued Bulldog Wins Ugliest Dog Contest

Maybe it was the lolling tongue or the upward-thrusting chin or the drool. Whatever her secret, Zsa Zsa the English bulldog worked her magic and took home the title.

Ecology Action Center Introduces Needs-Based Curbside Recycling In Normal

Normal’s Ecology Action Center (EAC) plans to bring curbside recycling to more residents through a new needs-based program.The EAC hopes this pilot…

The white clapboard farmhouse where Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote many of the books in her <em>Little House on the Prairie</em> novels still stands in Mansfield, Mo.

Little House On The Controversy: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Name Removed From Book Award

The Association for Library Service to Children voted unanimously to strike Wilder's name from a major children's lit award over concerns about how the author referred to Native Americans and blacks.

ISU Planetarium Gets A Makeover

The Illinois State University Planetarium is using its newly remodeled space for more than just outer space.The dome-shaped planetarium got a major…

Kubsch 6/27/18

Today’s programming is made possible in part by Uptown, Downtown, All Around Town Steve and Julie Kubsch who are celebrating 22 years in Bloomington…

A Palestinian woman and her children receive supplies from the International Committee of the Red Cross at a refugee camp in Gaza; a latrine project in Haiti financed by Oxfam; a UNICEF tent at a refugee camp in Iraq.

Logos On Aid Supplies: Helpful, Demeaning ... Or Dangerous?

Everyone has an opinion about the big logos slapped on humanitarian handouts, from bags of food to temporary toilets. Are they helpful? Or do they make recipients feel like "supplicants."

Janet Kamara, who is from Liberia, sits during an interview conducted in an International Organization for Migration transit center in Arlit, Niger, on June 2. Kamara was expelled from Algeria and left stranded in the Sahara while pregnant. "Our baby was killed; women were lying dead, men. ... Other people got missing in the desert because they didn't know the way," she told the AP.

AP Report: Algeria Expelling Thousands Of Migrants Into Sahara, With Deadly Effect

In the past 14 months, more than 13,000 migrants and refugees have been dumped in the Sahara by Algerian authorities, with unknown numbers dying in the desert, The Associated Press says.

Walgreens has released a statement defending its pharmacist's right to decline to fill a prescription on ethical or religious grounds.

Walgreens Pharmacist Refuses To Provide Drug For Ariz. Woman With Unviable Pregnancy

The company released a statement defending its pharmacist's right to decline to fill a prescription on ethical grounds. The state pharmacy board plans to investigate whether Arizona law was followed.

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