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More than 36,000 people say their employers cheated them out of pay. The state agency tasked with probing their cases is backlogged and underfunded. (Story first aired on ATC on June 21, 2022.)

More demonstrations are planned in Grand Rapids, Mich., after the city released video of a white police officer shooting and killing a Black resident during a struggle after a traffic stop.

Demonstrators used high-powered lights to project the Ukrainian flag onto the walls of the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. The Russians tried to outshine the flags with a spotlight, but failed.

Jack Devine, a 32-year CIA veteran, says the next person put in charge of the agency needs to rally the organization's sagging morale, and then turn his attention to the problems of Iraq and Afghanistan. Devine worked in the CIA's clandestine services. He left in 1999.

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to change the way it tests gas mileage on cars, starting with most 2008 models. The changes are meant to make mileage estimates more accurate. Renee Montagne talks to Paul Eisenstein, publisher of the Internet magazine The Car Connection.

In the 1990s, Seattle voters backed a plan to build an elevated train through 14 miles of the most congested parts of the city. But the estimated price tag has risen to $11 billion, prompting talk that the project may be abandoned.

Jeffrey Rosen of George Washington University Law School has identified five different types of legal conservatism. Rosen discusses these distinctions as well as the category of conservatism he applies to Supreme Court nominee Judge John Roberts.

For a decade, a local billboard on land along I-65 north of Montgomery, Ala., read: "Go to church or the Devil will get you!" This week, the billboard changed to endorse a political candidate. W.S. Newell, the 84-year-old property owner, tells Scott Simon why he made the change.

In Los Angeles, Korean American leaders have been marking 30 years since riots tore apart the city following the beating of Rodney King. Korean-run businesses were disproportionately destroyed.

More than 35,000 Californians who say their employers cheated them out of pay could wait a long time for justice. The state agency tasked with investigating their cases is backlogged and underfunded.