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Human smuggling industry cashes in on U.S. asylum-seekers

By PBS NewsHour

Migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border are a money-making enterprise for smugglers and powerful cartels. It's the subject of “Border Hustle”, an investigation and short documentary from The Texas Tribune and Time magazine. Reporter Jay Root joins Hari Sreenivasan…

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Trump offers budget with funds for border wall, Space Force

By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press

President Donald Trump will be making a significant request for border wall funds and seeking money to stand up Space Force as a new branch of the military in the White House budget being released next week, an administration official…

2020 Democrats flock to trendy SXSW festival in Texas

By Paul J. Weber, Associated Press

Texas is an unlikely can’t-miss stop for the Democratic presidential candidates, but many of them are making appearances this weekend at the trendy and techie South by Southwest Festival in Austin.

11 things you can do to adjust to losing that hour of sleep tonight

By Deepa Burman, Hiren Muzumdar, The Conversation

As clocks march ahead of time Sunday morning and daylight saving time begins, there is a lot of anxiety around losing the hour of sleep and how to adjust to this change.

In stunning lawsuit, U.S. women’s soccer team challenges pay, working conditions

The U.S. women's soccer team hopes to defend its World Cup title this year. But on Friday, International Women’s Day, all 28 team members filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation, arguing they suffered years of institutionalized…

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Actor Jussie Smollet indicted by grand jury for making false report

By Associated Press

A grand jury in Chicago has indicted "Empire" actor Smollett on 16 felony counts related to making a false report that he was attacked by two men in Chicago who shouted racial and homophobic slurs.

Amazon lobbied Washington state to exempt many employees from labor protections

By Tom James, Associated Press

Many of Amazon's Seattle-area employees would be exempt from new labor protections in a bill passed by the state Senate after lobbyists for the tech giant pushed to change a key threshold in the rules.

Court denies new murder trial for ‘Serial’ podcast’s Adnan Syed

By Brian Witte, Associated Press

In a 4-3 opinion, the Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court that Adnan Syed's legal counsel was deficient in failing to investigate an alibi witness, but it disagreed that the deficiency prejudiced the case.

Local Alabama leaders were planning shelter when killer tornado hit

By Jay Reeves, Associated Press

Now that the worst has happened, Fire Chief Mike Holden said, perhaps everyone will agree on a final plan and find the funding to remedy a situation that much of Alabama addressed about eight years ago after twisters killed more…