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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Otay Mesa port of entry early Monday morning apprehended a fugitive wanted for murder who was hiding in the trunk of a vehicle to evade capture.

It's a complaint echoed from San Diego to Brownsville. Some five million trucks per year are subject to costly delays at the U.S.-Mexico border as a result of rigorous security measures put in place in the last decade. These delays affect the timeliness of a trucker’s delivery.

What hath the Bard wrought? A legacy of words and idioms you'll recognize from pop culture and even your own speech. On the occasion of his 450th birthday, Ask Me Another presents this handy glossary.

An NPR investigation found thousands of American mine owners fail to pay penalties for safety violations, even as they continue to manage dangerous — and sometimes deadly — operations.

It's not just Louis C.K. and Stephen Colbert who are confused about the Common Core. Get the facts here.

Can you imagine your own superhero? That's the question author and illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka posed to kids on a recent afternoon at a school in Washington, D.C. Krosoczka also described how he overcame a difficult childhood to become the author of the beloved Lunch Lady series.

Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Health Care Act is expected to bring in much-needed dollars to the chronically underfunded Indian Health Service. But for the first time ever the IHS will be competing for non-Indian patients in order to survive.

Title X, the federally funded family planning program, is often the entry point for patients to get other health care services they might need. And many patients might not even realize they need them. Funding for the program is on the House GOP's chopping block.

"The Complete Frida Kahlo: Her Paintings, Her Life, Her Story" is a new art exhibit in Point Loma that features Frida Kahlo's paintings, though none on display actually were painted by the famous Mexican artist.

On the new album Pushin' Against a Stone, the Tennessean surveys a spectrum of her home state's signature sounds. She tells NPR's Audie Cornish that she got over old anxieties about her singing voice by embracing it as a storytelling tool.