Steve Inskeep

President Obama spoke Monday after being briefed by his national security team about Sunday morning's mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla.

With warmer weather comes an influx of refugees and migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe, and a shift in the route they're taking. Over the weekend, hundreds of people drowned.

Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump will be in West Virginia on Thursday ahead of its primary on May 10. Appalachia is an important region for Sanders, who has done well among the white working class.

Media giant Gannett, which owns USA Today and many local newspapers, announced Monday morning that it's trying to buy Tribune Publishing, owner of the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune.

Abolitionist Harriet Tubman will be the new face of the $20 bill, while Jackson, who owned slaves, will move to the back. The two opposing figures represents how our democracy is supposed to work.

Bill Haslam is a moderate Republican in immoderate Republican times. He also just vetoed a bill that would have designated the Holy Bible the state book of Tennessee.

We'll hear conversations from Appalachia — the mountain region that stretches from New York to the Deep South. This remains a region where incomes lag well behind the national average.

Whitesburg, Kentucky, was an area once known for coal mining but most of those jobs have dried up. Limited opportunities force many residents to leave, but some are able to find their way back.

A North Dakota GOP committeeman says the party can do whatever it wants at the convention this summer — no matter how many primaries Trump wins.

Country music legend Merle Haggard died on Wednesday — his 79th birthday. He'd been fighting various health problems for a long time, but he kept on performing and releasing new albums.

The production company for The Walking Dead assembled sets in tractor trailers, which are currently in Salt Lake City. For $60, you can fend off zombies or be made up as a blood-covered walker.

Johan Verbeke, Belgium's ambassador to the U.S., says they live as world citizens, and the best way for his country to move past this week's tragedy is to not feel intimidated.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus' character in Veep uses the slogan "Continuity With Change." Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull is using the slogan "continuity AND change." Maybe just a little change.

Trump is calling for torture "because we are in a political season," Walid Phares said, but in the White House "he's going to be tasking experts to answer that question."

Carnival says it's getting approval to send ships to Cuba, but there is a catch. These are designated as "cultural exchange" trips, so Americans must spend hours per day in some cultural activity.

The robbers blew up the walls around the ATM, but authorities say no one was hurt. Still, they're not sure there was any money in the machine and in any case, it might not have survived the explosion.

Arizona Rep. David Schweikert threw his support behind Sen. Ted Cruz last week, calling him a "principled leader." Schweikert is a co-founder of the House Freedom Caucus.

"He's not running against nobody," Roger Stone said on Morning Edition. "Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, is exceedingly polarizing herself."

Bogota, Romania, got a boost when Snoop Dogg checked in there on social media — except, Snoop was really in Bogota, Colombia. Vice sent a reporter to check out the town anyway.

The Senate majority leader refuses to hold a hearing on the Supreme Court nominee. After Obama named Garland, McConnell has maintained his position that the pick should be made by the next president.