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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is being taken to court over its efforts to deport an Iowa man back to his home country of Vietnam. The deportation efforts follow a 1997 conviction in a Des Moines shooting.

Alabama will hold a special primary election for four of its seven congressional districts, after the Supreme Court cleared the way — and as redistricting ripples through the South.

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish party in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition has called for parliament to be dissolved, threatening to bring down the government.

Highway construction and urban renewal projects destroyed the Center Street Neighborhood, a thriving Black community in Des Moines. Families and businesses went into debt, shifting from entrepreneurship and owning to renting, which had a lasting effect on generational wealth. On this episode, we look at how economic inequality drives division, from Center Street in Des Moines to meat packers in rural Iowa. We also look at the income wealth of the Gilded Age and what that has in common with our current times.

Des Moines Performing Arts CEO Monica Holt spent nearly two decades at The John F. Kennedy Center, which she left shortly after President Donald Trump removed and replaced a majority of the center's longtime board leadership.

Secretary Duffy, his wife and nine kids took a "Great American Road Trip" to celebrate America's 250th. They say no taxpayers funded the project. But a nonprofit with transport-related sponsors did.

The founder of the National Baseball Poetry Festival, Steven Biondolillo, and one of this year's winning poets, Kathryn Kirkpatrick, talk about the bittersweet emotions they feel while celebrating America's pastime as a fan or as a player.

American writer Jacob Dreyer has lived in China for 13 years.

Joe Macken's fascination with buildings and landscapes started as a child after visiting the Panorama of the City of New York, the massive model that debuted at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair.

David Attenborough's acclaimed nature series Life on Earth began production 50 years ago. Now, a PBS documentary captures the host looking back on that series as it's projected in a screening room.