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Venezuela is relaunching its currency this week — lopping five zeros off the old bolivar and pegging the new to a crypto-currency called the Petro. This is an attempt to control runaway inflation that the International Monetary Fund estimates could hit 1 million percent this year.

A program started by a Mexican state has been reunifying elderly parents with their children living illegally in the U.S. Recently more than 30 families were reunited near Austin.

Inmates planned a series of strikes across prisons this week to protest conditions and work programs. Though legal, they compare the low-wage programs to "modern-day slavery."

The U.S. has the highest rates of sexually transmitted disease cases in the industrialized world, say health trackers, with chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis reaching 2.3 million cases in 2017.

Hurricane Harvey devastated Texas when it hit a year ago. More than 60 people died, coastal towns got swamped and Houston was flooded for days. Houston officials want to limit the extent of damage in future storms but can't reach agreement.

Polls show a closer than expected race in the special election for Ohio's Republican-leaning 12th Congressional District. Noel King talks to Buzzfeed's Henry Gomez about what is at stake.

House Democrats are locked in an internal debate over who the top leaders should be if they win November's midterm elections, and whether House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi should be one of them.

Amazon says it removed several items featuring racist symbols from its store after a letter from Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison. But it's still easy to find white supremacist materials on the site.

Members of the House have left Washington for the summer break. Commentator Cokie Roberts talks with David Greene about the history of the congressional recess.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to professor Jake Rosenfeld of Washington University in St. Louis about Missouri voters' rejection of the state's right-to-work law on Tuesday.