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As cities and companies — including Starbucks — move to oust straws in a bid to reduce pollution, people with disabilities say they're losing access to a necessary, lifesaving tool.

Cuts in U.S. aid to Gaza are being felt in poor communities where people are losing food vouchers and some medical services.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with political commentators Gayle Trotter and Kimberly Atkins of the Boston Herald about the United States' relationship with Saudi Arabia, the Democrats potentially gaining as many as 40 seats in the House of Representatives and about Nancy Pelosi likely being voted House speaker again.

The Republican House speaker said, "Well, you obviously cannot do that." He added any effort to circumvent Congress would be "unconstitutional."

Fifty years ago, a multi-racial coalition of students shut down the campus of San Francisco State College demanding a curriculum that reflected their history.

The case of an 18-year-old refugee in Canada will embolden other Saudi women to follow suit, experts say. Saudi officials have launched a campaign to stop that from happening.

The seeds are free for any Cherokee, but recipients have been limited because demand is so high. Collecting the seeds has been difficult and emotional, but the program has helped unify the community.

As chemical weapons inspectors assess an attack site in Douma, Syrian families from the town offer NPR witness accounts of what they describe as a chlorine strike in Douma.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with political commentators Karen Tumulty of The Washington Post and Erick Erickson, who runs blog The Resurgen and hosts "The Erick Erickson Show" on WSBRadio about President Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen, Trump's foreign policy in North Korea and Iran and the confirmation battle over Trump's nominee to run the CIA, Gina Haspel.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and John Phillips of The Orange County Register about the G-7 summit, lessons from the California primary and President Trump's embrace of the presidential pardon.