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The rise of Donald Trump as a Republican presidential candidate has surprised many pundits, but not conservative commentator Glenn Beck. "He is saying the populist things," Beck says.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Ina Jaffe, who first edited this program and later reported on seniors for NPR. Jaffe died this week at the age of 75.

Iran says it seized an Iraqi oil tanker and its crew in the Persian Gulf, for allegedly smuggling fuel. It's the third such incident in two weeks, and comes amid rising U.S.-Iranian tensions.

The chief ideologue of the Khmer Rouge, Nuon Chea, has died. He was the right-hand man to Pol Pot, who led a murderous regime in Cambodia in the late 1970s.

On Friday, musician Ed Sheeran broke the record for the highest-grossing concert tour of all time, beating U2's mark.

Charles Cumming hooks NPR book reviewer Alan Cheuse with his latest spy novel, A Colder War. It's a tense and tangled tale of a British agent hunting the truth behind a mysterious death in Istanbul.

Prosecutors wrapped on Monday. The move by defense attorneys to rest their case on Tuesday signals the tax and fraud trial is set to move into its final phase.

Zimbabwe's constitutional court must rule by Friday on a challenge to last month's historic presidential elections. The opposition claims "gross mathematical errors" in the victory by the ruling party incumbent.

Civil rights activist Amelia Boynton Robinson has died. Her brutal beating during the 1965 Bloody Sunday march was depicted in the movie Selma.

President Trump is ratcheting up the pressure on China over trade. The administration threatened to raise proposed tariffs on Chinese imports from 10 percent to 25 percent.