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What international laws might apply to the U.S. reconnaissance flights and the plane's emergency landing on a Chinese island? Robert Siegel turns to Barry Carter, professor of international law at Georgetown University. Carter says for answers, one might look to the Law of the Sea.

NPR's Neda Ulaby reports on Before Outsider Art, She Was In: A new exhibition that brings together the most popular works by Anna Mary Robertson, known as Grandma Moses. The artist died in 1961 at age 101.

U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a noted critic of former President Donald Trump, is calling it quits rather than vying against U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood in a Republican primary next year.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports that the Senate has approved a measure to restrict late-campaign advertising by advocate groups. Some claim this will make the entire bill unconstitutional. (3:35) Check out NPR News coverage of Power, Money & Influence.

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports from Las Vegas on the attempts of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), to unionize Wal-Mart's nearly one million employees. But Wal-Mart's deep pockets and extremely high employee turnover rates are big obstacles for UFCW.

We hear opinions from some Californians about the approval of higher electricity prices.

Detroit winced today when it learned fewer than a million people were counted as living in the city. The census results are a blow to both civic pride and Detroit's budget. Some say the numbers only catch the Motor City making a big U-turn toward vitality, as Quinn Klinefelter from member station WDET reports.

NPR's Richard Gonzales brings us up to date on the energy crunch that is creating serious problems for the biggest state economy.

A U.S. District Court judge has ordered the University of Michigan to stop considering race as a factor in its admissions. Robert Siegel talks about the case with Jeffrey Rosen, associate professor of law at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court ruling that penalized operators of an anti-abortion website for listing the names of abortion doctors. The appeals court said the threat to the doctors was not explicit enough to justify censure.