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Tennessee considered multiple anti-transgender bills this session. One law would require businesses and government facilities to post a sign if they let transgender people use multi person bathrooms.

In Myanmar's largest city, troops appear to ease their lockdown after the largest anti-government protests in decades, as a U.N. envoy hopes for a meeting with the country's top military leader to convey the people's demands for democracy.

People fleeing the chaos in Venezuela have been congregating in camps along the Colombia-Venezuela border. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Geoff Ramsey of Washington Office on Latin America.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with former Google engineer Yonatan Zunger. He argues the tech industry should operate with a "higher standard for care."

Most of the people who died are elderly men and women living alone in apartments with no air conditioning, and many had chronic health conditions.

Authorities have warned of worsening conditions over the weekend, while the deputy fire commissioner for New South Wales cautions people of the fires' "frighteningly quick" advance.

A volcano south of the Philippine capital Manila is erupting. Ash in the air closed Manila's airport for a time, and tens of thousands of people are evacuating villages near the volcano.

Emotional crowds and scuffles greet the arrival of the remains of Zimbabwe's late leader Robert Mugabe. People remembered him as a liberator and as a tyrant who left the country's economy in shambles.

After the Obama administration announced that Americans who recently had their health insurance canceled can buy "catastrophic policies," the insurance industry said the change will cause more confusion.

Several tornadoes were bearing down on the Oklahoma City area Friday night. The violent weather was occurring near the city of Moore, which lost 24 people after a massive tornado almost two weeks ago. Robert Siegel talks with Kurt Gwartney of member station KGOU in Oklahoma City.