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Mexico's immigration battle with the U.S. plays out in the news daily, but a more subtle tension over cultural identity took center stage this week: foreigners taking leading roles in Mexican theater.

NPR's Scott Simon sits down with Academy Award-winning actress Emma Thompson. She plays a British judge deciding the fate of a teenage boy in a new movie, The Children Act.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Gary Shteyngart about Lake Success, his new novel in which a hedge fund manager chucks it in and flees on a Greyhound bus for a simpler life with his childhood sweetheart.

Florence is expected to pick up speed and become a hurricane Saturday night. North and South Carolina have declared states of emergency and are urging residents to prepare for the storm.

The former president made a rare campaign appearance Saturday in Orange County, Calif. The historically conservative county is transforming, symbolizing the inroads Democrats hope to make in Congress.

"I still have lots of dreams to pursue," the Alibaba co-founder said of the transition. A former English teacher, Ma said, "I also want to return to education ... because this is what I love to do."

Rachel Martin talks to veteran journalist Bob Woodward about his new book. Excerpts from Fear: Trump in the White House have drawn sharp rebukes from President Trump and members of his administration.

Why do children throw up so often and so colorfully? When should parents be worried? All your childhood vomit questions answered.

The veteran journalist stands behind the reporting in his new book, Fear, and says that administration officials who have denied quotes attributed to them are acting out of "political necessity."

"An indulgent and prosperous nation readily forgave Bill Clinton and instead blamed the prosecutor," Starr writes of investigating the president. "That would be me."