The FBI director’s firing has sparked new calls for an independent probe of Russia’s election hacking and possible ties to the Trump campaign. Here are the shapes such an investigation could take.
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The idea was to keep kids safe after school. Now they’re chess champions
This low-income elementary school will send dozens of kids to the SuperNationals of chess this week in Nashville, Tenn.
Trump may be spoiling for a shutdown fight, but it could spell disaster in 2018
The recent spending compromise may well have just kicked the can down the road until September, when both sides may be spoiling for a fight amid the specter of a government shutdown.
Trump travel ban returns to court, with his own words at the center
A federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, is preparing to hear arguments about the legality of President Trump’s revised travel ban. Immigrant advocates argue it discriminates against Muslims.
Secretive nonprofits back governors around the country
In Missouri, a nonprofit group affiliated with Gov. Eric Greitens published the personal phone number of a lawmaker who criticized the governor’s policies.
Emmanuel Macron declared next French president
The centrist is set to become the youngest president in French history, according to the French Interior Ministry. Sunday marks a big defeat for right-wing Le Pen, who hoped to ride the populist wave.
As GOP health care push moves to Senate, White House questions value of CBO analysis
“I think I know the gospel pretty well,” a White House spokeswoman said after the House passed a health care bill without the official legislative scoring, “and I’d say the CBO is not the gospel.”
Interior releases list of national monuments to be reviewed
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Interior Department has released a list of 27 national monuments it is reviewing under a presidential order, including Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah and Katahdin Woods and Waters in Maine. A list released Friday includes 22 monuments on federal land in 11 states and five marine monuments in the…
Pollsters find ‘at best mixed evidence’ Comey letter swayed election
Polling experts have conducted an autopsy on exactly why so many polls were off in the run-up to the 2016 election. They found that state polls were far off, in part because of late-deciding voters.
Leaked document indicates big proposed cuts to drug czar’s office
President Trump campaigned on fighting the opioid crisis. Now a preliminary White House budget document, obtained by NPR, calls for significant cuts to the office quarterbacking the federal response.