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President Trump traveled Pittsburgh Tuesday afternoon, as the city continues to mourn Saturday's massacre that claimed the lives of 11 worshippers at a synagogue.

Trump and first lady Melania Trump visited the Tree of Life synagogue, lighting candles for each of the 11 shooting victims.

Steve Inskeep talks to Russell Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, about President Trump's proposed budget for 2020. NPR's Mara Liasson weighs in on the conversation.

As midterm campaigns come to an end on Tuesday, a pair of former political rivals are teaching a new batch of strategists how to get the next generation of politicians elected.

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British Prime Minister Theresa May said this morning that two officers with Russian military intelligence known as the GRU flew to England last March and poisoned an ex-Russian spy and his daughter.

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Job growth picked up for the 100th consecutive month in January even as hundreds of thousands of federal workers were furloughed during the partial government shutdown,the Labor Department said Friday.

Updated at 9:27 a.m. ET

Job growth picked up for the 100th consecutive month in January even as hundreds of thousands of federal workers were furloughed during the partial government shutdown,the Labor Department said Friday.

The Taliban has re-taken roughly half of Afghanistan, and government forces are dying at the hand of insurgents - sometimes as many as 25 a day.

Secretary of State Pompeo is in the Middle East to assure allies that the U-S remains committed to the region.