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Former Acting Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe has a new book coming out.

This year, I was blown away by the Tiny Desk Contest entries I saw. We received over 6,000 entries from all across the country. We saw tiny desks up on rooftops and down on a subway platform; tucked into treetops, pickup trucks and laundromats.

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The New York Times describes the author of an opinion article about President Trump as, quote, "a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us.

A recent scandal shed light on students who cheat their way into college.

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Attorneys for local governments across the country unveiled a plan Friday that they say would move the nation closer to a global settlement of lawsuits stemming from the deadly opioid crisis.

President Trump claims that large numbers of non-citizens are registering to vote.

This election, gun control was a central issue for many Democratic candidates in suburban districts.

Some states are benefiting from letting undocumented immigrants get a driver's license. Could these laws offer a roadmap to policymakers across the country?  Plus, former San Antonio mayor Julian Castro sits down with Steve Inskeep to talk about running for president.

During the Great Recession, the state sold its capitol and other buildings in a sale-lease-back deal to raise money. Nearly a decade later, the state has a plan to reclaim the buildings.

Newly elected Democratic mayor Arturo Garino was busy with Election Day when the Army arrived in Nogales and started erecting coils of glistening razor wire along the tops of the border wall that separates his small U.S.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson about a federal judge's decision this week that blocked his state's Medicaid work requirement rules.

Gloria Vanderbilt was an artist, heiress, designer and philanthropist who, for many Americans, may be best remembered for her blue jeans. She died at the age of 95.

Vanderbilt's son, Anderson Cooper, announced her death Monday, airing an obituary for her on CNN.

Inside his barber shop in Bladenboro, N.C., Rodney Baxley is giving Bobby Simmons a haircut.

The two men are talking about what everyone in this part of the state has been talking about for the better part of the past month: McCrae Dowless, and the operation he was running to get out the vote for Republican Mark Harris in the congressional race in North Carolina's 9th District.

A partial shutdown is about to enter its sixth week, and federal programs that help house and feed millions of Americans are running out of funds.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was the first Latina woman elected to Congress. Now she's retiring, pondering the state of her Republican party, and what more than 29 years in Congress taught her.