Politics & Government

NPR's Noel King talks to California Gov. Gavin Newsom about why it's important for his state to keep its stringent auto emission standards, as the Trump administration tries to roll them back.

David Greene talks with Juan Zarate, a former deputy national security adviser, about President Trump's new national security adviser Robert O'Brien, who takes over for John Bolton.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution, about the Federal Reserve lowering interest rates a quarter percentage point.

Chinese intelligence officers like to use the professional social network — in which people often accept pings from strangers — to recruit sources within the U.S. government.

The House speaker has been privately working for months on legislation aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs, a rare shared priority with President Trump.

The revelation of the photo comes as Trudeau is launching his reelection bid. "I'm pissed off at myself, I'm disappointed in myself," he said.

Career foreign policy professionals tell NPR they increasingly fear that joining the NSC, which is part of the White House, will taint them as political operatives.

Three women told a House Armed Services subcommittee that their complaints of physical abuse ultimately went ignored by commanding officers.

The quarter-percentage-point cut will lower borrowing costs for households and businesses. The move is an effort to prolong the decade-old economic expansion in the face of rising headwinds.

President Trump's choice for a new national security adviser, Robert O'Brien, has been the point man on American hostages held overseas. He's been a private lawyer punctuated by stints in government.

Before he was elected president, Donald Trump was a critic of Saudi Arabia. Now, he says the U.S. is "locked and loaded" to respond to an attack on their behalf.

For more than two years, activists say, Buck has avoided being charged with a crime because he is white, wealthy and politically connected.