Rachel Martin talks to Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama about what has been happening behind the scenes. There hasn't been a whole lot of visible progress on the immigration front.
President Trump is expected to sign legislation that makes failure to report sexual assault in Olympic sports a crime. It's a response to the biggest sex abuse scandal in U.S. sports history.
The FBI director said the agency completed its investigation of Rob Porter in July, contradicting the White House. Also, intelligence officials warn of more Russian election interference.
Senate intelligence committee members want to sound the alarm about the persistent threat to U.S. elections from foreign interference. But critics say the White House isn't doing enough.
The Tennessee Republican senator is not denying reports that he is mulling over whether to run for re-election this year after all. Corker announced his retirement plans in September.
Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald both typically paint vivid canvases of ordinary black subjects. "What we're positing here is a new vision of the possible," Wiley says, "one which is inclusive."
Moscow's interference in the United States and the West has continued since 2016 and is forecast to persist through this year's midterm races, the U.S. intelligence community says.
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., is part of the so-called "Gang of Six" — a group of six Republicans and Democrats from the Senate who have been working on a DACA deal for months. He speaks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about what he hopes will come out of this week's immigration debate, what the most challenging obstacles to a deal still are and what he thinks consensus can be reached on.