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Shanahan has served as acting defense secretary since former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis resigned last December over President Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria.

Alexander Torshin and Maria Butina met in 2015 with top leaders in the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve, according to materials obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

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

A scientist at the USDA recently resigned after citing attempts by the Trump administration to suppress his climate change related research.

While the fight over the report will continue, its release is the culmination of investigations that go back nearly three years. (This piece initially aired April 14, 2019 on All Things Considered.)

Regulators missed a chance to find out if deceptive practices at Facebook came from the top when they decided to enter into a settlement with Zuckerberg instead of questioning him, an FTC member says.

The South American country is home to the Andes Mountains and the Atacama Desert, places that have some of the stillest and driest air in the world. That makes them ideal for astronomy.

Steve Inskeep talks to Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, who says the panel's vote to release a secret GOP memo on the Russia probe is "destructive."

When José Aguilar, a Honduran living in the Mexican border city who runs the restaurant Honduras 504, heard a caravan of mostly Honduran migrants was coming, he knew he had to do something to help.

"If we held the vote tomorrow, the deal would be rejected by a significant margin," the U.K. prime minister admitted, hours after a European Union court ruled the U.K. can still back out of Brexit.