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Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick (guh-RELL-ick) said today that "a serious set of problems" has been found in the FBI crime laboratory, but she said it was too soon to say whether remedial steps would prevent harm to a limited number of prosecutions. NPR has obtained copies of summaries of interviews conducted by the Justice Department involving the Oklahoma City bombing investigation. One of the problems reported was that the crime scene may have been compromised when the memorial service for victims of that bombing was allowed to take place on the site before all the evidence had been gathered. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports.

The Air Force is blaming its commanders and crew, along with poor airport design, for the plane crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 other people in April. The accident report released today says commanders did not give Air Force crews operating in former communist countries the right training to deal with poor safety conditions at some of those airports. The Brown party was trying to land at Dubrovnik, Croatia, when the plane crashed, killing everyone on board. NPR's Martha Raddatz reports the analysis also blames the pilots for some of their decisions.

According to the the LA County Coroner's report, the cause was inhalation and thermal injuries. The actor died on Sunday, after she crashed her car earlier this month.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Washington Post reporter Dan Diamond about the Trump Administration's directive to Department of Health and Human Services agencies to pause all external communications.

Two sisters ran for seats on western Michigan's county board, but not against each other. And The Fresno Bee reports twin sisters gave birth within two hours of each other

NPR'S Steve Inskeep speaks with Cook Political Report elections analyst David Wasserman about Indiana Republicans' rejection of a redistricting bid backed by the White House.

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Sacha Pfeiffer transports us to Guantanamo Bay for this week's Reporter's Notebook.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with investigative reporter Vicky Ward about what could be revealed in the Justice Department's Epstein files.

NPR's Michael Sullivan has the fourth in a series of reports on how the rise of the Taliban militia in Afghanistan has affected neighboring countries. The threat of the Taliban to India is probably *not* great, but India, which has been fighting Muslim separatists in Kashmir, does worry about home-grown Islamic fundamentalism.

NPR's Michael Sullivan wraps up our series on what the rise of the Taliban militia in Afghanistan has meant to the rest of central Asia. He reports from the Afhan-Pakistani border, where Afghan refugees talk about the life they had under the Taliban's strict brand of Islam... and why they fled a country they love.