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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.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Victor Cha, an expert on North Korea and former top adviser to the George W. Bush administration, about the U.S.-North Korea summit in Hanoi.

Why should candidates have all the fun? NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Hannah McCarthy, host of New Hampshire Public Radio's Civics 101 podcast, about their student stump speech contest.

The House of Representatives met on Wednesday to debate and vote on an article of impeachment against President Trump over inciting supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol last week.

Police confirm 22 people died following a blast after an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena. Ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn refuses to hand over data subpoenaed by a Senate panel.

It took ten years for the Kentucky legislature to pass Senate Bill 11, known as the “Leeper Act,” lifting a moratorium on the nuclear industry. But state…

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Helen Ellis, author of the book American Housewife. The book of short stories begins with the line - "Inspired by Beyonce, I stallion walk to the toaster."

Mat Johnson grew up poor, but managed to land in the middle class as an adult. Still, he says, opportunities for advancement are few and far between, and it's all too easy to slide back economically.

President Trump argues the story about the FBI investigating his campaign's potential conspiracy with Russia actually is a story about unlawful surveillance.

Noel King talks to John Murphy, senior vice president at the chamber, about why retaliatory measures imposed in response to U.S. tariffs would raise prices, cost jobs and threaten the U.S. economy.