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Larry Schwartz, a longtime aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, called local officials in New York to gauge their loyalty to the governor. Some local officials viewed it as a threat to cut off vaccine.

Republican lawmakers in Congress have spent months pursuing allegations that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives knowingly allowed assault weapons to enter Mexico. Did a key whistle-blower in the case face retaliation?

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Yolanda Reed, a part-time special education assistant in Los Angeles, about the demands of school support staff that led to a three-day strike.

The president said he has disagreed on policy with Republicans and past nominees, "but I never thought they couldn't do the job." That's different this time, he said.

Madeleine Brand speaks with Washington Post homeland security correspondent Spencer Hsu about Friday's U.S. Senate committee hearing on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Former FEMA director Michael Brown defended his own actions and laid much of the blame for the slow federal response on the Department of Homeland Security.

Sen. Barack Obama told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Wednesday that he is a "true friend" of Israel. At the same event, his rival, Hillary Clinton, did not concede her role as the Democratic presidential candidate, but said she shares his support of Israel.

The House has passed the Treasury's financial rescue plan and President Bush has signed it. The measure's passage marks a turnaround just four days after the House rejected the measure. Many lawmakers switched their votes from no to yes.

EMW Women’s Surgical Center was one of only two abortion clinics in Kentucky when the procedure was all but banned last year

In Teju Cole's newest, elliptical novel, an unnamed narrator visits his native country, alarmed at what has changed, and at what hasn't.

Two more women have come forward to accuse Combs of sexual abuse, a week after the music mogul settled a separate lawsuit with the singer Cassie that contained allegations of rape and physical abuse.