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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sat down with All Things Considered's Juana Summers to talk about the recent debt ceiling negotiations and what this says about the direction Congress is headed.

Iowa's Republican-led Legislature passed a bill banning most abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy during a marathon session Tuesday. Gov. Kim Reynolds said she would sign the bill on Friday.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with political scientist Gayil Talshir of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem about the protests in Israel after the recovery of the bodies of six hostages.

Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was convicted of "spreading false information" about the Russian army.

Steven Sund contradicts reports that help was not requested, saying security officials at the House and Senate rebuffed calls for assistance ahead of and during the attack on the Capitol.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with professional runner Makenna Myler, who recently ran a 5:17 mile in her third trimester of pregnancy.

Protesters in Iran talk about the state of their movement as they continue to demand sweeping changes to the country's strict laws. (Story first aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on April 2, 2023.)

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Raphael Cohen, an expert in military strategy at Rand Corporation, a nonpartisan think tank, about whether Israel is winning the war against Hamas.

The House has voted overwhelmingly to ban TikTok if its Chinese owners don't sell it. So now the future of the wildly popular social media platform is in the hands of the Senate.

Ahead of the vote, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming read a litany of text messages she said Mark Meadows received during the Jan. 6 siege, including from Donald Trump Jr.