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  • Small portions of the National Intelligence Estimate on the situation in Iraq were released this week. It says political extremism is on the rise, along with insurgent violence — and sees more chaos ahead.
  • One Democrat said if the offer did happen, it's because Bloomberg believes being mayor of New York is a step up from being president. Bloomberg's third and final term as mayor comes to an end in 2013.
  • A new health ranking of senior citizen health in the U.S. puts Kentucky near the bottom of the list. America’s Health Rankings looked at the health and well-being of people age 65 and older. Kentucky seniors were ranked 48th in the
  • A new law authorizes and encourages killing 90% of Idaho's wolf population: about 1,350 animals. That goes against professional wildlife managers' advice, and not all hunters like the idea either.
  • Robert talks to Agent Lucinda Schroeder of the U-S Fish and Wildlife Service in Albequerque, New Mexico about yesterday's sting operation that led to the arrest of eight eagle poachers. Eagles are a protected species; the killing and sale of eagle parts is illegal. This operation was unusual in that it led to actual trappers, not just traders. There's a growing market for eagle feathers, both in the U.S. and abroad.
  • Mardy Murie, a pioneering conservationist who played a pivotal role in the establishment of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, died Sunday at age 101. A vigorous lobbyist for wilderness protection, Murie helped create both the Wilderness Society and the federal Wilderness Act. Hear NPR's Howard Berkes.
  • The firms, the report says, used aggressive international tax maneuvers to avoid taxes. But it's all legal.
  • U.S. prosecutors have opened an investigation into allegations that the Russian government ran a doping program that produced winners in several recent Olympic Games, The New York Times reports.
  • The fungus Candida auris has infected hospitalized patients with weakened immune systems or other serious conditions. Four of the seven patients died, but it's unclear if the fungus was the cause.
  • The White House is saying little about special counsel Robert Mueller submitting his report to the attorney general, ending his probe. President Trump has previously called it a witch hunt.
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