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The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank will be the focus of a Senate hearing Tuesday. Senators want to know why it and a second bank failed this month, and how to prevent similar meltdowns in the future.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who's leading the Russia probe, has assembled a high-powered team of investigators and lawyers.

Law and national security experts got together last weekend for a dogfight they call the Drone Smackdown. The contest, though tongue in cheek, still raised lots of questions about the proliferation of drones, the rules of combat and federal efforts to regulate them.

Nearly every national team has a chance to advance to the knockout round. The U.S. soccer federation displayed the Iranian flag in solidarity with protesters in Iran. Iran's government protested.

Underdog Sacramento Republic FC, which plays in the lower-division USL, is trying to do what hasn't been done since 1999 — topple a Major League Soccer team in the U.S. Open Cup final.

China's Communist Party Congress is set to get under way on Sunday with the country's leader Xi Jinping delivering a major speech.

Presidential hopefuls have long faced their first tests with voters in Iowa and New Hampshire. But Democrats are shaking up the calendar with states like Nevada angling to go first.

President-elect Donald Trump has selected Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions to serve as his attorney general. The post requires Senate confirmation.

The federal government spends $7 billion a year to incarcerate about 200,000 inmates. That's money Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates says could pay for more FBI agents and local police.

NPR has the latest on the investigation into Wednesday's mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. The FBI is now investigating the shooting as an act of terrorism.