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House Speaker Paul Ryan says he is unable, right now, to support the Republican Party's de facto nominee Donald Trump. This has put him in direct conflict with some members of the congressional GOP who do support Trump. Ryan and Trump will meet Thursday and attempt to mend fences.

Impeachment trial rules say senators are not to talk. They can't have their phones. And coffee is banned from the chamber. And so, some senators are grappling with something basic: staying awake.

The interim head of the FBI is set to appear with the other intelligence leaders in a session planned before President Trump fired James Comey.

Rachel Martin talks to Georgetown University Law professor Paul Butler about the ongoing and new challenges facing the nation regarding the criminal justice system.

The FBI and a U.S. attorney in Virginia are investigating the deadly car wreck in Charlottesville, Va., as a possible federal civil rights crime. Authorities want to know if anyone else was involved.

Gov. Kate Brown has told the Oregon Health Authority to give legislators their own drive-thru clinic next week, when vaccines open up to thousands of frontline workers.

Sen. Floyd Prozanski said the Legislature should be convened to fix the bill. Rep. Jennifer Williamson said the bill is already working.

A federal judge ordered a deported Salvadoran woman returned to the U.S. ACLU Attorney Jennifer Chang Newell tells NPR's Lakshmi Singh her client's asylum case was pending when she was put on a plane.

It's the hectic final few days of the Missouri legislative session and abortion is one issue on everyone's mind. Republican lawmakers want to fortify restrictions, making some voters very concerned.

President Obama bypassed Congress this week in appointing Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and filling vacancies on the National Labor Relations Board. Republicans called the appointments an unconstitutional power grab and said they were made while the Senate was still technically in session.