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House Democrats will hold a conference call Monday to begin strategizing how they will respond to the conclusions in the special counsel's report on Russian interference and President Trump.

At its national gathering in Chicago, the AFL-CIO tries to adjust to the desertion of two of its largest members: the Teamsters and the Service Employees International Union. Robert Siegel talks with Richard Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer for the AFL-CIO.

After record deforestation and environmental deregulation in the past few years, the result of the Brazilian election could very well determine the fate of the Amazon rainforest.

NPR's A Martinez talks to former Justice Department official David Laufman about former President Donald Trump's request for a special master to review materials seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday about the $700 billion rescue plan for the financial sector. They stressed that it was urgent that lawmakers pass the bill this week. Many committee members were not swayed.

The Guardian newspaper says the insider who blew the whistle on the NSA's probing of major U.S. Internet and telecom companies is a 29-year-old analyst who's been working for the agency under a government contract. His name is Edward Snowden.

NPR's Sarah McCammon previews this year's UN climate summit with Kelly Sims Gallagher, an environment and resource policy expert and dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

A handful of Democratic lawmakers are calling to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., who is sponsoring the legislation.

Seven Republicans crossed the aisle top vote for former President Trump's conviction, but the party's leaders in Congress continued a pattern of criticism without consequences.

This stretch of New Hampshire Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland is so packed with houses of worship, it's been called the Embassy Row of Religions. But locals know it as the Highway to Heaven.