What to expect this week: Monday 10/14: Three House panels will interview Fionna Hill behind closed doors. Hill served as Trump’s top Russia adviser before leaving her post in August. Now that she has left MORE
This week NPR Shots reported on the progress of a US sickle-cell patient enrolled in a clinical study to look at CRISPR’s safety and efficacy in treating this disease. She’s the first US patient being MORE
Martin Scorsese says he couldn’t get a Hollywood studio to back his three-and-a-half-hour mob movie The Irishman. “Nobody was interested in making a film with me and Bob [Robert De Niro] anymore,” he said. “I MORE
If you’re like many parents, sometime in the last month or so you gave up the better part of a weekday evening to attend back-to-school night. Perhaps you stuffed your body awkwardly into a tiny MORE
Hundreds of relatives of Islamic State fighters fled a Kurdish-run detention camp on Sunday morning after Turkish airstrikes hit the surrounding area, deepening the crisis prompted by the Turkish-led invasion of northern Syria. The escapes came MORE
Leaving your front door open at odd hours might get yourself killed. At least, that appears to have happened to a black woman in Fort Worth, Texas. Firing through a window, a white Fort Worth MORE
From the looks of things, Rudy Giuliani has been the real secretary of state from Day One of the Trump administration. From Ukraine to Turkey to Iran to Foggy Bottom, Giuliani has left his mark. Who MORE
The U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, intends to tell Congress this week that the content of a text message he wrote denying a quid pro quo with Ukraine was relayed to him MORE
Day 996 of the Trump administration and it looks inevitable the House will impeach him. Too bad there aren’t more Patriots in the Senate who would put our country over their party and remove him MORE
The commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces told a senior US diplomat, “You are leaving us to be slaughtered,” demanding to know whether the US is going to do anything to protect Syrian Kurds as Turkey MORE
A wedding was underway at a New Hampshire church when a shooting Saturday morning wounded at least two people, Pelham Police Chief Joseph Roark said. A suspect has been arrested in the shooting at the MORE
Trump took to Twitter to defend his attorney, Rudy Colludey Giuliani. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating whether President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani broke lobbying laws in his dealings in Ukraine, according to MORE
Ras al-Ain (Syria) (AFP) – Ankara stepped up its assault on Kurdish-held border towns in northeastern Syria on Saturday, defying mounting threats of international sanctions, even from Washington. Buoyed by a night of steady advances MORE
“I am the happiest man,” Kipchoge said after the unofficial two-hour marathon, adding that he hopes to have inspired many that “no human is limited.”Kipchoge was on target to break the record during the first half of Vienna’s MORE
Bill Barr spoke at Notre Dame Law School about religious freedom Friday. Barr claimed that religion was under attack and blamed pretty much everything ill on secularism. He never addressed lying; just other issues he MORE
Four people were killed and three others wounded in a Saturday morning shooting at a Brooklyn club that police believe had been hosting illegal gambling. A 911 call about shots fired came in at 6:55 MORE
Donald Trump said on Friday that Kevin McAleenan was stepping down as the acting secretary of homeland security. The president said McAleenan wanted to spend more time with his family and go to the private sector. MORE
The far-right Oath Keepers group are set “do what police will not do” and be out in force for President Donald Trump’s rally in Dallas next week, having made a similar move at the Trump MORE
For weeks, prominent Republican advisers have been privately imploring President Donald Trump to sideline Rudy Giuliani after a barrage of inconsistent, combative and occasionally cringe-inducing media interviews, according to three people familiar with the conversations. MORE
A Kansas middle school girl who formed her fingers into a gun and pointed it at several of her classmates after another student asked her who would she would kill was arrested and charged with a felony. MORE
After Facebook was implicated in the 2016 election wreckage, the company made strides to shore up the platform against future harms to our democracy. But now, Facebook is sabotaging its own efforts through a new MORE
Time for a feel good story. When Shauna Darcy first brought Ruby home, the plan was to have Ruby act as a service dog to help her with anxiety, depression and agoraphobia. Ruby was an MORE
Federal District Court Judge David Briones said the president’s order violated a provision of the budget law approved by Congress which said “none of the funds made available in this or any other appropriation may be used to increase” the funding for the wall project. MORE
Cracks are starting to emerge in the White House’s overarching strategy not to cooperate with any aspect of House Democrats’ impeachment investigation and other probes. In the course of a few hours Friday, former U.S. MORE
Defense Secretary Mark Esper has ordered the deployment of additional troops, two fighter squadrons, one air expeditionary wing, two Patriot Missile batteries and one THAAD missile defense system to Saudi Arabia. US troops will total approximately MORE