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President Trump won the congressional district by 20 points in the 2016 election. But the race is close, and Republicans are spending heavily to try to stave off a public relations disaster.

NPR's Michele Kelemen, who covers the State Department, talks to Rachel Martin about events leading up to the announcement.

The current deputy director of the CIA is well-respected by intelligence professionals, but she is tied inextricably with the agency's dark chapters involving torture.

Americans For Prosperity, a conservative group, is pouring resources into energizing its grassroots activists in 36 states around the issue of confirming federal judges for lifetime appointments.

British Prime Minister Theresa May says she is expelling 23 Russian diplomats from the U.K. The move follows the poisoning of the Russian former spy and his daughter in Britain last week.

A new study looks at why the Tsimane people of Bolivia often avoid seeking medical care — and what might change their minds.

During a stop on his European tour, Bannon told a conference of the far-right National Front party in France, "Let them call you xenophobes. Let them call you nativists. Wear it as a badge of honor."

In the aftermath of last month's deadly school shooting in Florida, President Trump flirted with gun control measures opposed by the NRA. But in the end, his proposals are much more politically cautious.

Republicans have spent millions and the president campaigned vigorously in an effort to save a traditionally GOP seat. David Greene talks to Marc Lotter, former special assistant to the president.

A three-year drought has brought on water restrictions — and talk of "Day Zero," when Cape Town will run out of water. But for many people in the townships, a short supply is nothing new.