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NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Republican Mark Walker of North Carolina about what's in the tax legislation from Senate Republicans and how the party plans to get it passed by the end of the year.

House and Senate lawmakers formally kicked off negotiations over funding the Department of Homeland Security, facing a Feb. 15 deadline for a spending bill Trump will sign to avoid another shutdown.

The practice dates back to the 1920s, when a new cohort of students — many of them Jewish and/or immigrants — were vying for space at American universities.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee heard from U.S. diplomat James Jeffrey as Congress considers new sanctions against Turkey. But the top Senate Republican warns against action against an ally.

As autoworkers' real wages fall, top executives at the Big Three carmakers continue to earn tens of millions of dollars each year — hundreds of times more than the median employee.

Education was already a problem area in much of Latin America. But the coronavirus made a bad situation worse, writes journalist Alejandro Tarre.

The search for a woman who is believed to have fallen into a sinkhole in western Pennsylvania is moving into a recovery effort after two days of searching produced no signs of life, authorities said.

Trump said he would make Secretary of State Marco Rubio his interim national security adviser. It's the first time since the Nixon era that one person will do both jobs.

After building an optical network, scientists reported a top speed of 186 Gbps. They hope a network that fast will help move vast data to and from the Large Hadron Collider.

After the '60s, the Lincoln automobile brand started on a long, slow decline that mirrored the slide of the American auto industry. Now, Ford is trying to turn it back into a top luxury brand.