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NPR's Noel King speaks with Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders about the $3.5 trillion spending plan that is working its way through the House.

Cleanup is expected to cost the libraries hundreds of thousands of dollars. The American Library Association says it is not seeing similar meth-related closings in other states.

As questions remain over the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Republican-led House is attempting to shed new light on the matter, but its not without political debate and questionable claims.

For the first time in decades, Democrats run the show in Michigan, passing legislative priorities they've been after for years: repealing a 1931 abortion law, repealing right-to-work and more.

The truce between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway territory of South Ossetia remains precarious. Russian troops are still inside the former Soviet republic. The United States is standing strong with Georgia.

Ted Cruz's campaign is taking micro-targeting one step further by investing significant resources and money into learning about voters' personality traits and behavior.

Called "the sweetest man in the music business" by ex-bandmate Don Felder, Meisner joined Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Bernie Leadon in the early '70s to form one of the most popular acts in history.

A new kind of tourist package is being offered in China. Call it the "U.S. Real Estate Bottom-Fishing Tour." The first of 40 Chinese real estate shoppers are looking in the U.S. this week to buy for foreclosure properties and other housing bargains.

In search of a new edge to their health care efforts, President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have turned their guns on the insurance industry. They're counting on Americans' distrust of insurance companies to shore up wavering support for the President's health care agenda. The insurance industry says its impressive profits do not mean it is adding substantially to the cost of health care.

President Obama announced Tuesday he is nominating Ben Bernanke to another four-year term as head of the Federal Reserve. Simon Johnson, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says while Bernanke must be lauded for his improvisation, his role in the conditions that led to the financial crisis must also be examined.