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NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Hugo Gurdon of the Washington Examiner and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker about the week in politics, focusing on this week's impeachment hearings.

President Trump has fired DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and named Sen. Markwayne Mullin as her replacement. And, the Justice Department released some missing Epstein files.

Tensions are rising in the Middle East as shaky ceasefire agreements between the U.S., Israel and Iran, and Lebanon and Israel, are tested. And, the Secretary of the Navy is out of the role.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget, about her role as a lead negotiator on the debt ceiling deal and future threats of default.

The status of a decades-old bunker beneath the now-demolished East Wing is unclear, but the Trump administration has cited security concerns in its legal filings in favor of continuing construction.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with David Plouffe, former advisor to President Barack Obama, about joining the Harris/Walz campaign.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with novelist Aisha Abdel Gawad about her new novel Between Two Moons. It's a coming of age story about teenage twins in Brooklyn and takes place during one month of Ramadan.

One legacy of the former Soviet Union is the New Year's feast. Ukrainians are reclaiming Christmas and old recipes.

NPR's Don Gonyea and Ari Shapiro have been traveling through Iowa these last few days and weeks. They join Robert Siegel to talk about Tuesday's caucus vote.

Gas and groceries got more expensive in July, but the price of most other goods was down. The Federal Reserve may be able to bring inflation under control without tipping the economy into recession.

It's been nearly four weeks since Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was hospitalized. It's not the first time this year that a member of Congress has been absent for weeks with scant details.

Acting U.S. Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman told a House committee that the department expects to answer "for our failings on Jan. 6."

Some 6.8 million people in the U.S. have gotten the J & J vaccine.

2: Country music legend, MERLE HAGGARD. HAGGARD has been on the country music scene since the early sixties and has more number one hits than any country music star except Conway Twitty. Recently two tribute albums of his songs were released: "Mama's Hungry Eyes" and "Tulare Dust." HAGGARD was also recently inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame. (REBROADCAST FROM 4/6/95)Poet and countercultural activist ALLEN GINSBERG. His poems include "Howl," and "Kaddish." GINSBERG was part of the group of Beat poets, which also included Jack Kerouac. A four-CD boxed set of Ginsberg's work, "Holy Soul Jelly Roll - Songs and Poems (1949-1993) was released last November (on Rhino's Word Beat label). (REBROADCAST FROM 11/8/94)Author AMY TAN. Her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, is the story of four Chinese women who gather to gossip and play mah jong, and of the rebellious ways of their Americanized daughters. The story parallels Tan's own life. Her mother left China in 1952, and TAN grew up torn between her mother's culture of the past and her American surroundings of the present. She is also the author of The Kitchen God's Wife. (REBROADCAST FROM 3

People in Kalamazoo, Mich., are mourning 6 victims of a fatal shooting spree over the weekend. Police have a suspect in custody. But, the community still doesn't know why the mass shootings occurred.

Central Florida continues to see record numbers of hepatitis A cases.

Authorities say Nouel Alba of the Bronx pretended to be a relative of a 6-year-old victim and collected donations for a "funeral fund." When confronted about it, they allege, she lied to FBI agents. So far, she's only been charged with lying to authorities. Other charges could follow.

The administration's list includes more than 6,000 items, including seafood, propane and toilet paper.

Clean-up crews are working hard to be ready for 150 campers, girls ages 6 to 16, who arrive on Sunday, despite the damage done by floods to the region.

Every McDonald's restaurant in the U.S. will offer breakfast menu items all day, starting Oct. 6.