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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Marc Goldwein, a policy official at the Center for a Responsible Federal Budget, to parse out the reality versus the rancor in the government budget battle.

Activities once forbidden — cinema, music, women driving — are now OK. It makes some Saudis nervous. "I talk to younger people, they are happy with it," says a Saudi woman. "But older people are not."

Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld is running for president. Has Trump's team already put roadblocks in place to make any challenge impossible?

Los Angeles Mayor-Elect Antonio Villaraigosa built his landslide victory on a platform of affability and optimism that contrasted with opponent James Hahn's subdued style. According to a Los Angeles Times exit poll, it was L.A.'s struggling school system that hurt Hahn the most. And in a city as diverse as Los Angeles, voters said they had more faith that Villaraigosa could ommunicate across the city's many cultural divides. Villaraigosa joins host Farai Chideya.

The survey, from NPR and partners, shows how the "1%" compare with others on issues including inequality, health care access and what it takes to get ahead in America.

First it was his sacking of Capt. Brett Crozier last week; then it was a diatribe he delivered aboard the USS Roosevelt on Monday morning. Now acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly is out.

The Addams Family, Clue and Frozen JR were among the most popular shows, according to a new survey. But the report also showed that drama teachers are nervous about censorship.

A new book, Peril, says the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was attempting to head off a potential armed conflict when he called his Chinese counterpart twice in Trump's final months in office.

There's a new probe on Mars. After Monday's tricky landing, NASA's InSight spacecraft is to deploy a sensitive seismometer and temperature probe to let scientists explore the planet's interior.

"The reality is, she's over there because of a gender issue ― pay inequity," the head of the WNBA's players union said this week about the basketball star who's been detained in Russia since February.