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On Sunday, Macron won the runoff with Marine Le Pen. David Greene talks to Benjamin Haddad, a research fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., who worked on Macron's campaign.

Colleges are stepping up the competition to enroll the best students. One new development is personalized acceptance notices — whether they're fake news alerts, a visit from the marching band, or a letter hand-delivered by the college president himself. NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Wheaton College President Dennis Hanno about hand delivering letters to accepted students.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Henri Barkey of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars about why Turkey has accused him of being connected to the attempted military coup last month.

The tie-up between two of the four nationwide wireless carriers is the latest in the web of consolidation, spurned offers and spin-offs that are increasingly interlinking telecom and media industries.

Hospitals often shy away from offering quality assessments about skilled nursing care because of a Medicare requirement not to restrict choice. Federal officials are weighing changes to that rule.

Steven Mnuchin, Donald Trump's pick for treasury secretary, said the bank he ran did what it could to minimize foreclosures during the financial crisis. He also defended his use of offshore accounts for hedge fund clients, while acknowledging the need to close loopholes. Mnuchin also told lawmakers he thinks the Internal Revenue Service needs a bigger staff and better technology.

With the U.S. possibly disengaging from world affairs in the new Trump era, the larger world order as we've come to know it has changed. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Robert Daly of the Wilson Center about where this leaves China and whether that country will aim to become the next world leader.

President Trump has signed more executive orders and presidential memoranda in his first week in office than any of his recent predecessors. But he hasn't taken executive action on his administration's commitment to ethics.

When the two presidents meet Friday, the world will be looking for clues to the future of the fraught U.S.-Russian relationship. "Putin needs the meeting more than Trump," says one Russia expert.

As China celebrates the 20th anniversary of Great Britain's handover of Hong Kong to Chinese control, it can celebrate another type of takeover: the city's financial sector.