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NPR's Audie Cornish talks with GOP Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana about former FBI Director James Comey's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday and the questions surrounding whether President Trump's actions amounted to obstruction of justice.

Former FBI director James Comey's testimony Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee has political consequences for the president. Trump's private lawyer later responded to Comey's testimony.

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Vytautas Landsbergis, the first president of Lithuania since its independence from the Soviet Union, about Russia and his ideas for building security and resilience for his country.

The feds said the indictment represents one of the first federal racketeering charges ever brought against a vor v zakonei -- a Russian phrase that translates roughly as "thief-in-law."

In cemeteries and historic places, hurricane damage can extend underground if uprooted trees tear up buried historic artifacts or even human remains.

In recent days, there have been revelations about ethics waivers that allow federal employees to avoid ethics rules.

Thursday's Senate Intelligence hearing raised a host of important issues and at least one historical allusion.

Japan's parliament has approved a law allowing Emperor Akihito to abdicate. Last year, Akihito — in oblique language — asked permission to do so, citing his advanced age and poor health.

The president's infrastructure proposal still has a few holes to fill in, and it also may not be the job engine he thinks it will be. Here are four questions he may want to think about.

In the hubris of the moment, having vanquished the world of electoral politics, a new or re-elected administration is fully confident of its mandate, and equally full of itself.