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President Trump says he has a lot of military options following a suspected chemical attack in Syria. He met with top military officials on Monday to discuss how to respond to the attack.

CIA director Mike Pompeo made a secret trip to North Korea and met with the country's leader Kim Jong Un. He's also trying to get confirmed as Secretary of State, the nation's top diplomat.

Some of the nation's top Olympic officials face tough questioning in Congress Wednesday. The sexual abuse of young athletes and their coaches is leading to some changes.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., the top democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, about President Trump cancelling the summit with North Korea.

To get the permit, applicants have to pass a live-fire exam and take a class on what to do in an active shooting — on top of the original five hours' training for a basic concealed-carry permit.

Thousands of jobs with the government dealing with national security and other sensitive issues require applicants to get a background check or security clearance. But the agency conducting the checks has a backlog of some 700,000 applications. Members of Congress say this poses a serious national security risk.

Before the Soviet period, "Russian food had color," says Vladimir Mukhin of Moscow's world-famous White Rabbit restaurant. He aims to honor those flavors, as well as locally source his ingredients.

Many Senate Democrats seeking reelection are in states that Trump carried in 2016. That presents opportunities for the GOP to win and make a takeover effort by Democrats tougher. But there's a problem as the GOP has had trouble recruiting top tier candidates in several important races.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Carol Leonnig of The Washington Post about how officials in at least four countries had been discussing how to manipulate Jared Kushner. She says intelligence regarding these conversations have held up his security clearance.

The ABC says thousands of pages of classified and sensitive documents were left in two filing cabinets, which the government sold for cheap at a secondhand shop, because it couldn't find the keys.