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NPR's Juana Summers talks with retired Major General Randy Manner, former Acting Vice Chief of the National Guard Bureau, about President Trump federalizing the guard for his deportation campaign.

Congress returns from a two-week recess with a massive item on its to-do list: budget reconciliation. Lawmakers barely passed the plan's framework along party lines and now face an uphill battle on reaching consensus.

NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant discuss the NBA and NHL playoffs.

Today is International Strawberry Day!

The International Association of Chiefs of Police has issued two resolutions focused on ICE agents' use of face masks and heated comments around policing coming from influential leaders. Ari Shapiro speaks with Terrence Cunningham, a retired police chief and head of the IACP.

The latest season of the podcast "Unsettled" from Iowa Public Radio looks at how gender affects people's everyday lives.

Today is Sweet Potato Day!

Climate change is increasing the risk of dangerous floods. But people often balk at the cost of flood insurance, especially since many doubt they need protection.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to author Stephen Greenblatt about Dark Renaissance, which explores the life of Christopher Marlowe — the playwright he describes as "Shakespeare's greatest rival."

The Trump administration can move ahead, for now, with plans to lay off hundreds of thousands of federal workers following a U.S. Supreme Court decision on Tuesday.

Senior Pastor Jasiel Hernandez Garcia talks with NPR about his experiences after his First Presbyterian Church in Kerrville became a reunification center in the deadly central Texas floods.

The Senate returns to work today to pick up a multi-trillion-dollar bill that includes much of President Trump's agenda for cutting taxes and changing defense, energy and immigration policy.