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The Republican is accused of lying to the FBI about illegal campaign contributions made to his 2016 reelection bid.

Gun dealers in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas will need to tell federal regulators about anyone who purchases multiple semi-automatic weapons in a short period of time. A GOP lawmaker says the Obama administration is being hypocritical.

Keith Maitland's new documentary recreates the 1966 University of Texas campus shooting. Maureen Corrigan reviews George Saunders' first novel. Fresh Air remembers writer Bharati Mukherjee.

Republicans criticized his recess appointment of Richard Cordray to run the new consumer watchdog agency. But Justice lawyers say the Senate wasn't really in session.

Gloria Naylor's debut novel, The Women of Brewster Place, won a National Book Award and became a TV mini-series starring Oprah Winfrey. Naylor has died at age 66.

Tax experts weigh in on whether the IRS and state tax authorities fell down on the job by not preventing the dodges and tax schemes by Fred Trump alleged in The New York Times report.

Michael Steven Sandford tried to take a gun from a police officer at a Trump rally in Las Vegas on Saturday, according to police and eyewitness accounts. He was charged in a federal court Monday.

Federal and state investigators said the fire that caused a massive explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant in 2013, killing 15 people, was a criminal act.

The Food and Drug Administration typically follows the advice of its expert advisers. A quick agency decision on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is expected given the state of the pandemic.

News of a second novel has raised concerns that the To Kill a Mockingbird author is being taken advantage of in her old age. But friend Wayne Flynt says Lee, 88, can "understand what's going on."