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The ride-hailing service says it is creating 20,000 driver jobs every month. While this makes the service better for customers, drivers worry it will drive prices — and their earnings — down.

Eric Holder, the nation's top law enforcement officer, is calling for a sea change in the criminal justice system. The attorney general is joined by a bipartisan group of lawmakers who want to overhaul prison sentencing policies.

Over the weekend, the western Kentucky town of Fancy Farm was the site of the first meeting between Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his likely Democratic opponent, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Grimes. National Democrats promise to make defeating McConnell the top priority as they head into a mid-term election that offers Republicans a good chance of taking control of the Senate.

Internet networks control more and more of our environment every day. And many of these things can be hacked. That's because over the past decade, the Internet and the mobile phone network have been layered on top of all kinds of technologies that weren't built with security in mind.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Bruce Klingner of The Heritage Foundation about spies, tricks and intelligence gathering at the upcoming U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore.

As the partial government shutdown heads into its third week, the staff level negotiations have yielded little progress. The president is still pushing for $5.7 billion for a steel border barrier.

President Trump's longtime fixer pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying to Congress about the real estate negotiations that Trump's business conducted with Russians in 2016.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., who attended Tuesday's briefing by CIA Director Gina Haspel regarding the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Two years ago, President Obama laid out a goal to double American exports in five years. Today, American products and services are in demand around the world, but that's not the only reason the U.S. is on pace to meet Obama's goal.

Because U.S. efforts to capture or kill key al-Qaida figures have been so effective, some say the group's core could collapse if a few more members are eliminated. Others say al-Qaida affiliates are gathering strength, and any victory over the core will be a hollow one.