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The Obama administration is abolishing the regulations that were used as the foundation for a post Sept. 11, 2001, program to register Muslim immigrants. The move will make it harder but not impossible for the Trump administration to establish a new Muslim registry.

Governor Pat McCrory of North Carolina signed a law stripping Democratic Governor-elect Roy Cooper of power. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Michael Bitzer, political science professor at Catawba College.

When President Trump convened his cabinet for a meeting, several secretaries used the time to flatter him. Some foreign leaders have done the same, piling praise on Trump before the cameras.

President Trump is preparing to announce changes in U.S. policy toward Cuba during a visit to Miami on Friday, possibly tightening restrictions loosened by the Obama administration.

Over the past 25 years, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson watched China turn into the world's second largest economy. He explains what could halt the country's massive growth.

The great mathematician, whose accomplishments and struggle with schizophrenia were depicted in the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind, died with his wife, Alice, in a car accident on Saturday. "His suffering, I know, was real," says University of Chicago economist Roger Myerson. "But he was touched by glory."

After a history of supporting abortion rights, President Trump has become an unlikely champion of the anti-abortion-rights movement.

Critics of the tax cuts now being debated in Congress say they would cause the budget deficit to soar. But Republicans often have claimed that tax cuts lead to more growth and pay for themselves.

David Greene talks to Yanira Arias of the immigration advocacy group Alianza Americas, about the decision to revoke the temporary protected status of about 200,000 Salvadorans in the United States.

President Trump observed a moment of silence on the South Lawn of the White House Monday afternoon in honor of the victims of the Las Vegas shooting. He says he will travel to Las Vegas on Wednesday.