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American forces in Iraq launch another series of raids against militants suspected of planning attacks to mark upcoming anniversaries linked to Iraqi nationalism and Saddam Hussein. Weekend Edition Sunday guest host Michele Kelemen speaks with NPR's Guy Raz, who is embedded with troops involved with the raids.

A new poll indicates a growing number of Americans are concerned at a lack of international support for military action against Iraq. The poll found two-thirds of Americans would back use of force, but only under specific conditions. NPR's Michele Norris talks with Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.

Americans' telephone records, secretly gathered by tricking telephone companies into revealing private billing information, are often bought by businesses, and sometimes law enforcement agencies. That's the testimony of data-broker witnesses grilled by members of the House Energy and Commerce committee.

This week, NPR's Jennifer Ludden looked at what happens when a country — in particular, El Salvador — has to take back a large number of its own nationals deported by the United States. What are the effects of their migration and their return?

A series of insurgent bomb attacks in Iraq kill at least one American soldier and six Iraqis. The latter were killed in twin bombings outside a police academy in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit that also injured nearly three-dozen others.

The Obama administration says it is confident that Russia is responsible for the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and accuses Moscow of trying to interfere with U.S. elections.

After the Trump administration banned laptops on flights to the U.S. from 10 airports in the Middle East, it says two of those airports met new security standards. It means carriers using those airports will be able to allow their passengers to bring laptops on board.

The U.S. should, based on its wealth and other factors, have one of the world's lowest rates of gun deaths. The data show a different picture.

The U.S. will shift the focus to training so-called "enablers" in Turkey. Those leaders of opposition groups will gather intelligence and coordinate airstrikes with existing fighters.

President Obama vowed to "intensify" U.S. action against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, but he brushed aside calls to send in U.S. ground troops.