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Vice President Mike Pence is spending the week in South America, discussing trade and the crisis in Venezuela with U.S. allies, but he's also doing a fair amount of answering for the president.

On Friday, President Trump authorized airstrikes on Syrian targets to retaliate after an alleged chemical weapons attack by President Bashar Assad. Pentagon officials say the attacks were "precise" and "effective."

The directors of the major intelligence agencies made their annual appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee to present their global threat assessment on Tuesday.

In a historic civil settlement, VW will buy back or repair cars sold as "clean" but that in fact polluted above legal levels. The company will also pay nearly $5 billion for environmental reparations.

The acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine is also caught up in the impeachment inquiry. William Taylor is expected to be asked to appear next week before the House committees investigating the president.

U.S. officials said yesterday in a statement that a Russian hacking group "has conducted a campaign against a wide variety of U.S. targets" since September 2020.

Approximately 350 passengers landed Wednesday in California, where they will be quarantined after leaving China. Worldwide, the number of confirmed cases of the respiratory virus continues to rise.

The Trump administration says it will be relentless with its sanctions against Iran until it's a "normal country," but still giving major importers of Iranian oil a chance to continue business without penalties.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Donati about the Trump administration's debate over what should happen to the more than 70,000 Venezuelans seeking refuge in the U.S.

In the new North American trade deal, Canada agreed to end its Class 7 milk price — a system that lowered the price of some Canadian dairy products, undercutting American producers. But dairy policy analysts say the new trade agreement won't significantly expand export opportunities.