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The Office of Personnel Management has revised a Jan. 20 memo asking federal agencies to identify probationary employees ahead of a mass firing. The reissued memo does not order fired workers reinstated.

A criminal investigation into the president's private lawyer was exposed this week, starting with an FBI raid. Law professor Alan Dershowitz tells NPR's Scott Simon why he worries about its legality.

Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: Jurassic Park Avenue, Hand Unsanitizer and Shopping For Baby Names.

Because refugee resettlement agencies are stretched thin, the U.S. is testing a new approach. Groups of regular people are sponsoring Afghan refugees in communities where they've rarely gone before.

NPR has been receiving tips about detentions at the Ambassador Bridge in Michigan. An inquiry by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., revealed more that 200 detentions this year, including American children.

NPR's Scott Simon asks former prosecutor Solomon Wisenberg why he thinks a case against President Trump for obstruction of justice has weak odds of success.

Yellow Vest protestors plan their weekly demonstrations in the wake of the fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral and calls for unity from the French president.

As President Trump considers military action after the apparent chemical attack, Noel King talks to former ambassador Ryan Crocker, who served in Syria as well as throughout the Middle East.

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opens in Montgomery, Ala., this week and is devoted to the victims of lynching. It reflects on the nation's history of racial terror, from slavery to the more than 4,000 African-Americans lynched between 1877 and 1950.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, about the allegations against Dr. Ronny Jackson — the nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs.