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Congress returns from recess next week and they'll have much to debate, including gun control and impeachment.

Pro-democracy activist Bonnie Leung tells Noel King that the protesters have five demands, including the bill's withdrawal, Carrie Lam's removal from office and a police brutality probe.

Joichi Ito has resigned as director of the MIT Media Lab after a New Yorker article detailed the lengths to which the Lab concealed funds received from Jeffrey Epstein.

The CDC says it is probing 450 reported cases of illness in people who vaped nicotine or cannabis products. Health officials say it's too soon to pinpoint a single product or substance as the cause.

British police say a couple who were found gravely ill on Saturday had been poisoned with the same nerve agent that was used in an attack earlier this year on a former Russian spy and his daughter.

Outrage over the administration's policy of family separations at the border prompted an outpouring of donations to bond funds. People are giving so detained immigrants can post bond and be released.

Over the weekend an angry mob attacked Venezuelan migrant camps in a Brazilian town near the border. Ecuador has declared a state of emergency, and closed its borders to those without passports.

The deaths of two migrant children raise new questions about the quality of medical care at Border Patrol facilities. But pediatricians at the border have been raising these concerns for years.

The partial government shutdown appears likely to continue into the New Year. While the effects so far have been muted, the impact will increase the longer the shutdown drags on.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Sanaa Abrar for her reaction to President Trump's remarks on border security. Abrar represents United We Dream, an immigrant advocacy organization.