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Bipartisan negotiators have tentatively agreed to work toward a Thursday hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The comic actress was presented with the humor award in a star-studded ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on Sunday night.

Steve Inskeep talks to Pamela Constable of The Washington Post about Afghanistan's parliamentary elections on Saturday. Violence and threats lead up to the day of the election.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Canberra would commit a frigate, patrol plane and specialist defense force personnel to the security flotilla escorting commercial shipping from Iranian attacks.

Some working to coordinate efforts combatting the opioid crisis were shocked by an Aug. 22 announcement from former Ohio State University President Gordon Gee and former Governor John Kasich, who are forming a nonprofit to steer any money from a national opioid settlement to hospitals and health-based research.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that at a Monday event marking 500,000 COVID-19 deaths, President Joe Biden will order flags on federal property to be lowered to half staff for five days.

The figure is a sharp drop from the weekend – but it's still roughly comparable to the entire populations of states such as Virginia or New Jersey.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed sweeping criminal justice legislation Monday that also requires police agencies to equip officers with body cameras and sets stricter rules for their use of force.

NASA released videos of the rover called Perseverance as it descended to the surface of Mars. The space agency also outlined what the rover will be doing in its first few days on Mars.

A Cuyahoga County grand jury has declined to indict an off-duty Cleveland police officer in the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Desmond Franklin. The shooting took place the afternoon of April 9, 2020, on Cleveland’s West Side, as Officer Jose Garcia was in plain clothes in his car on his way to work. In a Friday evening press conference, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said his office acted as special prosecutor and treated Garcia as a citizen in a self-defense case, rather than a police officer acting in an official capacity.