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O'Neill served in the Bush administration in 2001 and 2002 but was fired after opposing tax cuts. He later collaborated on a book critical of the administration.

Like so many sectors of the economy, higher education is taking a big hit from the pandemic. The U.S. Department of Education has so far distributed more than $10 billion in relief funds to colleges.

The Supreme Court has extended a life-support line to some 650,000 so-called "Dreamers" on Thursday, allowing them to remain safe from deportation.

President Xi Jinping did not specifically refer to any of President Trump's criticisms. But he said the pandemic has exposed "weaknesses and deficiencies" in the global health system.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with House Appropriations Committee Chair Nita Lowey about the investigation into why State Department Inspector General Steve Linick was fired last Friday.

The latest coronavirus aid bill that passed the House last Friday is full of proposals Democrats have been pitching for years and includes major expansions of social safety net programs.

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, N.Y., have added another charge against the R&B singer: that in 1994, he paid an Illinois official to make a fake ID that claimed that Aaliyah was 18 years old.

The president has offered no evidence that the Chinese were responsible for the pandemic, and conceded, "If it was a mistake, a mistake is a mistake."

NPR's Michel Martin talks Randy Romanski, interim head of Wisconsin's Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, about why some farmers are dumping food amidst shortages.

The European Union is closing its external borders for 30 days to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Movement within EU member nations will still be allowed.