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We recap the week in politics, including multiple services for the late Sen. John McCain.

The G20 summit in Argentina wraps up on Saturday. World leaders addressed trade disputes and also paid tribute to former President George H.W. Bush.

The long history of presidential pardons includes multiple controversies, including by George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. NPR's Audie Cornish goes through the history with law professor Mark Osler.

Police have identified 38-year-old Jarrod W. Ramos as the man they say gunned down five people at the offices of theCapital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Md., on Thursday.

Thirty-three years after a break-in at the Watergate hotel, one more mystery is solved. The Washington Post has confirmed that former FBI official W. Mark Felt was Deep Throat, a confidential source who guided the newspaper's coverage of the scandal that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation. The Post's David Von Drehle interviewed Bob Woodward, who held secret meetings with Felt, and discusses the unmasking of Deep Throat.

The universe is shaped like a vuvuzela. Humans and elephants are the only animals with chins. These, and a trove of other factoids have been compiled in 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off — a book by the creators of the hit British television show QI.

Most of the apartments will be between one and three bedrooms and there will be one studio apartment. Rents will be income based.

Dirk Kempthorne, a Republican, was elected mayor of Boise at age 34 and served seven years before serving one term in the U.S. Senate and then as governor until 2006.

President Trump is confronting a question that has haunted presidents throughout history: how a war - that has gone on longer than predicted - can reshape a presidency.

In The Zealot and the Emancipator, historian H.W. Brands reflects on two 19th century leaders who fought the institution of slavery in different ways: one radical and the other reformist.