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The Smithsonian's museums and zoo are now closed due to the government shut down. Tours of historic Washington, D.C. sites have been suspended and the National Gallery of Art is also closed.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution, about the U.S. being in a recession, and how long it's expected to last.

NPR speaks with Ken Paulson, with the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University. He says legislative supermajorities can weaken the democratic process, as we saw in Tennessee last week.

President Trump is set to meet with House Republicans Tuesday at the Kennedy Center as lawmakers in both chambers are calling for more details on the recent operation in Venezuela.

The storm has slowed as it passes over the Bahamas, battering the islands. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Joel Klein, meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center.

Advocates for the LGBTQ+ community say the new limits on the food assistance program, SNAP, may make it especially difficult for many LGBTQ people battling food insecurity.

As hantavirus dominates the headlines, sparking fears of another debilitating pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stressed that the risk of sweeping contagion is small.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Mohanad Hage Ali, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, about the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah's role in the current conflict.

The executive director of the Baltimore International Seafarers' Center provides insight into how crew members still aboard the Dali, and several other ships stuck in the Baltimore Harbor are faring.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, about hate crimes rising in those cities.