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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday about the $700 billion rescue plan for the financial sector. They stressed that it was urgent that lawmakers pass the bill this week. Many committee members were not swayed.

The global economic crisis tops the agenda as President Barack Obama meets with Britain's prime minister Tuesday. Gordon Brown is the first European leader to visit the new president. Brown will also address Congress during his U.S. visit.

Are the Nordic countries really the utopias they're cracked up to be? NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Michael Booth about his new book that attempts to answer that question.

A Chinese coast guard ship and one of its militia vessels separately bumped a Philippine coast guard ship and a military-run supply boat Sunday off a disputed shoal, Philippine officials said.

Even poor neighborhoods of west Caracas — strongholds of Chavismo — are turning against the president. Maduro's threatening to deploy a huge armed militia against his "coup-mongering" opposition.

Rebekah Brooks became the latest News Corp. executive to face criminal charges amid the ongoing phone-hacking scandal in Great Britain. Police arrested the former chief executive Sunday. The scandal has also cost Britain's top policeman his job.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., about his questioning of former special counsel Robert Mueller in Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing.

We take a peak behind the curtain at the Olympic Village, inside the cafeteria that's been called the world's largest restaurant.

The Secret Service director was on Capitol Hill Monday. For nearly five hours, she faced questions from House lawmakers demanding answers about the attempted assassination of former President Trump.

The Illinois governor was among six finalists vetted by the campaign. The vice president eventually picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate in the fall presidential election, in which they will face former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio.