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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and the Brookings Institution, and David Brooks of The New York Times, about Republican leadership's bad week and the rollout of a Republican effort to overhaul the tax code.

Mark Lacy, an audience member in the VIP section at the Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, witnessed the shooting at close range, and he even stood next to someone shot in the head. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Lacy, who stayed on the scene well into the early morning hours helping the injured.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions will appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee after James Comey's dramatic testimony. And a leading Senate Democrat is concerned about obstruction of justice.

Two white supremacist prison gangs have fallen under suspicion in recent high-profile slayings in Colorado and Texas. Experts say prison gangs of all races and ethnicities have evolved in recent years to include more activity outside the walls.

As the Cairo bureau chief for The New York Times, David Kirkpatrick has covered events in the region since January 2011. He says that the toppling of the democratically elected Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi throws the changes of the Arab Spring into question.

Brilliant.org is an online hub for the world's most promising young minds to come together, connect, and see how they measure up against one another.

Compared to the rest of the world, American schools don't stack up like they used to. But what's the best way to educate children? Author Amanda Ripley followed students and teachers across the globe to find out for her new book, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way.

Call it diversity or a lack of consensus, but no single act dominated this year's awards. Instead, the Grammys spread the love, though rock bands — including The Black Keys and fun. — fared well.

Look for more of what President Obama exhibited three weeks ago at his inaugural address: a challenge to Congressional Republicans, and a focus on the economy, immigration, gun control and climate change.

Widespread police brutality under Hosni Mubarak helped fuel the uprising of 2011. But two years later, many say the police have begun to act like armed gangs, meting out collective punishment in restive areas. The police say they are the victims, under attack by anti-government protesters.