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About six months after the Highland Park mass shooting, Illinois lawmakers advanced a bill to ban assault weapons.

Few government agencies will make a more attractive target for GOP oversight than the Justice Department, which handles sensitive issues like civil rights and national security. A veteran of the Clinton Justice Department advises current department leaders to buckle their seat belts.

President Obama says his plan to help stem the tide of foreclosures will help up to 9 million homeowners. As he unveiled the plan in Phoenix Wednesday, the president said the collapse of the housing market is reverberating across the financial markets, and threatening the entire U.S. economy. David Wessel, of The Wall Street Journal talks with Steve Inskeep about the president's plan that is estimated to cost $75 billion.

The Trump administration is under pressure to release more documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. That's even after a Florida judge declined to release grand jury documents from the probe.

Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud is visiting the White House. Greeted with military planes and a procession, he and Trump were friendly with each other as they spoke to reporters in the Oval Office.

The White House has designated today for a prayer event on the National Mall. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with religious studies scholar Matthew D. Taylor about what's behind "Rededicate 250."

It's expected to be Merkel's last official visit to the White House.

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports on the testimony the Senate Whitewater Committee heard today from former White House communication director Mark Gearan. Gearan was asked about notes he took during a White House meeting just over two years ago regarding the appointment of a special prosecutor -- a move the First Lady opposed but one that the President called for.

Danny talks to Washington Post reporter Susan Schmidt about the Senate Whitewater committee's decision yesterday to subpoena the White House for notes on a meeting at which the president's personal lawyers and aides discussed Whitewater. The White House has refused to release the notes, invoking Mister Clinton's attorney-client privilege. Schmidt says the matter is likely to be decided by the courts during the coming presidential election year.

A sound montage of this past week's news including President linton and Noa Ben-Artzi, the granddaughter of slain Prime Minister Yitzak abin at the funeral; Colin Powell and a supporter; House Speaker Newt Gingrich, enator Bob Dole and White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta.