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In exchange for raising the debt ceiling and avoiding a government default, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's plan calls for slashing federal spending, cutting regulations, and putting stricter rules on some social programs.

Kevin McCarthy made compromises to become House speaker, and he's especially indebted to the most intransigent factions in his party.

President Bush tried to devote his news conference at the White House on Wednesday to domestic issues, but he soon found that reporters had foreign-policy questions on their minds — many focusing on Iraq or Iran.

Our Mystery Guest, Dick Zigun, founded a popular New York City event in 1983. Ophira and guest house musician Julian Velard work together to figure out this secret by asking "yes" or "no" questions.

Mystery Guest Jen Glantz stops by the Bell House to tell us about her unique business. Ophira Eisenberg and Jonathan Coulton ask her yes-or-no questions to figure out what it is.

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NPR National Security Correspondent Greg Myre and NPR White House Correspondent Tamara Keith discuss the details of the raid.

NPR's David Greene talks to Brown University professor Corey Brettschneider about the Senate impeachment trial, and the White House argument that the case made by Democrats is unconstitutional.

NPR's Julie Rovner reports that the House of Representatives is voting this week on legislation known as the Patients' Bill of Rights, an issue Congress has been working for nearly five years. But health care officials argue that changes in the health care system have made the legislation irrelevant.

Twenty years ago, composer John Cage premiered a composition called "Apartment House 1776" which brought together four cultures -- Native American, Jewish, African and White Anglo-Saxon Protestant -- and situated them under one roof. Makota (mah-KOH-tah) Little Eagle remembers her father, Swift Eagle, who was part of that production.