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The Taneytown Police Department in Maryland shared this ominous message on social media: Please remember to put pants on before leaving the house to check your mailbox. You know who you are.

The former top aide to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talked behind closed doors with House investigators about the Ukraine affair and why he resigned from his post.

A fourth man connected to Rudy Giuliani is arrested. The Democratic candidates gather again for a debate.

The first effort came in 2020. The next might come just before the end of his term.

Westgate resorts bought all the townhouses in an Orlando community — except one. Julieta Corredor declined to sell. She's suing now to keep her house from being surrounded by a timeshare development.

After decades of debate and delay, a controversial fence along the border between San Diego and Tijuana has been given the partial go-ahead. The House approved the fence as part of the Real ID act, passed in early February. Environmentalists and coastal regulators in California are concerned that the provision gives federal government unprecedented powers to waive environmental laws all along the border. Amy Isackson of member station KPBS reports.

In a photo, taken during a firefighters' training drill, a kid gives the camera a knowing look as a house burns in the background. As she graduates college, Zoe Roth auctioned off the photo's rights.

Now that the line-item veto has passed through both houses of Congress, it is expected that President Clinton will sign the bill, which will give the executive branch the power to cross out select lines of the federal budget, rather than vetoing the entire budget. We have a discussion about the implications of the passage of line-item veto...about its effects on the balance of power between executive and legislative branches, and if indeed it will help the president balance te budget. Linda talks with Robert Reischauer (RYESH-how-er), a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former director of the Congressional Budget Office, as well with James Thurber, director for the Congressional and Presidential Studies at Amercian University.

Daniel talks with John M. Barry, the author of "The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America" (Simon & Schuster). The 1927 flood - which stretched from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans - left more than one-thousand people dead and 900-thousand people homeless. Throughout the flood plain there were camps set up to house the homeless - and conditions in these camps were bad. The worst camp was in Greenville, Mississippi - where blacks, says Barry, were essentially slave labor: They were not paid. They were not allowed to leave. Living conditions were poor.

Commentator Kristine Holmgren remembers her father. She remembers a time when everything in his life was under control--a steady job, a monthly house payment and a car--he had survived World War II and had faith in his country and his God. As the years passed, and the world changed, he stayed the same...then one day he left the family and moved to L.A. In a picture of her father she keeps in her wallet, she sees a man whose life was open but who was unable to understand he could not control his own destiny.