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Republicans contend Mayorkas' "willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law" on immigration amounts to "high crimes and misdemeanors" for failing to manage the U.S.-Mexico border.

Mortgage rates fell to 6.47% this week, prompting a flurry of refinancing activity. Rates are still much higher than they were a few years ago, however, leaving many homeowners reluctant to move.

Six years ago, commentator Susan McKinney met a young Mexican man in San Miguel del Allende. Before they were married, she moved into his family's house. She questions her identity as a woman in her fianci's crowded Mexican home. She is an American and she works outside the house, so she isn't allowed to do the chores that define the lives of the other women in the crowded household.

The U.S. military in Iraq launches Operation Desert Scorpion, conducting house-to-house searches and detaining dozens of Iraqis believed to be Baath Party loyalists or members of terrorist organizations. The largest raids occur in Fallujah, where coordinated attacks on American troops have increased in recent weeks. Hear NPR's Nick Spicer.

The U.S. military says it controls about 80 percent of Fallujah after six days of fighting. Marines are conducting a house-by-house search for insurgents still hiding in the Iraqi city. Hear NPR's Scott Simon and NPR's Anne Garrels.

Commentator Mickey Edwards says it used to be that the House had the hard-liners and the Senate Republicans were more moderate...but with the takeover of Trent Lott as Senate majority leader, Don Nickles as number two in the Senate, and Larry Craig as the new chair of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, we are seeing a Senate that looks more like Newt Gingrich's House...and one that will take a strong stand in setting policy no matter who is President.

U.S. troops continue house-to-house searches for remnants of the Saddam Hussein regime or other Iraqis who may be planning attacks on U.S.-led forces. Operation Ivy Serpent is the fourth such sweep. NPR's Guy Raz, embedded with U.S. soldiers, reports from Tikrit.

Democrats must untangle a potential government shutdown Thursday, a potential federal default, a vote on a $1 trillion infrastructure bill and a related vote on as much as $3.5 trillion in spending.

More than 5 million Ukrainians have fled their country since Russia invaded. Tens of thousands are in Estonia, where people remember what it was like to be occupied by the former Soviet Union.

Let’s admit it: Summer 2020 has been awful. (Thanks, COVID-19.) But some in Bloomington-Normal have managed to find bright spots in an otherwise dark…