The IRS has recalled tens of thousands of furloughed workers to help process tax refunds despite the government shutdown. Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
NPR : National Public Radio : News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts NPR delivers breaking national and world news. Also top stories from business, politics, health, science, technology, music, arts and culture. Subscribe to podcasts and RSS feeds.
State Department Brings Employees Back To Work Despite Shutdown
Up First. NPR hide caption
Signs are seen during the 2019 March for Life Conference and Expo, the day before the annual Washington, D.C., rally against abortion rights. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross stands behind President Trump during a bill signing ceremony at the White House in 2018. Ross, who oversees the Census Bureau, approved adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Police officer Jason Van Dyke at the Leighton Criminal Court in Chicago in October 2018. Antonio Perez/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Chicago Cops Found Not Guilty Of Cover-Up In Laquan McDonald Shooting Case
Demonstrators affiliated with the National Air Traffic Controllers Association protested the federal shutdown at a Capitol Hill rally earlier this month in Washington, D.C. Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption
Demonstrators protest opposite the Houses of Parliament in London on Tuesday. Frank Augstein/AP hide caption
A father and his daughter cross a street under renovations as part of a U.S. aid grant in the village of al-Badhan, north of Nablus in Israeli occupied West Bank in August 2018. Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A curious harbor seal checks out diver Mike Weber as he and his team pick up golf balls in the waters off the coast of Northern California. Courtesy of Alex Weber hide caption
Brad Smith, president of Microsoft Corp., speaks during a presentation on affordable housing in Bellevue, Wash., on Thursday. Microsoft Corp. said it will spend $500 million to develop affordable housing and help alleviate homelessness in the Seattle area. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
In August 1963, African-American girls were held in a Georgia stockade after being arrested for demonstrating segregation. Left to right: Melinda Jones Williams (13), Laura Ruff Saunders (13), Mattie Crittenden Reese, Pearl Brown, Carol Barner Seay (12), Annie Ragin Laster (14), Willie Smith Davis (15), Shirley Green (14), and Billie Jo Thornton Allen (13). Sitting on the floor: Verna Hollis (15). Danny Lyon hide caption
'I Gave Up Hope': As Girls, They Were Jailed In Squalor For Protesting Segregation
Audio will be available later today.
Maggie Rogers' Heard It In A Past Life is on our short list for the best albums out on Jan. 18. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Travis Scott performs in Austin, Tx. in October 2018. Scott is set to perform at the 2019 Super Bowl Halftime show. Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Even With Rappers Set To Perform, Super Bowl's Halftime Show Remains Tone-Deaf
Audio will be available later today.
Vice President Mike Pence, looks on as now-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., argues with President Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office last month. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
Donald Trump's former longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, acknowledged his involvement in a scheme to inflate online poll results for Trump in order to make it appear he had more political support. Richard Drew/AP hide caption
A security force member walks outside a shuttered restaurant Thursday in Manbij, Syria, the site of a suicide attack that killed more than a dozen people, including four Americans, a day earlier. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack. Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
U.S. Evangelicals Push Back Against Trump's Syria Pullout Plan
A so-called "blood moon" seen during a total lunar eclipse in western Germany, on Sept. 28, 2015. Patrik Stollarz/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
The Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison during a late night debate is taking over the contentious legislation on December 4, 2018. Andy Manis/Getty Images hide caption
Federal Judge Strikes Down Lame-Duck Changes To Wisconsin Voting Laws
Wisconsin Public Radio
President Trump called for a beefing up of existing defenses, such as the Aegis ashore system pictured. In addition, he called for research into new advanced concepts. Mark Wright/Missile Defense Agency hide caption
President Trump's approval rating is slipping, and it's largely because of cracks among his base. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
The rover Yutu-2 is seen in a photo taken by the lander of the Chang'e-4 probe on Jan. 11. Inside the probe is a biosphere harboring, whose seeds China now says have died. AP via China National Space Administration via Xinhua News Agency hide caption