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Who's who in the recently-released texts between government officials working on the U.S.-Ukraine relationship? And what do they mean for the impeachment inquiry?

The new action movie is about a black police officer straddling two worlds. It's also the British actress' first leading role. She explains how she prepared for a deeply American story.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with former Iraqi Foreign Minister and Kurdish leader Hoshyar Zebari about repercussions of the U.S. withdrawal from Syria for the Kurdish region of Iraq.

Employers are making vaccinations mandatory for workers in various sectors, and the head of the country's first hospital to mandate them says 99% of employees rolled up their sleeves.

A lot of people believe, when switching to electric vehicles, they would miss the smell of gasoline. The carmaker claims gasoline ranks more popular than the smell of wine and cheese.

Audie Cornish talks with Michael Dimock, director of the Pew Research Center for People and the Press about the Pew poll that came out Wednesday on the Tea Party and their stance on the shut down, debt ceiling, and a Tuesday poll looking at the broader GOP on the same issues.

Building an IT startup in the Gaza Strip isn't simple: electricity is sporadic, there's no mobile 3G and even if you can sell your app outside Gaza's tightly controlled borders, it's difficult to get paid. Nonetheless, half a dozen Gazan entrepreneurs recently pitched their ideas as part of a unique program that seeks to catapult the businesses into the global marketplace.

Audie Cornish speaks with Rep. Scott Rigell, Republican of Virginia, who says he will vote for the Senate plan to end up the government shutdown and increase the debt ceiling.

The government shutdown should end tonight and America should be able to pay its bills. Both the House and Senate will vote this evening on legislation to achieve those goals. For months, President Obama has said he would not negotiate with Republicans in Congress about Obamacare or the federal deficit until those goals were met. After weeks of stalemate and more than two weeks into a partial shut down of the federal government, the GOP met his demands.

Economists are trying to figure out how much uncertainty over the shutdown has hurt the economy and the potential effects of a solution that essentially "kicks the can down the road." Some say this lurching from one short-term fix to the next simply puts a drag on the economy.