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Left to right, Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats, National Security Agency Director Adm. Michael Rogers, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Robert Cardillo testifiy before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption

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National Security

4 Big Intelligence Stories You Missed Amid The Comey Headlines This Week

There's a lot more going on in the shadowy world of America's spies than just the controversy over the abrupt dismissal of James Comey as director of the FBI.

President Trump's lawyers said a decade's worth of his tax returns show he doesn't owe money to Russian lenders, and that he has received no income from Russian sources, with "a few exceptions." Without copies of Trump's tax returns, these claims cannot be verified. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Politics

Trump's Lawyers Deny He Has Russian Income Or Debt, 'With A Few Exceptions'

President Trump's attorneys say his tax returns don't show financial ties to Russians, with some exceptions, such as the time he got $95 million from a Russian billionaire.

Emergency personnel work at the scene of a deadly Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia in 2015. The engineer has been charged with crimes including involuntary manslaughter. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption

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Amtrak Engineer Charged In Deadly 2015 Philadelphia Train Crash

Pennsylvania authorities filed criminal charges after local officials found insufficient evidence to make a case against the engineer who was operating the train at twice the speed limit.

President Trump sent a flurry of tweets Friday morning, saying "The Fake Media is working overtime today!" and suggesting that there could be "tapes" of his private conversations with former FBI Director James Comey. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption

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Politics

Trump Tweet Suggests His Conversations With Comey Might Have Been Recorded

The president seemed to be cautioning the former FBI director against "leaking to the press." Spokesman Sean Spicer wouldn't confirm or deny whether there is a recording device in the Oval Office.

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Ransomware Attacks Hit Large Computer Networks In International Rampage

The same malware is being blamed for large-scale attacks in Europe and Asia. In the U.K., hospitals scrambled to cope after the cyberattack crippled their ability to treat patients. "We'll likely look back at this as a watershed moment," U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse said.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said pursuing the most serious charges "is of the utmost importance to enforce the law fairly and consistently." Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption

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Sessions Tells Prosecutors To Seek 'Most Serious' Charges, Stricter Sentences

The move, which was announced in a memo, reverses an Obama-era recommendation that asked federal prosecutors not to hit low-level drug offenders with charges that carry mandatory minimum sentences.

Teachers rallied at the Statehouse in Indianapolis in 2011 to protest Gov. Mitch Daniels' attempts to curb collective bargaining, implement merit pay and create a voucher system that would send taxpayer money to private schools. Darron Cummings/AP hide caption

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NPR Ed

The Promise And Peril Of School Vouchers

Indiana's private school voucher program is the largest of its kind in the U.S. Whether it's "social justice" or "an assault" on public schools depends on whom you ask.

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Streaming Services Put Female Characters At The Center With 'Anne' And 'Dick'

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TV critic David Bianculli reviews two new shows based on novels written by women: Amazon's I Love Dick, and Netflix's adaptation of Anne of Green Gables, Anne with an E.

Streaming Services Put Female Characters At The Center With 'Anne' And 'Dick'

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A streetcar rides along Woodward Avenue on Friday in Detroit — the city's first in 61 years. The QLine project was led by private businesses and philanthropic organizations in partnership with local, state and the federal government. Carlos Osorio/AP hide caption

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After 61 Years, Detroit Gets A Streetcar Once More

The QLine opened to the public on Friday morning, after 10 years of planning and political wrangling. Its backers say the project should be seen primarily as economic development, not transit.

A virion of the Ebola virus, as seen in a colorized transmission electron micrograph made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. World health authorities confirmed one death from the virus Friday in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Frederick Murphy/CDC/Via AP hide caption

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At Least 1 Person Dies Of Ebola In Democratic Republic Of Congo

The World Health Organization says one case was confirmed and nine people total were suspected of contracting the virus. The cases were "in a very remote zone ... so we are a little lucky," the organization says.

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Code Switch

Where ICE Already Has Direct Lines to Law-Enforcement Databases With Immigrant Data

Immigration and Customs Enforcement documents show that for years, law enforcement in hundreds of jurisdictions, including major sanctuary cities, are feeding information into regional databases.