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Congress wants to know about ex-president Donald Trump's role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Trump and his former aids are pushing back, and it looks like things are headed for a major showdown.

Consumer prices are soaring at a rate not seen since Ronald Reagan was President. Economists are trying to figure out if it's an economic hiccup or whether higher costs are here to stay.

The Ukraine crisis could cast a shadow on good economic and pandemic developments for the Biden administration.

Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a veteran prosecutor to serve as special counsel overseeing the criminal probe of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and the Jan. 6 investigation.

NPR's Wendy Schmeltzer reports on macular degeneration, a vision disorder that now afflicts roughly 1.7 million older Americans. Researchers who study vision loss believe that macular degeneration could impair the vision of over 6 million Americans within the next 30 years as the baby boom generation ages. Macular degeneration currently has no cure, but various social service organiations that work with the elderly are trying to help macular degeneration patients by teaching them ways to cope with their disability while remaining independent.

Serena Williams lost to the unseeded Roberta Vinci of Italy in three sets, ending her history-making run for the first calendar Grand Slam since 1988.

At least 12 people, including five foreign contractors, are killed in a car bombing in Baghdad. Over the past three days, a series of attacks have killed numerous Iraqis, including a senior civil servant and a top official in the foreign ministry. The attacks illustrate the security concerns Iraq's new government faces as it prepares to assume sovereignty June 30. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt.

The former president now says an audiotape that came out this week, of him apparently showing reporters a top-secret document that he'd kept was all bravado.

The Guardian is reporting that several lawyers with business before the Supreme Court paid money via Venmo to a top aide to Justice Clarence Thomas.

An Associated Press survey of the nation's top methamphetamine-producing states shows national lab seizures rose again last year.The survey confirmed that…