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The federal government says it will pay down $35 billion of the national debt this quarter. It's a reversal of an earlier prediction that the government would add more than $100 billion in debt during the second quarter of 2013. Economists say the payment was made possible by spending cuts and higher tax revenues.

China is hoping for a balance between its desire for an economy based more on consumption while at the same time trying to rein in rapidly increasing household debt.

NPR TV critic Eric Deggans picks his favorite performances of 2025 thus far, including Noah Wyle in The Pitt, Catherine O'Hara in The Last of Us and The Studio, and Carrie Coon in The White Lotus.

This week, senators stepped up after learning the plaque, which had been approved by Congress more than three years ago, was nowhere to be found at the Capitol.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to former federal prosecutor Elie Honig about reports that former VP Mike Pence must testify before a grand jury about his conversations with Donald Trump ahead of Jan. 6.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks to a group of Muslim people in Dearborn, Mich. about Muslim women now serving in the U.S. Congress and about divisions within the Islamic community.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with David Brooks of The New York Times and E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution about the U.S. abstention from the U.N. Security Council vote condemning Israeli settlements and Trump's recent statements on nuclear weapons.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell about the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

A new documentary shows how the CIA and Britain's MI6 engineered the forcible removal of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. The 1953 coup continues to rattle history to this day.

If approved by regulators and Virgin America's shareholders, the combined airline will become the fifth-largest U.S. carrier.