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NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with writer Ann Beattie about her new collection of short stories, The Accomplished Guest, which puts the spotlight back on the Baby Boomer generation.

Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran is one of the few Republicans holding town hall events this week while Congress is in recess. He is facing pressure over the Senate health care bill.

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says opioid prescriptions are down, but still way too high. While doctors are prescribing lower doses, they are still doing so for longer than CDC guidelines say are safe. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Dr. Alan Schwartzstein, who has worked as a family doctor for 28 years in rural Wisconsin, about the issues surrounding prescribing pain medication.

The president continues to hedge on whether he believes Russia meddled in the 2016 elections, despite evidence that Russia did interfere and testimony from the intelligence officials he chose.

For the first time in two years, the state of Illinois passed a budget, after lawmakers overrode the governor's veto. But it doesn't mean the state has solved its budget woes.

Voting rights groups fear that the Trump administration's look into voter fraud is really aimed at weakening a 24-year-old law meant to expand opportunities for people to register to vote.

President Trump will have his first meeting as president with Russian President Putin. It will take place Friday at the G-20 summit in Germany.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who's leading the Russia probe, has assembled a high-powered team of investigators and lawyers.