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NPR's Mary Louise speaks with DNC Chair Tom Perez about Tuesday's State of the Union address, and areas of shared interest between parties where he believes progress is possible in the coming year.

Israel has been allowing Qatar to supply money to the Hamas-run government in the Gaza Strip. The practice caused controversy among Israelis and Palestinians and is now being changed.

Rao has been nominated for a spot on that prestigious court opened by the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. She has drawn criticism for an argument she aired as an undergraduate decades ago.

Skeptics wonder whether the Justice Department's strategy of indicting foreign cyberattackers is a failure given the continued problem of cybertheft. Boosters say it's still the right move.

Russia suspended its observance of the INF treaty, a key agreement in nuclear arms control, in response to the U.S. suspending its own participation in the deal.

As President Trump says he wants to reduce the number of troops in Afghanistan, Steve Inskeep asks Gen. John Nicholson, who led U.S. and NATO troops until his retirement, about the state of the war.

The Trump administration is holding public hearings on its push to drill oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Critics say the process is being rushed and downplays environmental risks.

Officials say arson is to blame in the fire that swept through an apartment building in the French capital early Tuesday. It took hundreds of firefighters several hours to put out the blaze.

A new book features snippets of diary entries and letters written between 1542 to 2018. Editor David Kipen says it's "a collective self-portrait of Los Angeles when it thought nobody was looking."

Steve Inskeep talks to Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida about the uprising in Venezuela, and why it is essential for the U.S. to support opposition leader Juan Guaidó.