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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Stuart Eizenstat, a top domestic policy advisor in the Carter White House, about how former President Jimmy Carter put human rights at the center of foreign policy.

NPR's Eric Deggans talks with Michele Steele of ESPN about the last week of the NFL regular season, the college football playoff semifinals, and a clothing controversy in chess.

The White House is confirming a stunning security breach. NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former State Department spokesperson Ned Price about how a journalist was included in a group chat with U.S. officials discussing airstrikes in Yemen, on a publicly available messaging app.

The divide between the president's words and the policies carried out by his cabinet has been on full display this week on the Mueller investigation and Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The federal debt continues to grow, topping $39 trillion this month. Like a shopper who buys more than he earns every week, the nation's credit card bill is compounding. Just paying the interest now costs more than every other government program except Social Security.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, about the Trump administration's military operation in Venezuela.

The NATO summit in Washington kicked off Tuesday morning. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly sat down with the top diplomats from eight Nordic and Baltic nations for a discussion hosted by the Atlantic Council.

St. Luke's asks judge to uphold $52 million defamation judgment for Ammon Bundy; researchers test waste clean-up measures at Hanford nuclear site; WA woman released from NWDC; top bishops sue WA over mandated reporting law; ArtFest celebrates 40th year in Spokane.

Plus, new polling shows Spokane residents’ top worries continue to be public safety and homelessness. But the cost of living and taxes are catching up. The Spokane Police Department is getting new training in a restraining method that’s said to be safer for both officer and arrestee. The block on WA's new sheriff eligibility requirements will stand as a challenge to the law goes forward. Thousands of people in Washington and Idaho are dropping their subsidized health insurance coverage after Congress failed to renew federal tax credits. Idaho looking for help from the public to decide how to spend opioid settlement dollars.

In the 1950s Dickie Goodman took bits of pop songs, cut them up like a collage with voices telling wacky stories of flying saucers and gave birth to a new form of novelty records. Goodman continued making these records until the late 1980s and they became small time capsules of culture. Jon Goodman has an appreciation of the "King of Novelty." (6:15) Jon Goodman's book is called The King of Novelty. Jon Goodman's CD of novelty tunes is called 25 All-time Novelty Hits and includes some of Dickie Goodman's work. See http://www.varesesarabande.com.