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The White House counsel is the president's official lawyer, and his job description puts him at the center of every legal decision made in the White House.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Max Boot, senior fellow at Council of Foreign Relations, about his Foreign Policy column that credits learning about his white male privilege to the election of Trump.

Also: The World Health Organization declares an ebola outbreak in Congo; President Trump will discuss lowering prescription drug prices; and the biggest wave ever in the Southern Hemisphere is seen.

Amber Rudd accused the British prime minister of an "assault on decency and democracy" over his plan to exit the European Union with or without a deal.

"Trump voters are never going to fall for this collusion story and are never going to buy into this notion that the Russians rigged it with Trump," said talk radio host Rush Limbaugh this week.

The results of the special election leave the ruling prime minister's government with a single-seat majority just as he tries to navigate a difficult departure from the EU.

Members of the House Freedom Caucus and their allies are rebuking the Republican leadership's health care bill, but many of their constituents voted for President Trump. Can the lawmakers be swayed?

The selection places two staunch Trump allies atop the nation's premier federal law enforcement agency at a time when Democrats are concerned that the president could seek to target his adversaries.

The Tories now have the biggest majority since Margaret Thatcher's win in 1987, all but ensuring the United Kingdom will exit the European Union in January.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with author David Kaplan about how that led to the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, a Tory lawmaker, tweets in Latin, drives his mother's old Mercedes and named his sixth child "Sixtus." Critics say his amiable persona distracts voters from his "regressive" beliefs.

Black voters are the most reliable Democratic voting bloc. Young voters overwhelmingly support the party, too. But young Black voters are a wild card as they feel disconnected from politics.

Koch and his brother Charles built one of the nation's largest private businesses and created a network of secretly funded organizations that attacked Democrats.

House Republicans have nominated Kevin McCarthy to serve as Speaker of the House in the next Congress. It's the first step on McCarthy's path to presiding over the House chamber.

A fight broke out about legal immigration on social media this week. Here's what it says about Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's influence and factions in the GOP.

Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist, has been awarded more than $1 million in a case more than a decade in the making.

The former Google engineer was fired after he criticized the company's diversity efforts and suggested that innate differences between men and women explain gender gaps in the tech sector.

Student activists are calling on the country to pass stricter gun legislation but some believe shootings are caused by societal issues, not the availability of guns.

Republican Darren Bailey, who is backed by former President Donald Trump, will face Democrat and billionaire Gov. JB Pritzker on the Illinois ballot for governor in November.

Finland's center-right National Coalition Party, headed by Petteri Orpo, eked out a narrow victory over the country's populist party. Sanna Marin's party fell to third place.