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On Monday, President Obama summoned top financial regulators to the White House to get an update on the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act. The legislation was passed in the wake of the financial crisis and is a sweeping overhaul of the nation's financial regulations. But three years after being signed into law, much of Dodd-Frank still isn't in place. Such is the difficulty of re-writing financial rules.

While the U.S. has not called the toppling of President Mohammed Morsi a "coup," most direct military aid has been suspended, a top Democratic lawmaker's staff tells The Daily Beast. But the White House says that's incorrect.

President Trump is going after Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, which voted to release a counter-memo following the GOP memo that Trump says vindicates him in the Russia probe.

State election officers from all over the country met in Washington, D.C., this weekend, and received a classified intelligence briefing on threats from foreign adversaries.

Russia has been waging a broad, concerted campaign of influence against the U.S. that includes a number of both overt and clandestine elements.

No black author has ever won its top prize. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks about the issue with Alisha Rai, author of the Forbidden Hearts series.

While the president has dismissed several national security advisers, Pompeo's role keeps growing. His secret trip to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is just the latest and most dramatic example.

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday released more than 2,500 pages of documents related to a 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a delegation of Russians and top Donald Trump aides.

Soccer is the national sport. But this was a big weekend for hoops in Johannesburg. Two top local teams faced off and the NBA played its first African exhibition game.

Angelina Jolie was just appointed a professor for the coming semester at the London School of Economics. The development world is having a pro-con debate.