President Trump pardoned Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice related to the leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity. She talks to NPR's Scott Simon.
A criminal investigation into the president's private lawyer was exposed this week, starting with an FBI raid. Law professor Alan Dershowitz tells NPR's Scott Simon why he worries about its legality.
The military strikes were ordered by President Trump in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack on April 7 by the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad on its citizens.
When federal prosecutors served President Trump's personal lawyer — Michael Cohen — a warrant this week - one of the things on the list was Cohen's communications with a man named David J. Pecker, the publisher of the National Enquirer. NPR looks at why the special counsel might be interested in this communication.
Many gun owners say the primary reason they own a firearm is self-defense. But for years, experts have been starkly divided over how often people actually use guns for this purpose.
President Trump has raised the possibility of reconsidering joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership for the second time now. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Wendy Cutler, deputy U.S. trade representative during the Obama administration who negotiated the TPP, about the original purpose of the trade agreement.