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Elon Musk says he is launching a new political party. It comes after Musk's explosive breakup with President Trump. Musk has been critical of Republicans' support for Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."

NPR's Ari Shapiro is joined by E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and the Brookings Institution, and Bethany Mandel of Ricochet and The Forward, about Chinese tariffs.

Democratic candidates pick up momentum as the elections near. The additional revelations surrounding the search of Mar-a-Lago could help them.

Air traffic controllers are finding it increasingly difficult to keep doing their jobs without getting a paycheck during the government shutdown. Some are starting to speak out.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is presenting a two-play cycle called Continental Divide. The David Edgar production portrays a governor's race from the separate perspectives of the Republican and Democratic parties. Dmae Roberts reports.

Novelist Elif Shafak describes how fiction has allowed her to explore many different lives, to jump over cultural walls, and how it may have the power to overcome identity politics.

Every election season, the political signs that sprout like dandelions from lawns across America also pop up at more than a few businesses. For some, expressing political preferences is a calculated move to attract customers. But it can just as easily turn them away.

Political satirist and impressionist JIM MORRIS. He's always done impressions. He began lampooning the Presidents at about the time Reagan was sworn in to office. Since then he's impersonated Bush, and Clinton, as well as presidental contenders, Michael Dukakis, Paul Tsongas, and Ross Perot. He's also impersonated some well known broadcasters. He impersonated Bush at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, in front of the President himself in 1989. CBS's Mike Wallace described it as "Mean. Mean. Mean. Mean." And The New Yorker says of MORRIS, "Like an obsessive character actor, Mr. Morris doesn't just impersonate his subjects; he becomes them.

Homemade political ads submitted to a MoveOn.org contest compared President Bush to Adolph Hitler. The liberal group removed the ads from its site. Now the Bush-Cheney campaign is citing them in its own commercial in which it tries to portray supporters of John Kerry as the "Coalition of the Wild-Eyed." NPR's Ari Shapiro reports.

The Capital Area Food Bank says it distributed more than 30,000 pounds of fresh produce on Saturday to federal workers impacted by the ongoing partial government shutdown.