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We discuss the impact of the government shutdown, President Trump's call to eliminate the filibuster, and assess his trip to Asia.

More people say they will wear a political costume this Halloween in a year after an election than ever before. Hillary Clinton, for one, says she might go as "the president."

The former senator discusses the New Hampshire Problem Solver Convention, as well as his work with No Labels to end what the group calls a hyperpartisan atmosphere in politics.

In Massachusetts, what's been a relatively lackluster campaign to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry is heating up. Veteran Democratic Rep. Ed Markey is running against Republican Gabriel Gomez, a businessman and former Navy SEAL. Gomez is a political newcomer.

Afghanistan has lost its first vice president, a warlord who fought beside the U.S. against the Taliban. Mohammed Qasim Fahim's death presents his Tajik brethren a tough choice in upcoming elections.

Benedict Cumberbatch stars as the top strategist for Britain's "Leave" campaign in a new HBO film that offers a jaunty — if incomplete — take on the U.K.'s pending departure from the EU.

A New York Times analysis of social studies textbooks from California and Texas reveals differences influenced by each state's politics. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Times reporter Dana Goldstein.

During the Civil Rights movement, the late scholar Ronald Walters helped lead a sit-in that desegregated the Dockum Drug Store. Now his hometown of Wichita, Kan., is naming a library after him.

In very different ways, immigration and Islam were highlights at both the Conservative Political Action Conference and the vote for a new Democratic National Committee chairman.

The government is back in business – for now. Also, more Democratic candidates announced they are running for the highest office in the land.