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Fire officials say they've stopped the spread of the deadly Jennings Creek wildfire that's burning in rugged terrain on the New York-New Jersey border. But drought is causing more fires.

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President-elect Trump has tapped Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to lead what he's calling the "Department of Government Efficiency," or DOGE. Still, only Congress can create a new federal agency.

More than a thousand kids taken from their parents at the border still have not been reunited. The man Trump has named his next border czar has been described as the family separation architect.

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Ted Olson, the Bush-era solicitor general, has died. He was 84. Nina Totenberg is NPR's award-winning legal affairs correspondent. Her reports air regularly on NPR's critically acclaimed newsmagazines ...