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NEW YORK - A man claiming to be an FBI agent showed up to a federal jail in New York City on Wednesday night and told officers he had a court order to release Luigi Mangione, authorities said. He's now locked up there too.

President Donald Trump said he plans to announce his choice for chairman of the Federal Reserve on Friday morning, a long-awaited decision that could set up a showdown on whether the U.S. central bank preserves its independence from the White House and electoral politics. For the past year, the president has aggressively attacked Fed Chair Jerome Powell, whose term as the head of the U.S. central bank ends in May.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is suing the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion, as he accuses the federal agencies of a failure to prevent a leak of the president's tax information to news outlets between 2018 and 2020. The suit, filed in a Florida federal court Thursday, includes the president's sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump organization as plaintiffs.

Sam Gringlas is a journalist at NPR's All Things Considered. In 2020, he helped cover the presidential election with NPR's Washington Desk and has also reported for NPR's business desk covering the workforce. He's produced and reported with NPR from across the country, as well as China and Mexico, covering topics like politics, trade, the environment, immigration and breaking news.

By The Department of Justice and FBI are ceding their traditional role leading investigations in the wake of shootings in Minneapolis to the Department of Homeland Security. Copyright 2026 NPR Ryan Lucas covers the Justice Department for NPR.

With the government on the brink of a partial shutdown, the Senate is scrambling to keep funding flowing and address bipartisan distress over President Trump's immigration enforcement tactics. But even with an agreement to fund the government, a short-term partial shutdown appears all but inevitable. The Senate still needs to vote on a plan announced by Senate Democrats, and then the House, which is in recess until Monday, needs to sign off, too.

The FBI on Wednesday executed a search warrant at the election center in Georgia's Fulton County, seeking ballots and other records from the 2020 election. President Trump falsely claims he won the 2020 election. He narrowly lost Georgia that year, by just under 12,000 votes, and has repeatedly pushed baseless claims about how the state's election was conducted.

The Senate has struck a deal to prevent large swaths of the government from enduring a shutdown, while allowing for negotiations to continue over funding the Department of Homeland Security. Under the plan, the Senate will vote on five appropriations bills before the weekend, according to sources familiar with the agreement who were not authorized to discuss details publicly. They will not vote on the sixth bill - which funds the Department of Homeland Security - as it is currently written.

Senate Democrats say there is a deal to prevent broad parts of the government from a lengthy shutdown, while allowing for negotiations to continue over funding the Department of Homeland Security. But the measure will need to be re-voted on in the House, meaning a short-term shutdown appears all but inevitable.

By A year after the midair collision near Washington, D.C., families of the victims are pushing for action on aviation safety, including crash-avoidance technology. And they're digging in for a fight. Copyright 2026 NPR Joel Rose is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk. He covers immigration and breaking news.