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Power has shifted again in one of Iraq's most ancient and pivotal cities — Kirkuk. Kurds have recently been on top there but now Arab leaders are in charge and residents are tense as they look ahead.

Empty classrooms in Puerto Rico, and more in our weekly education news roundup.

Senators on Wednesday will questions the nation's top intelligence officials about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Rachel Martin talks to former FBI special agent Clinton Watts.

But the Trump White House has fallen into a pattern of responding to criticism or inconvenient news with sometimes extreme countercharges, said the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

An Afghan official said Saturday at least 94 ISIS members were killed, including top commanders, when the nearly 22,000-pound "Mother of All Bombs" was dropped in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province.

North Korea will top the agenda as President Trump and South Korea's Moon Jae-in meet Thursday. But whatever tensions brew below the surface, there will be reassurances that the relationship is solid.

A report from The New York Times says that President Trump ordered Special Counsel Robert Mueller to be fired last June, but backed down when the top White House lawyer threatened to quit.

Top national security officials made a surprise appearance at a White House briefing to argue that the Trump administration takes interference in U.S. elections from foreign powers seriously.

Some of the nation's top Olympic officials face tough questioning in Congress Wednesday. The sexual abuse of young athletes and their coaches is leading to some changes.

Thousands of jobs with the government dealing with national security and other sensitive issues require applicants to get a background check or security clearance. But the agency conducting the checks has a backlog of some 700,000 applications. Members of Congress say this poses a serious national security risk.