Ximena has the latest on debt negotiations between the White House and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as the US gets closer to a possible default.
GOP Presidential candidates Ron DeSantis and Tim Scott are due to announce their Presidential run.
And the United States plans to blacklist about 70 companies and organisations for selling restricted U.S. products to Russia, part of a push by G-7 nations to try to exact more economic pain on Russia for its war on Ukraine.
Ximena Bustillo is an NPR politics reporter based in Washington