This NPR News segment covers a series of high-profile political developments, including the contentious confirmation of Todd Blanche as U.S. Attorney General, bipartisan sanctions on Russia following Senator Lindsey Graham’s death, new Pentagon UFO disclosures, a federal court halting con
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