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The FBI launches a new effort to crack a case from 1971, when hijacker D.B. Cooper parachuted from a Seattle-bound plane, after extorting $200,000. An FBI agent, who was only 4 when Cooper jumped, hopes new DNA evidence and tips from the public will track down the mystery man.

The Washington, D.C., region is home to about 400,000 federal employees, plus members of the military and government contractors. In a government shutdown, they face no pay and lots of uncertainty.

NPR's Leila Fadel asks historian George Derek Musgrove about the relationship between the federal government and the nation's capital over the use of law enforcement.

Since the 1970s, go-go's free-flowing funk has been associated with the nation's capital. And now the mayor has signed a measure making go-go the official music of the nation's capital.

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the street address of the White House, and lately the scene of protests. NPR spoke with people along D.C.'s famous street to learn what they think of those protests.

World War Two veterans are arriving in France ahead of the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

The FAA and the NTSB are investigating after a Cessna business jet crashed in Riverside County and burst into flames. It's the second deadly crash near the same Riverside County airport within a week.

The head of the U.N.'s atomic watchdog agency on Sunday condemned a Ukrainian drone strike on one of six nuclear reactors at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.

David Rennie, longtime China Bureau Chief of "The Economist," is leaving Beijing. In Part 1 of an exit interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep, Rennie talks about where the Chinese economy is headed.

There have been more than 1,200 charged, about 900 guilty pleas, 750 sentenced, and at least 80 still wanted.