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Kyle Sampson — former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales — testifies before a Senate panel. He says his boss was far more involved in the plan to fire eight federal prosecutors than Gonzales has previously acknowledged.

Russia's attack on the 2016 election was novel in its scope and its methods, but the underlying principles were old, writes David Shimer in an important new history.

Peru's disgraced intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos has arrived in Panama, seeking political asylum after sparking a week-long crisis at home.

From member station KPBS in San Diego, Carrie Kahn reports on the Iraqi Christians who are seeking asylum in U.S Already, 75 refugees have crossed from Mexico into the U.S., and over a hundred are still waiting. Most of them sneaked out of Iraq, then spend several years in Turkey or Greece before heading to Mexico.

Tinsel, a rare albino reindeer who is the main attraction at a Christmas tree farm in England, has hoofed it. After escaping his enclosure, he remains on the loose.

Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) announces he will run for president in 2004. Lieberman, the Democrats' vice presidential nominee in 2000, says he intends to "talk straight to the American people" and to show them he's "a different kind of Democrat." Naomi Starobin reports.

Two Senators want to create an intelligence command center inside the Pentagon to oversee all eight intelligence agencies. Sens. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) and Ben Nelson (D-NE) have introduced the legislation, which would alter the intelligence reform law passed last December.

Comcast, the nation's biggest cable provider, makes an offer worth $66 billion to purchase the entertainment giant Disney. Comcast officials say Disney chief Michael Eisner rejected a merger offer last week, prompting the public purchase bid. The price is based on around $54 million in stock and $11.9 billion in Disney debt. Hear NPR's Kim Masters.

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy against the United States. His lawyers argue that at his age, a long imprisonment would amount to a "life sentence."

Study after study shows that religious people are more fulfilled. But why? Commentator Eric Weiner describes the journey he took to find the happiness in holiness.