Dale Willman

As Katie Silver reports from Mexico City, it's the latest in a series of widespread outages as the U.S.

oil embargo takes its toll.

The partial government shutdown continues after five weeks, and that means even longer lines at many of the nation's airports.

NPR's Matt Bloom has our reports.

President Trump said this weekend that he will order federal immigration officers to take a role in airport security to help with the delays as early as Monday.

More rain is expected this weekend in Hawaii, where heavy rains have already caused that state's worst flooding in 20 years.

Muddy floodwaters have covered large portions of Oahu's north shore.

Floodwaters have also lifted houses off their foundations.

An evacuation order also remains in place for 5,500 people living downstream from a dam at risk of failing.

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Russia and Ukraine traded attacks this weekend.

Officials say a Russian drone hit a home in Zaporizhia, killing two people.

Russian strikes also knocked out power across much of the northern Chernihiv region.

Ukrainian shelling, meanwhile, has killed two women in the Russian border region.

The attacks occurred just before U.S.-Ukrainian talks took place in Miami.

Violence by Islamist militant groups in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo rose sharply last year, NPR's Emmanuel Akinwatu reports.

Robert Mueller has died as FBI Director Mueller transformed the nation's law enforcement agency into a terrorism fighting force following the attacks on September 11, 2001.

Later, he became the special counsel in charge of investigating ties between Russia and President Trump's presidential campaign.

Robert Mueller was 81 years old.

I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.