Dave Mattingly

President Trump's choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security has been approved by the Senate.

Former Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma was confirmed in a 54-45 vote, mostly along party lines.

Mullen replaces former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who was fired by Trump.

Here's NPR's Sam Greenglass.

President Trump was in Tennessee yesterday, where he touted his administration's efforts to lower crime in Memphis.

It's one of the cities where Trump deployed members of the National Guard, as NPR's Deepa Shivaram reports.

This is NPR News from Washington.

Authorities in Washington, D.C.

are describing yesterday's shooting of a U.S.

Park Police officer as an ambush by two men.

The chief of the Park Police says the officer was seriously wounded when the two opened fire on the officer as he was driving in an unmarked vehicle.

He says the officer was working on an ongoing Park Police investigation at the time.

No arrests have been made.

California's attorney general is suing the Trump administration over an order that compels oil to flow through pipelines on the state's central coast.

Gabriela Fernandez with member station KCBX has more.

A jury in California has found actor and comedian Bill Cosby liable for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 1972.

Jurors in the civil case in Santa Monica are awarding Donna Mutzinger nearly $60 million.

I'm Dave Mattingly in Washington.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly.

New York's LaGuardia Airport remained shut down this morning after an Air Canada regional jet collided with a fire truck on a runway late last night as it was landing.