Dave Mattingly

Novelist Robbie Alamandine is this year's winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.

NPR's Andrew Limbaugh says the award is one of the most prestigious in American literature and was given out at a ceremony in New York last night.

Officials in Colorado say they've arrested nearly a dozen people and seized more than a half ton of methamphetamine as the result of an investigation into drug trafficking.

Federal prosecutors say the investigation covered two years and was focused on an operation based in Mexico.

I'm Dave Mattingly, NPR News in Washington.

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

Congress has approved a bill to compel the Justice Department to release all of its files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

As NPR's Claudia Grisales reports, the measure cleared the Senate on a voice vote following a nearly unanimous vote in the House.

A three-judge panel in Texas is blocking the state from using its redrawn congressional map in next year's midterm elections in a Republican effort to flip seats.

In a two-to-one vote, the federal judges ruled the map is likely unconstitutional as a result of racial gerrymandering.

The state is appealing to the U.S.

Supreme Court.

A new NPR-PBS Marist poll gives Democrats the clear momentum a year out from the midterm elections.

The poll shows Democrats with a 14-point lead when people were asked which party's candidate they would support if the elections were held today.

The National Transportation Safety Board says a loose wire caused last year's crash of a cargo ship into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.

That bridge collapsed, killing six construction workers who were on the span at the time.

Scott Massione with member station WYPR reports.

The state of Maryland estimates the cost to rebuild the bridge could end up topping $5 billion, more than twice the original estimate.

This is NPR News from Washington.

President Trump says he's elevating Saudi Arabia's relationship with the U.S.