Korva Coleman

The Associated Press and other news organizations are reporting that the FBI has arrested a former CIA official at his home in Virginia.

He's accused of stealing hundreds of gold bars from the federal government.

They're worth more than $40 million.

I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News in Washington.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.

The US military says it shot down Iranian drones around the Strait of Hormuz and a launch site for those drones.

Iran says it then targeted the U.S.

base where the strikes came from, but it didn't identify which one.

The director-general of the World Health Organization is headed for Democratic Republic of the Congo.

You'll see the response to the Ebola outbreak.

There are some 220 suspected Ebola deaths and more than 1,000 suspected cases.

Reporter Emmett Livingstone is in DRC's capital, Kinshasa.

where he says the health system is under enormous strain.

Emmett Livingstone reporting.

The Homeland Security Department is expanding its capacity to scan the eyes of people that it detains.

It wants to scan their irises.

That's because the iris is like a fingerprint with patterns unique to each person.

The state of Alabama is asking the U.S.

Supreme Court to let it use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year's midterm elections.

It's appealing a lower court ruling finding the plan intentionally discriminates against black people.