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Having been out of town for more than 50 days, members of the House of Representatives returned to their desks this week, voting to reopen the government with another short-term spending bill but no resolution of the standoff over the Affordable Care Act.

Moving to the top of the agenda in the coming week is a vote on the release of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

NPR's Deirdre Walsh has the latest.

NPR's Deirdre Walsh reporting from Washington.

Immigration lawyers in San Diego say they are seeing a sudden increase in arrests of clients at the offices of U.S.

Citizenship and Immigration Services, many applying for permanent status or naturalization.

As NPR's Martin Coste reports, the attorneys say that this looks like an emerging new Trump administration approach to reducing immigration.

A major corruption probe in Ukraine is focusing on associates of President Volodymyr Zelensky and charging they were involved in a plot to skim $100 million from the country's energy sector.

All of this as Russians have been pounding Ukraine's energy hubs.

NPR's Joanna Kakisis has more.

NPR's Joanna Kikisis.

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The Coast Guard says migrants were aboard a wooden skiff that capsized in stormy seas off San Diego late last night.

At least four people died and four were hospitalized.

Authorities say several of the survivors claimed Mexican nationality.

Officials say that with land borders more heavily guarded now, migrants are increasingly turning to travel by sea aboard unstable open fishing boats, sometimes traveling hundreds of miles north in the dead of night.

The American Psychological Association has released an advisory about AI chatbots and mental health needs, and PR's Ritu Chatterjee reports.

Senator John Fetterman is home from the hospital two days after a fall related to a ventricular fibrillation flare-up

On social media, the Pennsylvania Democrat posted a photo of himself saying that after 20 stitches, he's fine.

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