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President Trump says he should be paid $230 million in damages for the past federal investigations into his actions.

Trump is threatening to sue the Justice Department, citing the FBI's search of his family estate in Palm Beach, Florida, as part of a probe into his handling of classified documents.

The president says the lawsuit would also cite the probe into possible links between his campaign and

and Russian interference in the 2016 U.S.

election.

In Virginia, judges ordered the Defense Department to return hundreds of books to school libraries on military bases.

As NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports, students and their families complained when books about race and gender were removed.

For the first time in five months, North Korea has test-fired a ballistic missile from an area south of Pyongyang.

There is no immediate information on how far the projectile traveled.

The test coming days ahead of a meeting between President Trump and other leaders in South Korea.

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Senate has once again defeated a proposal to reopen government at least through November 21st.

Majority Leader John Thune says the debate over health care subsidies should wait.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer says now is the time to discuss health care subsidies that are expiring at the end of the year.

The government shutdown is now 21 days old.

President Trump made a deal with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on critical rare earth elements.

As NPR's Franco Ordonez reports, the deal includes investments to boost processing in Australia.