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We look at President Trump's spending bill and what it could mean for the 2026 midterms, as well as the Democratic Party's strategy for those midterms and the 2028 presidential elections.

The people of Sweden are choosing a new government on Sunday. The country's usually calm political landscape has been disrupted by a surge in backing for a populist anti-immigrant party. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with reporter Maddy Savage.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks to the Atlantic Council's director of the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative, Kirsten Fontenrose, about the U.S. strategy in Iran.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a wide-ranging press conference today in Berlin with the German and foreign press. On the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki, she seemed to welcome that the two met.

Republican Rep. Mark Sanford's loss in South Carolina underscores how GOP voters value loyalty to Trump. In Virginia, controversial Trump acolyte Corey Stewart secured the GOP nomination for Senate.

Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix briefs European leaders on the latest findings in Iraq. Blix refuses to term yesterday's discovery in Iraq of nearly a dozen empty warheads a "smoking gun" that would show Iraq to be in noncompliance with U.N. resolutions. NPR's Guy Raz reports.

Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the U.N. nuclear agency, and chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix arrive in Baghdad for talks with Iraqi officials. They are expected to warn Iraq that it must cooperate more intensely with arms inspectors. Hear NPR's Kate Seelye and Walter Russell Mead of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Alexander Gauland, the head of Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, made recent remarks about the Nazi era that offended many Germans, but critics say it's all part of the AfD's playbook.

Many expected the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, to continue growing stronger, but the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the far-right party's deep internal divisions.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has won a third term in office but it was far from a landslide, and his party will have to work to form a coalition government.