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President Trump's Advisory Commission on Election Integrity holds its first meeting Wednesday to uncover voter problems that undermine public confidence in U.S. elections. The panel has already faced criticism, especially from state election officials disturbed by the panel's request to send detailed voter registration data. The commission is looking for signs of voter fraud, which most election officials and experts say is rare.

Salem, Mass., marked a dark chapter of its history on Wednesday. The city dedicated a memorial on the spot where five women were hanged for witchcraft more than three centuries ago.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Peter Navarro, director of the White House National Trade Council, about the Trump administration's "Made in America" week.

The Supreme Court refused to block a ruling by a U.S. district judge in Hawaii that allowed grandparents and other relatives of refugees to enter the U.S., exempting them from the Trump travel ban. The court said the matter must be decided by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which the Trump administration was hoping to leapfrog.

Senate Republicans' failure on health care was a big setback for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. He's known as an incredibly effective leader, but faces growing divisions within his party.

Joan Jett shredded her way through rock and roll's glass ceiling from the 1970s on. Jett and longtime producer Kenny Laguna talk about leaving a rock legacy and the new documentary Bad Reputation.

Rachel Martin talks to Christophe Bondy, who negotiated the EU trade deal for Canada, about Canada reaching a last-minute agreement on a deal that revises the North American Free Trade Agreement.

NPR's legal correspondent has spent decades covering major shifts in the Supreme Court. "Often, in the beginning, I was the only woman in the newsroom," Totenberg says.

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was captured on cellphone video kneeling on Floyd's neck for several minutes, still faces a higher charge of second-degree murder.

By the time he left the presidency, Theodore Roosevelt had saved an unprecedented 230-million acres of American land.