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  • President Trump's top public lands chief is still helping lead the Bureau of Land Management, despite a federal ruling removing him from the top post there.
  • The central Mexican town of Cholula is rich in colonial architecture and home to many churches. It's said there are actually 365 — one for every day of the year. But many were damaged by the quake.
  • NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Gregory Fenves, the president of the University of Texas at Austin, the school at the center of Thursday's Supreme Court ruling about affirmative action.
  • Some progress was reported during weekend talks in Vienna between Iran's top nuclear negotiator and the EU's foreign-policy chief. Iran has reportedly offered to temporarily suspend nuclear-enrichment activities.
  • America's top diplomat heads from China to the U.K. where Ukraine's post-war recovery tops the agenda
  • In a call with top state voting officials, a Department of Homeland Security official stated unequivocally that immigration agents would not be patrolling polling places during this year's midterms.
  • A weather system is dumping snow on Fairbanks and the Interior again today. And more is in store through Tuesday. // The North American Aerospace Defense Command intercepted five Russian military aircraft Thursday flying through international airspace off Alaska's coast. // The Alaska Federation of Natives urged state lawmakers last week to fix the fish and game management system that's causing problems for Native subsistence hunters. // A state legislator’s chief of staff was arrested last week and now faces charges of child sexual exploitation and child sex trafficking. // Alaskans pay some of the nation's highest prices for coffee, because of volatile markets and tariffs. // The two top finishers of this year's Iron Dog snowmachine race that ended Saturday in Fairbanks set a record for winning the race four times in a row.
  • In the U.S., 3 percent of the CEOs at top companies are women; in India, that figure is 14 percent. Economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett says women in India and other emerging economies, like China and Brazil, are surpassing their American and European counterparts. They're "pointing the way," she says.
  • More than 3,000 theaters will be charging just $3 admission on Saturday to promote moviegoing. What does that say about the state of the film industry?
  • The Munich Security conference kicked off Friday. Vice President Kamala Harris, European leaders and China's top diplomat are in attendance. Top of the agenda is the war in Ukraine.
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