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It's one week until the Iowa caucuses. The top five candidates in Iowa were all there Sunday — including the three senators squeezing in campaigning amid President Trump's impeachment trial.

Axelrod said the economy has improved significantly since the 2009 interview in which Obama said his presidency would be a "one-term proposition" if there no were turnaround. Axelrod quickly added, however, that there's much more to do to fix the economy.

In the coming year, the USDA predicts that American corn exports will be at a 40-year low. That's because the U.S. drought has led to a corn shortage and high domestic corn prices. To adapt, grain exporters have had to change their business models.

David Greene talks to NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, who met with President Trump this week. Top on the agenda was defense spending, Iran and the war on terrorism.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with the United Nations' top humanitarian official Stephen O'Brien about his recent trip to Syria. "This will be a lost generation," O'Brien says of conditions there.

World-renowned crop artist Stan Herd is almost finished with the portrait of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee outside Lawrence, Kansas, near the Kansas River.

The Government Accountability Office has released a report analyzing the nationwide teacher shortage in the US. The report lists low pay and a growing negative perception of teachers as the top reasons for dropping retention rates within the profession.

Tax incentives again become a source of contention, on top of the pandemic cutting into the city’s revenues. But BlueScope Construction says its extension was in the works before the truce between Kansas and Missouri, while Kansas City Public Schools argue it’s not worth the loss in public funding.

The 400-pound, 7-foot-tall figure of an Osage Indian woman was stolen from the top of a limestone bluff sometime Tuesday night. When finished, the site will commemorate trade between the French and Native Americans.

Two local gymnasts, Kara Eaker and Leanne Wong, had strong performances at the 2021 U.S. Championships last weekend, which were largely a repeat of their 2019 showings that earned them 2nd and 3rd place medals behind Olympic gymnast Simone Biles.