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Gen. David Berger, commandant of the Marine Corps, has a new plan to recruit and retain Marines, as the service seeks to prioritize growing a corps of highly skilled and educated workers.

The team from Gambia was denied visas when they first applied. "Having no hope to come, we still worked," says team captain Alieu Bah.

Employers looking to hire foreign workers must prove they looked for American workers first. But some immigration law firms show employers how to recruit Americans without actually hiring U.S. workers. This kind of "faux recruiting" is common knowledge in the tech industry.

Mastercard and Visa collect billions of dollars in fees each year from the nation's retailers. Merchants have long complained about the way those fees are determined. A lawsuit accusing Mastercard and Visa of antitrust violations is expected to go to trial in Brooklyn soon.

European Union representatives hold an emergency meeting in Brussels, Belgium, to consider ways to prevent terrorist attacks in the wake of last week's deadly bombings in Spain. EU ministers support speeding up the use of biometric identifiers on passports and visas, and tentatively agree to appoint a special coordinator to oversee its various counterterrorism efforts. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is now 4.17 according to AAA. That surpasses the previous record set in the summer of 2008, when not accounting for inflation.

All nine members of the committee voted to subpoena the former president to testify before them. Presidential subpoenas are complicated but not unprecedented.

China announced two of its top generals are under investigation, including the country's most senior general. Analysts suspect it's a political purge by Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

While every day may feel like Groundhog Day in a pandemic, today really is. In Pennsylvania, Punxsutawney Phil is said to have seen his shadow, signaling six more weeks of winter.

Richard Donoghue, who served as acting deputy attorney general in the Trump administration, talks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about former President Donald Trump's efforts to subvert the 2020 election.