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The GOP tax cut and spending bill passed by the Senate this week is expected to add trillions of dollars to the federal debt over the next decade. The savings would mostly go to top earners.

KNBA Top Stories: A fellow officer reported it a month ago—now an Anchorage police officer is facing charges for driving his patrol car while drunk. Tax breaks for Alaska’s massive LNG project remain a work in progress. A bill re-establishing a defined pension for teachers and other public employees is on its way to the governor. A walk to raise awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People is set for tonight at the University of Alaska Anchorage. And a herd of the muskox that ranges along the Kuskokwim River in Southwest Alaska is growing, but not yet large enough to allow legal hunts and poachers aren't helping.

KNBA’s Top Stories: Data for Indigenous Justice receives national award from the “Courage Project.”The Alaska Legislature, in a historic vote, rejected Stephen Cox, Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s pick for attorney general. Divers search the murky waters of Gastineau Channel this week in hopes of locating the body of a Juneau man who has been missing for nearly a year.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Republican Mark Walker of North Carolina about what's in the tax legislation from Senate Republicans and how the party plans to get it passed by the end of the year.

The GOP health bills would eliminate many of the taxes that help pay for coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Wealthy individuals stand to gain the most. And customers of tanning salons.

Governors, legislators and mayors were elected across the map on Tuesday. Voters also cast ballots on measures regarding taxes, marijuana, genetically modified food and even secession.

The practice dates back to the 1920s, when a new cohort of students — many of them Jewish and/or immigrants — were vying for space at American universities.

House and Senate lawmakers formally kicked off negotiations over funding the Department of Homeland Security, facing a Feb. 15 deadline for a spending bill Trump will sign to avoid another shutdown.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee heard from U.S. diplomat James Jeffrey as Congress considers new sanctions against Turkey. But the top Senate Republican warns against action against an ally.

Democratic voting legislation has virtually no path to becoming law, but Senate Republicans are fighting it as the GOP still struggles over how to move forward from the 2020 election.