WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - President Trump, a day after leveling a widely disputed allegation that President Barack Obama had ordered the tapping of his phones, demanded a congressional inquiry into whether Mr. Obama abused the power of federal law enforcement agencies before the 2016 presidential election.

The search for life beyond Earth is becoming more of a reality because of NASA's latest findings. NASA officials hosted a press conference Feb. 21 about its discovery of seven planets in one solar system, called Trappist-1, that have a strong possibility of hosting life.

The "brain" - a collection of 25,000 living neurons, or nerve cells, taken from a rat's brain and cultured inside a glass dish - gives scientists a unique real-time window into the brain at the cellular level. By watching the brain cells interact, scientists hope to understand what causes neural disorders such as epilepsy and to determine noninvasive ways to intervene.

United States citizens traveling to Europe will soon have to pay for a visa to enter the continental bloc, thanks to an escalating "visa war," as the Telegraph puts it, between the U.S. and the European Union. The European Parliament, "by a show of hands, [on Wednesday] urged the Commission to adopt restrictive measures against U.S.

To the Editor: Re " Trump Concedes Health Overhaul Is a Thorny Task " (front page, Feb. 28): On Monday, President Trump said: "I have to tell you, it's an unbelievably complex subject. Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated." Actually, everyone except Mr. Trump knew that.

CNN's "The History of Comedy" airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Find uncensored episodes of this original series on CNNGo . "A comedian walks into a psychologist's office. The psychologist says, 'lie down and tell me everything you know.' " The punch line: "I haven't been able to get an appointment since.

Researchers have known that the galaxy was moving at a relative speed for the past 30 years, but they didn't know why. "Now we find an emptiness in exactly the opposite direction, which provides a 'push' in the sense of a lack of pull," said Brent Tully, one of the study authors and an astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu.

The Justice Department disclosed the meetings and said Sessions didn't mislead senators during his confirmation earlier this year when he said he knew of no contacts between Trump surrogates and Russians. Sessions, then a senator, was an early Trump backer and regular surrogate for him as a candidate.

Russia is suspected by Italian officials of being behind a sustained hacking attack against the Italian foreign ministry last year that compromised email communications and lasted for many months before it was detected, according to people familiar with the matter.

Say a child has memories of being a Hollywood extra in the 1930s. Is it just an active imagination, or actual evidence of reincarnation? Jim Tucker, a psychologist at the University of Virginia studies hundreds of cases like this and joins NPR's Rachel Martin to share his research on the science behind reincarnation.

Donald Trump commits to "One China" amid conflict with other naitons

Those espousing such views present Islam as an inherently hostile ideology whose adherents are enemies of Christianity and Judaism and seek to conquer nonbelievers either by violence or through a sort of stealthy brainwashing. The executive order on immigration that Mr. Trump signed on Friday might be viewed as the first major victory for this geopolitical school.

"(Yates) has betrayed the Department of Justice," the White House statement said. Dana Boente, US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, was sworn in at 9 p.m. ET, per an administration official. A few hours later, Boente issued a statement rescinding Yates' order, instructing DOJ lawyers to "defend the lawful orders of our President."

Homeland Security officials are defending the Trump administration's executive order on immigration and refugees, along with its implementation. At a news conference Tuesday, DHS Secretary John Kelly said the order creates a "temporary pause" as officials "assess the strengths and the weaknesses of our current system."

In the letter written to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Broad said he watched DeVos' confirmation hearing with "dismay" and listed several of his top concerns with her nomination. "I believe she is unprepared and unqualified for the position," Broad wrote in his letter (page one and two).