The visit Tuesday of King Charles III holds an unexpected stipulation for members of Congress: No smoking.

LeVar Burton used an appearance on ABC's "The View" this week to slam federal cuts to public broadcasting and what he called a national "problem with the truth," weaving pointed political commentary into a wide-ranging conversation about his decades in television.

House and Senate Republicans delayed key procedural votes Tuesday to advance an extension of the federal foreign surveillance law that expires in two days.