Congress Passes Relief Bill, But For Many Americans It Comes Too Late
22 Dec 2020
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After seven months since the last coronavirus relief bill, Congress finally passed a new one on Mond...
The Election Was Secure, But Russia Found Other Ways To Interfere In The U.S.
21 Dec 2020
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged who was behind the cyber attack on Friday, saying Russia...
BONUS: We Buy A Lot Of Christmas Trees
20 Dec 2020
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Every year, Americans buy tens of millions of Christmas trees. But decorative evergreens don't just ...
Vaccinating Inmates Is Good For Public Health. Why Aren't More States Doing It?
18 Dec 2020
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Prisons and jails are hotbeds for COVID-19. Public health experts say they should be given early acc...
With 100,000 Restaurants Already Closed, Owners Left Wondering If Help Is Coming
17 Dec 2020
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An emerging coronavirus relief package may not do enough to help restaurants hobbled by the pandemic...
When Hospitals Decide Who Deserves Treatment: NPR Investigates 'Denial Of Care'
16 Dec 2020
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In an Oregon hospital, a disabled woman fought for her life as her friends and advocates pleaded for...
Electors Seal Biden's Win, Sanders Pushes For Direct Cash Payments
15 Dec 2020
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Electors in every state officially sealed Joe Biden's presidential victory this week, and Sen. Mitch...
Your Questions Answered: How To Navigate Changing Relationships In The Pandemic
14 Dec 2020
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The U.S. officially began vaccinating people against COVID-19 on Monday, starting with Sandra Lindsa...
BONUS: How Effective Are Antibody Treatments For COVID-19?
13 Dec 2020
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The Food and Drug Administration has issued emergency use authorizations for two monoclonal antibody...
White House Reporters Reflect On 4 Years As 'Enemies Of The People'
11 Dec 2020
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President Trump once told veteran CBS journalist Lesley Stahl why he attacks the press. "I do it to ...
John Kerry: Restoring American Credibility On Climate Change 'Not So Simple'
10 Dec 2020
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In his first round of interviews since President-elect Joe Biden announced John Kerry would be his s...
Vaccine Approval Looks Imminent, But Distrust, Misinformation Have Experts Worried
09 Dec 2020
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The Food and Drug Administration could vote as soon as Thursday to approve a COVID-19 vaccine develo...
Life After ISIS: A Portrait Of Human Resilience In The Middle East
08 Dec 2020
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2020 has been a year of resilience in the face of tragedy. But for much longer, resilience in the fa...
COVID Is Straining Rural Hospitals, Where There's No Plan B
07 Dec 2020
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Health care facilities in rural areas hard-hit by the coronavirus are running out of ways to provide...
BONUS: Life In The Time Of Coronavirus
06 Dec 2020
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"What has this pandemic been like for you?"NPR host Sam Sanders and his team at It's Been A Minute p...
In Many States, 2020 Election Winners Hold All The Redistricting Power
04 Dec 2020
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Every 10 years after the U.S. Census, lawmakers in most states have the power to redraw congressiona...
Trump's Election Denialism Could Hurt His Own Party, And Its Media Allies
03 Dec 2020
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President Trump and his allies have spent nearly a month promoting an alternate reality of rigged el...
Fauci Predicts Widespread Vaccine Availability By April. Are Americans Ready?
02 Dec 2020
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Dr. Anthony Fauci said this week that it's likely that any healthy American who wants a coronavirus ...
Millions In Crisis As Coronavirus Relief Set To Expire At Years' End
01 Dec 2020
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Lawmakers have been deadlocked for months on another coronavirus relief package. Now millions of Ame...
Why Our Brains Struggle To Make Sense Of COVID-19 Risks
30 Nov 2020
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Millions of Americans traveled for Thanksgiving despite pleas not to do so from the Centers for Dise...
BONUS: The Badder, The Better
29 Nov 2020
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Brooklyn rapper Bobby Shmurda blew up in 2014 off of his song "Hot N****" and the instantly viral Sh...
Student Debt Is Weighing Americans Down. Here's How Biden May Address It
27 Nov 2020
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Student loans can crush an individual. And when a lot of people have more debt than they can handle,...
Play It Forward: A Musical Chain Of Gratitude
26 Nov 2020
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What began as a Thanksgiving tradition five years ago for NPR host Ari Shapiro is now a recurring se...
A Feast For A Few: Rethinking The Traditional Thanksgiving Meal
25 Nov 2020
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Thanksgiving is going to look different for many Americans this year. As the coronavirus pandemic ra...
As Biden Transition Picks Up Pace, Trump Lays Government Speedbumps
24 Nov 2020
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After an unusually dramatic meeting of the Michigan Board of State Canvassers, the state voted to ce...
Stunned By Congressional Losses, Democrats Debate The Future
23 Nov 2020
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Democrats went into the election expecting to gain seats in the House. Instead, they lost at least e...
BONUS: Biden And McConnell
22 Nov 2020
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President-elect Joe Biden have a long working relationshi...
The Growing Backlash Against Trump's Efforts To Subvert The Election
20 Nov 2020
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Election experts say there is no realistic legal path for President Trump to overturn the results of...
Vials, Cold Storage, Staggered Doses: The Challenges Of Vaccine Distribution
19 Nov 2020
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Distribution of the first doses of a coronavirus vaccine could be mere months away. But how that dis...
America's Other Epidemic: The Opioid Crisis Is Worse Than 4 Years Ago
18 Nov 2020
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During President Trump's first year in office, 42,000 Americans died of drug overdoses linked to her...
Vaccine Trials Point To December Doses, 'Light At The End Of The Tunnel'
17 Nov 2020
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Data from two leading COVID-19 vaccine trials indicate they may be between 90 and 95% effective. Dr....
Barack Obama On Trump's Defeat And Cooperation In A Divided America
16 Nov 2020
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Former President Barack Obama talks with NPR's Michel Martin about his time in office, President Tru...
Pandemic Fatigue Q & A: Mental Health, Processing The News, And Staying Occupied
15 Nov 2020
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The U.S. is entering the worst of the pandemic. For many, pandemic fatigue set in months ago. Others...
'There's No Transition': Trump's Non-Existent National Security Handoff
13 Nov 2020
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President Trump's refusal to engage in any meaningful national security transition is dangerous, say...
Hospitals Pushed To The Brink, Governors Warn Of Health Care Shortages
12 Nov 2020
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The governors of North Dakota, Ohio and Utah all delivered the same message this week: hospital reso...
The Consequences Of Election Denialism
11 Nov 2020
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We know President Trump lost the election. What we don't know is what will happen between now and In...
As Senate Hinges On Georgia, GOP Mostly Silent On Biden's Victory
10 Nov 2020
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President Trump may be on his way out, but Republicans will have to rely on his voters to hold power...
Joe Biden Could Take Office During The Worst Of The Pandemic. What's His Plan?
09 Nov 2020
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In 2008, then President-elect Obama and President Bush set up a join task force to help the incoming...
What We're Learning About The Electorate That Made 2020 So Close
05 Nov 2020
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Early on election night, when it seemed clear that Joe Biden was underperforming with a specific gro...
Historic Turnout Leans Biden With Votes Still Being Counted
04 Nov 2020
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Early data suggests 160 million people voted this year — which would be the highest turnout rate s...
The Electoral College: Why Do We Do It This Way?
03 Nov 2020
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The electoral college is a system unlike any other in American democracy. Why does it exist? Ramtin ...
An Unprecedented Election Season Ends The Way It Began: With Voters Locked In
02 Nov 2020
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NPR political correspondents Tamara Keith and Asma Khalid reflect on an election season shaped by un...
Bonus: The Latinx Vote Comes Of Age
01 Nov 2020
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Today, a bonus episode from NPR's Code Switch. For the first time in election history, Latinos are p...
What To Expect On Election Day — And In The Days After
30 Oct 2020
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There is no reason to expect we will know the result of the Presidential election on Tuesday night. ...
Expectations Vs. Reality: Trump Supporters, Opponents On The Last 4 Years
29 Oct 2020
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Four years after Donald Trump won, he turned out to be a better president than many of his supporter...
Early Voting Points To Possible Record Turnout, With New States In Play
28 Oct 2020
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More than 74 million people have already voted. Michael McDonald of the Florida Elections Project te...
Coronavirus Cases Are Surging Past The Summer Peak — And Not Just In The U.S.
27 Oct 2020
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The U.S. looks poised to exceed its summer peak, when the country averaged as many as 65,000 cases a...
As COVID-19 Cases Climb, How Safe Is It To Go Home For The Holidays?
26 Oct 2020
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On Friday, the U.S. hit its highest number of daily coronavirus cases since the pandemic began. Holi...
How Much Do You Really Know About Your Flood Or Wildfire Risk?
23 Oct 2020
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Every year, millions of American renters and homebuyers make decisions about where to live. They hav...
Why More White Voters Aren't Supporting President Trump In 2020
22 Oct 2020
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Polls show that Joe Biden has strong support among white voters with a college degree, especially wh...
From Air Travel to Hospital Treatment, We're Still Learning About The Virus
21 Oct 2020
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Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, told NPR this week that he's "guarde...
Election FAQs: Postmark Deadlines, Ballot Security And How To Track Your Vote
20 Oct 2020
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With two weeks until election day and more than 35 million votes already cast, NPR's Miles Parks and...
The Economy Is Driving Women Out Of The Workforce And Some May Not Return
19 Oct 2020
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Women are dropping out of the workforce in much higher numbers than men. Valerie Wilson of the Econo...
The Pandemic Bounceback Abroad: Concerts And Movies In Other Countries
16 Oct 2020
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While U.S. movie theaters continue to struggle, the picture is better for the international box offi...
Pandemic 'Halftime': U.S. Looks At Lessons Learned As Fall & Holidays Near
15 Oct 2020
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As cases spike around the country, Utah is one state changing the way it's approaching the coronavir...
The Politics At Play In Judge Amy Coney Barrett's Confirmation Hearings
14 Oct 2020
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With less than three weeks to go until Election Day, Republicans have the votes to confirm Amy Coney...
The U.S. Pandemic Is Stuck In A Cycle Of Endless Ups And Downs
13 Oct 2020
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Coronavirus cases fall, so people let their guard down. Cases rise, so they get more vigilant. That'...
An NPR Investigation Into Lethal Injection: Why It Could Amount To Torture
12 Oct 2020
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Lethal injection is commonly thought of as the most painless method of execution. But now many lawye...
The Michigan Kidnapping Plot And What's Fueling Right-Wing Extremism
09 Oct 2020
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The FBI announced Thursday that it had thwarted a plan by far-right militia members to kidnap Michig...
Pandemic 'Profiteers': Why Billionaires Are Getting Richer During An Economic Crisis
08 Oct 2020
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"Excess" profits during wartime have been subject to tax at several points in American history. Writ...
Millions Of Americans Can't Afford Enough To Eat As Pandemic Relief Stalls In D.C.
07 Oct 2020
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Two years ago, about 12% of American households reported they didn't have enough food. Since the COV...
President Trump's COVID-19 Treatment Reveals Unequal Burden Of The Disease
06 Oct 2020
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President Trump told the country Tuesday: "Don't be afraid of COVID. Don't let it dominate your life...
The White House COVID-19 Crisis
05 Oct 2020
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The president, first lady, and a growing list of White House staffers have tested positive for the c...
The President Has Coronavirus. What Happens If He Gets Sicker
02 Oct 2020
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News broke overnight that President Trump and the first lady tested positive for the coronavirus. Th...
As Social Media Giants Plan For Disinformation, Critics Say It's Not Enough
01 Oct 2020
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Facebook and Twitter have plans for an election season rife with disinformation on their platforms. ...
Trump's Baseless Attacks On Election Integrity Bolstered By Disinformation Online
30 Sep 2020
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President Trump used Tuesday night's debate to attack the integrity of the upcoming election with fa...
With 1 Million Dead Worldwide, The Latest On A Coronavirus Vaccine
29 Sep 2020
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With 10 vaccine candidates now in phase three trials, one expert predicts another million people wor...
Ahead Of First Presidential Debate, Almost 1,000,000 Americans Have Already Voted
28 Sep 2020
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President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will meet Tuesday night in Cleveland for the fir...
What's Next For Breonna Taylor's Family, And The Movement That Followed Her Death
25 Sep 2020
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The Kentucky attorney general said this week that police were "justified" in the shooting that kille...
How Countries Around The World Are Coping With New Surge In Coronavirus Cases
24 Sep 2020
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India is poised to overtake the U.S. as the country with the most COVID-19 cases. This week the Taj ...
What The SCOTUS Vacancy Means for Abortion — And The 2020 Election
23 Sep 2020
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This week Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol. She'll be the first wom...
White Support For BLM Falls, And A Key Police Reform Effort Is Coming Up Short
22 Sep 2020
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Daniel Prude died of asphyxia a week after his brother called 911 on March 23. His death was ruled a...
With Nearly 200,000 Dead, Health Care Workers Struggle To Endure
21 Sep 2020
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The coronavirus has killed nearly 200,000 people in America — far more than in any other country, ...
Costs Of Climate Change Continue To Rise As Storms Become More Destructive
18 Sep 2020
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There have been so many tropical storms this year that the National Hurricane Center has already mad...
This Election Season Is Shaping Up To Be The Most Litigated Ever
17 Sep 2020
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During the 2000 Presidential election season, it took 36 days and a Supreme Court decision before Ge...
Who Was Breonna Taylor Before She Became The Face Of A Movement?
16 Sep 2020
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Breonna Taylor was shot and killed by police in March. Her killing in Louisville, Ky., was part of t...
Conspiracies Add Fuel To An Already Challenging Wildfire Season
15 Sep 2020
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Wildfires in Western states aren't slowing down and conspiracy theories about who started them are o...
Journalist Bob Woodward Says Trump Is 'The Wrong Man For The Job'
14 Sep 2020
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If President Trump knew how contagious and potentially deadly the coronavirus was back in February, ...
Wildfires Have Gone From Bad To Worse — And More Are Inevitable
11 Sep 2020
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More than 3 million acres have burned in California this wildfire season. The previous record in a s...
Why Are So Many Americans Hesitant To Get A COVID-19 Vaccine?
10 Sep 2020
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As trials continue for a coronavirus vaccine, some of the world's biggest drug companies have come t...
Gen Z Is Getting Ready To Vote. Are Political Parties Speaking To Them?
09 Sep 2020
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Youth voter turnout exceeded expectations in 2018 and may do so again in 2020. Generation Z — thos...
School Is Off To A Slow Start, And It's Going To Be A Long Year
08 Sep 2020
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With Labor Day weekend gone, summer is unofficially over — and millions of children head back to ...
What's Driving California's Biggest-Ever Wildfire Season
07 Sep 2020
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California set a new record high this week for the most acres burned in a single wildfire season. In...
Banning Evictions Should Help The Economy. But Can The CDC Do That?
04 Sep 2020
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Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, told NPR today that keeping people in their houses ...
The President's New Advisor Is A Fan Of 'Herd Immunity' — And Scientists Are Worried
03 Sep 2020
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As the Northern Hemisphere prepares for a flu season with COVID-19, there are lessons to be learned ...
President 'Heaping Fuel On The Fire' Of Unrest, Ex-Trump DHS Official Says
02 Sep 2020
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President Trump has stoked tensions and repeatedly failed to condemn acts of violence from racially ...
Getting Back To School Isn't Easy For Anyone — But It's A Lot Harder For Some
01 Sep 2020
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It's September and millions of kids are going back to school this month. Millions more already have....
Race, Hollywood, And The Rise Of Chadwick Boseman
31 Aug 2020
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Chadwick Boseman had raw talent, world-class training and the will to defy Hollywood gatekeepers. As...
Scientists Fear The Trump Administration Is Putting Politics Before Public Health
28 Aug 2020
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From therapeutics to testing to vaccine development, public health experts are increasingly worried ...
The Reaction To Kenosha, From Pro Sports To Washington, D.C.
27 Aug 2020
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Professional athletes from several leagues said they would not play scheduled games Wednesday night ...
2016 On Loop: GOP Targets White Voters Amid Police Shootings, Protests
26 Aug 2020
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Donald Trump told the Republican National Convention: "The crime and violence that today afflicts ou...
Believers Of Internet Hoax 'QAnon' Could Be Headed To Congress
25 Aug 2020
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The FBI has called it a potential domestic terror threat. The President says he doesn't know much. N...
Postmaster General Says 'No, I Will Not' Put Mail Sorting Machines Back
24 Aug 2020
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Louis DeJoy testified in front of the House Oversight Committee today. He denied ordering the remova...
Voters React To A Virtual Convention Unlike Any Before
21 Aug 2020
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For the first time in modern history, a major political party convention was not about the optics, t...
What Would A Biden-Harris Administration Look Like?
20 Aug 2020
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Former President Barack Obama reportedly changed the speaking order during Wednesday night's Democra...
Chaos And Confusion: The President, The Postal Service, And Voting By Mail
19 Aug 2020
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For months President Trump has tried to suggest voting by mail is not reliable, while 'absentee' vot...
Can College And COVID Co-Exist?
18 Aug 2020
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill welcomed students back to campus, only to cancel all...
Why Are Testing Rates Going Down?
17 Aug 2020
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Testing is down 40% in two of the hardest-hit states — Texas and Florida. Ashish Jha of Harvard's ...
The 2020 Census Could Be The Least Accurate Ever — And It's Ending A Month Early
14 Aug 2020
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The Census Bureau has said it needs more time to complete their count of every person living in the ...
Congress Is Stuck On Coronavirus Aid. What's President Trump Doing?
13 Aug 2020
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Democrats and Republicans have been unable to agree on a new coronavirus aid package. The president ...