The Pandemic And Biden's First 100 Days
26 Apr 2021
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As President Biden nears his 100th day in office, how much credit is he due for curbing the pandemic...
Weekly Roundup: April 23rd
23 Apr 2021
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In a 94-to-1 vote, the Senate passed a bill aimed at reducing hate crimes directed at Asian American...
World Leaders Convene (Virtually) For White House Climate Summit
22 Apr 2021
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Ahead of the meeting, the US announced its goal to halve emissions from 2005 levels by the end of th...
DOJ Announces Minneapolis Police Investigation; Biden Governs With An Eye On History
21 Apr 2021
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One day after a jury convicted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on murder charges, th...
George Floyd's Family, White House Push For Police Reform Law After Guilty Verdict
21 Apr 2021
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The jury has found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all the counts he faced...
White House Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy On Summit
20 Apr 2021
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How will the US slash emissions by 2030? White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy talks to NPR's Sc...
Biden Holds Bipartisan Infrastructure Talks At White House
19 Apr 2021
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Members of the House and Senate, all former governors and mayors, attended a meeting at the White Ho...
Weekly Roundup: April 16th
16 Apr 2021
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Testimony ended Thursday in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, fac...
Americans Support An Expanded View Of "Infrastructure" But Not How To Pay For It
15 Apr 2021
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A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll found that Americans generally support making things like broadba...
After Almost Two Decades Of War, Biden To Withdraw Troops From Afghanistan
14 Apr 2021
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President Biden says that U.S. troops will be out of Afghanistan by September 11th, 2021. The presid...
White House Says It Will Meet Vaccine Goals Despite Pause In Johnson & Johnson Use
13 Apr 2021
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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration recommended pausi...
John Boehner Thinks The Republican Party Has Changed. Has It?
12 Apr 2021
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In a new memoir, the former Republican House Speaker says that even Ronald Reagan couldn't get elect...
Weekly Roundup: April 9th
09 Apr 2021
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As lawmakers and security officials brainstorm security reforms for the U.S. Capitol complex, invest...
Biden Announces Gun Safety Agenda
08 Apr 2021
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President Biden announced a series of policy actions on Thursday aimed at curbing gun violence. Cong...
Activists Stoke Corporate Backlash To Voting Restrictions
07 Apr 2021
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States are facing pressure from corporations to dial back legislation that makes it harder to vote. ...
Top Biden Labor Economist: Boosting Black Women Benefits Everyone
06 Apr 2021
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Black people, in particular Black women, are historically among the last to recover from economic do...
Hunter Biden's Memoir Goes Long On Addiction, Short On Corporate Work
05 Apr 2021
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A new memoir details a harrowing struggle with addiction but mostly elides the past corporate and lo...
Weekly Roundup: April 2nd
02 Apr 2021
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President Biden announced his first judicial nominees this week, including one judge seen as a possi...
A Full Court Press: The Supreme Court Considers Expanded Benefits For Student Athletes
01 Apr 2021
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This week the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether or not the NCAA is operating a conspiracy ...
"It's Big" And "It's Bold": Biden Unveils Massive Infrastructure Plan
31 Mar 2021
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Both parties agree that the country's infrastructure needs a face lift, and today President Biden re...
Gov. Kristi Noem Hopes To Court Conservatives By Banning Trans Girls From Sports
30 Mar 2021
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South Dakota's governor Kristi Noem is a Republican rising star who signed two executive orders on M...
Will A New Georgia Law Restrict Voter Access Or Restore Faith In Elections?
29 Mar 2021
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A new Georgia law has become the center of the debate over voting rights with President Biden callin...
Weekly Roundup: March 26th
26 Mar 2021
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Colorado is considering new gun control measures in the wake of this week's mass shooting in the sta...
President Biden Addresses Migration, Filibuster At First Press Conference
25 Mar 2021
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In an hour-long briefing, Biden downplayed the role his election victory and messaging are playing i...
Guns Are A Key Part Of American Political Identity. That Makes Reform Unlikely.
24 Mar 2021
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Fearing base backlash, Republican lawmakers are unlikely to support gun control measures popular amo...
US Loans Vaccines To Mexico, Canada
23 Mar 2021
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AstraZeneca's vaccine has not been authorized for use in the United States, but the nation has milli...
Migrant Children Advocates Say Biden Should Have Been Prepared For Arrivals
22 Mar 2021
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The reasons the Biden administration is housing some migrant children in adult detention facilities ...
What If We Don't Need To 'Fix' Polarization?
20 Mar 2021
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NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben interviews Lilliana Mason, associate professor of Government and Politics ...
Weekly Roundup: March 19th
19 Mar 2021
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Civil rights groups have been meeting with the Biden administration about addressing the rise in vio...
Exclusive: FBI Director Christopher Wray On Responding To Hate Crimes
19 Mar 2021
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FBI Director Christopher Wray sits down with NPR's Carrie Johnson for a wide-ranging interview about...
Kids Entering US Alone Present Challenge For Biden
17 Mar 2021
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Thousands of children are coming to the United States in search of a better life, many crossing into...
Republicans Move To Curb Voting After Historic 2020 Turnout
16 Mar 2021
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Republican state lawmakers across the country, including in Iowa and Arizona, have introduced measur...
Biden Passed The Recovery Plan. Now What?
15 Mar 2021
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Infrastructure could be the next big focus, if an influx of children and teens at the U.S. souther b...
Weekly Roundup: March 12th
12 Mar 2021
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Scott Detrow shares his reporting on the day, one year ago, that it felt like everything changed. An...
Biden: All Americans Eligible To Get Vaccine Beginning May 1
12 Mar 2021
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In his first primetime address as president, Joe Biden said he believes the country can be more or l...
Reeling From COVID Scandal, NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Accused Of Sexual Misconduct
10 Mar 2021
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Early in the pandemic, New York governor Andrew Cuomo rose to national prominence for his frank dail...
COVID Relief Spending Dwarfs All Precedents
09 Mar 2021
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There is no easy way to describe how big $1.9 trillion dollars is. It's only the latest round of rec...
More Police, More Fencing: Here's What The Capitol Riot Report Recommends
08 Mar 2021
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A new assessment commissioned by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recommends a dramatic expansion of secur...
Weekly Roundup: March 5th
05 Mar 2021
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Despite a strong jobs report last month, the economy is still really struggling. That means there's ...
The Supreme Court Is Expected To Make It Harder For People To Vote
04 Mar 2021
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The Supreme Court seems poised to uphold voting restrictions in Arizona, setting the stage for Repub...
There Will Be Enough Vaccine Doses For Every US Adult By May, Biden Says
03 Mar 2021
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President Biden announced yesterday an accelerated vaccination timeline in the United States, but so...
FBI Head Says Domestic Extremists Are Top Threat To US
02 Mar 2021
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FBI Director Christopher Wray defended his department saying it warned law enforcement ahead of the ...
Trump Is The Past, Present, And Future Of The Republican Party
01 Mar 2021
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The former president's speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference is confirmation that D...
Weekly Roundup: February 26th
26 Feb 2021
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President Biden hasn't reinstated family separation policies, but his choice to keep migrant childre...
How Young Activists Are Working With America's Oldest President
25 Feb 2021
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Many young progressive groups were openly hostile to Joe Biden's primary campaign, but they rallied ...
How Much Credit, Blame Does Biden Deserve For The State Of The Pandemic?
24 Feb 2021
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Vaccination rates are trending up and deaths are trending down since President Biden took office—b...
Ousted Capitol Security Heads Face Questions About Attack
23 Feb 2021
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Under questioning from senators about the attack on the Capitol, the law enforcement officials who o...
Merrick Garland On Glidepath To Confirmation As Biden AG
22 Feb 2021
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In his confirmation hearing to serve as Attorney General, Merrick Garland emphasized loyalty to the ...
Weekly Roundup: February 19th
19 Feb 2021
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Millions of Texans have been without power or potable water for days following unusually harsh winte...
Biden Wants To Re-Open Schools, But How Much Can He Really Do About It?
18 Feb 2021
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President Biden has made reopening schools a benchmark for how his administration is handling the pa...
Trump Puts McConnell On Blast
17 Feb 2021
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In a statement former President Donald Trump called Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell a "dour, ...
What Is In The Next Covid Relief Bill
16 Feb 2021
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House Democrats are putting the finishing touches on their Covid-19 relief package. It is expected t...
Seven Republicans Voted To Convict Trump. Where Does The GOP Go From Here?
15 Feb 2021
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Seven Republican senators voted to convict former President Donald Trump of inciting an insurrection...
Donald Trump Acquitted In Second Impeachment Trial
14 Feb 2021
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All fifty members of the Democratic caucus and seven Republicans said Donald Trump is guilty of inci...
Is Trump's Whataboutism Defense Enough Cover For GOP Acquittal?
13 Feb 2021
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In a combative but brief showing, former president Trump's defense team highlighted past uses of fig...
Democrats Tell Senators A Conviction Could Prevent Future Violence
12 Feb 2021
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The House impeachment managers concluded their case against Donald Trump by characterizing a Senate ...
Democrats Ground Case Against Trump In Jarring Insurrection Videos
11 Feb 2021
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The Democratic impeachment managers played a series of graphic videos demonstrating just how close s...
56 Votes Is Enough To Continue Trump's Trial—But Short Of What's Needed To Convict
10 Feb 2021
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Six Republicans voted with Democrats that it is constitutional to try a former president in the Sena...
What To Know About Trump's Second Impeachment Trial
08 Feb 2021
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The impeachment trial gets underway tomorrow. A new brief suggests that Trump's lawyers will defend ...
Weekly Roundup: February 5th
05 Feb 2021
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In his first major foreign policy address since assuming office, President Biden promised that the c...
Is Impeachment About More Than Removal? Depends Who You Ask
04 Feb 2021
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The question is at the center of next week's impeachment trial in the Senate, which begins Tuesday. ...
GOP Weighs Who To Punish: Conspiracy Theorist And/Or Impeachment Supporter
03 Feb 2021
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Liz Cheney is the third-ranking House Republican; she voted for President Trump's second impeachment...
Trump Is Charged With Inciting An Insurrection—What's His Defense?
02 Feb 2021
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The former president's impeachment trial begins next Tuesday. His new attorneys say the Senate doesn...
Should President Biden Strike A COVID Compromise?
01 Feb 2021
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Ten Republican senators are meeting with President Biden at the White House Monday to discuss their ...
Weekly Roundup: January 29th
29 Jan 2021
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Republican strategists close to Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue's failed Senate campaigns tell WABE'...
Interview: Tired Of Gridlock, GOP Sen. Rob Portman Won't Seek Reelection
28 Jan 2021
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Republican Rob Portman of Ohio talks with NPR's Susan Davis about his retirement from the Senate, th...
Do Biden's Climate Executive Orders Have Teeth?
27 Jan 2021
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President Biden will "pause" new federal land leases for oil and gas extraction "to the extent possi...
Biden Rolls Out Limited Racial Equity Actions, Says More To Come
26 Jan 2021
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President Biden signed new executive actions today attempting to address racial inequity. For activi...
What We Know About The Senate Impeachment Trial
25 Jan 2021
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Today the House will formally deliver an article of impeachment against former President Trump to th...
Weekly Roundup: January 22nd
22 Jan 2021
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President Biden has promised that 100 million doses of vaccines will be administered in his first 10...
The Fifty-Fifty Senate Is Going To Be A Little Bit Weird
21 Jan 2021
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Vice President Kamala Harris can cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate; that means that Democrats e...
Joseph Biden Sworn In As 46th President Of The United States
20 Jan 2021
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In his inaugural address, he promised to keep all of his work as president in service of people rath...
The US Senate Has A Lot To Do
19 Jan 2021
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The Senate is back in Washington today. The lawmakers will need to consider President-elect Biden's ...
What We Know About The Inauguration And Joe Biden's First Day
18 Jan 2021
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President-elect Joe Biden's inaugural plans have been reshaped by COVID-19 and concerns over securit...
What Were We Thinking? : Carlos Lozada On The Trump Era
16 Jan 2021
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For our inaugural NPR Politics Book Club pick, NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben talks to Carlos Lozada abou...
Interview: Kamala Harris on Capitol Riot, Stimulus Package
15 Jan 2021
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Vice President-elect Kamala Harris talks to NPR's Scott Detrow about how she felt after the attack o...
Can Another $1.9 Trillion Rescue The Economy?
15 Jan 2021
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The pandemic is taking an immense toll on the nation: some 4000 Americans die each day. And, in Dece...
Donald Trump Impeached On Charge Of Inciting Insurrection
14 Jan 2021
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Ten Republicans crossed the aisle to support the impeachment. Next, a Senate trial — one that won'...
Trump's Second Impeachment Will Be Bipartisan
13 Jan 2021
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In a nearly party-line vote, the House encouraged Mike Pence and the presidential cabinet to sidelin...
Rioters Are Facing Consequences—Will Any Politicians?
12 Jan 2021
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The Justice Department says hundreds will be prosecuted in connection with the Capitol siege. Republ...
Trump Is Likely To Be Impeached Again
11 Jan 2021
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Vice President Mike Pence the top cabinet officials are unlikely to remove President Trump from powe...
Weekly Roundup: January 8th
08 Jan 2021
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Donald Trump could be the first president in American history to be impeached twice. Federal authori...
13 Days Before The End Of His Term, Talk Of Removing Trump From Office
07 Jan 2021
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Amid resignations and condemnation from Trump's Republican allies, top Democrats have said that he s...
After Siege, 127 Republicans Back Failed Effort To Block Certification Of Biden's Win
07 Jan 2021
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Members of the U.S. House and Senate on Wednesday voted to reject objections to President-elect Joe ...
Pro-Trump Extremists Storm US Capitol, Delay Election Certification
07 Jan 2021
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Supporters of President Trump laid siege to the US Capitol today, occupying the building as lawmaker...
Dems Win At Least One GA Senate Seat. The Other Is Still Too Close To Call.
06 Jan 2021
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Raphael Warnock defeated Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, according to the AP, inching the Senate clo...
Georgia's Runoff Ends. Doomed Electoral College Certification Fight Begins.
05 Jan 2021
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Voters cast the final ballots in Georgia's Senate runoff elections Tuesday, ending the state's two m...
Republicans Are Divided Over Trump's Effort To Overturn Election Loss
04 Jan 2021
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In a bid to stay in power despite losing the presidential election, President Donald Trump called Ge...
Weekly Roundup: January 1st
01 Jan 2021
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A new Congress will be sworn in on Sunday—the Democrats have a slimmer majority and Republicans ha...
What Will The Courts Look Like Under Joe Biden?
31 Dec 2020
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President Trump reshaped the federal judiciary and made three lifetime appointments to the Supreme C...
Exclusive Interview: Jake Sullivan, Biden's National Security Adviser
30 Dec 2020
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Jake Sullivan is the president-elect's top national security adviser. He told NPR's Scott Detrow tha...
What Will Climate And Health Policy Look Like Under Joe Biden?
29 Dec 2020
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Joe Biden's climate policy will look a lot different to that of President Trump's... and President O...
Republicans Flout Trump On COVID And Tech
28 Dec 2020
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After bemoaning elements of a COVID relief deal that his administration helped to negotiate, Preside...
What Will Justice And Foreign Policy Look Like Under Joe Biden?
25 Dec 2020
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President Trump's most radical departures from precedent were arguably his handling of the Justice D...
What Will Tech Policy Look Like Under Joe Biden?
24 Dec 2020
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Tech giants are the subject of censorship scrutiny, anti-monopoly lawsuits, and international trade ...
Christmas Chaos: President Throws Relief Into Doubt
23 Dec 2020
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President Trump raised last-minute objections, imperiling direct payments and other aid to millions ...
Dominion Makes Voting Machines. Its Employees Have Been Forced Into Hiding.
22 Dec 2020
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President Trump's baseless electoral fraud conspiracies have frenzied his supporters, some of whom h...
5,593 Pages: Congress Strikes Spending/COVID Deal
21 Dec 2020
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From direct payments for American households to mass transit, the Congressional relief package conta...
Weekly Roundup: December 18th
18 Dec 2020
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A major hack of federal government computer systems appears to be state-sponsored espionage. And we ...
New Peril Of Local Office? Death Threats.
17 Dec 2020
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We talk through the apparent details of a pending COVID relief deal. And, local officials across the...