Politics & Government

The Supreme Court's vote to invalidate the vaccine-or-test regulation was 6 to 3, along ideological lines.

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Supreme Court blocks Biden's vaccine-or-test mandate for large private companies

6:32pm January 13, 2022

by Nina Totenberg

But the court upheld a separate mandate for almost all employees at hospitals, nursing homes and other health care providers that receive federal funds.

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Then-candidate Joe Biden walks on stage to begin the first presidential debate in September 2020. The 2020 faceoffs may be the last of their kind.

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Republicans threaten to skip traditional general election debates

6:20pm January 13, 2022

by Domenico Montanaro

The Republican National Committee has released a letter outlining complaints and will ask presidential nominees not to participate in debates put on by the Commission on Presidential Debates.

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President Biden leaves a meeting with Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill on Thursday.

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Biden says he doesn't know if voting rights legislation can pass

5:53pm January 13, 2022

by Kelsey Snell

The president left a meeting with Senate Democrats pessimistic about a way forward on voting rights, as Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin reiterated their opposition to changing Senate rules.

Secretary of State Blinken says Russia will face consequences if it invade Ukraine

5:44pm January 13, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the United States' role in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

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President Biden announces more tests, masks and emergency hospital staff

5:22pm January 13, 2022

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

President Biden announced new measures to respond to the COVID surge. He is sending troops to hospitals in some states and said that more tests and masks are being ordered for distribution nationwide.

President Biden speaks about the government's COVID-19 response on Thursday.

Biden announces plans to buy 500 million more COVID tests and to offer free masks

5:20pm January 13, 2022

by Brian Naylor

The president expects a website to launch next week to order tests. The head of the postal workers union says that up to 7,000 temporary workers will be hired in the effort to get kits to Americans.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans are attempting to reframe the "big lie" as an attack on voting rights legislation pushed by Democrats.

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Internal GOP conflicts about 2020 election surface as party fights new voting bills

1:19pm January 13, 2022

by Kelsey Snell

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.

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Virginia's Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin, pictured on the campaign trail, speaks with now Lt. Gov.-elect Winsome Sears after a rally in Fredericksburg, Va., Oct. 30, 2021. Youngkin and Sears, both Republicans, won election on Nov. 2, and will be sworn into of

Virginia's first Black woman lieutenant governor says we need to move on from slavery

10:09am January 13, 2022

by Ben Paviour

Winsome Sears, a Republican, will be sworn into office Saturday in Virginia alongside Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin. Sears ran, in part, on the idea that the country's racial reckoning has gone too far.

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Democrats are looking for their way forward on voting rights

7:20am January 13, 2022

President Biden will make an in-person pitch to Senate Democrats to pass voting rights legislation — including changing Senate rules. Some Democrats, however, are opposed to ditching the filibuster.

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What's at risk for Republicans as members spread lies about 2020's election?

7:20am January 13, 2022

NPR's A Martinez talks with Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota about voting rights, and acknowledgement that there was no widespread fraud in the presidential election.

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