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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen update reporters Thursday on Democratic efforts to pass President Biden's spending agenda.

Politics & Government

Democrats Say They Agree On A Loose Framework To Pay For Their Spending Agenda

5:48pm September 23, 2021

by Kelsey Snell

As Democrats scramble to move forward on President Biden's social spending agenda, leaders say they have reached agreement on a framework to pay for it.

A view of the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee. One Republican state lawmaker has introduced a restrictive abortion bill that is drawing comparisons to the ban recently enacted in Texas.

A Florida Lawmaker Is Proposing A Restrictive Texas-Style Abortion Bill

5:23pm September 23, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

The bill would ban most abortions as early as around six weeks, allow people to sue anyone who helps end a pregnancy after that point and fine physicians $10,000 for each such abortion they perform.

The last Quad meeting, in March, was virtual. President Biden, Yoshihide Suga, Japan's prime minister (top right), Scott Morrison, Australia's prime minister (bottom left), and Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, will meet in person in the U.S. on Frid

5 Things To Know About Biden's Quad Summit With Leaders Of India, Australia And Japan

5:08pm September 23, 2021

President Biden will meet on Friday with the leaders of Japan, Australia and India. Their agenda includes the pandemic and climate change. But analysts say the Quad group is mainly about China.

Plan To Widen Highway In South Carolina Would Cut Through Black And Brown Communities

4:40pm September 23, 2021

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Omar Muhammad, executive director of the Lowcountry Alliance for Model Communities, on communities in North Charleston, S.C., facing displacement for a highway project.

Afghan Allies That Were Left Behind Face An Uncertain Future

4:40pm September 23, 2021

by Quil Lawrence

The White House now says it failed to evacuate most of America's Afghan allies in the airlift from Kabul. Even those evacuated may be stuck in immigration limbo for years unless Congress takes action.

Most Of The $47 Billion Meant To Prevent Evictions Hasn't Reached Those Who Need It

4:40pm September 23, 2021

by Chris Arnold

Many states have stumbled getting rental assistance from Congress into the hands of people facing eviction. State and local programs are scrambling now that a federal eviction moratorium has ended.

U.N. Climate Conference President On 'Last Best Chance' To Combat Global Warming

4:40pm September 23, 2021

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Alok Sharma, president of the United Nations climate change conference COP 26, which is set to take place in Glasgow after being postponed a year.

DHS Secretary Mayorkas On Border Conditions And Next Steps For Surge Of Migrants

4:40pm September 23, 2021

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about the government's handling of refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange this summer. Members of Congress are required to disclose their stock transactions under a law known as the STOCK Act, but an outside ethics group filed complaints, noting that some lawmakers are vi

Politics & Government

Outside Ethics Group Says 7 House Lawmakers Didn't Disclose Stock Trades

1:21pm September 23, 2021

by Deirdre Walsh

The complaints from the Campaign Legal Center against four Democrats and three Republicans show a trend — lawmakers failing to disclose transactions required by an insider trading law.

An election worker shows ballots to representatives of then-President Donald Trump during a recount on Nov. 20 in Madison, Wis. Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania have begun new investigations into the 2020 election.

Politics & Government

Republican-Led Election Reviews Take Shape In Pennsylvania And Wisconsin

12:46pm September 23, 2021

Leaders of the Pennsylvania and Wisconsin reviews had visited the widely discredited Arizona election review and now are helming similar GOP-led investigations in their home states.