Politics & Government

Politics & Government

Politics chat: Biden's ratings down over Ukraine; midterms begin in Indiana and Ohio

8:37am May 01, 2022

by Domenico Montanaro

An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll shows that ratings for President Biden's handling of the Ukraine crisis has declined. Also, election primaries begin in Indiana and Ohio this week.

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Primary season begins with Indiana and Ohio

8:06am May 01, 2022

by Juana Summers

As Congressional primaries begin in earnest this month, both centrist and progressive Democrats argue they will have a better chance of winning against Republicans in November.

President Joe Biden speaks at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, Saturday, April 30, 2022, in Washington.

President Biden mocks Trump at White House Correspondents' Dinner

7:34am May 01, 2022

by Robbie Griffiths

Joe Biden addressed the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday night, the first time a president has spoken at the event in six years.

Conservative member of Parliament Neil Parish speaks at a business breakfast on June 1, 2016. He says he will resign after admitting that he watched porn in the House of Commons.

British lawmaker Neil Parish resigning after watching porn in the House of Commons

2:37pm April 30, 2022

by Rina Torchinsky

The member of Parliament says he watched pornography twice in the House of Commons in a "moment of madness." The Conservative Party suspended him Friday over the allegations.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., center, joined at right by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, pause during a news conference on July 21, 2021.

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McCarthy embodies House GOP's post-Trump dilemma and post-Gingrich history

11:44am April 30, 2022

by Ron Elving

Shakespeare observed that "uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." Something similar seems to apply to the title of Republican leader in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Title 42 was meant to slow COVID at the border. It's being used to manage migration

8:26am April 30, 2022

by Joel Rose

The pandemic border restrictions known as Title 42 are technically a public health policy. But the debate in Washington has shifted to whether or not they're an effective tool for managing the border.

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Week in politics: Trump under investigation; Ukraine and COVID funds up in the air

8:00am April 30, 2022

by Ron Elving

We'll take a look at two grand jury investigations into former President Donald Trump, as well as the fate of the Ukraine aid and COVID spending bills currently in Congress.

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Election denialism beliefs animate some GOP candidates in Michigan

6:17pm April 29, 2022

Michigan was a focal point in Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election. Zach Gorchow of Gongwer News Service tells NPR's Ailsa Chang that election misinformation still looms large there.

Rachel Levine, U.S. assistant secretary for health, says, "The language of medicine and science is being used to drive people to suicide." Political attacks against trans young people are on the rise across the country.

Rachel Levine calls state anti-LGBTQ bills disturbing and dangerous to trans youth

4:42pm April 29, 2022

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

The U.S. assistant secretary for health, who will speak at Texas Christian University, says physicians need to be more vocal in fighting politically motivated attacks on vulnerable trans youth.

A second Oath Keeper pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 riot

3:12pm April 29, 2022

by Ryan Lucas

Brian Ulrich pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy and obstruction, and agreed to cooperate with government investigators.