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Week in politics: U.S. troops on alert at Russia-Ukraine border; Breyer retiring

8:02am January 29, 2022

by Ron Elving

Tensions at the Ukraine-Russia border. Plus, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer's resignation and President Biden's pledge to nominate the first-ever Black woman Supreme Court justice.

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President Biden has said he plans to make his mind up about who to nominate to the Supreme Court by the end of February.

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These are the people believed to be frontrunners for Biden's Supreme Court pick

9:18pm January 28, 2022

by Scott Detrow

President Biden has pledged to choose a Black woman to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court — and the White House is looking at a broad list of potential candidates.

Kenneth Polite, the assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, speaks during a news conference at the department in October.

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His brother was killed in 2004. Now he fights violent crime as a top Justice official

7:57pm January 28, 2022

by Carrie Johnson

Kenneth Polite, head of the Criminal Division since July, wants to take the most dangerous people off the streets and spend more on preventing violence.

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A congressional delegation visits Kyiv to pledge solidarity with Ukraine

5:08pm January 28, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Congressmen Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., and Congressman Mark Green, R-Tenn., about their trip to Ukraine as the country faces the threat of a Russian invasion.

Russian President Putin said the West has not addressed Russia's main demands

5:08pm January 28, 2022

by Charles Maynes

Russian President Vladimir Putin weighed in for the first time on answers from the U.S. and NATO to Russia's security proposals. Other signals from the Kremlin are encouraging.

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The top U.S. Diplomat in Ukraine still hopes Putin chooses diplomacy

4:50pm January 28, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Kristina Kvien who, as the Charge d'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, is the top American official on the ground in Kyiv.

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Supporters of President Donald Trump arrive for a campaign rally in Kenosha, Wis., the day before the 2020 election, which he and his supporters falsely claim he won.

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The Jan. 6 panel subpoenas 14 people in fake electors scheme tied to Trump

4:41pm January 28, 2022

by Claudia Grisales

The 14 people are tied to an effort to put forth false electors as President Donald Trump sought to stay in office after losing the 2020 election.

Ten people were injured and at least three hospitalized after a bridge collapsed early Friday in Pittsburgh's East End.

A bridge in Pittsburgh collapsed on the day of Biden's planned infrastructure visit

2:35pm January 28, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Officials said 10 people suffered minor injuries and at least three were taken to the hospital after the collapse, which appears to have involved several vehicles and a Port Authority bus.

Willow, photographed in the White House on Wednesday, is the Biden family's new cat.

Meet Willow, the Bidens' new, very presidential-looking cat

1:03pm January 28, 2022

by Harrison Jacobs

First lady Jill Biden met the cat when it interrupted a stump speech she was giving at a Pennsylvania farm during President Biden's 2020 campaign.

A man fishes near docked oil drilling platforms in 2020 in Port Aransas, Texas. A federal judge has revoked oil and gas leases sold in the Gulf of Mexico in November, saying the Interior Department did not take into account its impact on climate change.

A federal judge canceled major oil and gas leases over climate change

9:58am January 28, 2022

by Nathan Rott

The ruling revokes leases sold in the Gulf of Mexico in the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history. It says the Interior Department failed to consider the greenhouse gases it would produce.

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