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The Supreme Court heard challenges Friday to the Biden administration efforts to increase the nation's vaccination rate against COVID-19.

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Supreme Court's conservatives cast cloud over vaccine-or-test mandate for businesses

8:19pm January 07, 2022

by Nina Totenberg

Justices seemed more open to the vaccine mandate for almost all workers at hospitals, nursing homes, and other medical providers receiving federal Medicare and Medicaid funds.

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Hours after rioters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence listens after reading the final certification of the Electoral College votes cast in the 2020 presidential election.

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The chair of the Jan. 6 panel says the committee will ask Mike Pence to appear

8:09pm January 07, 2022

by Claudia Grisales

The chair of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack says by month's end they'll ask former Vice President Mike Pence to testify. They may also request testimony from Ivanka Trump.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., pauses for a moment of silence alongside fellow lawmakers and congressional staff members during a vigil Thursday evening to commemorate the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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The immovable Republican Party and 'ink-blot politics'

2:59pm January 07, 2022

by Domenico Montanaro

Several of the key facts of the Jan. 6 insurrection are indisputable. And yet millions on the right do dispute them. Here's a look at how that happened.

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The Supreme Court hears arguments Friday in two cases challenging the Biden administration's vaccine mandates.

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The Supreme Court is hearing arguments challenging vaccine mandates

11:49am January 07, 2022

by Nina Totenberg

The two cases are in a preliminary posture, but how the court rules will very likely signal how these issues are ultimately resolved.

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News brief: COVID tests, vaccine mandate hearing, Jan. 6 events

5:58am January 07, 2022

Rapid COVID-19 tests are in short supply and prices are increasing. The Supreme Court will review two of Biden's vaccine rules for workers. Not many Republicans attended Jan. 6 events on Capitol Hill.

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After 30 years in the U.S. House, Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush is leaving

5:58am January 07, 2022

NPR's A Martinez talks with longtime Illinois Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush about his decision to leave Congress, and his expectations for the Democratic party and democracy.

Trump is the most powerful figure in the Republican party, despite lies and Jan. 6

5:25pm January 06, 2022

by Mara Liasson

Many Republican allies of former President Trump were outraged in 2021 when the Capitol was attacked. But as Trump's popularity endures, the party's elected leaders now largely overlook Jan. 6.

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On Capitol Hill, President Biden and other leaders mark anniversary of Jan. 6 attack

5:25pm January 06, 2022

President Biden and Democratic leaders converged at the Capitol on Thursday with speeches, ceremonies and prayer to mark the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

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Dozens are reported dead in Kazakhstan, where an anti-government revolt is underway

5:25pm January 06, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Melinda Haring, Deputy Director for Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, on the situation in Kazakhstan and its implications for the rest of the world.

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Sen. Warnock says voting rights legislation is a moral issue

5:25pm January 06, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Geor., who says that if Congress doesn't pass voting legislation, it will have "failed in the trust the people have given us."

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