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President Biden traveled to Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday to talk about how the newly signed infrastructure law will boost the community. As Biden sells his agenda, a new NPR/Marist poll finds his approval rating stuck at 42%.

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A new poll finds major warning signs for Biden and fellow Democrats

9:48am December 09, 2021

The NPR/Marist survey has President Biden with a 42% approval rating. Americans also don't feel the direct payments or expanded child tax credits Democrats doled out helped them much.

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World's democracies meet to show solidarity against a rising tide of authoritarianism

7:42am December 09, 2021

President Biden has invited more than 100 countries to a virtual summit on democracy. But some of the names on the list are drawing questions over their own democratic practices.

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Revisiting Steve Inskeep's 2005 conversation with Bob Dole

7:01am December 09, 2021

Bob Dole, who died Sunday, will lie in state Thursday at the U.S. Capitol — acknowledging decades of service as a GOP senator, vice presidential candidate and presidential nominee.

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Biden gives the federal government 3 decades to reach an ambitious climate goal

6:06am December 09, 2021

NPR's Noel King speaks to Gina McCarthy, White House National Climate Adviser, about President Biden's order to make federal vehicles and buildings carbon neutral by 2050.

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News brief: democracy summit, NPR political poll, Mosseri defends Instagram

6:00am December 09, 2021

President Biden will virtually host a summit for countries to talk about democracy. A new poll indicates the president has low approval ratings. Instagram's CEO defends the platform before Congress.

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Instagram CEO tells Senate panel it takes the mental health of children seriously

5:23am December 09, 2021

Adam Mosseri pushed back on research showing social media is harmful for mental health during testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Data Security.

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The Senate has voted to overturn the Biden administration's rule that large private employers must require their workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or tested, or face losing their jobs.

In a largely symbolic move, the Senate votes to block Biden's vaccine-or-test mandate

8:23pm December 08, 2021

by Brian Naylor

The White House says the president will veto the bill if it reaches his desk. But GOP lawmakers pushed the measure as the political fight over vaccine mandates deepens.

A voter waits to cast a ballot at the Graham Civic Center polling location in Graham, N.C., Nov. 3, 2020. On Dec. 8, 2021, the North Carolina Supreme Court delayed the 2022 statewide primaries by two months to give redistricting legal challenges more time

North Carolina delays 2022 primaries to give redistricting challenges more time

7:49pm December 08, 2021

by Steve Harrison

The midterm primaries for North Carolina's U.S. Senate seat, 14 U.S. House seats and 170 legislative seats have been moved from March until May by the state Supreme Court due to voting map lawsuits.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., touted her work over decades advocating for human rights in China as the House considered legislation to impose economic sanctions for goods produced in internment camps by ethnic Muslims.

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House OKs a bill barring imports of goods produced by forced labor of Uyghurs in China

7:30pm December 08, 2021

by Deirdre Walsh

The bipartisan vote shows support for ramping up economic sanctions against the Chinese government. It bars any goods manufactured by Uyghurs in internment camps in Xinjiang.

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Biden signs executive order to make the federal government carbon-neutral by 2050

6:24pm December 08, 2021

by Jeff Brady

In a sweeping executive order, President Biden aims to cut all climate warming emissions from federal government operations. The push dates to the Obama-era, and faces a lot of challenges.

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