Monday, August 2, 2021 from NPR Topics: Politics
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., a member of the bipartisan team which developed the new $1 trillion infrastructure spending package.Monday, August 2, 2021 from NPR Topics: Politics
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, about the rising COVID-19 cases in his state - and what can be done about it.Monday, August 2, 2021 from Channel 4 News Politics Feed
Government sources have said plans for a new amber watch list of countries will be dropped, amid opposition from aviation bosses and some Tory MPs. Fully vaccinated travellers from the US and amber EU countries can now enter England,...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Channel 4 News Politics Feed
A sprinter from Belarus has been offered a humanitarian visa by Poland, after refusing an order to fly home early from the Tokyo Olympic Games. Krystina Timanovskaya is now under police protection in the Polish embassy, claiming she...Monday, August 2, 2021 from All News RSS Feed
Sen. Lindsey Graham announced he would self-quarantine for 10 days Monday after revealing a positive COVID-19 test. “I was just informed by the House physician I have tested positive for COVID-19 even after being vaccinated,” the South...Monday, August 2, 2021 from All News RSS Feed
The Biden administration is still looking for ways to help people avoid eviction but resisting pressure from congressional Democrats to have the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revive the moratorium on such actions, which...Monday, August 2, 2021 from NPR Topics: Politics
The vast majority of these laws apply only to state and local governments, meaning private schools and employers could still require people to get vaccinated.Monday, August 2, 2021 from NPR Topics: Politics
Immigration advocates had put their lawsuit on hold to give the Biden administration time to phase out the Trump-era Title 42 measure. But they say they're tired of waiting.Monday, August 2, 2021 from All News RSS Feed
At least $274 billion of the bipartisan Senate infrastructure bill’s $550 billion in new spending would go toward transportation — a walloping one-time infusion of dollars in the nation’s roads, bridges, highways, ports, airports,...Monday, August 2, 2021 from All News RSS Feed
Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., holds a “housing is a human right” sign at the House steps on Saturday morning, July 31. Bush spent Friday night outside of the Capitol to call on President Joe Biden and Congress to renew the eviction...Monday, August 2, 2021 from All News RSS Feed
Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden wants tweaks to provisions for enforcing taxes on cryptocurrency transactions that were tucked into the bipartisan infrastructure bill on the floor in that chamber this week. Changes could...Monday, August 2, 2021 from All News RSS Feed
ANALYSIS — Sometime this week, as the debate over the fiscal 2022 budget resolution begins on the Senate floor, a senator will ask for permission to use a calculator to assist in the deliberations. That such a motion is required is a...Monday, August 2, 2021 from All News RSS Feed
After years of “infrastructure week” serving as a punch line around Washington, the Senate convenes Monday to begin amending a sweeping bipartisan package designed to rebuild America, with the backing of President Joe Biden. But neither...Monday, August 2, 2021 from All News RSS Feed
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said he expects the chamber’s bipartisan infrastructure bill to pass later this week, now that the long-awaited measure was finally unveiled Sunday night. “Given how bipartisan the bill is and...Monday, August 2, 2021 from All News RSS Feed
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plan to link the Senate’s $550 billion bipartisan infrastructure plan to a $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package is starting to backfire, as moderate Democrats warn they may not vote for a budget resolution...Monday, August 2, 2021 from NPR Topics: Politics
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Democratic Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri about what it means for families now that the federal eviction moratorium has expired, and why this means so much to her.Monday, August 2, 2021 from NPR Topics: Politics
Republicans need to gain just five seats in next year's midterm elections to take control of the U.S. House. It's New York Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney's job to make sure that doesn't happen.Monday, August 2, 2021 from NPR Topics: Politics
Three big cities might have their first Asian American Pacific Islander mayor next year. These candidates aren't just breaking barriers, they're fighting stereotypes at the root of anti-Asian hate.Monday, August 2, 2021 from NPR Topics: Politics
House Democratic leaders called the extension a "moral imperative" to prevent Americans from being put out of their homes during a COVID-19 surge. Some 3.6 billion Americans are at risk of eviction.Monday, August 2, 2021 from NPR Topics: Politics
The over 2,700-page bipartisan bill, finalized Sunday night, includes money for roads, transit systems and high-speed internet access. It's the first phase of President Biden's infrastructure plan.Sunday, August 1, 2021 from NPR Topics: Politics
Mexico is holding a referendum on whether to put past presidents on trial for graft, corruption and other crimes. But some critics are calling it a farce.Sunday, August 1, 2021 from NPR Topics: Politics
Confusing messaging from the CDC, and a more urgent push to get Americans vaccinated, plus the prospects of two infrastructure packages making their way through Congress.Sunday, August 1, 2021 from NPR Topics: Politics
Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana about what's in the infrastructure bill and how it addresses global warming.Sunday, August 1, 2021 from NPR Topics: Politics
Pareen Mhatre's family filed for green cards, but Pareen doesn't qualify. She talks to Lulu Garcia-Navarro about how some immigrants "age out" of their status.Sunday, August 1, 2021 from NPR Topics: Politics
With national voting rights legislation stalled, Black leaders are watching to see what President Biden does next. Activists say the country is in a "state of emergency" when it comes to voting laws.Saturday, July 31, 2021 from NPR Topics: Politics
NPR's Kelsey Snell speaks with Dr. Faisal Khan, acting director for the St. Louis County health department, about the abusive treatment he says he's received as a result of doing his job.Friday, July 30, 2021 from Channel 4 News Politics Feed
Labour MP Apsana Begum has been cleared of housing fraud, saying the case against her had been driven by "malicious intent" and had caused "great distress and damage" to her reputation. Friday, July 30, 2021 from Channel 4 News Politics Feed
We spoke to Professor John Edmunds, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and started by asking whether cases of the Delta variant had peaked.Friday, July 30, 2021 from Channel 4 News Politics Feed
Businesses up and down the country have been struggling to fill shifts as hundreds of thousands of workers get pinged by the NHS Test and Trace app and told to self-isolate.Friday, July 30, 2021 from All News RSS Feed
“Hearing in here is tough,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy consoled members before taking the floor to wonder where exactly the coronavirus begins and ends in the Capitol. Meanwhile, staffers taught senators floor procedure — and...Thursday, July 29, 2021 from Channel 4 News Politics Feed
A new “super committee” of MPs has been set up to examine the government's Online Safety Bill, which aims to crackdown on online harms such as hate speech and revenge porn by threatening tech companies with huge fines.Wednesday, July 28, 2021 from Channel 4 News Politics Feed
The government has unveiled its £1.6 billion national disability strategy to a somewhat muted response.Wednesday, July 28, 2021 from Channel 4 News Politics Feed
We spoke to Prisons and Probation Minister Alex Chalk and began by asking him if he regretted the closing of the Change Grow Live project.Wednesday, July 28, 2021 from Channel 4 News Politics Feed
The government announced that quarantine will be scrapped for fully vaccinated people from the United States and the EU, if they arrive in England from an amber country.Government ‘failed’ first ‘big test’ of levelling up agenda with disability strategy, Tory peer says
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 from Channel 4 News Politics Feed
We were joined by the Conservative peer, Lord Kevin Shinkwin.Wednesday, July 28, 2021 from Politics RSS Feed
KANE, Pa. (AP) — A crank caller ordered an “insurrection pizza” from Pauline Bauer’s restaurant. A profane piece of hate mail addressed her as a domestic terrorist. She even became a punchline for Stephen Colbert’s late-night talk show...Wednesday, July 28, 2021 from Politics RSS Feed
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican Party's self-portrayal as champions of law and order is colliding with searing testimony from police officers themselves. Officers on Tuesday described in vivid, personal terms the terror of defending the...Wednesday, July 28, 2021 from Mail.com: Politics
It had only been hinted at in previous public examinations of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection: Scores of rioters attacked police officers not just with makeshift weapons, stun guns and fists, but with racist slurs and accusations of...Wednesday, July 28, 2021 from Mail.com: Politics
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge was set to announce Wednesday whether he will invoke a rarely used process to charge a police officer in the 2016 slaying of a Black man who was sitting in a parked car. Prosecutors declined to file...Wednesday, July 28, 2021 from Mail.com: Politics
WASHINGTON (AP) — During emotional, tense and sometimes angry testimony, four police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 vividly recalled the violence they endured while fighting against a mob of Donald Trump's supporters. “I was...Wednesday, July 28, 2021 from World Politics
The Ecuadorian Government previously granted Wikileaks founder Julian Assange citizenship in 2018 to help him flee London as a diplomat and avoid arrest.Wednesday, July 28, 2021 from Politics RSS Feed
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Jake Ellzey of Texas won a U.S. House seat on Tuesday night over a rival backed by Donald Trump, dealing the former president a defeat in a test of his endorsement power since leaving office. Ellzey’s...Wednesday, July 28, 2021 from Mail.com: Politics
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former Air Force intelligence analyst who once helped find targets for deadly U.S. drone strikes was sentenced to 45 months in prison for leaking top-secret details about the program. Daniel Hale, 33, told a...Wednesday, July 28, 2021 from World Politics
悉尼最新录得本地新增177例。新州州长贝雷吉克利安宣布封城再延长四周。Wednesday, July 28, 2021 from Mail.com: Politics
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has launched more than a dozen airstrikes in the past week in support of Afghan government forces in their fight against the Taliban, a sharp spike over the handful that were done in the previous six...Wednesday, July 28, 2021 from Irish Times Politics RSS
Parents urged to ignore ‘misinformation’ as vaccines for over-12s could begin next weekTuesday, July 27, 2021 from Mail.com: Politics
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal jury on Tuesday convicted a wealthy California political donor on charges he injected gay men with methamphetamine in exchange for sex, leading to two deaths and other overdoses. Ed Buck, 66, was found guilty...Tuesday, July 27, 2021 from Mail.com: Politics
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado police officer has been arrested after video showed him using his pistol to beat a man he was trying to take into custody, choking him and threatening to kill him, while another officer was accused of...Tuesday, July 27, 2021 from World Politics
Pyongyang cut the hotline a year ago, and later blew up a liaison office set up on its side of the border in 2018.Tuesday, July 27, 2021 from Mail.com: Politics
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday nominated Julissa Reynoso, the chief of staff to first lady Jill Biden and a former ambassador, to serve as his ambassador to Spain and Andorra. Reynoso has also served as the co-chair of...