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Protesters dressed as characters from The Handmaid's Tale outside the confirmation hearing for Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday.
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Courts & Law

Kavanaugh hearings, day 1: Protesters focus on Roe; attempted handshake goes viral

The first day of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings was long on quarreling, protesting and speechifying.

7 years ago

Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh is sworn in by committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, to testify during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
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Courts & Law

WATCH LIVE: Senators’ Questions Take Center Stage On Day 2 Of Kavanaugh Hearings

"I don't live in a bubble," Kavanaugh told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

7 years ago

East Front of the U.S. Capitol at sunset in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Politics & Policy

Election security bill backers say delay helps Russia

Just two months before the midterm elections, bipartisan legislation to try to prevent foreign hacking into U.S. election systems is stalled in Congress.

7 years ago

In this April 4, 2017 file photo, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka listens at the National Press Club in Washington. Trump tweeted Monday that AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka “represented his union poorly on television this weekend.” He added: “it is easy to see why unions are doing so poorly. A Dem!” Trumka appeared on “Fox News Sunday,” where he said efforts to overhaul the North American Free Trade Agreement should include Canada. He also said of Trump: “the things that he's done to hurt workers outpace what he's done to help workers.” (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Politics & Policy

Trump attacks union leader on Labor Day

President Donald Trump started his Labor Day with an attack on a top union leader, lashing out after criticism from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in West Virginia earlier this month. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Politics & Policy

President Trump’s description of what’s ‘fake’ is expanding

Presidential tweets about "fake news" aren't new, but August was unique in the sheer frequency of such presidential declarations on Twitter.

7 years ago

Ericka Ames, center, of Nicaragua recites the Oath of Allegiance during a naturalization ceremony at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Miami. The backlog of citizenship applications has increased dramatically under the Trump administration. (Wilfredo Lee/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

The wait to become a U.S. citizen lengthens

There has been a backlog of citizen applications for years. But the backlog has increased dramatically since President Trump took office.

7 years ago

Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh leaves the office Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., after a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Kavanaugh’s civil rights views studied ahead of confirmation

Civil rights organizations that have been combing through Kavanaugh's 300-plus decisions during 12 years as a federal appeals court judge.

7 years ago

Roberta McCain, mother of John McCain, pays respects before his flag-draped casket Friday at the Capitol rotunda. His final public memorial is Saturday at the National Cathedral. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Washington pays tribute to John McCain

Friends, family members and former political rivals will pay tribute to the late Sen. John McCain, in a ceremony Saturday at the Washington National Cathedral.

7 years ago

In this Sept. 28, 2008 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., gives a thumbs up as he arrives at his campaign headquarters in Arlington, Va.  McCain’s family says the Arizona senator has chosen to discontinue medical treatment for brain cancer.  (Gerald Herbert/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community
What Are We Thinking?

Crossing the aisle: In the end it was the Dems who loved him most, McCain’s final poll numbers show

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup’s Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. opinion.

7 years ago

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The flag-draped casket of Sen. John McCain arrives inside the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Friday. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

McCain makes a final return to Washington for rare honors

McCain will lie in state in the rotunda, an honor reserved for roughly only 30 other people since the practice began in 1852.

7 years ago

Former Vice President Joe Biden prepares to speak at a ceremony for John McCain at North Phoenix Baptist Church on Thursday. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

‘We shall not see his like again’: Joe Biden honors his friend, John McCain

Through the lens of today's era of partisanship, it makes little sense that Joe Biden and John McCain would be friends.

7 years ago

Tyler Mitchell photographed Beyoncé for the September issue of Vogue.
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Lifestyle

Tyler Mitchell on being the first African-American to photograph a ‘Vogue’ cover

When Vogue unveiled its annual fashion issue earlier this month, the Internet took notice.

7 years ago

A tinted transmission electron micrograph of Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria (light purple/black) inside a cell. Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the U.S., with more than 1.7 million reported cases in 2017. (Biomedical Imaging Unit, Southampton General Hospital/Science Source)
NPR
Health

Record high number of STD infections in U.S., as prevention funding declines

"It is time that President Trump and Secretary Azar declare STDs in America a public health crisis."

7 years ago

(LA Johnson/NPR)
NPR
Education

The School Shootings That Weren’t

How many times per year does a gun go off in an American school? We should know. But we don't.

7 years ago

In this Aug. 1, 2018, file photo, Cody Wilson, with Defense Distributed, holds a 3D-printed gun called the Liberator at his shop in Austin, Texas. A federal judge in Seattle has granted an injunction that prohibits the Trump administration from allowing a Texas company to post 3D gun-making plans online. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, file)
Courts & Law

Judge blocks online plans for printing untraceable 3D guns

A U.S. judge in Seattle blocked the Trump administration Monday from allowing a Texas company to post online plans for making untraceable 3D guns.

7 years ago

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