Pelosi Names 1st Female Chaplain To Serve Congress Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed retired Rear Adm. Margaret Grun Kibben as chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Presbyterian minister was former chief chaplain of the U.S. Navy. Dustin Jones
There's A White House Clash Over Whether To Extend Freeze On Many Work Visas In June, President Trump halted various temporary work visas, including H-1B, L-1 and certain J-1 visas. Advocates for an extension say it would tie the hands of President-elect Joe Biden. Franco Ordoñez
Census To Miss Year-End Deadline For Delivering Numbers For House Seats Behind schedule and struggling to fix irregularities in the count, the Census Bureau is working toward Jan. 9 as the next date in the process for releasing results, a bureau employee tells NPR. Hansi Lo Wang
Senate GOP Rushes To Finish Defense Bill And Avoid Showdown On Relief Payments Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the $2,000 relief checks have "no realistic path" in the Senate on their own. He has tied them to other provisions that Democrats blast as partisan. Kelsey Snell
New to Spokane, she avoids speaking Spanish. It's become that tense "I don't know if they just don't like me because I'm brown or if they just don't like me because I'm new here." Esmy Jimenez
Biden's Incoming National Security Adviser Faults Pentagon's 'Obstruction' Jake Sullivan tells NPR in an exclusive interview that the transition isn't getting what it needs from the outgoing Trump administration to properly take power next month. Philip Ewing
Outlook Unclear For $2,000 COVID-19 Relief Payments As Action Shifts To Senate Senate Democrats excoriated majority Republicans and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday, but the road ahead remains uncertain for more in direct disbursements from the government. Philip Ewing
How The Pandemic Dented The Popularity Of Germany's Far-Right AfD Party Many expected the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, to continue growing stronger, but the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the far-right party's deep internal divisions. Simon Schütz
Seattle Now: Wrapping up a very 2020 year in city politics The year was one news dump after another and city politics was no exception. What did we learn? Reporters Essex Porter of KIRO-7 and David Kroman of Crosscut are here to make sense of the aftermath. Patricia Murphy
December 22nd | Everything you need to know about the latest COVID-19 vaccines Your questions on COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal on the latest round of federal pandemic relief. And this week's conversation with King County Executive Dow Constantine. Bill Radke
