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Supreme Court blocks Biden's vaccine-or-test mandate for large private companies

But the court upheld the mandate for some health care workers.
- Nina Totenberg
Republicans threaten to skip traditional general election debates

The Republican National Committee has released a letter outlining complaints and will ask presidential nominees not to participate in debates put on by the Commission on Presidential Debates.
- Domenico Montanaro
Internal GOP conflicts about 2020 election surface as party fights new voting bills

Democratic voting legislation has virtually no path to becoming law, but Senate Republicans are fighting it as the GOP still struggles over how to move forward from the 2020 election.
- Kelsey Snell
Democrats are looking for their way forward on voting rights

President Biden will make an in-person pitch to Senate Democrats to pass voting rights legislation — including changing Senate rules. Some Democrats, however, are opposed to ditching the filibuster.
- A Martinez
What Trump told NPR about the Republican party before he hung up

Former President Trump cut his NPR interview off abruptly when pressed about his election lies. Trump revealed a clear rift some Republican senators who have confirmed the truth that Biden won.
- Mara Liasson
Jan. 6 panel asks GOP leader Kevin McCarthy to voluntarily share information

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack is asking House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy to voluntarily provide information on conversations he had with former President Trump that day.
- Claudia Grisales
Internal GOP conflicts about 2020 election surface as party fights new voting laws

Republicans are accusing Democrats of a power grab as they try to pass federal voting legislation. The GOP is also still struggling with former President Trump's ongoing lies about the 2020 election.
- Kelsey Snell
The Jan. 6 panel requests voluntary testimony from the top House Republican

Among its questions, the committee is probing any conversations Kevin McCarthy had with former President Donald Trump on the day of the Capitol attack.
- Barbara Sprunt
Pressed on his election lies, former President Trump cuts NPR interview short
- Steve Inskeep
How will Bruce Harrell tackle one of the toughest jobs in the country?

Can a mayor bring a city together? After two years in a pandemic, a year of reckoning racism in policing, and a surprising electoral result, incoming Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell faces a tough task ahead. Host Libby Denkmann, and Soundside listeners, put their questions to Mayor Harrell.
- Libby Denkmann

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