Voting rights set for Senate vote as Democrats push Biden's agenda Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., says the Senate will vote next week on voting rights as Democrats try to advance much of President Biden's agenda. Kelsey Snell
The White House steps in to unclog the overwhelmed shipping industry Global supply chain issues have hampered the economic recovery. The Biden administration is trying to fix some of those issues through deals with the private sector. Steve Inskeep
U.S. to open borders to fully vaccinated travelers from Canada and Mexico NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas about tourism coming back to her border district in El Paso once the border reopens to fully vaccinated travelers.
Jan. 6 panel issues subpoena for Trump ally, ex-DOJ official Jeffrey Clark The House select committee has been ramping up its investigation into the riot and efforts by the former president to pressure the Justice Department to support his false claims of election fraud. Claudia Grisales
The committees intended to combat gerrymandering can look very different per state More states have adopted redistricting commissions as an antidote to gerrymandering over the past decade. Depending on the state, commissions look and function very differently. Are they working? Jahd Khalil
Most Tunisians support the president, despite his power grab Tunisia's president has made a power grab that has people worried about the country's young democracy. But most Tunisians support him. Eleanor Beardsley
The U.S. will soon allow nonessential travelers from Canada and Mexico again Nonessential travel has been halted on the U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico borders since March 2020. That'll change next month, but vaccines will be required. Scott Detrow
The House passes a short-term fix to the looming debt ceiling crisis The bill heads off fiscal calamity and puts an end — for now — to tense negotiations over the federal debt limit. Alana Wise
2 Senate Democrats are holding up Biden's spending package — with conflicting demands Two Democrats are not on board with President Biden's domestic agenda. Senators Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., may be at odds due to their own policy priorities for this package. Deirdre Walsh
Sara Nelson and Nikkita Oliver miles apart in race for Seattle City Council If you had to explain the differences between the candidates for Seattle City Council Position 9 in two sentences, you could start with the ideological abyss that separates Nikkita Oliver and Sara Nelson. David Hyde
