Vice President Harris Hints That She Has Discussed Filibuster Changes With Senators With a major voting bill stalled, the vice president told NPR that she won't negotiate changes to Senate rules publicly, "but I'm certainly having conversations with folks." Asma Khalid
Biden Faces A Lot Of Challenges In His Attempt To Address Voting Rights The president has also faced criticism for not speaking out more forcefully on the issue. Biden will delivering a speech Tuesday on voting rights at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Scott Detrow
Senators Unveil Competing Funding Proposals For Capitol Police Now Short On Cash Weeks before the police agency is slated to run out of money, the Democratic Senate Appropriations chair and the panel's ranking Republican introduced competing emergency funding bills. Claudia Grisales
Democratic Lawmakers In Texas Have Left The State To Try To Block Voting Restrictions The Texas House Democratic Caucus has confirmed that Democrats have fled the state in an effort to block Republican voting restrictions from advancing in a special legislative session. Andrew Schneider / Houston Public Media
The Right To Vote: The Big Lie And What It Did To Voting Access In the days and weeks after losing the presidential election, former President Trump claimed the election had been stolen, sparking a movement in statehouses across the U.S. to restrict voting access. Ari Shapiro
Voting Restrictions After The Big Lie NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Michael Waldman of the Brennan Center for Justice about voting since Trump's false claims about election integrity led many states to enact laws restricting voting access.
The Battle For The U.S. Senate Will Be On Display During Baseball's All-Star Game A new attack ad targeting Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock blames a "radical left woke crowd" for moving the game out of Atlanta. It will air during the Home Run Derby and All-Star Game. Becky Sullivan
Senate Republicans Criticize Biden's Nominee To Head Bureau Of Land Management Republicans are pressuring President Biden to withdraw his nominee to be the country's next public lands chief amid controversy over her alleged involvement in a tree spiking incident in the 1980s. Kirk Siegler
How Occupational Licensing Rules Affect Military Families NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks to Marinelle Reynolds, a licensed social worker, about President Biden's executive order regarding occupational licensing and how it may affect military families.
Study Looks At What Motivates Trump Supporters NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks with professor Lilliana Mason about a recent study she co-authored entitled "Activating Animus: The Uniquely Social Roots of Trump Support."