After A Bitter Fight With Democrats, Texas Republicans Pass New Voting Restrictions The legislation now heads to Gov. Greg Abbott, who is expected to sign it. Once he does, Texas will become the latest GOP-run state to enact new voting restrictions. Benjamin Swasey
Lawmakers Want To Know What Went Wrong With Afghanistan Lawmakers criticized the Biden administration's handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan. They now want to reassert Congress' authority and continue efforts to evacuate Americans and allies. Deirdre Walsh
House Panel Investigating The Capitol Attack Orders 35 Companies To Preserve Records The Democratic-led committee is targeting the communication records of individuals who've been charged with crimes related to the attack, and those who participated in a rally preceding the riot. Claudia Grisales
Biden Witnesses Dignified Transfer Of Remains In Delaware Ceremony President Biden went to Dover, Del., where a "dignified transfer" of the remains of service members killed in Kabul last week took place on Sunday. Mara Liasson
Democrats Are Now Open To New Voter ID Rules. It Probably Won't Win Over The GOP While Democrats have long opposed voter ID laws, their decade-long effort to convince voters hasn't budged public opinion. Large bipartisan majorities still favor showing an ID to vote. Miles Parks
Democrats Might Be More Open To Voter ID Laws, Which They've Long Opposed As Democrats try to pass voting rights legislation through Congress, some members of the party have expressed an openness to one GOP-backed policy they have long opposed: voter ID requirements. Miles Parks
The Kabul Attack Took Attention Away From Biden And New Israeli Leader's Meeting President Biden met with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to try to reset U.S.-Israel relations after their predecessors' polarizing relationship. Daniel Estrin
Seattle's economic recovery is a mixed bag Remember a few month ago, when we thought we were getting a leg up on Covid-19? When we thought it was “time to celebrate” downtown Seattle’s recovery by going there and doing normal things? Some of that is happening. Some. Katie Campbell
Senior Policy Fellow Argues Terror Attack Should Not Lead To More War NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Stephen Wertheim of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who says that Biden's vow to hold attackers accountable shouldn't send the U.S. into a war on terror. Courtney Dorning
The Evacuations Will Continue In Kabul Despite The Likelihood Of Another Attack Biden has pledged the U.S. will target the assets, leadership and facilities of ISIS-K, the Islamic State group's affiliate that has reportedly claimed responsibility for the terror attack. Barbara Sprunt
