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President-elect Joe Biden has announced a number of major Cabinet positions, facing pressure over representation and ideology from across the Democratic coalition that elected him.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont about his concerns regarding the bipartisan pandemic relief legislation.

The executive order strips protections for thousands of federal workers. The administration says it's needed to get rid of "poor performers," but critics call it an attack on nonpolitical employees.

This election was the first in decades to not include a straight ticket voting option on ballots across Texas. The change could hurt and help both parties, depending on the race in question.

President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to tackle the climate crisis. Nonetheless, the oil and gas industry is reacting with a surprising amount of optimism.

An improviser well-versed in modern jazz, Houle often works with international collaborators in all sorts of settings. His latest album features music from a half-Canadian, half-American quartet.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Robb Ewoldt, a soybean and corn farmer in Iowa, who plans to vote for President Trump in November — despite his numerous reservations about the president.

After a year away, an NPR reporter returns to Lebanon to find a country racked by inflation, degraded services and the pandemic and still picking up the pieces from August's explosion in Beirut.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about prospects for a pandemic relief package passing after the election and the agenda Democrats might pursue in the next Congress.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks to Dana Goldstein, a staff writer at the Marshall Project, about the Atlanta educators receiving sentencing Monday in what is considered to be one of the largest cheating scandals in American education. She says such actions by teachers to make test scores look better is quite common.