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Texas Democrats walked out of the state House of Representatives to block the passage of new restrictions on voting. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to Democratic Rep. Chris Turner about the move.

Republicans were scathing in their response to the measure, but the bill has a grim future even without their opposition. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she has no plans to bring it to the floor.

In the wake of the Senate acquittal of former President Trump, many questions remain. How does the GOP move forward? What's ahead for President Biden's agenda, no longer overshadowed by impeachment?

The White House acknowledged that the country will miss President Biden's goal of 70% of American adults receiving at least one vaccine dose by July 4, but their push to get shots in arms goes on.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is hoping to placate moderates as she moves to get a vote on a $3.5 trillion budget resolution. There are few signs that she'll be successful.

Nadine Seiler, one of those who watched over a fence at what became Black Lives Matter Plaza, is working to find homes for more than 700 artifacts that once covered the structure near the White House.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has rejected two of House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy's nominations to serve on the select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

When President Biden and China's president talk, the White House wants to discuss U.S. concern over human rights, trade and Taiwan — plus how they can cooperate including on climate.

Residents of southern Lebanon are returning to the villages they had fled and emerging from hiding places. Back at home, they are checking on the friends they left behind -- and beginning the grim work of recovering the dead.

Benjamin Franklin, who has been has been called the most multi-talented figure in American history, spent some 16 years of his life in London. His life and accomplishments there are on display in the newly restored house where he lived.