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Rachel Martin talks to Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee and one of four negotiators of the bipartisan border security compromise measure.

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the president's chief medical adviser and the U.S.'s top infectious disease expert, about the latest on the pandemic and current state of vaccinations.

Sixty-two percent approve of the job the president is doing handling the pandemic, but he gets a lower 49% overall job approval rating, signaling potentially tough legislative fights ahead.

Regan is the top environmental regulator for North Carolina. He would be first African American man to run the EPA, and he would oversee much of the federal government's response to climate change.

A federal judge ordered the CEO over the Voice of America to stop investigating its journalists for anti-Trump bias, saying he caused "self-censorship and the chilling of First Amendment expression."

Democratic lawmakers want an FBI briefing on suspected attacks, and former Vice President Joe Biden says a Republican senator investigating him could be receiving disinformation from Russia.

In 2018, the Trump administration made good on its promises to unwind long-standing U.S. commitments to guarantee global security and prosperity, writes Ted Piccone of the Brookings Institution.

Congress has announced agreement on a $2 trillion economic relief package for the effects of COVID-19. Most households will get a relief check, and unemployment insurance has been greatly expanded.

Joanna Hogg's movie, which centers on a young film student, is the first of a projected two-part drama drawing from Hogg's life. It won the top prize in Sundance's world cinema dramatic competition.

It started as a joke, as President Trump riffed on the idea last year. Now, Congress could create the first, new military service in more than 70 years.