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staff in lobby area
Afghanistan
Prominent Afghan news organization reports on life under Taliban rule from Maryland 
Pro-democracy activists, Joshua Wong, left, Sunny Cheung, center, and Nathan Law holding a placard, speak to media to urge the European leaders against national security law for Hong Kong outside the Legislative Council.
Global Politics
American lawmakers accuse China of spying on dissidents in the US
President Biden speaks at a podium while VP Harris stands to his right to listen
COVID-19
Amid growing pressure, Biden announces plans to distribute more COVID-19 vaccines worldwide
African American soldiers lined up in ranks during World War II
Science & Technology
New technology could identify thousands of unknown soldiers who died in World War II
President Joe Biden signs his first executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Jan. 20, 2021. Six of Biden's 17 first-day executive orders dealt with immigration, such as halting work on a border wall in Mexico and lifting a t
Extremism
Civil rights groups oppose expanding laws to target domestic terrorists
Crowds carrying hate symbols as they stormed the U.S Capitol on Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C.
Extremism
A scholar of American anti-Semitism explains the hate symbols present during the US Capitol riot
Smoke fills the walkway outside the Senate chamber as supporters of President Donald Trump are confronted by US Capitol Police officers inside the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, DC.
Trump administration
Former FBI agent: ‘Major intelligence failure’ of US Capitol breach requires 9/11-style commission
Former White House national security aide Fiona Hill, testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 21, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump.
Trump administration
Fiona Hill: US Capitol attack has ‘elements of a civil conflict’
A man in a dark suit talks with men wearing military uniforms outside near tan tanks.
2020 US presidential election
Retired US generals warn against calling the US election too early
A member of a ground crew walks past American Airlines planes parked at the gate during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC, April 5, 2020.
Global Politics
‘American exceptionalism’: EU travel bans show US is abdicating global leadership, former CDC head says
DACA supporters hold up banner in front of Supreme Court
Immigration
SCOTUS ruled in favor of DACA. A permanent solution is still needed, advocates say.
A woman grabs blue disposable gloves from a box as face masks sit in the frame.
COVID-19
Trump invokes Defense Production Act, but execution is unclear, former DHS adviser says
protesters
Global Politics
How does China’s Communist Party view Trump’s impeachment inquiry?
climate rally
Nov. 4 is the first day Trump can legally leave the Paris Accord
Former National Security Advisor and USS Ambassador to UN Susan Rice, speaks on stage at the Women In The World Summit in New York on April 11, 2019. 
Trump impeachment
Susan Rice: US is ‘exporting instability and unpredictability’
A man in a military uniform is walking with other people around him
Gen. Zwack: Calling Vindman a ‘double agent’ ahead of testimony is ‘reprehensible’
impeachment testimony
Trump impeachment
Amid Trump impeachment inquiry, future diplomats consider their own ‘red lines’
Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren stand behind podiums
Conflict & Justice
Biden said ISIS is ‘going to come here.’ Is he right?
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy listens to a translator as he and US President Donald Trump hold a bilateral meeting
Trump scandal threatens to derail Ukraine’s anti-corruption efforts
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy
Why transcripts of Trump’s calls with heads of state are so hard to get
A Syrian national flag flutters next to ISIS slogan
Conflict
As US declares victory over ISIS, a withdrawal from Syria proves perilous
people marching
Global Women’s Marches persevere despite divisions among US activists
Woman at a demonstration
Climate Change
The ‘Green New Deal’ started with six college grads. Now, they’re recruiting an army of young people.
Nearly 20 percent of US food is imported. As imports of food has spiked, like lettuce from this farm in Guanajuato, Mexico, so have outbreaks of foodborne illnesses in the US.
Food inspections continue through shutdown but with some compromises
hearing
On the Supreme Court, difficult nominations have led to historical injustices
anita hill
Things have changed since Anita Hill – sort of
Arts, Culture & Media
Gospel Go-Go
Empty
Leaders
Government shutdown begins on Trump’s one-year anniversary as president
Students waiting in line for assistance with paperwork for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in Los Angeles, California, on Aug. 15, 2012.
Global Politics
Trump scraps immigration policy protecting millions of undocumented parents of US-born children
Rep. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat says if Congress doesn't get the documents it needs to investigate Trump's actions, he backs issuing subpoenas.
Global Politics
After Putin’s offer to share notes, ranking House Intel Democrat Schiff is ‘running out of expletives’
A wood thrush, photographed in Crystal Lake, Illinois.
Environment
Planting trees in DC to help save Caribbean songbirds
Global Politics
Watch Live: Trump meets with Jordan’s King Abdullah
Ben Carson, the new secretary of HUD is sworn in by VP Mike Pence
Global Politics
President Trump, will housing secretary Ben Carson be in favor of cuts, or new ideas?
Jared Kushner
Global Politics
Trump aide Jared Kushner set up meetings with world leaders. Now, he faces questions about his Russian contacts.
Rusty patched bumblebee
Global Politics
President Trump, will you preserve the Endangered Species Act?
The craggy ridge of a formation of red rocks is pictured under a cloudless blue sky in Utah.
Global Politics
President Trump, what’s your plan to preserve federal lands?
Mattis
Global Politics
President Trump, why are you shrinking the EPA when Defense Secretary Mattis believes climate change is a national security threat?
Classroom
Global Politics
President Trump, how does your administration plan to officially change the Every Student Succeeds Act?
Barry Loudermilk
Global Politics
Federal Election Commission earning congressional attention — for the wrong reasons
Trump
Global Politics
Billionaires and corporations helped fund Donald Trump’s transition
Spicer
Global Politics
#32. @realDonaldTrump What are you going to do with DAPA and DACA? #100Days100Qs
Trump
Global Politics
A couple of answers in our #100Days100Qs to President Donald Trump
Day Without Immigrants
Economics
‘Day Without Immigrants’ shutters restaurants and businesses across the country
Thousands of protesters gathered for the annual March for Life rally in Washington, DC.
Conflict
A Latina explains why she backs the March for Life
Shahed Amanullah helped advise the US State Department and White House on social media strategy and countering extremism online.
Business
What ISIS has in common with Google
Haleh
Global Politics
For journalists in Iran, being arrested is an all-too-common occurrence