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'Why Do We Have To Go Back To The Office?': Employees Are Divided About Returning

4:14pm June 09, 2021

Americans have started to go back into the office as more of the country gets vaccinated. But not everyone wants to return to the pre-pandemic, 9-5 office lifestyle.

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Senate Finance Chair Reacts To Leak Of How Little America's Wealthiest Pay In Taxes

4:14pm June 09, 2021

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., chair of the Finance Committee, about the ProPublica report revealing tax information for the wealthiest Americans.

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Hail To The Cicadas

4:14pm June 09, 2021

Brood X cicadas delayed a plane carrying reporters covering President Biden's first trip overseas Tuesday night. President Biden, meanwhile, had his own cicada confrontation.

How Kamala Harris Navigated Her 1st Foreign Trip As VP

4:14pm June 09, 2021

by Tamara Keith

Vice President Harris has wrapped up her first foreign trip as she works to address the root causes of migration from Central America — a difficult issue with high political stakes.

U.S. Lawmakers Back Belarus Opposition As Russia Closes In

4:14pm June 09, 2021

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, about the Senate Foreign Relations hearing on Belarus and their trip to the region.

You Asked, We Got Answers: The U.S. Surgeon General Takes On Your COVID-19 Questions

4:14pm June 09, 2021

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, sharing listeners' pandemic questions like how to keep kids who can't be vaccinated safe, and what a booster shot may look like.

A Joe Biden supporter attends a drive-in voter mobilization event in Miramar, Fla., on Oct. 13, 2020. Democrats lost Florida because they failed to engage and target their message to the Latino community, says Quentin James, president of The Collective PA

Democrats Are Waiting Too Long To Reach Black And Latino Voters, A New Report Says

2:38pm June 09, 2021

by Leila Fadel

Voters of color should not be treated as "get-out-the-vote targets," says the head of one of the groups that issued the report. Instead, outreach needs to start one to two years before an election.

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Washington is offering free, pre-rolled joints to adults who get the COVID-19 vaccine. Here, a person smokes a joint in The Netherlands.

Hey Washingtonians! Get A Vaccine. Smoke A Joint.

12:48pm June 09, 2021

by Josie Fischels

In Washington, adults can now walk away from their COVID-19 vaccine appointment with a free, pre-rolled joint. Other states are also offering incentives to try to convince people to get the shot.

Trillions of cicadas are emerging in the U.S. Scientists say Brood X is one of the biggest for these bugs, which come out only once every 17 years.

A Plane Carrying Biden's Press Corps Was About To Take Off. Then The Cicadas Swarmed

11:58am June 09, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

A plane carrying dozens of journalists abroad to follow President Biden's trip to Europe was delayed several hours due to cicadas that filled the plane's engine.

A man holds a U.S. and a rainbow flag outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 26, 2015, after the court legalized gay marriage nationwide.

A Record Number Of Americans, Including Republicans, Now Support Same-Sex Marriage

9:15am June 09, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

The rise in support stems largely from a majority of Republicans, who for the first time back same-sex marriage at 55%, according to Gallup.