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Courts have blocked a number of the anti-LGBTQ laws from going into effect

4:25pm October 06, 2022

by Melissa Block

This year has seen a record number of anti-LGBTQ laws enacted, many targeting transgender youth. But courts have blocked a number of those laws from going into effect.

Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott warned colleagues not to "give the crazies an inch" after then-President Donald Trump and his allies pressured the network. Lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems indicate they to use Scott's words against Fox in its $1.6 billion defamation suit against the network.

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Fox News CEO warned against 'crazies' after 2020 election, Dominion says

4:25pm October 06, 2022

by David Folkenflik

Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott warned colleagues not to "give the crazies an inch" after the 2020 elections. Dominion Voting Systems revealed her words in its $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox.

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President Biden holds a semiconductor chip in this 2021 file photo. The White House is working out how to spend $52 billion that Congress has provided to spur U.S. chip manufacturing plants.

Biden has $52 billion for semiconductors. Today, work begins to spend that windfall

1:10pm October 06, 2022

by Franco Ordoñez

President Biden is touting new semiconductor investments in New York today. Back at the White House, a new team is meeting with cabinet members to work out how to spend $52 billion from Congress.

President Biden participates in a meeting on Feb. 22. Biden's approval rating is up to 44%, which marks a third straight month of increases to Biden's approval rating.

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NPR poll shows Biden's approval rating is up but there are warning signs for Democrats

11:56am October 06, 2022

by Domenico Montanaro

The president's approval rating is up to 44%, but 7-in-10 people say the country is going in the wrong direction, and young and Black voters are among the least likely to vote this fall.

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News brief: OPEC and the WTO, Ukraine's Gains in the East, NPR/Marist Poll

8:19am October 06, 2022

The WTO predicts a sharp slowdown in global trade. Ukrainian forces are taking back territory that had been captured by Russia. A new NPR poll shows President Biden's approval rating is up.

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The White House has a windfall to spend on semiconductor projects

5:12am October 06, 2022

by Franco Ordoñez

Officials at the White House are figuring out how to spend more than $52 billion on semiconductor projects. The Biden administration's point person lays out the goals and the pitfalls.

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Republicans continue to support Herschel Walker even after abortion report

5:12am October 06, 2022

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to conservative strategist Ralph Reed about Herschel Walker, Georgia's anti-abortion Senate candidate, who has GOP support despite reports he paid for a girlfriend's abortion.

Justice Department's Civil Rights Division announced a new initiative to combat unlawful acts of hate in the Western District of New York. Here, a memorial for the supermarket shooting victims is set up outside the Tops Friendly Market on Thursday, July 14, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y.

After a deadly mass shooting, the DOJ is launching an anti-hate initiative in Buffalo

5:00am October 06, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

The new initiative is a broader effort by the Justice Department that it plans to launch across all 94 United States attorneys' offices over the next year.

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What do experts get wrong about Latino voters? Tell us

6:14pm October 05, 2022

by Pablo Valdivia

With midterm elections coming up in November, it's time to dismantle the "Latino voter" myth once and for all.

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How Eric Holder views the latest Supreme Court challenge to the Voting Rights Act

4:29pm October 05, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with former Attorney General Eric Holder about the Supreme Court hearings in the Alabama redistricting case which could weaken protections held by the Voting Rights Act.