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Watch Live: House January 6 committee holds public hearings on its investigation
The House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is holding a series of public hearings. The committee has interviewed hundreds of witnesses and collected tens of thousands of pages of documents as part of its investigation into the deadly attack.
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Bin Laden was the face of al-Qaida, but Ayman al-Zawahiri was its hate-filled heart
Al-Zawahiri was deeply involved in the planning of 9/11, and led the organization after bin Laden was killed in 2011. He died in a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan on Sunday.
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The Senate passes help for veterans exposed to toxins, after a reversal drew fury
The bill no longer would force generations of veterans to prove that their illness was caused by toxic exposures suffered in the military in order to get VA coverage.
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91
Gorbachev was the Soviet Union's last leader and played a central role in ending the Cold War. The hospital that treated him said he died of a serious and protracted disease.
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Biden delivers a prime-time speech about democracy in Philadelphia
President Biden travels to Philadelphia to deliver a speech about what the White House calls the "battle for the soul of the nation" outside Independence Hall. The speech comes two months before the midterm elections and as his travel schedule, especially to the battleground state of Pennsylvania, has ramped up.
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Why authorities can't quell the protests in Iran
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Professor Nahid Siamdoust of the University of Texas at Austin's Department of Middle Eastern Studies about large popular protests in Iran.
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Watch live: House January 6 committee holds public hearings on its investigation
The House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is holding a series of public hearings. The committee has interviewed hundreds of witnesses and collected tens of thousands of pages of documents as part of its investigation into the deadly attack. The next hearing – the panel’s ninth in this series – will be on Sept. 28 at 1 p.m. ET. Watch the hearing and follow along as NPR host Juana Summers, the NPR Politics team, and others cover it live.
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Live: 2022 elections updates and results
Nov. 8 is the final voting day of the 2022 election. Key Senate, House and gubernatorial races are on the line. Follow NPR’s live coverage and results as they come in.
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Watch live: Biden speaks as control of House, Senate remains up in the air
President Biden is set to deliver remarks as votes in the 2022 midterm elections are still being counted. Several crucial races, including the races for Senate in Georgia and Nevada, remain too close to call.
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On Veterans Day, here are stories that honor heroes and homecoming
We dug into the NPR Books archives to find stories of combat and coping. Explore novels, memoirs and poems by veterans, and chronicles of war and returning from war — both historical and present day.
