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New DNC Chairman On The Next Few Years Under Biden

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to Jaime Harrison, the new national chair of the DNC.

January 22, 2021
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A nurse tends to a Covid-19 patient in the intensive care unit at Providence St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley, Calif., on Jan. 11.

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  • Health

After A Year Battling COVID-19, Drug Treatments Get A Mixed Report Card

Drugs for COVID-19 are sorted into three basic categories: They work, they don't work, or there simply isn't enough information to know. A generic steroid is one medicine that proved helpful.

January 22, 2021
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  • Richard Harris
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'I Have Wings Now': At Age 45, She Went Back To School

In 10th grade, Ngoc Nguyen dropped out of school in Vietnam to support her family. After earning a GED in the U.S., she told her teacher how much she appreciates the energy he gave to his students.

January 22, 2021
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  • Jey Born
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Memorable Inauguration Images Include Bernie Sanders' Mittens

People on social media lifted a photo of Sanders and his mittens out of the inauguration, and put him on a ski lift, atop the throne from Game of Thrones and sitting on an unfinished skyscraper.

January 21, 2021
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A rare, deadly suicide bomb attack in a busy Baghdadi market killed and wounded dozens of civilians Thursday afternoon. The death toll is expected to rise.

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Twin Suicide Bombings In Baghdad Market Kill At Least 32, Wound Over 100

Suicide bombings have been rare in the Iraqi capital since the country's military pushed out the Islamic State in 2017. The last such attack occurred three years ago.

January 21, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Alice Fordham
A patient lies on a stretcher in the hallway of the overloaded emergency room at Providence St. Mary Medical Center amid a surge in COVID-19 patients in Southern California in late December. Average new daily infections are now going down in California and much of the country.

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  • Health

Current, Deadly U.S. Coronavirus Surge Has Peaked, Researchers Say

Daily numbers of new cases are finally starting to wane, and hospitalizations are down slightly. But health care systems are still overburdened and another resurgence remains a threat.

January 21, 2021
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  • Rob Stein
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Detroiters Are Divided Over Trump's Commutation Of Ex-Mayor's Sentence

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick served seven years in prison for corruption. With 20 years left on his sentence, he received a commutation from President Trump.

January 21, 2021
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  • Eli Newman
The women of the Brown Girls Book Club could not miss the opportunity to join together for this historic moment: the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

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Brown Girls Book Club Comes Together To Celebrate And Watch Historic Inauguration

The group of women who've met for 25 years watched the event with tears and cheers. Some are, like Kamala Harris, graduates of Howard University and/or members of Harris' Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

January 21, 2021
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At 22, Amanda Gorman will become the youngest poet in recent memory to deliver a poem at a presidential inauguration. She'll be continuing a tradition that includes poets such as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.

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'History Has Its Eyes On Us.' Poet Amanda Gorman Seeks Right Words For Inauguration

At 22 years old, the Los Angeles native will become the youngest poet in recent memory to deliver a poem at a presidential inauguration.

January 20, 2021
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  • Jason Breslow
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12-Year-Old Trumpeter From Georgia Will Play In Virtual Inauguration Parade

For 100 straight days, Jason Zgonc played his trumpet outside Emory Decatur Hospital near Atlanta to cheer up exhausted health care workers, who were caring for COVID-19 patients.

January 20, 2021
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Biden Becomes President A Year After 1st Confirmed U.S. COVID-19 Case

Since the first case, 400,000 people in the U.S. have died. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. Celine Gounder, a member of Biden's COVID-19 task force, about the administration's pandemic priorities.

January 20, 2021
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Strained Funeral Homes In Los Angeles County Turn Away Bereaved Families

NPR's Noel King speaks to Todd Beckley, a funeral director in Los Angeles County, where COVID-19 deaths have overwhelmed mortuaries.

January 20, 2021
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News Brief: Inauguration Day, Trump Issues Pardons, COVID-19 Variant

Joe Biden will be sworn in as the nation's 46th president. President Trump will not participate in the inauguration. Scientists worry a variant of COVID-19 is contributing to California's surge.

January 20, 2021
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  • Steve Inskeep and
  • Noel King
Shortly after launching her own presidential bid in 2019, Kamala Harris joined her sorors at the Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc., Annual Pink Ice Gala in Columbia, S.C. Members of the sorority across the nation are celebrating one of their own making history as vice president of the United States.

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Watching History From Afar, Some Harris Supporters Feel 'Robbed' Of A Big Moment

For so many people, Vice President-elect Harris' inauguration is a momentous occasion. But it is also a moment that has been stripped of much of the traditional pomp and circumstance.

January 20, 2021
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  • Juana Summers
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Historian Tyler Stovall Discusses His New Book: 'White Freedom'

NPR's Noel King talks to Tyler Stovall about his book: White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea. It traces the complex relationship between freedom and race starting in the eighteenth century.

January 20, 2021
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