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The U.S. Capitol is seen behind fences on Sunday, following the violent riot by pro-Trump extremists on Jan. 6. This week's events will have the largest security presence of any inauguration in U.S. history.

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  • Politics

Biden's Inauguration Is Going To Look Very Different. Here's What To Know

President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration has been largely downsized because of the coronavirus pandemic and security concerns after the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6.

January 18, 2021
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  • Barbara Sprunt
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's signature is seen on the single article of impeachment against President Trump. The case against the president now moves to the U.S. Senate, which will consider the article after Trump is no longer in office.

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  • Law

Can The Senate Try An Ex-President?

Ahead of soon-to-be former President Trump's Senate trial, constitutional scholars disagree on whether the Founders intended for a president no longer in office to be tried by the Senate.

January 18, 2021
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  • Nina Totenberg
A gloved hand holding a vial of vaccine.

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  • Health

Find A Georgia COVID-19 Vaccine Provider

The Georgia Department of Public Health has a new tool to help you find the COVID-19 vaccine. But how you should use the tool is a little nuanced.

January 18, 2021
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  • Grant Blankenship
Researchers are making progress in understanding the human immune response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the vaccine to prevent COVID-19.

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  • Health

3 Questions And The Emerging Answers About COVID-19 Vaccine Protection

First, can someone who has been vaccinated still spread the disease? Second, will the vaccine remain effective as the virus itself evolves? And third, how long will the vaccine's protection last?

January 18, 2021
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  • Richard Harris

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  • Global Health

Coronavirus World Map: Tracking The Spread Of The Outbreak

A map of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has killed at least 1 million globally.

January 18, 2021
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  • Daniel Wood,
  • Stephanie Adeline,
  • and 2 more
Former Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones turned herself in to authorities Sunday night. She accuses the state of retaliating against her for speaking out about its COVID-19 policies and officials' decisions related to the pandemic.

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  • National

Data Scientist Rebekah Jones, Facing Arrest, Turns Herself In To Florida Authorities

Rebekah Jones has said she lost her job after refusing to manipulate data to suggest Florida was ready to ease coronavirus restrictions.

January 18, 2021
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  • Bill Chappell and
  • Rachel Treisman
Sandra's 17-year-old daughter, Lindsey, has autism. Lindsey thrives on routine, and got special help at school until the coronavirus pandemic cut her off from the trained teachers and therapists she'd come to rely on.

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  • Health

'I've Tried Everything': Pandemic Worsens Child Mental Health Crisis

When schools closed last spring, children with severe mental illnesses were cut off from the services they'd come to rely on. Many have since spiraled into emergency rooms and even police custody.

January 18, 2021
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  • Cory Turner,
  • Christine Herman,
  • and 1 more
Chart: Trend in U.S. COVID-19 cases, as of Jan. 15

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Coronavirus Is Surging: How Severe Is Your State's Outbreak?

View NPR's maps and graphics to see where COVID-19 is hitting hardest in the U.S., which state outbreaks are growing and which are leveling off.

January 18, 2021
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  • Stephanie Adeline,
  • Connie Hanzhang Jin,
  • and 4 more

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  • Elections

Biden Administration: Here's Who Has Been Named So Far

President-elect Joe Biden has filled out his Cabinet picks ahead of Inauguration Day, and is pushing Congress to confirm his nominees.

January 18, 2021
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  • Elena Moore and
  • Audrey Carlsen
Gary Gensler, pictured during a Senate hearing in July 2013, will be nominated to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission for the Biden administration.

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  • Politics

Biden Taps Veteran Financial Regulators To Lead SEC, CFPB

Selecting Gary Gensler for the Securities and Exchange Commission and Rohit Chopra for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a win for progressives who have pushed for aggressive oversight.

January 18, 2021
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  • Barbara Sprunt
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Former Anti-Vaccine Mom Explains How Movement Pulled Her In, And How She Left

The anti-vaccine movement has existed in various forms for decades. The Internet and social media created a surge in misinformation. We profile a mother who got pulled in, and how she got out.

January 18, 2021
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  • Rachel Martin
Nadia Owusu is a Brooklyn-based writer and urban planner.

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  • Book Reviews

'Aftershocks' Is A Powerful Memoir Of A Life Upended — Then Pieced Back Together

When Nadia Owusu was 4 years old, her Armenian American mother disappeared from her life. When she was 13, her Ghanaian father died. Owusu reflects the losses and her biracial identity in her memoir.

January 18, 2021
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  • Maureen Corrigan
Martin Luther King Jr. was a man who had a "tremendous amount of burdens he had to deal with, both politically, socially and personally," says <em>MLK/FBI</em> director Sam Pollard.

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Documentary Exposes How The FBI Tried To Destroy MLK With Wiretaps, Blackmail

MLK/FBI director Sam Pollard chronicles the FBI's campaign against Martin Luther King Jr., which included sending King a letter suggesting that he kill himself.

January 18, 2021
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  • Sam Briger
The new scholarship program is in part named after the late Constance Baker Motley, seen here in 2004, who was the first Black woman federal judge.

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  • Law

New Program Aims To Bring More Civil Rights Lawyers To The South

The scholarship program, sponsored by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, intends to support the next generation of civil rights advocates working in the South.

January 18, 2021
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
Martin Luther King Jr. addresses the crowd at the March On Washington D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963.

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  • Arts & Life

Poetry Challenge: Honor MLK By Describing How You Dream A World

As we celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, Morning Edition asks for you to write a poem that starts with the words "I dream a world."

January 18, 2021
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  • Rachel Martin
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