Harris positive for COVID-19: Vice President Harris tested positive for COVID-19 this week, making her the highest-profile U.S. government official to test positive for the virus since former President Trump tested positive in the final month of the 2020 presidential campaign. The White House said Harris was not considered a close contact of President Biden due to their recent travel schedules.
Aid for Ukraine: The Biden administration is asking Congress for $33 billion in additional funding for Ukraine in an effort to provide sustained assistance in the fight against Russia’s invasion. "The costs of this fight, it's not cheap. But caving to aggression is going to be more costly if we allow it to happen," Biden said.
Paxlovid push: The rollout of the COVID antiviral pill Paxlovid has been slow since it was authorized for use in December, failing to reach many Americans eligible for treatment. Now, the Biden administration is working to get the drug into more pharmacies.
SCOTUS on "Remain in Mexico": The Supreme Court seemed skeptical of an effort to block the Biden administration from terminating the Trump-era Remain in Mexico program. But it's not clear there are five votes backing the Biden administration.
Progressive House Dems on fighting GOP gains: Democratic Reps. Jamie Raskin and Ro Khanna are developing a plan to turn around the cascade of bad midterm elections news for their caucus. They tell NPR they're on the ground floor of talks to fuel new victories for the party's liberal wing.
McCarthy and a post-Gingrich history: Shakespeare often contemplated the fall of the mighty in his plays, sharing his observation that "uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." Something similar seems to apply to the title of Republican leader in the U.S. House of Representatives. |
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DiSantis, Disney and debt: If you're following the news out of Florida about Gov. DeSantis' effort to punish Disney for its stances on social and education issues by undercutting its autonomy, there was a big -- and seemingly expensive -- one this week. The Walt Disney World complex's governing board says that when Florida created its special district, the state pledged not to alter that status unless all its debts are paid off.
So Florida faces a big obstacle as it moves to strip Disney World of its semi-autonomous status: what to do with the special districts' nearly $1 billion in bond debt. |
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In her new memoir, Danica Roem -- the first openly transgender U.S. state legislator -- tackles the kinds of personal stories that most politicians would seek to bury.
The book, Burn the Page, is sprinkled with quotes from opposition research she did on herself -- one way she found to embrace and reclaim her story. Take, for example, this one from a Facebook status: "Danica Roem in 2008 was videotaped performing a keg stand as people chanted 'Suck it!' and then proceeded to pick up the keg and chuck it through the window."
"One of the things I really wanted to do was kind of own the entire concept of like, look, things that are written about you online or things that you've written about yourself online — good, bad, right, wrong, correct, incorrect — you've got to be able to own that, recognize it for what it is and, at the same time, use it to empower you to feel confident about telling your own stories," she tells NPR political correspondent Juana Summers. |
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