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NPR's Scott Simon asks ESPN's Michele Steele about who will be in and who will be out of the men's and women's college basketball tourney.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer negotiated late into the night with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and spoke hopefully of a deal coming together on Tuesday.

Alabama extended its health orders in response to the jump in coronavirus infections. But State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris says officials have had trouble enforcing the orders already in place.

The National Climate Assessment is the most influential source of information about climate change in the United States.

The co-hosts of the NPR Politics Podcast discuss compelling moments and takeaways from the first public hearing by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The Interior Department ordered a review of tribal jail deaths, but the man who got the contract is a former agency official who oversaw the jails when some of the deaths occurred.

A volunteer firefighter in Woodstock admits to starting a fire that he then showed up to put out… A top Virginia education official wants to push back a review of new history and social science standards for K through 12 students… A new report says that the number of days of excessive heat in Virginia will increase over the next few decades, with the most severe surge in eastern Virginia…

Classes at Bridgewater College are cancelled the day after a gunman kills two campus officers… Parents of students with disabilities from Albemarle County join a lawsuit against Governor Youngkin over his executive order ending the mask mandate in schools… Democrats in the General Assembly try to block Youngkin’s controversial nomination of a former Trump official for the state’s top environmental office….

President Biden is passing the torch to Vice President Harris, which changes the narrative of the race against former President Donald Trump.

The agreement by the budget committee chairmen is no grand bargain. It's more like a minibargain. All the really hard stuff was sidestepped because the ideological rift between Washington Democrats and Republicans made it impossible to include those items.