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The docket this year has nothing quite as riveting as last year's same-sex marriage cases, or the challenge to President Obama's health care overhaul from the term before. But once again, the court is facing hot-button social issues and questions of presidential and congressional power.

Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley announced his endorsement of Bernie Sanders for president Wednesday in The New York Times. He is the first U.S. senator to endorse Sanders.

NPR's Melissa Block talks with Gene Sperling, coordinator for the American Rescue Plan, about Republicans' debt ceiling bill that would slash federal spending and undo some of Biden's domestic agenda.

The Navy has renamed the USS Chancellorsville, a name honoring a Confederate victory, to the USS Robert Smalls, after an enslaved man who escaped the South by stealing a Confederate steamship.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Dr. Mark Henderson about how UC Davis' medical school worked around the state's ban on affirmative action to increase diversity in its student body.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday met with a group of leaders of African countries who traveled to Russia on a self-styled "peace mission" the day after they went to Ukraine.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Dan Ives, tech analyst at Wedbush Securities, about fees social media platform Reddit imposed on third-party app developers. Protests blacked out parts of the site.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken's recent visit to China was considered a success by government officials. In such a complicated relationship, what does that even look like?

Many GOP presidential hopefuls crisscross Iowa making a last-minute pitch to convince voters of their qualifications to be the party nominee. Mitt Romney and John McCain rally the faithful while rival Mike Huckabee left for Los Angeles for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Mike Huckabee enjoys the best week of his long-shot bid for the Republican presidential nomination: a bump in poll numbers in Iowa and a big spike in online fundraising.