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Only 5.3% of all state legislators and 7% of members of Congress are women with children under the age of 18, according to a report by a group dedicated to getting mothers elected to public office.

G7 diplomats meet to help Ukraine through the winter. Two omicron variants could cause a new COVID surge. Borrowing on credit cards and for car loans is getting a lot more expensive.

Most deaths were in Lee County, where local officials delayed hurricane evacuations until the day before the storm hit. Leaders in other nearby counties ordered evacuations a day earlier.

President Biden gives his first big speech to Congress tonight. It's a chance to lay out his legislative plan, including sweeping investments in childcare, education and paid leave.

The entire school district police department in Uvalde, Texas has been suspended. The move came after months of protests by the families of children killed in the school massacre there.

President Biden's American Families Plan includes education proposals so ambitious and expensive that in previous years, any one of them would have turned heads.

Federal investigators in Manhattan executed a search warrant on Rudy Giuliani's apartment as part of a probe into the former New York City mayor's activities involving Ukraine, his attorney told NPR.

Some states passed laws protecting abortion rights before Roe was overturned. A few are going further. Vermont will vote on an amendment to fully protect abortion access in the state's constitution.

Automakers worry about a shortage of key minerals just as production of electric vehicles is set to spike. The Biden administration has called for boosting domestic production of them.

Collins was the crew member who stayed in orbit on the Apollo 11 command module while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Later he oversaw building of the National Air and Space Museum.