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1. 1

   Introducing “The 7”

   On The Post’s new podcast, "The 7," host Jeff Pierre takes you through the seven most important and interesting stories of the day. It's a way to get caught up in just a few minutes. It comes out every weekday at 7 a.m. Check it out today, then find and follow "The 7" so you're set for tomorrow....

   Dec 6, 2022

   6m
2. Please, Go On: VP Kamala Harris on women in the workplace

   In the inaugural edition of "Please, Go On," Post columnist James Hohmann speaks with Vice President Harris about the exodus of women from the workforce during the pandemic.

   Jun 11, 2021

   19m
3. Introducing ‘Please, Go On’

   Washington Post columnist James Hohmann sits down with the author of a compelling op-ed from The Post’s Opinions section. “Please, Go On” features marquee names and everyday people with original perspectives. New episodes Fridays. Launching June 11.

   Jun 4, 2021

   1m
4. Infrastructure plan calls for $80 billion for rail. It could transform passenger service.

   Plus, coronavirus vaccines are finally reaching poor countries, but some can’t cover the cost of administering them, and Women’s sports can do at least one thing men’s can’t, experts say: get bigger.

   Apr 2, 2021

   9m
5. Gaetz investigation complicated by overture to his father about ex-FBI agent who went missing

   Plus, Georgia sports teams and major companies such as Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines condemn new state voting law, and the EPA dismisses dozens of key science advisers picked under Trump.

   Apr 1, 2021

   12m
6. Biden’s infrastructure and climate plan emerges as congressional wrangling begins

   Plus, ‘I stay up nights apologizing to George Floyd,’ says teen who documented his death for the world, and Gretchen Whitmer asks White House to surge vaccines to virus hot spots as cases climb.

   Mar 31, 2021

   10m
7. Emotional first day of testimony at Derek Chauvin murder trial

   Plus, the White House dramatically increased tax proposal as it sought to address tensions over next big spending plan, and the CDC confirms Pfizer, Moderna vaccines are 90% effective after two doses in study of real-life conditions.

   Mar 30, 2021

   12m
8. ‘Vaccine passports’ are on the way, but developing them won’t be easy

   Plus, Senators see a possibility of bipartisan support for gun background checks in the wake of mass shootings, and the next phase of crisis at the border.

   Mar 29, 2021

   14m
9. Biden holds his first press conference

   Plus, Georgia’s governor signs into law a sweeping voting reform bill, and multiple Republican senate candidates gear up for the 2022 elections.

   Mar 26, 2021

   6m
10. At White House, Megan Rapinoe says she’s been ‘disrespected and dismissed because I am a woman’

    Plus, the White House considers extending a federal ban on evictions, and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s family were given special access to COVID testing.

    Mar 25, 2021

    6m
11. Shootings spur Biden to call for tighter gun rules

    Plus, the Senate confirms Vivek H. Murthy as surgeon general, and North Korea fires short-range missiles in challenge to Biden administration.

    Mar 24, 2021

    7m
12. White House prepares massive infrastructure bill

    Plus, AstraZeneca’s U.S. trial shows coronavirus vaccine is 79 percent effective, and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is confirmed to lead Labor Department.

    Mar 23, 2021

    6m
13. Inside the Biden administration’s failure to contain the border surge

    Plus, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin makes an unannounced trip to Afghanistan, and, the accused gunman in the Atlanta shootings gets expelled from his church.

    Mar 22, 2021

    9m
14. Biden will send Mexico surplus vaccine, as U.S. seeks help on immigration enforcement

    Plus, the Senate confirms William Burns as next director of the CIA, and Donald Trump faces an onslaught of legal problems, as investigations and dozens of lawsuits trail him from Washington to Florida.

    Mar 19, 2021

    5m
15. Suspect charged with eight counts of murder in killings at Atlanta-area spas

    Plus, the IRS to push the filing deadline for 2020 taxes to mid-May, and Ohio attorney general sues Biden administration over the stimulus package.

    Mar 18, 2021

    5m
16. Putin targeted people close to Trump in bid to influence 2020 election, U.S. intelligence says

    Plus, House Democrats bring back Medicare-for-all, seeking to push Biden left, and Israeli archaeologists discover new Dead Sea Scrolls for first time in 60 years.

    Mar 17, 2021

    5m
17. Biden faces growing political threat from border upheaval

    Plus, four of Europe’s largest countries suspend AstraZeneca vaccinations; safety agency says blood clot incidence is low. And Derek Chauvin’s attorney asks for continuance and change of venue in George Floyd case.

    Mar 16, 2021

    5m
18. New York’s vaccine czar called county officials to gauge their loyalty to Cuomo

    Plus, President Biden’s push for equity in education faces a critical test, and, where we stand on the Iran Nuclear Deal.

    Mar 15, 2021

    8m
19. Companies are scaling back layoffs because of Biden’s stimulus package

    Plus, DOJ seeks to build large conspiracy case against Oath Keepers for Jan. 6 riot, and, amid criticism for human rights abuses, China offers vaccine doses for all Olympic athletes.

    Mar 12, 2021

    7m
20. Congress adopts $1.9 trillion stimulus, securing first major win for Biden

    Plus, the leaked U.S. plan to end the war in Afghanistan, and China and Russia to open moon base.

    Mar 11, 2021

    6m
21. Jury selection begins for the Derek Chauvin murder trial

    Plus, Brazil’s growing coronavirus outbreak poses a threat far beyond its borders, and Biden’s dogs to return to White House after younger pet causes a ‘minor injury’ to an ‘unfamiliar person.'

    Mar 10, 2021

    6m
22. Biden directs fresh review of Title IX rule on campus sexual assault

    Plus, the RNC moves portion of its spring donor retreat to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club, and Meghan and Harry’s interview with Oprah stunned, but is it likely to change the monarchy?

    Mar 9, 2021

    7m
23. Biden stimulus showers money on Americans

    Plus, Biden signs executive order promoting voting rights on 56th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday,' and New York state Senate majority leader says Gov. Andrew Cuomo must resign.

    Mar 8, 2021

    7m
24. Texas family detention centers expected to transform into rapid-processing hubs

    Plus, Meghan Markle says the royal family can’t expect her silence if palace is ‘perpetuating falsehoods,' and David Brooks of New York Times is criticized for undisclosed financial ties.

    Mar 5, 2021

    10m
25. Andrew Cuomo says he will not resign, offers new apology for his behavior with women

    Plus, Texas and Mississippi move to open ‘100%’ and lift mask mandates, and, reasons you’re tired of Zoom calls.

    Mar 4, 2021

    10m
26. FBI director says domestic terrorism ‘metastasizing’ throughout U.S. as cases soar

    Plus, female stars and the media machine of the early 2000s, and community colleges are at a crossroads.

    Mar 3, 2021

    10m
27. Biden works to unify Senate Democrats on $1.9 trillion relief bill

    Plus, Senate confirms Miguel Cardona as education secretary, and, where Jill Biden drops by for a cup of coffee can make quite a statement.

    Mar 2, 2021

    11m
28. Former president Trump rules out third party as he moves to firm up control of the Republican Party

    Plus, the CDC recommends Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine, enabling inoculations to start this week, and the making of Madison Cawthorn.

    Mar 1, 2021

    10m
29. Minimum wage increase imperiled in covid relief bill by Senate official’s ruling

    Plus, Biden defends vaccine rollout as he marks 50 million vaccinations, and a sailor who fell overboard clung to ‘sea rubbish’ for 16 hours to survive.

    Feb 26, 2021

    7m
30. Focus on fate of $15 minimum wage in Senate as House prepares to take up 1.9 trillion relief bill

    Plus, Biden nominates three to USPS board of governors as DeJoy testifies on mail crises, and Supreme Court considers giving police greater powers when pursuing suspects.

    Feb 25, 2021

    9m
31. Former Capitol security officials blame intelligence lapses for deadly Jan. 6 riot

    Plus, the Biden administration preparing to sanction Russia for SolarWinds hacks and the poisoning of an opposition leader, and Justin Trudeau conveys relief in meeting with Biden, but sticking points remain.

    Feb 24, 2021

    8m
32. Merrick Garland tells senators Capitol riot investigation will be first priority as attorney general

    Plus, Dominion Voting Systems files a defamation suit against the MyPillow CEO over false election claims, and the first real-world coronavirus vaccine data out of Britain shows a decline in hospitalizations after the first dose.

    Feb 23, 2021

    8m
33. White House says Biden is ‘eager’ to go to Texas, possibly as soon as this week

    Plus, the White House reiterates teacher vaccinations are ‘not a prerequisite’ to reopening schools, and Texas Senator Ted Cruz is trying to repair his public image following an ill-timed trip to Mexico.

    Feb 22, 2021

    9m
34. Texas, the go-it-alone state, is rattled by the failure to keep the lights on

    Plus, the White House announces $4 billion in funding for Covax, the global vaccine effort that Trump spurned, and NASA rover Perseverance lands on Mars in mission to search for past life.

    Feb 19, 2021

    11m
35. Millions of jobs probably aren’t coming back, even after the pandemic ends

    Plus, vaccine shortage prompts U.S. diplomats to request doses from foreign governments, including Russia, and the U.K. gets approval to infect healthy volunteers in world’s first coronavirus ‘challenge trial’

    Feb 18, 2021

    11m
36. Focus on Capitol Hill turns to passing Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill

    Plus, the Texas grid got crushed because its operators didn’t see the need to prepare for cold weather, and House Homeland Security chairman sues Trump and Giuliani, accusing them of inciting Capitol riot.

    Feb 17, 2021

    10m
37. Why some state and local governments are desperate for more stimulus aid

    Plus, deadly cold snap shuts down central U.S. Texas is ground zero, and, Parler is back online more than a month after tangle with Amazon knocked it offline

    Feb 16, 2021

    9m
38. Impeachment managers rest case against Trump, implore Senate to convict to prevent future violence

    Plus, President Biden says that the U.S. will have enough vaccines for 300 million people by the end of July, and dozens of former GOP officials reportedly met last week to discuss mounting a new anti-Trump party.

    Feb 12, 2021

    8m
39. House managers show previously unseen footage of pro-Trump mob’s violent assault on the Capitol

    Plus, the CDC is urging Americans to wear two masks to better prevent the spread of COVID-19, and, the Biden administration tells the Supreme Court the affordable care act is constitutional and should be saved.

    Feb 11, 2021

    8m
40. Senate votes to pursue Trump impeachment trial after declaring the proceedings constitutional

    Plus, the Biden administration asks for the resignations from current US Attorneys, and after a mission to Wuhan investigating the origins of the pandemic, a World Health Organization team dismisses theories that the virus originated in a lab leak.

    Feb 10, 2021

    8m
41. Senate sets stage for rapid Trump impeachment trial

    Plus, Workers who quit their jobs out of fear of contracting the coronavirus at work are hoping to collect unemployment benefits under the Biden administration and hedge funds may have ended up the biggest winner in the Game Stop stock frenzy.

    Feb 9, 2021

    12m
42. Court documents point to how Trump’s rhetoric fueled rioters who attacked Capitol

    Plus, senior Democrats to unveil $3,000-per-child benefit as Biden stimulus gains steam, and new Biden rules for ICE point to fewer arrests and deportations, and a more restrained agency.

    Feb 8, 2021

    10m
43. Biden vows to re-enter global alliances in first major foreign policy speech

    Plus, Johnson and Johnson seeks emergency FDA authorization for single-shot coronavirus vaccine, and as transit agencies ramp up mask enforcement, Congress airs concerns about safety of transportation workers.

    Feb 5, 2021

    7m
44. House Democrats announce vote to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from committees

    Plus, prosecutors seek to rearrest Kyle Rittenhouse, and Canada declares the Proud Boys a terrorist group.

    Feb 4, 2021

    7m
45. Biden announces efforts to reunite migrant families separated by Trump administration

    Plus, Rep. Liz Cheney faces a backlash for voting to impeach Trump in her home state, and as Gamestop stock crumbles, amateur traders reckon with heavy losses.

    Feb 3, 2021

    8m
46. Biden meets with 10 GOP senators at White House on pandemic relief

    Plus, former President Trump hires a new legal team for his second impeachment, and a federal study finds that race and ethnicity data is missing for nearly half of vaccine recipients

    Feb 2, 2021

    6m
47. Ten Senate Republicans propose compromise covid relief package, posing challenge for Biden

    Plus, experts urge faster vaccinations and stepped up efforts to curb the spread of coronavirus variants, and Republican representative Adam Kinzinger is starting a PAC to challenge the party’s embrace of former President Trump.

    Feb 1, 2021

    6m
48. The U.S. economy shrank by 3.5 percent in 2020

    Plus, D.C. officials slam a proposal to erect permanent fencing around the U.S. Capitol. And a coronavirus variant first seen in South Africa is identified in South Carolina. If you enjoy this podcast and you’d like to support the reporting that goes into it, the best way to do so is through a...

    Jan 29, 2021

    8m
49. As Biden vows monumental action on climate change, a fight with the fossil fuel industry has begun

    Plus, Republicans back away from confronting Trump and his loyalists after the Capitol insurrection, embracing them instead, and, at first coronavirus briefing, the White House acknowledges vaccinations will take months. Support this podcast and the work of The Washington Post by subscribing…

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    Jan 28, 2021

    10m
50. In first call with Putin, Biden marks a return to skepticism from the top

    Plus, Democrats turn to quick action on Biden’s covid relief bill after a power-sharing deal in Senate, and CDC-backed studies find scant spread of the coronavirus in schools. Support this podcast and the work of The Washington Post by subscribing, with a special, limited-time offer for podcast...

    Jan 27, 2021

    10m