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The 48-year-old takes over the party with no direct connection to Ireland's period of bloodshed known as the Troubles.

The Federal Election Commission has rejected a bid by conservatives to weaken the campaign-finance disclosure law. A Tea Party group had asked for a precedent-changing decision to keep its donor lists secret. It said members are being targeted for harassment and intimidation.

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NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem on the uproar caused by an orthodox rabbi's derogatory remarks about Arabs, and about Jews who died in the Holocaust. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the leader of Israel's ultra-orthodox Shas party , has been busily trying to backtrack on his charges over the weekend that Arabs were unfit to live with or near and that the Jews who died in the holocaust were "reincarnated sinners," or Jews whose secular ways had offended God. In one single sermon he offended both Israelis and Arabs. Yosef's part was until recently a part of the governing coalition.

As the Jan. 6 hearings have played out, there has been only some, if any, movement in people's views of what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, but independents' views have changed since a December poll.

The president still promises "a great health care package" — but not until after the next election. His comments come after a phone call with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Polls point to a defeat for the leftist party that has ruled Bolivia for the past two decades. Voters overwhelmingly say they want a change as the nation suffers from high inflation and shortages.

NPR's Kathy Lohr reports that the international relief agency CARE along with the Atlanta Restaurant Association have come together to organize lavish receptions for some of the smaller Olympic delegations from poor countries like Haiti, Mozambique and Angola. It is recognition that athletes from these countries doen't often get at the Games.

He's been a tank commander, a successful businessman, a congressman and head of the CIA. He's cultivated a tough-guy persona with hawkish views on foreign policy. He's set to be the top U.S. diplomat.