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Of all President-elect Joe Biden's announced picks for Cabinet positions, one is getting the most pushback. Neera Tanden is Biden's choice for director of the Office of Management and Budget.

The Obama administration is following through on its pledge to ease travel and trade restrictions on Cuba. The Treasury and Commerce Departments say the new rules they have just issued go into effect on Friday. Critics of the administration, though, are questioning the legality of the moves.

President Obama met with visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai this week in Washington, D.C. Their discussions focused on what role the U.S. will play in Afghanistan after 2014, when most American and NATO troops are scheduled to leave the country.

Messy and fun, the Australian duo's pop-punk bursts with chunky guitars and big riffs. It's a perfect sun-streaked soundtrack for skinned-knee skate videos and beach bonfires at dusk.

The Army Corps of Engineers has told a Native American tribe in North Dakota and its supporters that it will close down a camp housing protesters against a major oil pipeline in the state.

President Biden is set to deliver a prime-time speech on the fight for what he calls "the soul of the nation," reprising a theme he ran on for the November midterm elections.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky has signed off on updated versions of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines that target the original virus and the omicron subvariants.

As reports emerge about links between Trump aides and Russia, Scott Simon speaks with Jane Harman, president of the Wilson Center, about the current relationship between the two countries.

On this Independence Day, we look at the state of affairs, from the president's response to the protests for racial justice to the country's spiking coronavirus infections.

Scott Simon talks with ESPN's Howard Bryant about the latest in college basketball.