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The president of the American Bar Association says that the Trump administration is targeting judges and lawyers who make decisions it disagrees with.

Biden is expected to impose even tougher sanctions.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Barton Gellman, author of "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency," about the legacy of late Vice President Dick Cheney.

Ukraine's president is in Brussels today to speak to European Union leaders about his plan to end the war in a year -- without ceding any territory to Russia.

Pence, both the father and son of servicemen, delivered a speech that was by turns conventional and surprisingly personal.

Top level U.S. and European diplomats are visiting Nicaragua urging its president to return to a national dialogue with opposition groups. The pleas come at a time of crackdown on press and protests.

World leaders expressed outrage over reports of dead Ukrainian civilians — many of whom appear to have been executed — strewn about in Bucha, a city northwest of Kyiv.

All the pomp and circumstance of Saturday's inauguration may seem like a simple observation of protocol, but what did the inaugural planner do in 1789 at George Washington's swearing in when there was no protocol? Host Lisa Simeone speaks with historian C.L. Arbelbide about how some of the rituals of the inauguration came to be.

Frank Stasio talks with Philip Hamburger, a writer for the New Yorker magazine and author of Matters of State: A Political Excursion, who has been attending Presidential inaugurations since the 1930's. Hamburger remembers Franklin Delano Roosevelt's riveting first inaugural address with particular fondness. (NOTE: Matters of State is published by Counterpoint.)

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on Vice President Al Gore's response to Florida's vote certification. Gore gave a short speech last night, making his case for a complete and fair tally in Florida. Gore has also received support from the Congressional Democrats in contesting of the vote certification. Meanwhile, Republicans George W. Bush and Dick Cheney proceeded with their transition plans.