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We look at President Biden's pivot the past week, from focusing on legislation and negotiating with Congress to focusing on communicating directly with American voters.

Bülent Güneralp is an opera crossover baritone, voice teacher and coach.

June 19 is a commemoration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States, marking the day enslaved people in Texas were finally freed — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

Latin America's left is in disarray after the seizure of Nicolas Maduro and the U.S.'s pledge to take over Venezuela's oil industry. Many on the left are changing their rhetoric about President Trump.

Speaking for approximately one hour and 48 minutes, President Trump beat his previous record for longest speech given to a joint session of Congress.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including former Senator Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), discussing a raid he led, 32 years ago, in which about 13 Vietnamese civillians were killed; Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Joseph Allbaugh and Davenport, Iowa, Mayor Phil Yerington; Representatives Nancy Johnson (R-Conn.) and Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.); Admiral Thomas Fargo, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, on the Navy's decision not to seek a court-martial of Commander Scott Waddle; Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Quiye, speaking through a translator, and President George W. Bush.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Errin Haines, of the nonprofit newsroom The 19th, about former President Trump's decision to speak to the National Association of Black Journalists’ convention.

The U.S. price premium surged past the global benchmark to hit record highs this week, in reaction to President Trump's proposal to place a 50% tariff on copper imports.

The death toll from raging forest fires in Chile has risen to at least 122, doubling in the past 24 hours. Some 300 people remain missing.

This week the Supreme Court will hear arguments in cases challenging President Trump's sweeping tariffs. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Michael McConnell, who represents one of the plaintiffs.