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Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., preside over a House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack hearing in October.

Jan. 6 panel meets to mull potential criminal referrals for Trump, others

The House Select Jan. 6 panel will wrap up its investigation on Dec. 31. It's now in a race to issue its final recommendations and findings in the coming weeks.

Following days of rain, floodwaters cover streets in the Planada community of Merced County, Calif., on Jan. 10, 2023. In California, only about 230,000 homes and other buildings have flood insurance policies, which are separate from homeowners insurance.

In soaked California, few homeowners have flood insurance

As California begins to dry out from its recent deluges, one stark reality is coming into focus: Only 230,000 homes and other buildings are insured against flooding in a state with about 39 million residents.

When Victoria Ferrell Ortiz had her daughter in 2017, she was covered by a limited form of Medicaid in Texas — which ended just two months after she gave birth. Losing insurance so soon was stressful. She supports a push for Texas to extend Medicaid coverage for a full year after childbirth.

In Texas, Medicaid ends soon after childbirth. Will lawmakers allow more time?

In Texas, many uninsured people can access Medicaid if they get pregnant. But 2 months after giving birth, the coverage ends. Advocates say new moms need a full year, to improve maternal health.

Judy Heumann was a major American civil rights activist who remained little-known until a flurry of attention in the last three years of her life.

Activist Judy Heumann led a reimagining of what it means to be disabled

Heumann was instrumental in pushing to expand the civil rights of Americans with disabilities and continued to advocate for disability rights around the globe. She died on Saturday at age 75.

South African sailor Kirsten Neuschafer, the only woman in the 2022 Golden Globe Race. All but three of her 15 competitors in the grueling months-long competition have been forced to drop out.

This race is a nonstop sail around the world. Cassette tapes are allowed, but no GPS

To win the Golden Globe Race, sailors compete solo using celestial navigation to find their way, and they are forced to battle high winds and rough seas without the use of any electronic equipment.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg (right) rides the train with U.S. Representative Mike Levin (center) and San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria (left) in North County on Oct. 25, 2022. Buttigieg was in San Diego speaking at a trucking conference and inspecting emergency repairs currently underway on a stretch of track between Oceanside and San Clemente that is expected to halt rail travel until the end of the year.

US Secretary of Transportation tours San Diego's coastal rail lines

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg took a ride on San Diego's coastal rail line Tuesday to learn more about cliff erosion threatening rail service.

Monkeypox is getting a new name: mpox. Here, monkeypox virus particles (orange) are seen within an infected cell (green), after being cultured in a laboratory. The image was produced by a colorized transmission electron micrograph.

WHO renames monkeypox as mpox, citing racist stigma

"Removing 'monkey' removes the stigma that monkeypox comes with," an expert tells NPR. But he questions why the World Health Organization will wait a year for the change to take full effect.

Pascale Sablan was once told she'd never become an architect because she's Black and a woman. Now she works for one of the world's most prestigious firms and she wants more people who look like her to join the field.

Very few architects are Black. This woman is pushing to change that

Pascale Sablan was told she'd never become an architect because she's Black and a woman. Now she works for one of the world's top firms and she wants more people who look like her to join the field.

Carolyn Bertozzi celebrates winning a Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday at Stanford University in California.

See this year's Nobel Prize-winning scientists swig bubbly and get cheered at work

What do you do when you (or a colleague) wins a Nobel Prize for your scientific research? Party! Or at least that's what these honorees in medicine and chemistry did.

Cadets line up in formation at the Army and Navy Academy for boys in Carlsbad, Calif. November 11, 2022.

Carlsbad's Army and Navy Academy for boys gets its first woman leader

Major General Peggy Combs served in the Army for over 30 years, is a two-star general, and has worked with thousands of ROTC students nationwide.

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