Jennifer Allen Newton

Bishop Mariann Budde tells NPR 'I won't apologize' for sermon addressing Trump The Episcopal bishop of Washington spoke with NPR to discuss her sermon addressing President Trump and why she asked him to have mercy.

NPR Exclusive: The Episcopal bishop of Washington spoke with NPR to discuss her sermon addressing President Trump and why she asked him to have mercy.

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Understand THIS got cheers from the crowd. Couldn’t watch any of it today. But friends sent me several posts of events. Despicable. No consequences for them.

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If they won’t disclose who is funding the presidential transition, and they won’t even run FBI background checks on the nominees, the American people can’t be expected to treat the appointments as wholly legitimate. A cloud will hang over all of them.

Everyone Agrees Americans Aren’t Healthy The Biden administration tried to address the country’s health problems, with only modest success.

The public-health bureaucracy that the Trump administration will inherit is more focused on and skilled at treating America’s health problems than preventing them, Nicholas Florko writes:

Yup.