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The House of Representatives will be under new management in 2007, but leadership posts within each party are undecided. Maryland's Steny Hoyer wants to be Majority Leader, but Nancy Pelosi backing Rep. John Murtha. Republican Speaker, Dennis Hastert, says he won't run for a leadership post, creating room at the top for the new minority party.

NPR Economics Correspondent John Ydstie examines the question of whether the American economy is just cooling off or actually entering a recession. The Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates, incrementally, attempting to keep inflation under control. But some analysts are afraid the Fed's monetary policy has done too much to slow the economy.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Phillip J. Brutus, a newly-elected state representative to the Florida legislature. Brutus, is the first Haitian-American elected to the Florida statehouse; he represents the 108th district in Miami. This week Rep. Brutus may be asked to join his colleagues in the legislature to name Florida's 25 electors.

The Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol began its work Tuesday. Four police officers who defended the building that day testified.

The four families testify before a House committee and urge the U.S. to step up efforts. The renewed focus comes as Iran and world powers try to work out a nuclear deal ahead of a June 30 deadline.

Their favorite 2023 tracks include music from Rawayana, Maria José Llergo and beyond.

The White House says the Smithsonian Institution must submit materials about current and upcoming exhibitions and events for a review that will determine whether they express "improper ideology."

Originally a popular Tumblr, Pop Sonnets makes iambic hay out of modern artists like Kesha and Eminem. Critic Tasha Robinson explains why Sonnets isn't your average impulse-buy humor book.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Russell Jeung, professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, about harassment of Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.

In Myanmar's largest city, troops appear to ease their lockdown after the largest anti-government protests in decades, as a U.N. envoy hopes for a meeting with the country's top military leader to convey the people's demands for democracy.