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History in congress. The story begins with Jennette Rankin who is elected to the house in 1916 from montana shes elected to the house four years before women had the right to vote nationally. And in a way shes really a bridge from the sufferage movement to women attaining full political rights. She was active in a National Womens suffrage organization. She helped women get the right to vote not only in montana but a couple states west of the mississippi and she runs in 1916. Shes elected to one of montanas two atlarge districts. Part of her platform shes a passivist. Shes sworn into the house ...

Boston anchor latoya edwards. Welcome, everyone, to this primary debate. Were at the nbcu Boston Media Center home of nbc 10, telemundo and nbc boston. Well d wed like to thank you for taking part of tonights event. Lets go to ed marky. He served in 2013 in the senate. Before that he served massachusettss seventh district in the house of representatives since 1976. We welcome congressman joe kennedy he served massachusettss Fourth District since 2013. Before that he served as an assistant District Attorney. We are following social distancing guidelines. Everyone is spread out more than six fee...

Pollution. From protective gear to takeout containers, theres a new flood of plastic debris in fields and waterways across the world. Well talk to some of those raising the alarm and address the problem. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. It has been able to strengthen. And you see all the rainfall over the bahamas. We have some outer bands already beginning to move into portions of south florida. Reporter the hurricane is moving closer to the u. S. Shoreline. In fact, theres a couple of landfalls possible. Behind isais more is forming. Rep...

Many aspects of daily life. That includes food, socializing and science. The u. S. Capital Historical Society provided video of this event. Today is the inaugural scholar series. We thought we would start with our own. Hes really one of the nations finest scholars on the First Congress. And the early period in the development of our country. We have been fortunate to have chuck as part of the u. S. Cbs society team for five years prior. Prior to that he was working on the First Congress program. He has put together a very imaginative presentation using primary sources like letters of the times...

This morning my interview with senator Bernie Sanders of vermont. Plus our brandnew nbc news wall street journal poll on the eve of the Democratic National convention, also as covid relief talks break down. Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gave a damn. President trump says no deal, no new Postal Service funding for mailin voting. Its very simple. How are they going to do it if they dont have the money to do it . Sabotaging the mail in order to help his reelection chances what weve never seen before is a president saying im going to actively kneecap the secures a agreement in the middl...