Why The US Is Outside Looking In at the UN Biodiversity Conference

This year, the Lehrer Prize for Community Well-Being will honor people whose work supports transgender children and their families.On Today's Show:Listeners call in to nominate the people and organizations making a difference in the lives of trans minors and their parents—medically, socially or in any other way.

President-elect Trump has indicated that under his administration, the federal government would only recognize "male"  and "female" genders. On Today's Show:Jonathan Lemire, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, breaks down the latest news from Washington, D.C., including updates from over the weekend as House Republican leadership proposes a third spending bill to avert shutdown.

Katie Fallow, deputy litigation director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, offers legal analysis of the settlement between ABC and President-elect Trump, after the latter filed a defamation lawsuit against the news outlet and its anchor George Stephanopoulos, and what effect this and other threats and lawsuits by the president elect might have on the media.  

On today's show: New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand takes some questions about the week's news, including the looming government shutdown, the Equal Rights Amendment, and the drone situation.

A series of unidentified drones have been reportedly flying over the tri-state area, leading to confusion, concern, conspiracy theories. On Today's Show:Andrew Tangel, enterprise reporter covering aviation safety and regulation for The Wall Street Journal, breaks down the latest news, and what the federal response has been so far.

 The fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive has led to public outcry against the health insurance industry.On Today's Show:Rachel Cohrs Zhang, chief Washington correspondent for STAT News, examines what Congress is trying to do to fix a system that many Americans think is broken. 

President Biden has issued pardons and commuted the sentences of hundreds of people, on the heels of his controversial pardon of his son, Hunter.On Today's Show:Meryl Kornfield, politics reporter for The Washington Post, reports on the latest pardons, plus the pressure on the president to issue preemptive pardons ahead of Trump taking office, and President-elect Trump's pledge to pardon people convicted of crimes related to the insurrection on January 6, 2021.

As president-elect Donald Trump considers his pick to replace Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan, a look at the role of the FTC in the economy.On Today's Show:Leah Nylen, antitrust reporter for Bloomberg News, breaks down the latest news surrounding a failed merger of two major supermarket chains and what the future of antitrust enforcement might look like

After the shooting of UnitedHealthcare's CEO, consumers have been expressing frustrations with the health insurance system.On Today's Show:Elisabeth Rosenthal, senior contributing editor at KFF Health News, former ER physician and author of An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back (Penguin Press, 2017), breaks down the perception and reality of healthcare and health insurance in the United States.

Afterover 13 years of civil war, Syrian rebels have taken control of capital city of Damascus, and president Bashar al-Assad has fled to Russia. On Today's Show:Mohammed Aly Sergie, editor of Semafor Gulf, talks about the latest developments in Syria.