22 Mar 2022

USA correspondent Ron Elving

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 22 March 2022

The US President Joe Biden heads to Brussels for a NATO summit this week as pressure builds on the military alliance over the Russian invasion and continued bombing of cities in Ukraine.

Domesticallly, the US Senate hearing is underway to confirm the first black woman justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

Also record gas prices and a four decade high inflation rate is troubling Americas, along with rising Covid cases and a new worrying variant.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, with President Joe Biden, speaks after she was nominated for Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court, in the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, DC, February 25, 2022.

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Ron Elving is Senior Editor and Correspondent on the Washington Desk for NPR News.