Americans were sharply divided over the public health response to COVID-19, including masking, remote learning, business closures and vaccines. Five years after the start of the pandemic, Judy Woodruff sat down with two people on opposing sides of that divide trying to figure out how to move forward. It's part of her series, America at a Crossroads.

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Americans were sharply divided over the public health response to COVID-19, things like masking, remote learning, business closures, and later vaccines.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, Republican of Florida, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, are teaming up on bipartisan effort to limit interest rates on credit cards.

"For too long, credit card companies have abused working class Americans with absurd interest rates, trapping them in an almost insurmountable amount of debt," Luna wrote on X alongside a photo of herself and Ocasio-Cortez.
"We need a fair solution — and that means getting rid of the status quo and putting a reasonable cap on interest rates."

Through meals, discussion, and games, four student-led projects will kick off this spring in hopes of convening students from different backgrounds and viewpoints to encourage tough conversations and bridge divides.

Elizabeth Warren agrees with President Trump about something.

The Democratic senator from Massachusetts told Trump on Tuesday that she thinks the White House should take action to stop what she said were discriminatory practices by the country’s biggest banks, according to a letter from her office that was viewed by The Wall Street Journal. 

Sometimes the universe laughs at us. Other times, in the words of famed psychologist Carl Jung, it winks.

When Kay’s two best friends — a married couple she met at work — told her they weren’t voting for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, she believed them. After all, Kay and her friends shared similar values; they all supported issues like reproductive rights and protections for LGBTQ people.

The latest national poll from The New York Times and Siena College shows former President Donald J. Trump leading President Biden by nine percentage points among registered voters — a pretty big shift in his direction in the week since the presidential debate.

It has become clear in the past week that there is no obvious path to replacing Mr. Biden as the Democratic Party’s nominee. But there is a strong desire among Americans for something different.