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In its fifth hearing, the select committee investigating the insurrection will outline Trump's pressure on Department of Justice officials to overturn the 2020 election in his favor.

On today’s WBFO Brief, we go in-depth on three COVID-related topics. First, reporter Michael Mroziak looks at the COVID “Long-haulers” that continue to work through symptoms months after their infections go away. Albany correspondent Karen DeWitt looks at the statewide changes in mask mandates and how the NYS Capitol is still requiring them. And, Jay Moran has his usual Thursday discussion with Dr. Nancy Nielsen M.D. today looking at the incredibly small number of “breakthrough infections” that occur even after the COVID vaccine.Also, a look at the push to reopen the US/Canadian border by offering vaccines in the US to Canadians, new misdemeanor charges against four WNY-area people for allegedly being at the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, and Westminster and Enterprise Charter schools sue Buffalo Public Schools to stay open.

NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with former DOJ official Harry Litman, about the final report of the House Committee investigating the attack on the Capitol.

Bill Chappell is a writer and editor on the News Desk in the heart of NPR's newsroom in Washington, D.C.

Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to Mark Meadows, depicted a West Wing where some were very concerned about violence erupting at the Capitol and others, like Meadows and the former president, were not.

Hit hard by the pandemic, the Philippines has vaccination rates far lower than neighbors like Vietnam and Cambodia. Here's how the country is trying to up its numbers.

The Seneca Nation announced its purchase of the team Tuesday, calling "a new day for lacrosse in Rochester."

India gave Russia's leader a warm welcome in his first visit since his country invaded Ukraine. The visit in part signaled India's defiance of the U.S., which has punished New Delhi for buying Russian oil.

When Phil is said to have seen his shadow upon emergence from a tree stump in rural Pennsylvania, that's considered a forecast for six more weeks of winter. If he doesn't see his shadow, an early spring is said to be on the way.

Airing the hearing would have required Fox to broadcast flat contradictions of what its personalities have told their audience in the past year and a half: that the riot was a mere legal protest.