Politics & Government

What it is like to be a blue governor in a deep red state

5:10am August 30, 2023

by Sylvia Goodman

Kentucky's Democratic governor is leading in the polls, despite the majority Republican state political scene. Crossover governors have become an increasingly rare phenomenon outside of Kentucky.

In Wisconsin, Republicans say the state's top election official has to go

5:10am August 30, 2023

by Chuck Quirmbach

Republicans in Wisconsin are trying to remove the state's top elections official, whose role is non-partisan. Many Republicans are still contesting the results of the 2020 election.

Facebook's parent company, Meta, says operations linked to China and Russia used fake accounts across social media sites to spread messages

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Meta says Chinese, Russian influence operations are among the biggest it's taken down

6:28pm August 29, 2023

by Shannon Bond

Facebook's parent company says both operations used fake accounts across social media sites to promote Chinese and Russian interests

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A Saudi man is sentenced to death after his tweets criticizing country's leadership

5:27pm August 29, 2023

by Aya Batrawy

A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to death for his statements on his Twitter criticizing the government.

'Joe the Plumber' and the rise of MAGA

5:07pm August 29, 2023

by Don Gonyea

With the death of 'Joe the Plumber,' who rose to prominence as a voice in the 2008 election, we look back at the rise of the MAGA movement before Trump and how politics changed over the last 20 years.

Neera Tanden talks about how the Biden administration's price drug cuts will work

4:52pm August 29, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Biden's domestic policy advisor, Neera Tanden, about the administration's plan to lower the price of certain prescription drugs under Medicare.

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In light of the Jacksonville shooting, here's how hate groups have grown in Florida

4:32pm August 29, 2023

by Odette Yousef

During the last year, some organizations have staged increasingly brazen displays of hate in Jacksonville and across Florida.

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President Biden hugs Steven Hadfield, a Medicare recipient who takes expensive drugs, at an event on prescription drug costs at the White House on Aug. 29.

Here are the first 10 drugs that Medicare will target for price cuts

4:32pm August 29, 2023

The government will negotiate new prices for the commonly prescribed drugs, but the cuts won't take effect until 2026. In the meantime, drugmakers are fighting the negotiations with lawsuits.

NC Gov. Roy Cooper at a roundtable event in Yadkinville

Politics & Government

Budget stalls lead to more Medicaid expansion delays

3:05pm August 29, 2023

by David Ford

North Carolina’s budget has yet to be passed by the General Assembly, and the logjam is leaving Medicaid expansion in the lurch.

Republican presidential candidate Miami Mayor Francis Suarez speaks at the Republican Party of Iowa's 2023 Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa, on July 28.

Politics & Government

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez suspends his campaign for president

1:30pm August 29, 2023

by Washington Desk

The Republican leader in South Florida alluded to his inability to appear in the first GOP debate as part of the catalyst for his decision to leave the race.