All Things Considered
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PolitiFact founder says both parties need factchecking. But they don’t lie equally
by David Folkenflik
CBS said that its moderators would largely leave fact checking up to the vice presidential candidates in Tuesday's debate. Journalist Bill Adair said the network sent a powerful message, though.
The United Kingdom's next prime minister could be a foreign policy hard-liner
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Ben Judah, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, about British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who will likely succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister.
A new school year brings fresh concerns about the mental health of students
by Rhitu Chatterjee
As children wrap up their first week of school, we check in with educators and mental health care providers about how they are doing emotionally.
Biden speech will address fight for 'the soul of the nation'
by Franco Ordoñez
President Biden is set to deliver a prime-time speech on the fight for what he calls "the soul of the nation," reprising a theme he ran on for the November midterm elections.
Oberlin College students worry Catholic directives could affect contraception access
by Maria Godoy
The college's student health center became the center of a maelstrom this past week, after students learned the Catholic health agency hired to run it follows religious restrictions on contraception.
U.N. inspectors arrive at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine
by Elissa Nadworny
A team of nuclear inspectors from the United Nations has made its way to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Southern Ukraine.
California lawmakers move to keep the state's last nuclear plant open
by Benjamin Purper
California lawmakers have approved subsidies to keep the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant operating past a scheduled shutdown by 2025 in hopes of helping the state meet its climate change goals.
The water crisis in Jackson has restaraunts scrambling to stay open
by Maya Miller
As the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi continues, restaurants are struggling to cope with the outages.
As summer comes to an end, one last swim in the Adirondacks
by Emily Russell
As summer winds to a close, we'll take a last swim in a cool pond in New York's Adirondack Mountains.
A flooded Pakistani town faces an uncertain future
by Diaa Hadid
Displaced residents of a flooded Pakistani town have flocked to colleges, hotels and institutes to live while they wait for government aid to help them rebuild after the heaviest rains in decades.
Residents of mobile homes are often at the mercy of big companies who own their land
by Chris Arnold
Millions of Americans live in mobile-home parks because they are the only place they can afford to buy homes. But many are now at the mercy of big companies that own the land underneath those homes.