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Austria's far-right party wins national vote but its chances of governing are unclear
by Rob Schmitz
The far-right Freedom Party of Austria has won the most votes in national parliamentary elections but has fallen short of an absolute majority.
The Chinese power structure lined up behind Xi Jinping but financial markets did not
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Stephen Roach of the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School about China's economic relationship with the world under Xi Jinping.
Oklahoma's Democratic candidate for governor uses education policy to build momentum
by Robby Kurth
Education has become a major political issue in the U.S. and one that Republicans tend to use to their advantage. But in Oklahoma, a Republican stronghold, things might start to favor Democrats.
An Iranian American scholar talks about her time in a notorious Tehran prison
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Iranian academic Haleh Esfandiari about Tehran's Evin prison. She was held in solitary confinement for 105 days.
GOP candidate for New York governor uses crime wave to hammer incumbent Hochul
by Martin Kaste
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is in a close race against challenger Lee Zeldin, a GOP congressman who says criminal justice reforms have caused a crime emergency in the state.
Some 19,000 people in Haiti are facing catastrophic levels of hunger
Haiti is now in the sixth week of a fuel blockade by armed gangs in the capital Port-au-Prince. It means that escalating hunger, along with a cholera crisis, is getting more dire by the day.
News Brief: Pa. Senate race debate, LA City Council scandal, Haiti's hunger crisis
Candidates for Pennsylvania's open U.S. Senate seat clash in a debate. Two LA City Council members involved in a racist conversation refuse to step down. Haiti's hunger crisis gets worse each day.
A toy dinosaur got first-class treatment on a Southwest Airlines flight
Baggage handler Bryant Cisneraos told CBS News that he and others made it their mission to keep the toy dinosaur safe. It was photographed traveling alone by cart, bin and carousel.
Virgin Australia wants to make sitting in the plane's middle seat fun
The airline launched a Middle Seat Lottery. Each week it will give prizes to passengers. One prize is a full day helicopter pub craw, and another includes free plane tickets.
It cost $38,398 for a single shot of a very old cancer drug
by Arthur Allen
Lupron, a drug patented half a century ago, treats advanced prostate cancer. It costs a few hundred dollars in the U.K. — so why are U.S. hospitals charging so much more to administer it?
We go door to door in Beaver Falls, to hear the issues on the minds of Pa. voters
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with voters in Pennsylvania's 17th Congressional District, a former manufacturing hub, home to one of the country's most competitive House races.