President-Elect Trump Makes Voter Fraud Claims Amid Push For Recount
President-elect Donald Trump is making baseless claims about widespread voter fraud amid a push to recount votes in three key states that he won.
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California Secretary of State Urges Trump To Present Proof Of Voter Fraud
NPR's Audie Cornish talks to California Secretary of State Alex Padilla about Donald Trump's allegations of voter fraud in the state.
Suspect Dead After Knife And Car Attack At Ohio State University
A man deliberately crashed his car into pedestrians on the Ohio University State campus in Columbus. The driver went on to attack passing students with a butcher knife. The suspect was shot and killed by a university police officer.
Trump Presidency Casts Doubt Over Declassification Of CIA Torture Report
Only a few copies exist of the infamous CIA torture report, and the Senate committee that created them has called for the agencies that received them to return them. Activists and journalists are hoping to keep those copies at least extant, so they might one day be declassified and released. They fear that if all the copies are returned, they will be destroyed and the information lost forever.
How To Find The Best Deals On Cyber Monday
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Joanna Stern, personal technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal, about this year's so-called "Cyber Monday." They discuss the best online tech deals, which tech gadgets make the perfect gift, and if consumers should be concerned about exploding batteries in this year's hottest gizmos.
Texas, Oklahoma Divided Over How To Handle Earthquakes Linked To Oil Drilling
Oklahoma and Texas have been experiencing a rash of human-caused earthquakes. It happens when oil and gas wastewater gets pumped underground in the wrong places and disrupts faults. Oklahoma officials have cracked down on wastewater injection; Texas is apparently uninterested in doing much. That could mean a lot more quakes given that the country's biggest oil reservoir has just been discovered in west Texas.
How Trump Could Easily Reverse Obama's Opening To Cuba
President Obama reached out to Cuba mostly through executive orders. But those can easily be undone by Donald Trump, who is much more critical of the Cuban leadership.
Big Data Coming In Faster Than Biomedical Researchers Can Process It
There's a plethora of projects to gather data about the brain, various kinds of cancer and every type of cell in the body. But researchers are struggling to keep up with the information explosion.
Trump Officially Wins Michigan As Possible Recount Looms
The state and its 16 electoral votes were the last to be called, giving Trump 306 electoral votes to Hillary Clinton's 232. Green Party candidate Jill Stein is pursuing a recount.
Suspect Killed After Knife And Vehicle Attack At Ohio State University
University officials said the man struck pedestrians with a car and then got out and cut people with a butcher knife on the campus in Columbus, Ohio. At least nine people were taken to hospitals.