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3 days ago · Stephen Fowler is a political reporter with NPR's Washington Desk and will be covering the 2024 election based in the South. Before joining NPR, he spent more than seven years at Georgia Public Broadcasting as its political reporter and host of the Battleground: Ballot Box podcast, which covered voting rights and legal fallout from the 2020 presidential election, the evolution of the ...

Jan 17, 2025 · Monday's forecasts for areas including Dallas, Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C., indicate high temperatures will fall below freezing. The morning low temperatures may drop below freezing as far south as Houston, New Orleans and Tallahassee, Fla., on Monday and Tuesday mornings — between 20 and 30 degrees below normal for this time of year, Taylor said.

Jan 24, 2025 · President Trump took the first trip of his presidency to tour storm damage in North Carolina and fire damage in Los Angeles.

Jan 20, 2025 · President-elect Trump's first stint in the White House included policies and positions that broke with tradition, like threatening to pull out of NATO. What can we expect in his second term?

Dec 18, 2024 · Heartland Community College in Normal celebrated the graduates of a program giving better access to higher-paying jobs.. The Workforce Equity Initiative [WEI] is a partnership of the Illinois Community College Board, the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus and 20 community colleges across Illinois.

Jan 24, 2025 · Unstable funding for federal statistical agencies such as the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis, both based in Suitland, Md., is putting at risk the government statistics the U.S. uses to track changes in the country's economy and population, officials and data users warn.

5 days ago · Talking to the public. The Asian Art Museum is just one institution confronting these competing forces out in the open. There's also an exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C., which tells the story of sculptures stolen during a British raid on Benin City, Nigeria, in the late 1800s. The Smithsonian repatriated 29 of these co-called "Benin Bronzes" in ...

Jan 15, 2025 · It calls for a multiphase ceasefire that would commit both sides to ending more than 15 months of war. KELLY: The war in Gaza began with a Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023. That attack killed around 1,200 people, according to Israel. Around 250 people were taken hostage into ...

Dec 10, 2024 · Suspect is arrested in killing of CEO. Israel's prime minister is taking the witness stand in his own defense. Jay-Z is latest celebrity named in the web of allegations against Sean 'Diddy' Combs.