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Harris unveils an economic plan focused on housing and grocery prices
Vice President Harris is set to unveil an economic plan on Friday that will focus on the high cost of housing and groceries — top-of-mind expenses for voters pinched by years of rising prices. In Raleigh, N.C., Harris will give the first major policy address of her campaign. It's...
Campus protests prompt the question: Who wants to be a college president?
Ari Shapiro has been one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon newsmagazine, since 2015. During his first two years on the program, listenership to All Things Considered grew at an unprecedented rate, with more people tuning in during a typical quarter-hour than any other program on the radio.
Inclusive playgrounds let disabled kids have fun on a park's swings and slides
For more than a decade, there have been efforts to create more inclusive playgrounds, ones where all the typical fixtures of fun, like slides, swing sets and monkey bars - where they can be used by kids of all abilities. A small city in northwest Ohio is the latest to open one of these accessible play spaces. Reporter Kendall Crawford with the Ohio Newsroom has more.
Several charged in overdose death investigation of actor Matthew Perry
After actor Matthew Perry died last year, an autopsy found it was from acute effects of ketamine. Since then, authorities have been trying to answer a question. Where did that ketamine come from? Today they pointed to what one U.S. attorney called a broad underground criminal network, including someone called the Ketamine Queen. Five people have been charged in Perry's death. Robert Garrova is a reporter at LAist. He was watching the press conference where this was announced today. Hey there, Robert.
$50,000 reward offered for information on inmate who escaped near Hillsborough
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and other law enforcement agencies are offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of an inmate who escaped custody this week in Hillsborough. The governor's office says Ramone Alston, 30, escaped from state corrections officers are he arrived for medical appointment Tuesday...
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