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Every weekday for over three decades, NPR's Morning Edition has taken listeners around the country and the world with multi-faceted stories and commentaries that inform challenge and occasionally amuse.  Morning Edition is the most listened-to news radio program in the country. Eric Hodge and the WUNC News team bring you regional updates through the morning.

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Trump Nominee Could Solidify Supreme Court's Conservative Direction

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New York Investigates Daniel Prude's Stay At Strong Memorial Hospital

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Democrats Say Trump's Reported Debts Create National Security Risks

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President Trump reportedly is facing huge debts. Democrats want to know who his lenders are, and his national security decisions are facing renewed scrutiny. Trump claims the reports are false.

Young Overachiever Might Make You Feel Like An Underachiever

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2 Brothers Spent 6 Decades Trying To Find One Another

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Scientists Experiment With TB Vaccine To See If It Slows Spread Of COVID-19

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Presidential Debate Preview: Trump, Biden To Take The Stage In Cleveland

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Tax Return Report: Did Trump Go Beyond His Legal Limits?

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Trump Names Devout Catholic As His Supreme Court Nominee

By editor • Sep 28, 2020

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'New York Times' Reports Trump Paid Little In Federal Income Taxes

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'South Park' Residents Cheer On Broncos From Stadium Seats

By editor • Sep 28, 2020

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Luxury Brand Moschino Pulls Some Strings During Milan Fashion Week

By editor • Sep 28, 2020

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As Games Proceed, MLB And NFL Hope To Keep COVID-19 Cases At Zero

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Pandemic Takes Its Toll As Deaths Around The World Near 1 Million Mark

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Honored As The First Woman To Lie In State

By editor • Sep 25, 2020

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Afghan Woman Earns Top Marks In University Exam After Militants Attack Her Academy

By • Sep 25, 2020

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Civil Rights Lawyer Ben Crump Discusses Breonna Taylor Case, Grand Jury Indictment

By editor • Sep 25, 2020

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COVID-19 Pandemic Threatens Homeless Veterans

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Despite White House Statement, Trump Casts Doubt On Election Again

By • Sep 25, 2020

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MTA Discovers Secret 'Man Cave' Employees Made At Grand Central Terminal

By editor • Sep 25, 2020

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Chris Rock Stars In Newest Season Of 'Fargo'

By • Sep 25, 2020

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The anthology TV series "Fargo" returns for a fourth season on FX on Sunday. Again this year, it has a whole new story and a whole new cast, including Chris Rock. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says the comedian has arrived as a dramatic actor.

For Colorado Voters, The Economy And Pandemic Are Issues At The Forefront

By editor • Sep 25, 2020

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Group Of Black Doctors Want To Vet Any New COVID-19 Vaccines

By editor • Sep 25, 2020

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Swastika, New York, Is Keeping Its Name

By editor • Sep 24, 2020

Michael Alcamo lives in New York City but loves cycling through the Adirondack Mountains in northern New York, with their tiny towns and hamlets and historical cemeteries.

He was on a trip like this, winding through a remote stretch this summer, when he noticed something else, a small brown street sign with the name "Swastika."

At a time when symbols and place names with links to white supremacy are being debated across the U.S., Alcamo found the name of the unincorporated hamlet he had crossed into unsettling.

When A Tornado Hits A Toy Store: Photo Shows Reality Of Working From Home With Kids

By • Sep 24, 2020

To paraphrase The Wizard of Oz, pay no attention to what's behind the curtain.

Gretchen Goldman, a scientist and mother, recently pulled back the curtain on her own life — and a lot of people paid a lot of attention.

CNN interviewed Goldman, a research director at the Union of Concerned Scientists, to discuss President Trump's choice of David Legates to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

It's what CNN viewers could not see on television that created a sensation.

Trump Shouldn't Barrel Ahead With High Court Nominee, Sen. Coons Says

By editor • Sep 24, 2020

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Teacher Who Died Of COVID-19 Was Loved By His Students

By editor • Sep 24, 2020

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Rene Chavez is one of the 200,000 Americans who have died of COVID-19. He taught high school English in El Paso, Texas, for 16 years. His wife, Annette Chavez, says his students loved him.

'Justice Failed Us,' Ky. State Rep. Booker Says Of Breonna Taylor Decision

By editor • Sep 24, 2020

Democratic Kentucky State Representative Charles Booker says "justice failed us" when only one of the three officers who were involved in the killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville was charged.

Outside The Focus Of Major Parties, Black Pittsburghers Vow To Get Out The Vote

By & • Sep 24, 2020

Tanisha Long expects to be busy in the run up to the 2020 election.

For the next six weeks, Long, who founded an unofficial Black Lives Matter chapter for Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania, plans to make get-out-the vote videos, host mail-in voting webinars and work to enfranchise eligible incarcerated people in order to turn out voters she says "no one's talking to anymore."

Pa. Woman Is 1st Person In Her Bowling Alley To Roll Perfect Score

By editor • Sep 24, 2020

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