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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.
Here's the latest from Morning Edition:
Latest Episodes
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Stanford students on a hackathon team have created an AI tool designed to help veterans apply for disability benefits. Can their tool beat the Department of Veteran Affairs' notorious red tape?
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Republicans believe a reliably blue Senate seat could flip red this fall, and help give the GOP the majority. That's raised the stakes of a tight Democratic primary .
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The regulators approved sweeping changes to the way U.S. power lines are planned, built and funded. Will the new rules be enough to save America's overwhelmed power grid?
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The Professional Women's Hockey League is nearing the end of its first season. Past women's hockey leagues have failed. Will the PWHL survive?
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Ukraine struggles to repel a Russian offensive along the northeastern border. President Biden is to announce new tariffs on Chinese imports. Gangs from China and Mexico flood U. S. with fentanyl.
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System of a Down singer Serj Tankian covers fleeing the Lebanese Civil War as a child, advocating for recognition of the Armenian Genocide, and why his band hasn't made a new album since 2005.
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When Thorsten Siess was in graduate school, he came up with the idea for a heart device that's now been used in hundreds of thousands of patients around the world.
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The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is a relatively new literary award given to women and nonbinary authors. This year's winner is V.V. Ganeshananthan for her book Brotherless Night.
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The Hindu nationalist BJP is increasing its anti-Muslim rhetoric as the country's elections heat up.
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NPR's Michel Martin talks to retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, ex-director of European Affairs for the National Security Council, about whether the Russian troop push is a turning point in the war.