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Your internet is slow because of where you live, not what plan you buy

4:48pm October 26, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with investigative data journalist Leon Yin about a new investigation that found that internet service providers offer slower internet to lower-income, communities of color.

Massachusetts could allow undocumented people to get driver's licenses

4:48pm October 26, 2022

by Christopher Burrell

Massachusetts could join the states who allow undocumented people to get driver's licenses. Residents will vote on this issue on election day.

Why election officials are turning to public relations specialists

4:48pm October 26, 2022

by Mallory Noe-Payne

Faced with a deluge of disinformation about the voting process, election officials around the U.S. are hiring public relations specialists to explain how democracy works to voters.

What an expert foresees for voter intimidation this election cycle

4:48pm October 26, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sean Morales-Doyle, director of the Voting Rights Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, about potential voter intimidation this election cycle.

Should voters be concerned over Fetterman's cognitive ability after his stroke?

4:48pm October 26, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Dr. Dhruv Khullar on the questions surrounding Pa. Lt. Gov. John Fetterman's mental fitness after surviving a stroke.

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A historic building flooded during a hurricane, so the owner made it a haunted house

4:48pm October 26, 2022

by Sophia Schmidt

A historic Philadelphia building flooded during the remnants of Hurricane Ida last year. Its owner found a creative and terrifying way to adapt to future storms: a flood-resistant haunted house.

Lea Bossler speaks at an event at the Capitol in September organized by the opposition group Compassion for Montana Families.

Abortion is on the ballot in Montana. Voters will decide fate of the 'Born Alive' law

4:48pm October 26, 2022

by Olivia Weitz

Voters in the state are being asked to approve a law declaring that an embryo or fetus is a legal person with a right to medical care if born prematurely or survives an attempted abortion.

Gas prices are falling, but does the White House deserve credit?

4:48pm October 26, 2022

Gas prices are falling, but don't give credit to Biden. The White House can influence prices, but the primary driver of fuel costs is the global market for crude oil and seasonal shifts in gas demand.

The city of Barberton, Ohio, recently shifted Republican after decades of Democratic leadership.

Ohio and Pennsylvania voters aren't reading from their assigned scripts

4:00pm October 26, 2022

by Steve Inskeep

Morning Edition spoke to more than 40 voters in two key districts in Ohio and Pennsylvania and found many aren't necessarily approaching issues as their parties would prefer. Here are four takeaways.

Jacob Runyan (left) and Chase Cominsky pleaded not guilty to cheating and other felonies Wednesday, related to a lucrative fishing tournament on Lake Erie where they were accused of stuffing five walleye fish with lead weights and fish filets.

Walleye fishermen plead not guilty in cheating scandal

3:46pm October 26, 2022

by Bill Chappell

Fishermen Jacob Runyan and Chase Cominsky are accused of packing weights into fish at an Ohio tournament where nearly $30,000 was on the line.