Politics & Government

In a debate hosted by NewsNation Tuesday night, Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Mehmet Oz sparred over issues such as abortion, foreign policy and fracking.

Politics & Government

Fetterman and Oz spar in only formal debate ahead of Pennsylvania's Senate election

5:19pm October 26, 2022

by Deepa Shivaram

Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a Democrat, and former TV doctor Mehmet Oz, a Republican, faced off last night in the only debate in a tight race that will help determine control of the Senate.

A worker walks along tracks at a BNSF rail yard in Kansas City, Kansas on Sept. 14. Business and government officials prepared for a potential nationwide rail strike earlier this fall before the tentative agreement was reached.

A second railroad union votes down Biden's tentative agreement

5:18pm October 26, 2022

by Ximena Bustillo

The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen has voted against the agreement brokered in part by the White House in an attempt to prevent a strike. Parties have less than a month to broker a new deal.

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.

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.

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.

Did the so-called Deep State protect the country from Trump?

1:55pm October 26, 2022

by Dave Davies

American Resistance author David Rothkopf says veteran government officials served as guardrails, preventing initiatives that were illegal, unworkable, immoral or against the country's interests.

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A judge has ordered former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to travel to Atlanta to testify before a special grand jury that's investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies illegally tried to influence the state's 2020 election.

A judge orders Mark Meadows to testify in a Georgia election probe

1:08pm October 26, 2022

by The Associated Press

The ex-White House chief of staff was ordered to testify before a grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies illegally tried to influence the state's 2020 election.