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We'll listen back to an interview with Vermont journalist and author Garret Graff about his book, released earlier this year, offering a fresh perspective on the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. -
The president has extended the student loan repayment pause into 2023. Biden said he wants to give lawsuits against debt cancellation time to play out, and the Supreme Court time to weigh in.
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Former Vice President Mike Pence tells Morning Edition that he and former President Donald Trump have gone "our separate ways." Pence looks back on pivotal moments and ahead to what he might do next.
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The cash represents an unprecedented opportunity to derail the opioid epidemic. But with countless groups advocating for a share of the pie, the impact could depend heavily on geography and politics.
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Delegates reached a last-minute deal to pay vulnerable countries for damages caused by climate change. But the final agreement does not put humanity on track to avoid catastrophic warming.
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In reconciling the numbers from an initial round of recounts, Secretary of State Dave Scanlan said his office wasn’t sure all the ballots had been recounted and that the process would need to continue.
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In 2021, the USDA launched its Indigenous Food Sovereignty Initiative. The goal is to rethink the USDA’s food and nutrition programs from an Indigenous perspective.
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In the court Wednesday, lawyers for the state of Texas and for non-Native adoptive parents told the justices that ICWA violates the Constitution by discriminating based on race
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Republican Gov. Phil Scott handily won re-election to a fourth term yesterday, grabbing more than 71% of the vote to defeat Democratic activist Brenda Siegel's 24%. But the governor was not celebrating with the state’s Republican party.
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Republicans took a thumping in down-ballot races for the Vermont House of Representatives Tuesday as Democrats picked up a supermajorities in both chambers of the Legislature.
