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  • How many ways can you tell someone to vote?

    How many ways can you tell someone to vote?
    Oct 31 2024
    There are plenty of ways to encourage people to vote, as the presidential candidates and their supporters are demonstrating in this final stretch of the campaign.

    We dig into each campaign's voter turnout operation.

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    9 mins
  • Harris makes her final pitch for her presidency

    Harris makes her final pitch for her presidency
    Oct 30 2024
    On Tuesday night, one week before election day, Vice President Kamala Harris made her closing argument to the American people.

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    10 mins
  • Democrats are vying for the support of rural voters in North Carolina

    Democrats are vying for the support of rural voters in North Carolina
    Oct 29 2024
    North Carolina has more rural voters than any other 2024 presidential swing state.

    As early voting continues across the state, canvassing groups are working to turn out voters — including in Nash County, a purple county President Biden won in 2020 and former President Trump won in 2016, both by razor-thin margins.

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    9 mins
  • Donald Trump's closing argument: leaning into the extreme rhetoric

    Donald Trump's closing argument: leaning into the extreme rhetoric
    Oct 28 2024
    At a recent Trump rally, many speakers leaned into racist, misogynistic and vulgar rhetoric. So what could it do for his campaign in the final days of election season?

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    9 mins
  • For some conservative Christians supporting Trump, it's about the policies

    For some conservative Christians supporting Trump, it's about the policies
    Oct 27 2024
    Evangelical and Pentecostal conservatives are a powerful force in Republican politics.

    They've stuck by former President Donald Trump for three presidential elections in a row.

    That's despite Trump's long list of criminal charges, sexual harassment and assault allegations, and regular brutal, personal attacks on political opponents — all of which wouldn't fit many people's definition of Christian.

    Conservative Christian support for former President Donald Trump seems to be unwavering. A North Carolina pastor says there's a simple reason why.

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    14 mins
  • Election battles are being waged at the ballot box and in the courtroom.

    Election battles are being waged at the ballot box and in the courtroom.
    Oct 25 2024
    Election day is almost here, and we could soon find out who will become our next president.

    But winning doesn't only happen at the ballot box, and the results of this election are already being litigated in court.

    Trump and his allies filed a slew of lawsuits alleging widespread fraud. These efforts failed. But four years later, they are already trying to employ the same strategies again.

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    7 mins
  • Are biodiversity efforts keeping up with the effects of climate change?

    Are biodiversity efforts keeping up with the effects of climate change?
    Oct 24 2024
    This week and next, world leaders are gathering in Colombia for the 16th United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to check up on their collective progress in slowing biodiversity loss.

    Can they successfully turn those plans into action against what the United Nations is calling "humanity's senseless and suicidal war with nature?"

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    12 mins
  • Emo music gets its flowers at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

    Emo music gets its flowers at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
    Oct 23 2024
    If you had any doubts, we can clear them up now. Emo music not only still exists — it's thriving.

    A new exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame focuses on Hopeless Records and its history.

    The independent record label has had an impressive roster over the last 30 years, featuring some of pop punk and emo music's biggest names from Sum 41 to All Time Low to Avenged Sevenfold.

    NPR's Juana Summers travels to Cleveland, Ohio to visit the exhibit and dives into why emo music remains relevant today.

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    10 mins