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Experts say President Trump's Thursday night speech -- and the tranche of newly unclassified documents that came with it -- provided no new evidence of fraud.
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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to David Becker, an election law expert and executive director of The Center for Election Innovation & Research, about the president's speech on election integrity issues.
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Dozens of U.S. cities are dealing with poor air quality, as wildfires smoke turns skies hazy and orange. Conditions won't improve until the weekend, prompting officials to urge people to stay indoors.
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Business is booming for Snap-on, a Wisconsin company that has made tools for professional mechanics for more than a century. It recently got a fact-finding visit from the head of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank. -
Trump raises claims that U.S. voting systems are vulnerable in speech, election experts say the speech and released unclassified docs provide no evidence, dangerous floods sweep parts of Texas.
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Tennessee redistricting divides Black voters, weakening their political power
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