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The North Carolina Senate’s top leader says chamber Republicans are prepared to walk away from budget negotiations if the House remains unwilling to lower its preferred spending levels. Senate leader Phil Berger made the comments on Wednesday, one day after House Speaker Tim Moore announced his chamber would roll out its own spending plan and vote next week. Private talks between the two chambers have been idling. Berger said the Senate would be prepared to stay out of Raleigh after June 30 if there's no agreement on adjusting the second year of the current two-year state government budget by then.

Steven Levitsky studies how healthy democracies can slip into authoritarianism. He says the Trump administration has already done grave damage: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime."

An exit poll in Ireland's parliamentary election suggested the three biggest parties have won roughly equal shares and the country is headed for another coalition government.

Erie County. It's been a swing area..part of this swing state that Pennsylvania has become in recent elections.

The immensely popular lottery will distribute a total of $2.8 billion in prizes this year, much of it in small prizes. Street and bar celebrations normally break out with winners singing and dancing.

New York City Police Commissioner Edward Caban has resigned. His phone was revealed to have been seized as part of a federal corruption investigation.

In Fat Leonard, journalist Craig Whitlock tells the story of a defense contractor who plied Navy commanders with lavish meals, trips, cash and sex workers. In return they let him overcharge taxpayers.

A day-by-day and hour-by-hour look at the events surrounding the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on July 13.

NPR's Scott Detrow tries to spread holiday cheer by reviving an old office holiday tradition: making mulled wine in the microwave at work on Christmas Eve.