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Filmmaker Paul Morrissey, best known for his avant-garde collaborations with Andy Warhol, died this week in New York at age 86. The pair made low-budget, provocative films in the 1960s and '70s.

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.

David Greene talks to Susan Fowler about her new book Whistleblower, concerning her time at ride-hailing company Uber, and what led her to write publicly about what she experienced there.

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.

Many Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas in January, not December. In Lebanon, Christians say the holiday is extra poignant for them this year.

Buena Vista Social Club Trumpeter Manuel Mirabal < > died on Monday.

President Biden is expected to block Nippon Steel's proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel, citing national security reasons. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with David Wessel of the Brookings Institution.

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.

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.