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A day after saying he'll support a bill to ban tolling on the Brent Spence Bridge, Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin is expanding on how he would pay for a…

Daily Show writer Kevin Bleyer's comic rewrite tracks the flaws in America's founding documents, from the 17 "alcohol, voting and slavery" amendments to one president's belief that the Constitution should expire every 19 years.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Dr. Carlos del Rio of the Emory University School of Medicine about updated recommendations for prescribing and insuring drugs that prevent HIV.

A former top staffer to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie testified in Federal court that she told Christie about planned lane closures on the George Washington Bridge weeks before it happened. Christie has long denied any involvement in the closures, which were designed to punish his political opponents.

A construction labor shortage in the U.S. in recent years means secure, good-paying jobs are available for young people who want to learn the trade. For…

Many struggle with tremors and balance much of the time, but when the music starts, these people dance. It gives them joy — body and soul. Scientists say dance might have lasting brain benefits, too.

SCOTT SIMON SHARES SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THE TRAGIC DEATH OF DELETHA WORD, WHO WAS BEATEN IN PUBLIC AND PLUNGED TO HER DEATH OFF THE BELLE ISLAND BRIDGE IN DETROIT LAST WEEKEND.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with poet Christopher Merrill about his new ook, "The Old Bridge: The Third Balkan War and the Age of the Refugee." Milkweed Editions, 1995) Merrill gives a poet's perspective on the conflict and ts by-product: thousands of refugees.

Daniel talks with NPR's Martha Raddatz who is in Bosnia covering the NATO troop deployment. An American soldier was wounded today after stepping on a land mine...not too far from where soldiers are constructing a pontoon bridge into Bosnia.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports on rising tensions between Jews and Arabs in the West Bank town of Hebron. U.S. envoy Dennis Ross is expected to arrive in the region today to present new proposals for bridging the gaps.