Michel Martin
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Business
Digital World Acquisition Corp. shareholders to vote on merging with Truth Social
Donald Trump could make billions of dollars if his company Truth Social is able to pull off a plan to go public. Shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp. will vote Friday on whether to merge.
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Blinken is in Israel aiming to negotiate a temporary cease-fire
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Israel after stops in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The war in Gaza is in its sixth month, and this is his sixth stop in the region since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.
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Elections
Nikki Haley announces the suspension of her campaign
Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, has officially suspended her presidential bid.
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Elections
With Trump as presumptive nominee, Biden's re-election campaign has parallels to 2012
Michel Martin asks 2012 Obama campaign manager Jim Messina about the Democratic Party's 2024 approach and parallels with Mitt Romney's challenge to former President Barack Obama's re-election bid.
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Technology
Super Tuesday was the biggest test yet to this year's voting systems
Indications are that things generally went smoothly — good news in a year that has experts worried about the state of democracy.
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Technology
The health care system is on the brink of disaster because of a cyberattack
Because one company, Change Healthcare, has been hit with a cyberattack, people across the country are having trouble filling prescriptions, and doctors haven't been able to bill insurance providers.
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Elections
Supreme Court unanimously restores Trump to the Colorado primary ballot
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with UCLA law professor and election law expert Rick Hasen about the U.S. Supreme Court restoring Republican frontrunner Donald Trump on the Colorado primary ballot.
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Politics
Despite having been governor, Nikki Haley lacks support from S.C. GOP leaders
Nikki Haley's time as governor of South Carolina was marked by conflict with fellow Republicans, a dynamic that has led to little support from current elected officials ahead of Saturday's primary.
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Politics
Republicans forge ahead with an impeachment inquiry against President Biden
President Biden's younger brother spent hours on Capitol Hill answering questions in a closed-door session that was part of the Republican-led impeachment inquiry.
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Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader, dies in prison. He was 47
Russia's Federal Prison Service said in a statement that Navalny felt unwell after a walk on Friday and lost consciousness. An ambulance arrived to try to rehabilitate him, but he died.