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As NPR's senior national correspondent, Linda Wertheimer travels the country and the globe for NPR News, bringing her unique insights and wealth of experience to bear on the day's top news stories.

Ossoff just missed an outright win in a special election to replace now Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, and will face Republican Karen Handel in a June runoff.

January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Today's guest, RICHELLE DOUGLAS, invites everyone to three upcoming events (the first being TONIGHT!) that aim to educate and raise awareness about this ongoing problem in our community. January 6, 2022

KIRK TREVOR and four students from the newly-formed Missouri Academy of Music are just days away from putting on a spring concert- but before they do, they stop by our show to perform Henry Purcell's 'Rondeau' at [2:00] and 'Air in D' at [6:22]. April 19, 2022

Author/poet WALTER BARGEN reads to us 'Domino Cafe Shop', a "tragic tale" about the owner of Columbia's Cafe Arno (its real name). "Every once in a while a story will grab a hold of me and I'll go, 'I'll write this down'." August 6, 2021

Here's a roundup of regional headlines from the KBIA Newsroom as of the morning of June 2, 2021.

Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci have qualified for the women's semis — reportedly the first time two women from Italy have made it that far in the same major tournament.

Charlotte Wolpers Craig spoke with the Missouri on Mic team at the Margaret Harwell Art Museum in Poplar Bluff in July. She spoke about growing up in the area, and one of her lifelong passions – helping animals. She helped found the Animal Welfare Alliance of Southeast Missouri, which opened a no kill shelter earlier this year.

Earn your high school diploma by way of Daniel Boone Regional Library. Communication outreach manager ABBEY RIMEL says anyone who's (at least) completed the 8th grade is welcome to apply to this fully online, self-paced, asynchronous accredited program! Also, SARAH EBER, RD, LD, Missouri Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, wants you to wash your veggies and your fruit and keep that potato salad on ice! "A lot of us know this, but it always helps to hear it again." (3:54) June 6, 2022

The Hawaii senator is the chamber's only immigrant. The Democrat, who asks every nominee whether they've ever been accused of sexual misconduct, has a passion belied by her cool affect.