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Should your car warn you that you’re speeding? California lawmakers vote yes

Should your car warn you that you’re speeding? California lawmakers vote yes

California could become the first state to require technology in cars that warns drivers when they're going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit. But critics say lawmakers are moving too fast.
by Joel Rose

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Talking Sense: Navigating relationships across political divides

Has political polarization challenged relationships in your life? A Minnesota couple in a politically mixed marriage talks with two therapists and MPR News correspondent Catharine Richert about how to stay connected with family and friends, even when you disagree about politics.
by Angela Davis, Catharine Richert and Maja Beckstrom

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That photo of people wearing 'Nebraska Walz's for Trump' shirts? They're distant cousins

That photo of people wearing 'Nebraska Walz's for Trump' shirts? They're distant cousins

A sister of Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz says she doesn’t recognize the people wearing “Nebraska Walz’s for Trump” T-shirts in a photo that is making the rounds on social media. It turns out they are distant cousins.
by Steve Karnowski, Associated Press

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Trump Jan. 6 case gets its first hearing since the Supreme Court's immunity ruling

Trump Jan. 6 case gets its first hearing since the Supreme Court's immunity ruling

Lawyers for the government's special counsel and former President Donald Trump are set to clash in court in Washington over how the election interference case against him will proceed.
by Carrie Johnson

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Tim Walz's NRA rating went from A to F. It's part of a shift from Democrats on guns

Tim Walz's NRA rating went from A to F. It's part of a shift from Democrats on guns

Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz went from being endorsed by the NRA to a fierce advocate for gun control. That evolution reflects a larger shift that has been happening within the Democratic Party over the last decade.
by Mia Venkat and Ari Shapiro

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JD Vance’s Catholicism helped shape his views. So did this little-known group of Catholic thinkers

JD Vance’s Catholicism helped shape his views. So did this little-known group of Catholic thinkers

Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism helped shape his political worldview. It also put him in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement known as postliberalism. 
by The Associated Press

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U.S. accuses Russia of using state media to spread disinformation before the November election

U.S. accuses Russia of using state media to spread disinformation before the November election

The Biden administration announced wide-ranging actions Wednesday meant to call out Russian influence in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, unsealing criminal charges against two employees of a Russian state-run media company and seizing internet domains used by the Kremlin to spread disinformation.
by The Associated Press

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