Voters on Tuesday elected the nation's first Black woman governor and the nation's first Native American woman governor.
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National
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Democrats didn't just win the U.S. Senate and governor races in Texas. They won every statewide contest and will take control of the Texas House, making the state a blue one, at least for now.
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NASA's Swift observatory is set to re-enter the atmosphere on Wednesday after two decades of gathering data.
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Union leader and former wildland firefighter Sam Forstag has won a House seat in Montana that Republicans have held for three decades.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with former Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, a Democrat, about Texas flipping blue and what it means for future elections.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Anna Greenberg, a Democratic pollster, about what polls captured (and underestimated) after Democrats performed stronger than expected in midterm elections.
Health, Science, Technology, Environment
In Nairobi, a city prone to floods, workers in the "Green Army" are making preparations to prevent disaster when El Niño arrives.
Arts & Life
What makes special education teaching jobs so hard to fill? NPR set out to find some answers by talking to more than a dozen teachers who do this work every day.
The WCBE Podcast Experience
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