What’s The Talk Of Your Nation? : NPR

NEAL CONAN, HOST: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I’m Neal Conan, in Washington. Every day on this program, we try to address the talk of the nation, the most important, the most compelling stories, like landmark Supreme Court decisions, civil war in Syria, climate change, politics and tough times. On our last day, …

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GoFundMe has become a health care utility

GoFundMe started as a crowdfunding site for underwriting “ideas and dreams,” and, as GoFundMe’s co-founders, Andrew Ballester and Brad Damphousse, once put it, “for life’s important moments.” In the early years, it funded honeymoon trips, graduation gifts, and church missions to overseas hospitals in need. Now GoFundMe has become a go-to platform for patients …

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Reeling From $450 Million Penalty, Trump Hawks $400 Shoes

Former President Donald J. Trump, reeling from a ruling in a New York civil fraud case on Friday that ordered him to pay about $450 million, appeared at a footwear convention in Philadelphia the next day to promote Trump-branded sneakers, retailing for just under $400. The former president took to the stage at Sneaker …

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Seeing her attacks on Trump, some claim Haley as a member of the resistance

Speaking to influential Republican donors at a private gathering in Palm Beach, Fla., on the last Tuesday of January, Nikki Haley’s campaign manager joked that she had hoped to bring the party’s bigwigs all “Barred Permanently” T-shirts, but they were back-ordered — a cheeky allusion to Donald Trump’s threat that anyone who donates to …

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