President Bush says he's made up his mind on a successor to take Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. The president will announce his pick at 9 p.m. ET, Tuesday.
You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.
The woman said that during the alleged assault, she tried to resist but Jay-Z told her to stop. She also acknowledged some inconsistencies in her account but firmly maintained that she was attacked.
This week, Wait Wait is live at Carnegie Hall with special guest Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and panelists Paula Poundstone, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, and Mo Rocca