Lynde Langdon

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MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Friday the 31st of January. Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Myrna Brown. NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. A military helicopter crashed into American Airlines flight 5342 over Washington Wednesday night. A fireball was visible and the doomed aircraft dropped into the Potomac River along with 60 passengers. Some of them were returning from a figure skating competition in Wichita last week.

Jan 15, 2025 | wng.org | Lynde Langdon

After serving more than a decade on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, faced a panel of allies at his confirmation hearing today. The ranking Democrat on the committee, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, began by expressing her support for Rubio’s appointment. In his opening statement, Rubio rebuked what he called the delusional view that nations can cooperate as “one world” while setting aside their individual interests.

Sep 29, 2024 | wng.org | Lynde Langdon

Emergency crews worked to rescue stranded residents and to airlift supplies into Western North Carolina on Sunday, two days after Tropical Storm Helene brought catastrophic floods that cut utilities and closed major roads in and out of the region. As rivers and streams breached their banks, rushing water filled many neighborhoods in Asheville, N.C., including the business district where WORLD has its headquarters.

Sep 11, 2024 | wng.org | Leo Briceno |Travis Kircher |Lynde Langdon

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris defended their records and policies to the country on Tuesday night amid a race for the presidency that’s too close to call. The two met in a televised debate hosted by ABC News from the National Constitution Center in PhiladelphiaGoing into the debate, Trump barely led Harris in a national poll with 48 percent support according to polling released Tuesday by The New York Times in partnership with Siena College.

Aug 28, 2024 | wng.org | Lynde Langdon

STATE STATSVoter makeup: Missouri has about 4.3 million registered voters. It is a mostly red state with pockets of support for Democrats in the metropolitan areas of St. Louis and Kansas City and the college town of Columbia. Bill Clinton was the last Democratic presidential candidate to win in the state in 1996, though in 2008, Barack Obama lost Missouri by fewer than 4,000 votes.