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New Yorker staff writer Masha Gessen says there's been an exodus from Russia in the last week and a half: "It's a sudden and drastic descent into a sense of having no country."

The Sacklers, who own Purdue Pharma, maker of Oxycontin, have maintained they did nothing wrong. People who lost loved ones and years of their lives to opioid addiction believe otherwise.

Goldman Sachs says it's "winding down its business in Russia in compliance with regulatory and licensing requirements," two weeks after the country first invaded Ukraine.

The non-profit Trust for America's Health has ranked Iowa in its top tier for emergency preparedness in its annual report.

Annual inflation climbed to a new four-decade high in February, with consumer prices up 7.9% from a year ago. The increase does not reflect most of the recent jump in gasoline prices.

Host Ben Kieffer talks with political scientists Jim McCormick and Karen Kedrowski of ISU about the war in Ukraine and how the American public is likely to respond to the ban on Russian oil imports and continued high prices at the gas pump.

Iowa Republican Governor Kim Reynolds officially announced she’s running for re-election this year. A new report has ranked Iowa in the top tier when it comes to emergency preparedness. Plus, Federal officials are reporting Iowa’s COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to drop.

Almost 1 in 10 nurses who were issued new licenses last year waited six months or more, an NPR analysis found. Nurses say patient care suffers as these delays make staffing shortages even worse.

In an exclusive interview with NPR, the attorney general says he won't avoid cases related to the Capitol riot probe that are political, controversial or sensitive.

A new national survey raises alarms from election administrators facing constant threats. Stress and attacks by political leaders on the voting system are top forces pushing them out of their jobs.