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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Omar Encarnacion about former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro being banned from running for office for eight years due to efforts to overturn Brazil's 2022 election.

From April 2020 to April 2021, more than 100,000 people died of a drug overdose in the U.S.

Tragedy strikes in Saint-Fiacre, shocking Maigret to the core.

A look at the need for more funding of home care for the disabled in the NYS budget and a Women's Wednesday conversation with Capt. Lara Morrison, the first female commander at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station. Also, looking for COVID in the region’s sewers, a new contract for nursing home workers who went on strike last month in Lewiston, and the community and police connection in mental health incidents.

College graduates face one of the bleakest job markets on record. It's so hard to find work that some grads are resorting to unconventional approaches. An aspiring accountant spent six months emailing resumes before trying something more daring: carrying a sandwich board.

As WBFO’s Tom Dinki looks back on the Capitol attacks last year, we learn the six people from Erie County charged by the Dept. of Justice for storming the Capitol, rank us fourth in the nation in having participants charged. Also Karen DeWitt on Gov. Hochul’s infrastructure, tax cut and health care plans. And hear Dr. Nancy Nielsen MD say “It’s really hard to justify why people aren’t getting vaccinated” against COVID.

Huda Akram is a doctor based in Benghazi, Libya, whose family hails from Derna. She spoke to NPR on Wednesday, describing the harrowing scenes and what is happening now.

On Wednesday's Scoreboard... Sports in America have often been connected to politics. In the aftermath of Election Day, I put together my top five most impactful moments where patriotism poured into the athletic sphere in the USA.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Michael Schmidt of The New York Times about another version of what happened in President Trump's dinner with the now former FBI Director James Comey. Schmidt reports that Trump asked Comey for a private promise of his loyalty to which Comey demurred.

In 2008, Robert Mugabe carried out a campaign of violence and terror against the people of Zimbabwe. In The Fear, African journalist Peter Godwin takes on the story, chronicling his travels through the country. Critic Susan J. Gilman says this chilling portrait turns us all into witnesses.