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As midterm campaigns come to an end on Tuesday, a pair of former political rivals are teaching a new batch of strategists how to get the next generation of politicians elected.

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Job growth picked up for the 100th consecutive month in January even as hundreds of thousands of federal workers were furloughed during the partial government shutdown,the Labor Department said Friday.

Updated at 9:27 a.m. ET

Job growth picked up for the 100th consecutive month in January even as hundreds of thousands of federal workers were furloughed during the partial government shutdown,the Labor Department said Friday.

The Taliban has re-taken roughly half of Afghanistan, and government forces are dying at the hand of insurgents - sometimes as many as 25 a day.

Secretary of State Pompeo is in the Middle East to assure allies that the U-S remains committed to the region.

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This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Fifty years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball, one of the most famous athletes in America was an African American who had set countless records in a sport that had long shunned people of color.

Veteran Supreme Court correspondent Joan Biskupic talks with Dave about the roots of Roberts’ conservative views, his reasoning on key decisions including one upholding the Affordable Care Act, and why she thinks President Trump shouldn’t regard Roberts as a rubber stamp for his administration.

U.S. employers added 263,000 new jobs in April. That's more than analysts were expecting, and it's another sign the economy keeps chugging along after almost a decade of growth.

On the next Morning Edition, a bishop calls for unity after United Methodists vote to maintain a ban on gay marriage and clergy.