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Residents in New York watch Donald Trump's speech on a screen as the vote counting continued on November 06, 2024.

Connecticut Public Radio | By Sujata Srinivasan Republican Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris Wednesday following a campaign that put immigration and reproductive health care in focus to voters across the country.

Nelba Márquez-Greene holds a moment of silence at the National Safer Communities Summit in West Hartford, Conn June 16th, 2023. Her husband Jimmy Greene stands behind her. Their daughter Ana Grace was killed the the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school in 2012.

Polls open for voting across Connecticut and the country for today’s election November 05, 2024.

Irshad Manji is the founder of Moral Courage College and the author of the book, 'Don't Label Me.'

From the availability of mifepristone in certain states to a full-scale ban on abortion, advocates for access to reproductive care are bracing for a Trump White House’s impact on reproductive rights. In this hour of The Wheelhouse, we speak to reporters about local and national efforts to support reproductive rights.

Fallen ice melts in an ice cave created by meltwater at the retreating Castner Glacier in the Alaska Range on May 5, 2023 near Paxson, Alaska. The ice cave is slowly collapsing after a surge of meltwater and high temperatures last summer. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), ‘the state is warming at two to three times the rate of the global average’ amid climate change. A 2021 study, using twenty years of data from NASA’s Terra satellite, found that nearly all of the world’s glaciers are melting, with fifty percent of the planet’s glacial loss happening in the U.S. and Canada.

U.S. health care spending grew 4.1 percent in 2022, reaching $4.5 trillion or $13,493 per person. As a share of the nation's Gross Domestic Product, health spending accounted for 17.3 percent.

Over the next six months, lawmakers will convene to address some of the state’s most pressing issues. This hour, we’ll explore the top priorities for this session, including affordable housing, funding for public education and more.

President Joe Biden takes notes during a briefing on the wildfires across Los Angeles in the Oval Office of the White House on January 10, 2025 in Washington, DC.