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Foreign aid is being attacked by presidential candidates and members of Congress. It looks certain that assistance to other countries, which makes up a miniscule percentage of the overall budget, is about to be cut even further.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison ranks No. 3 and the Koch brothers jointly occupy the No. 4 spot on the list of the wealthiest Americans.

A half century ago, a beekeeper from New Zealand and a Sherpa from Nepal reached the top of Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. To mark next month's anniversary of the epic ascent, Peter Hillary and Jamling Norgay return to Everest to retrace their fathers' legendary footsteps.

Missouri and Arizona are two of the latest states to get enough signatures to add abortion rights to ballots in the November elections for voters. Plus, ManhattAnt, a mysterious ant, takes over NYC.

Also: Father of the Sandy Hook killer "searches for answers;" Northern California is rattled by quake, but no significant damage is reported.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says the number of vehicles winning its two safety awards jumped from 39 to 71 for the 2015 model year.

It’s Election Day Tuesday, Dec. 12, in Albuquerque City Council District 6, where no candidate in last month’s four-way race secured over half of votes cast. So, the top two finishers are competing in a head-to-head runoff election to represent the area that includes Nob Hill, the International District and neighborhoods around the Sunport.

With 1.5 million deaths a year, tuberculosis has passed HIV/AIDS.

Morning Edition Host David Greene recently returned from a reporting trip to Crimea and responds to questions on Reddit about how the Black Sea peninsula has changed since it was seized by Russia.

Two big surprises awaited Paul Bremer when he arrived in Iraq: that the country's chaos made it ripe for insurgency; and that the U.S. government would withhold additional troops. Bremer became the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq in May of 2003.