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State Rep. Barbara Cooper, D-Memphis, watches the vote board as her bill to limit license restoration fees passes during House session on April 12, 2006 in Nashville, Tenn. Cooper, who served in the General Assembly, died on Oct. 25, 2022. She was 93. (AP Photo/John Russell, File)

Opinion: A life lesson from these midterm elections

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on several electoral races in which candidates were posthumously elected.

A customer is handed Powerball tickets purchased at Lichine's Liquor & Deli in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Nov. 7, 2022. Monday night's drawing is estimated to be a record $1.9 billion.

Someone in California won the $2 billion Powerball jackpot

Monday's Powerball drawing was delayed after one participating lottery needed more time to carry out security procedures. The jackpot had ballooned over three months without a winner.

The Home Depot store is seen in Philadelphia on Feb. 22. Home Depot workers in the city could form the company's first unionized store.

Home Depot workers in Philadelphia vote on whether to form 1st unionized store

More than 260 workers will be able to begin voting on Wednesday. Results are expected late Saturday.

South Koreans are becoming a year younger following a set of bills passed by parliament to unify the country's age system.

South Koreans are getting younger, as a new law goes into effect

People in South Korea all became at least one year younger on Wednesday, as the country dropped a traditional method of counting their ages. Under the old system, a person was one year old at birth.

Trump charged with additional counts in Mar-a-Lago documents case

A new defendant was also added the indictment against Trump and his aide Walt Nauta. Carlos de Oliveira was added to the obstruction conspiracy charged in the original indictment.

A man rides a scooter in Paris, on march 31. The city has now banned rental electric scooters.

Paris' rental electric scooter ban has taken effect

The city held a referendum and banned rental e-scooters after reports of injuries and three deaths.

A customer walks by a "Now Hiring" sign posted in front of a store in Novato, Calif., on April 7, 2023. The labor market remains red hot. That's great for workers, but it's bound to reinforce concerns about high inflation.

The U.S. added 339,000 jobs in May. It's a stunningly strong number

Employers added a whopping 339,000 jobs in May, far above expectations, according to a report from the Labor Department on Friday. The unemployment rate rose to 3.7%, from 3.4% in April.

Songwriter and producer Edgar Barrera posing at the 22nd annual Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas in 2021. Barrera has earned another 13 Latin Grammy nominations in 2023.

Hitmaker Edgar Barrera leads the 2023 Latin Grammy nominations

The Mexican American songwriter and producer earned nearly twice as many nods as his closest competitors, which include three of his collaborators: Colombian artists Camilo, Karol G and Shakira.

Centrist former Sen. Joseph Lieberman has died at 82

As Al Gore's running mate in 2000, Lieberman became the first Jewish candidate on a presidential ticket of one of the two major parties. He later became an independent and was a leader of No Labels.

The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in Miami said 25 packages of cocaine totaling up to 70 pounds were discovered on a beach in the Florida Keys. In a post on Facebook, officials say the packages have a street value of up to $1 million.

Hurricane Debby washed ashore $1 million worth of cocaine onto Florida beaches

The packages, which were discovered along two beaches in Florida, are reported to have weighed over 100 pounds in total with an estimated street value of over $1 million, authorities said.

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