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Machado has been in hiding for nearly a year.

She was last seen in public in early January when she was briefly detained at a political protest in Caracas.

The director of the Nobel Institute tells public broadcaster NRK Machado's daughter will likely be on hand to accept the prize on her mother's behalf.

Machado was being honored for her work to achieve a democratic transition in her country.

President Nicolas Maduro's government barred Machado from running for office after she won an opposition presidential primary ahead of the country's most recent presidential election.

The U.S.

economy and inflation weren't the only issues President Trump talked about when he traveled to northeastern Pennsylvania yesterday.

NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports on the president's speech in Mount Pocono.

A suspect is under arrest following yesterday's shooting at Kentucky State University.

One person was killed and another was critically wounded, as Curtis Tate with member station WEKU reports.

Police say the suspect is not a student at the school.

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In South Florida, voters in Miami have elected a Democrat to be the city's mayor for the first time in nearly three decades.

Democratic candidate Eileen Higgins defeated Republican Emilio Gonzalez, a former city manager in Miami who served on the transition team for President Trump's Department of Homeland Security.

Higgins will succeed incumbent Mayor Francis Suarez.

The Federal Reserve is expected to announce another quarter-point cut in U.S.

interest rates this afternoon when it wraps up its latest policy meeting.

The Fed lowered rates by that same amount in September and again in October as concerns about inflation were overtaken by worries about slowing employment.

A museum in Washington state says it houses the largest display of nutcrackers in the U.S.

Here's NPR's Vanessa Romo.