Novelist Barbara Mertz once said that money is the manure of politics.

Well, she's right.

In some ways, it makes things grow, but it almost always stinks.

I'm Leo Brisseno.

During today's Washington Wednesday, a report on political fundraising.

Stay with us. Good morning. Today reading the smoke signals of political fundraising and how abortion harms women.

I think reproductive freedom would look like a woman being told

all of her options and choices. That's ahead today on Washington Wednesday

also today world tour and later a growing movement encouraging people to have more kids.

Pretty much every right-leaning person in Silicon Valley would identify as a pro-natalist.

Pro-natalism, a growing movement that's pro-child-birth, not necessarily pro-family.

And commentary from World's J. October 16th.

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And I'm Mary Reicher.

Good morning.

Up next, Kent Covington with today's news.

Officials in North Carolina are still trying to determine the fate of nearly a hundred people after catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Helene, Governor Roy Cooper.

As of the day, the task force number of unaccounted for people is 92.

More than 70 people are confirmed dead in the state from Helene which has been blamed

for well over 200 deaths across a half dozen states.

At a news conference, Cooper also asserted that some people are spreading lies about a lack of

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