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A new political scandal has hit Britain's ruling Conservative Party. A senior official has resigned over an influence-peddling scheme uncovered by a British newspaper.

Host Bob Edwards talks with two Democratic strategists about how the party should position itself to win back the White House in 2004. Centrist Democrat Al From, founder and CEO of the Democratic Leadership Council, says the party should reach out beyond the Democratic faithful. Liberal Democrat Bob Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America's future, says the party should focus its message on the faithful. There is no consensus yet among Democrats about how to get a Democrat in the White House, and painful losses in the recent midterm elections have made the discussion all the more contentious.

NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks with Scott Maddox, Democratic Party state chair in Florida, and Carole Jean Jordan, chair of Florida's Republican Party, about concerns over the reliability of new electronic voting machines. Maddox cites problems with the new machines. Jordan says Republicans are confident in the new technology, and she distances the party from flyers it circulated urging Republicans to by-pass the voting machines and vote by absentee ballot.

Ballot Question 5 in Massachusetts would increase the hourly pay of tipped workers to the state's $15 an hour minimum. Right now, state law requires employers to pay at least $6.75 an hour. Supporters say the proposal would allow workers to have a more predictable wage. Opponents say it is likely to increase the price of going out to dinner and reduce tipping.

Health care is shaping up to be a major issue in the 2020 elections and is dividing the field of Democratic presidential candidates. But what drives voters? Here are a few of their stories.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the Trump immunity case in April. Sen. Mitch McConnell is stepping down from his leadership job. The death toll in Gaza has surpassed 30,000.

Host Debbie Elliott speaks with Richard Sutch and Susan Carter about numbers that tell the story of America. They've edited a new five-volume work, Historical Statistics of the United States. Today, Sutch and Carter discuss what the numbers tell us about the role of the U.S. Post Office in westward expansion.

The former president also doubled down on his support of participants in the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, saying that the "real insurrection" happened on Election Day.

A letter from the U.S. General Services Administration, which is dated Tuesday, tells agencies to submit a list of contracts they have terminated with the university by June 6.