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Kids Born Today Could Face Up To 7 Times More Climate Disasters

05 Oct 2021

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Children being born now will experience extreme climate events at a rate that is two to seven times higher than people born in 1960, according to a ne...

The U.S. Has Passed Its Delta Peak — With More Vaccine Rules Coming

04 Oct 2021

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Cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are all on the decline in the U.S. — with September marking a turning point in the delta surge. Vaccination rate...

BONUS: Goodbye, Climate Jargon. Hello, Simplicity!

03 Oct 2021

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People are likely to be confused by climate change terms like "mitigation" and "carbon neutral," according to a recent study. Yet, these terms are ubi...

The Best Song Japanese Breakfast Says She's Written Is For A Video Game

01 Oct 2021

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Michelle Zauner is best known as the frontwoman of indie rock band Japanese Breakfast and like most musicians, she's trying to tell a personal story t...

Redistricting: What Happens When The Party With Power Gives Themselves More

30 Sep 2021

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Like lawmakers across the country, the Republican majority in Texas is getting ready to redraw the lines that define state and congressional voting di...

Why A Growing Number Of Haitian Migrants Are Headed To The U.S.

29 Sep 2021

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Thousands of Haitian migrants who had gathered on the southern border were deported back to their home country last week, even though some of them hav...

The Global Supply Chain Is Still A Mess. When Will It Get Better?

28 Sep 2021

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Retail experts are already warning of delays, shortages, and price hikes this holiday shopping season as the pandemic continues to disrupt global supp...

Religious Exemptions To Vaccines: Who Wants Them And What's Legal

27 Sep 2021

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Some city and state workers around the country have already begun to resist workplace vaccination rules on religious grounds. Soon those rules will be...

BONUS: A Friendly Ghost Story

26 Sep 2021

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It's one of the most common and perplexing friend mysteries out there - when friends ghost friends. In this episode of NPR's Invisibilia, they examine...

Lil Nas X Is Not Trying To Comfort Anyone

24 Sep 2021

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Every generation has its musical "boogeyman." The Rolling Stones, N.W.A., Madonna. And the latest musician to be inducted into this notorious list is ...

Border Crisis: Thousands Of Haitians Flown to Haiti Against Their Will

23 Sep 2021

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Thousands of Haitan migrants who were camping out under a bridge in a Texas border town seeking to cross the Rio Grande and find refuge in the US are ...

Lessons Learned From Flint

22 Sep 2021

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The infrastructure bill moving through Congress includes billions to replace lead pipes. In Flint, Mich., NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with residents on ho...

Boosters Won't Make It To Everyone For Now, But Vaccines For Young Children Are Coming

21 Sep 2021

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The FDA Advisory Committee decided not to approve boosters for people sixteen and up. Instead, they made a recommendation for those 65 and up, or youn...

Germany Is Holding Syrian Officials Accountable For Alleged War Crimes

20 Sep 2021

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10 years ago, when the Syrian regime sent tanks and warplanes to stop a an uprising, it sparked a bloody civil war that is still ongoing.Learn more ab...

BONUS: The Lost Summer

19 Sep 2021

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Twenty years ago, during the dog days of summer, a fledgling journalist named Shereen Marisol Meraji — maybe you've heard of her? — headed to Durb...

To The Stage: After A Year Away, Broadway Is Back

17 Sep 2021

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After a year away, Broadway's lights are back on. Some of the biggest productions have returned for vaccinated and masked audiences. From "Wicked" to ...

Heatwaves Are The Deadliest Weather Events, But They're Rarely Treated That Way

16 Sep 2021

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Heatwaves don't have names or categories like hurricanes and wildfires, but they kill more people each year than any other weather event, according to...

One Month After The Fall Of Kabul Thousands Still Wait For Escape

15 Sep 2021

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It has been exactly one month since Kabul fell and the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. With U.S. troops gone from the region and the collapse of ...

India's 'Love Jihad' Laws Make Marriage Difficult For Interfaith Couples

14 Sep 2021

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In India, where arranged marriages are the norm, people typically marry within their religion or caste. But occasionally, some find love on their own ...

Will A Federal Mandate Make The Difference For Unvaccinated Americans?

13 Sep 2021

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Last week President Biden announced a six-pronged strategy to combat the newly surging pandemic — including a federal rule that all businesses with ...

StoryCorps Presents: The Lasting Toll Of 9/11

10 Sep 2021

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This weekend the nation marks 20 years since 9/11 — a day we are reminded to never forget. But for so many people, 9/11 also changed every day after...

In A New Afghanistan, Some Women Fear For Their Rights — But Others Are Hopeful

09 Sep 2021

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This week, women protested in Kabul after the Taliban announced an all-male interim government. One woman who helped organized the protests told NPR "...

Delta Surge Slows Recovery As Parts Of Pandemic Safety Net Disappear

08 Sep 2021

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Last week's jobs report for the month of August show signs the delta surge is slowing the economic recovery, just as some pandemic safety net programs...

As A Destructive Fire Season Rages On, What Might Prevent The Next One?

07 Sep 2021

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The good news is that firefighters in California have regained control of the Caldor Fire near Lake Tahoe and tens of thousands of evacuated residents...

What Kids Feel Entering A Third COVID School Year (And How To Help Them Through It)

06 Sep 2021

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Most kids are now in their third year of school during the pandemic. It's been a time of ups and downs; adjustments and re-adjustments. Some have flou...

Did The Supreme Court Just Overturn Roe v. Wade?

03 Sep 2021

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The Supreme Court's conservative majority allowed a Texas law banning most abortions to go into effect. Almost immediately, abortion providers had to ...

The Delta Surge Keeps Getting Worse. What Happens When Hospitals Fill Up

02 Sep 2021

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Some states in the south are have more people in the hospital than at any point during the pandemic — fueled by the highly transmissible delta varia...

Scenes From The Aftermath Of The U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan

01 Sep 2021

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The U.S. military's mission in Afghanistan is over. For many still living in the country, a new struggle has begun: how to move forward after they wer...

How Climate Change Is Making Storms Like Ida Even Worse

31 Aug 2021

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Hurricane Ida's winds intensified rapidly as the storm approached coastal Louisiana over the weekend — making landfall at its most powerful. NPR's R...

How A Bankruptcy Deal Could Offer Clean Slate For Opioid Billionaires

30 Aug 2021

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A federal bankruptcy judge says he'll rule Wednesday in the case of Purdue Pharma, makers of OxyContin. The company is owned by the Sackler family, wh...

BONUS: Venezuela's Rise and Fall

29 Aug 2021

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Venezuela is facing an economic and humanitarian crisis as extreme poverty and violence have forced many to flee the country in recent years. How did ...

Taliban Vs ISIS-K: An Emerging And Deadly Conflict In Afghanistan

27 Aug 2021

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For Afghans like Fawad Nazami, life under the Taliban would be a fate 'worse than death.' Nazami is a political counselor at the Afghan embassy in Was...

12 U.S. Service Members Killed In Kabul: What We Know About The Attack

26 Aug 2021

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12 U.S. service members were killed in an attack at the Kabul airport on Thursday. They were among some 5,000 U.S. troops evacuating American citizens...

Pfizer's Fully-Approved Shot Opens The Door To More Mandates

25 Aug 2021

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New York City, New Jersey, Goldman Sachs, and the Pentagon all imposed new vaccine requirements in the days following the FDA's full approval of Pfize...

Time Is Running Short For The U.S. Evacuation Effort In Afghanistan

24 Aug 2021

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The Biden administration said Tuesday that the U.S. was on pace to meet an August 31 deadline to fully withdraw from Afghanistan, but that "contingenc...

Why Are Millions Of U.S. Workers Still On The Sidelines?

23 Aug 2021

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School districts can't find bus drivers. The TSA is short on security screeners. Ports can't find enough workers to load and unload shipping container...

On Our Watch: The Brady Rule

22 Aug 2021

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Antioch police officials suspected one of their veteran detectives of leaking operational details as far back as 2010. But they didn't fire Santiago C...

Teachers Are Stressed, Burnt Out — Yet Hopeful As School Begins

20 Aug 2021

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Across the country, it looks like this time, last year. Schools — some days or weeks into the start of the new year — are forced to close temporar...

The Desperate Effort To Get Afghan Allies To Safety

19 Aug 2021

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As many as 100,000 Afghans — those who worked with the U.S. military over the years, and their families — are trying to get out of the country. Bu...

How Haiti Is Weathering Two Natural Disasters At Once

18 Aug 2021

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Just weeks after the shock of a presidential assassination, Haiti was hit by a devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake on Saturday. The death toll is nea...

Booster Shots Coming Soon As Delta Overwhelms Some Hospitals

17 Aug 2021

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Hospitals like the University of Mississippi Medical Center are overwhelmed. Dr. LouAnn Woodward, vice chancellor of the Jackson hospital, told NPR th...

Chaos And Collapse In Afghanistan: How Did The U.S. Not See It Coming?

16 Aug 2021

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The Taliban now control Afghanistan. How did the country's government fall so quickly — and why didn't the U.S. see it coming? NPR put those questio...

On Our Watch: Neglect of Duty

15 Aug 2021

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In the agricultural town of Salinas, Calif., Police Officer William Yetter repeatedly makes mistakes. First there's a stolen bike he doesn't investiga...

Taliban Gains, U.S. Evacuates: What's The Endgame In Afghanistan?

13 Aug 2021

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In the last week, the Taliban have gained control of large sections of Afghanistan faster than most people expected. The Pentagon is dispatching troop...

After Dire U.N. Warning On Climate, Will Anything Change?

12 Aug 2021

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What struck John Kerry the most about this week's landmark U.N. report on climate change? "The irreversibility" of some of the most catastrophic effec...

Uncharted Territory: Back To School Meets The Delta Surge

11 Aug 2021

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In the next few weeks, millions of children will head back to school. Many of them are too young to be vaccinated. At the same time, children are bein...

Ethiopia's Civil War Is Becoming A Humanitarian Crisis

10 Aug 2021

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The Tigray region in northern Ethiopia is at the center of a civil war that broke out last November, after rebels there attacked a military base. Sinc...

'A Code Red For Humanity:' Climate Change Is Getting Worse — Faster Than We Thought

09 Aug 2021

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A landmark new report from the United Nations warns that the world is running out of time to avoid the catastrophic effects of global warming. Those e...

On Our Watch: Perceived Threat

08 Aug 2021

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Episode four of On Our Watch from NPR and KQED investigates the case of a plainclothes Stockton police officer who grabbed a Black 16-year-old, took h...

Biden Admin Sees Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill As A Win

06 Aug 2021

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After months of bipartisan negotiation, the Senate may finally vote this weekend on a 2,700 page infrastructure bill that includes $1 trillion in spen...

A Resistant Gov. Cuomo Could Face Impeachment

05 Aug 2021

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is refusing to resign after this week's explosive report from the state's attorney general. It detailed multiple allega...

Beirut's Deadly Port Explosion, One Year Later

04 Aug 2021

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It's been exactly one year since a massive explosion in Beirut's port killed over 200 people, injured thousands and caused billions of dollars in dama...

Eviction Protection Extended, But Millions Of Renters Still Face Uncertainty

03 Aug 2021

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At the stroke of midnight last Saturday, a federal moratorium that had been in place for nearly eleven months expired. After the Supreme Court ruled t...

New Phase Of Pandemic Met With Confusion And Exhaustion

02 Aug 2021

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The United States has reached yet another turning point in this pandemic—one that may feel particularly unrelenting and confusing.Learn more about s...

On Our Watch: 20-20 Hindsight

01 Aug 2021

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In episode three of On Our Watch, we examine the records that were unsealed by this transparency law to piece together what exactly happened on Septem...

Vaccine Mandates Are Spreading Alongside Dangerous Delta Variant

30 Jul 2021

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The Delta variant is more dangerous and contagious than many experts initially realized. In response to the uptick in cases and hospitalizations count...

Black Olympians Often Have 'The Weight Of The World' On Their Shoulders

29 Jul 2021

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When Simone Biles dropped out of her Olympic competitions this week, the whole world took notice. At 24 years old Biles is the most decorated gymnast ...

Justice Department Struggles To Bring Jan. 6th Cases To Trial

28 Jul 2021

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Four police officers offered harrowing testimony of their experiences protecting the U.S. Capitol on January 6th during the first hearing for a new De...

Who Pays When Sea Levels Rise?

27 Jul 2021

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Rising seas are threatening coastal communities around the world, which will need billions of dollars to protect themselves. It's clear the water is c...

Food Service Workers Are Quitting At Record Rates. Why? Because They Can

26 Jul 2021

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Food service workers in America have newfound bargaining power, and they're using it — quitting jobs for better ones at record rates. NPR's Alina Se...

On Our Watch: Conduct Unbecoming

25 Jul 2021

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One officer in Los Angeles used car inspections to hit on women. Three hundred miles away in the San Francisco Bay Area, another woman says an officer...

Rodrigo Amarante Throws a Musical Tantrum in Latest Album, 'Drama'

23 Jul 2021

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Starting over can be scary. But not for Rodrigo Amarante. After an established musical career in Brazil, he made the jump to the U.S., where his relat...

Haiti's Unraveling: How A Mysterious Assassination Fanned Violent Unrest

22 Jul 2021

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It's still unclear who is responsible for planning and funding the assassination of Haiti's president Jovenel Moïse earlier this month. But violence ...

Will Delta Surge Sway Unvaccinated? Plus: The Truth About 'Breakthrough' Infections

21 Jul 2021

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The delta variant now makes up an estimated 83% of coronavirus cases in the U.S., a sharp increase over recent weeks. Cases are rising more rapidly in...

The New Child Tax Credit Is Here. Will Millions Get Cash Permanently?

20 Jul 2021

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Tens of millions of American families are beginning to receive direct cash payments as part of the expanded child tax credit, which was part of the CO...

How The Pandemic Shaped Medical Education And, Ultimately, Your HealthCare

19 Jul 2021

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Medical education must always keep up with the times. But the pandemic forcing medical students to learn virtually revealed new fault lines and opport...

On Our Watch: In Good Faith

18 Jul 2021

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From police officer misconduct to deadly shootings, internal affairs investigations are how law enforcement agencies investigate their own and promise...

Cross-Cultural Casting: Noteworthy For Hollywood, But Not Exactly New

16 Jul 2021

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Jodie Turner-Smith in Anne Boleyn. Mindy Kaling in Scooby Doo. Dev Patel in The Green Knight, and last year's David Copperfield.It seems like Hollywoo...

How Cuba's Government Is Attempting To Silence Unprecedented Protests

15 Jul 2021

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The protests that erupted in Cuba over the weekend are the biggest the country has seen in decades. Cubans are suffering through a summer of shortages...

Democrats Assail 'Jim Crow' Assault On Voting Rights. So What's Their Plan?

14 Jul 2021

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In a speech this week, President Biden said Democrats must 'vigorously challenge' what he described as the '21st Century Jim Crow assault' on voting r...

The U.S. Almost Out Of Afghanistan. What Happens There Next?

13 Jul 2021

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The U.S. military will be fully out of the country by August 31. The Taliban already control more than half of it. A U.S. intelligence assessment repo...

Latest On Boosters; 'Trusted Messengers' Lead Vaccine Outreach

12 Jul 2021

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The Biden administration is emphasizing vaccine outreach by 'trusted messengers' — community volunteers, faith leaders, and primary care providers —...

Co-Opted And Weaponized, 'Cancel Culture' Is Just Today's 'Politically Correct'

09 Jul 2021

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'Cancelling' is a term that originated in young and progressive circles, where it was used to mean 'boycott,' University of Pennsylvania linguist Nico...

Why Wildfire Is Not Just A Western Problem

08 Jul 2021

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All over the east coast and Midwest, forests are getting hotter and drier. Many are also overgrown and overdue for wildfire. And increasingly, America...

NPR Traces California Yoga Teacher's Alleged Path To The Capitol Riot

07 Jul 2021

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NPR's Tom Dreisbach reports on the story of Alan Hostetter, a former police chief and yoga instructor from California who's now facing conspiracy char...

How Critical Race Theory Went From Harvard Law To Fox News

06 Jul 2021

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Critical race theory is a legal framework developed decades ago at Harvard Law School. It posits that racism is not just the product of individual bia...

Questlove Unearths The Long-Forgotten 'Summer Of Soul'

05 Jul 2021

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In 1969, during the same summer as Woodstock, another music festival took place 100 miles away. The Harlem Cultural Festival featured black musicians ...

BONUS: American Anthem

04 Jul 2021

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The Star-Spangled Banner is the official anthem for the United States, but there are plenty of songs that have become informal American anthems for mi...

How The Delta Variant Is Changing The Pandemic On A Global Scale

02 Jul 2021

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Cases are surging in countries around the world as the more transmissible delta variant spreads rapidly. Also growing: pressure on vaccine-rich countr...

What Donald Rumsfeld Left Behind

01 Jul 2021

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The former Secretary of Defense was a chief architect of the conflict that came to be known as America's 'forever war.' After his death this week at a...

A 'Pandemic Of Unvaccinated People' As Delta Variant Spreads Rapidly

30 Jun 2021

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Los Angeles County — America's most populous county — recently recommended mask wearing even for vaccinated people, just two weeks after the state...

What The Pentagon's UFO Report Reveals About Aliens — And Ourselves

29 Jun 2021

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Late last year the Senate passed a bill that required U.S. intelligence agencies to share what they know about "unidentified aerial phenomena," the te...

What We've Learned In The First 100 Hours Since The Surfside Condo Collapse

28 Jun 2021

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Susana Alvarez, a survivor of the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, explained to NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro on Weekend Edition Sunday that residents...

BONUS: Battle Rattle

27 Jun 2021

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Alicia Argelia met Army veteran Matt Lammers when he rolled into the store where she worked. Matt had lost both legs and one arm during a deployment t...

What Hollywood Could Learn From The 20-Year Success Of 'Fast & Furious'

25 Jun 2021

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What's behind the 20-year success of the Fast & Furious franchise? Casting, storytelling and reinvention. NPR's Linda Holmes — who wrote an owner's ...

Not Just Wildfire: The Growing Ripple Effects Of More Extreme Heat And Drought

24 Jun 2021

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For the second weekend in a row, parts of the American West will be gripped by historic heat, coming in the second decade of megadrought that has grip...

Millions Of Americans Could Be Facing Eviction

23 Jun 2021

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Back in March, Congress approved nearly $50 billion in aid for people who need rental assistance to avoid eviction. At the same time a federal morator...

The Unproven Lab Leak Theory Puts Pressure On China — But It May Backfire

22 Jun 2021

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From the beginning of the pandemic, the debate about the origins of the coronavirus was immediately politicized by former President Donald Trump. But ...

50 Years Later, Is America's War On Drugs At A Turning Point?

21 Jun 2021

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In June 1971, then-President Richard Nixon said the U.S. had a new public enemy number one: addiction. It was the beginning of America's long war on d...

BONUS: Tom Hanks, Fox News, And A Debate About Whiteness In Hollywood

20 Jun 2021

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This all started with a guest essay by Tom Hanks for The New York Times called "You Should Learn the Truth About the Tulsa Race Massacre," in which Ha...

Reparation Discussions Are Gaining Traction But Not Widespread Support

18 Jun 2021

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Juneteenth, the celebration to commemorate the end of chattel slavery in the United States, is the newest federal holiday after President Biden signed...

Will The U.S. Meet Its July 4 Vaccination Goal? Your State May Already Have

17 Jun 2021

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Last month, President Biden laid out an ambitious goal: to get 70% of adults in the U.S. at least one vaccine dose by July 4. With less than three wee...

Parents Want Schools To Make Up The Special Education Their Kids Lost In The Pandemic

16 Jun 2021

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Remote learning simply didn't work for many children with disabilities. Without the usual access to educators, therapists and in-person aides, the fam...

What's At Stake As President Biden Enters Negotiations With Vladimir Putin

15 Jun 2021

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Wednesday will be President Biden's first meeting with one of America's greatest adversaries. Drawing a contrast with his predecessor is the least of ...

Why Everything Is More Expensive Right Now

14 Jun 2021

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From computer chips to rental cars to chicken breasts, a complex global supply chain is straining under pent-up post-vaccine demand. NPR's Scott Horsl...

BONUS: A World Where The NRA Is Soft On Guns

13 Jun 2021

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About two months after the coronavirus began spreading in the United States, groups of Americans began to protest the quarantine lockdown measures in ...

ProPublica's 'Secret IRS Files' Unveil How Richest Americans Avoid Income Tax

11 Jun 2021

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The story made waves in Washington, D.C., this week: The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income T...

Back To The Office: Not Everyone Is Welcoming The Return

10 Jun 2021

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For Americans who were able to work from home at the start of the pandemic, what felt like an extended snow day at first has now turned into 15 months...

Listener Q&A: Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy On Variants, Boosters And Vax Mandates

09 Jun 2021

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More than half of U.S. adults have been fully vaccinated, and case rates are at their lowest point since the pandemic began. But there are still a lot...

Democrats' Path To Big Legislation Runs Through West Virginia. Is It A Dead End?

08 Jun 2021

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Democratic proposals for immigration reform, gun control, infrastructure and voting rights are stalled in Congress. Standing in between Democrats and ...