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Joe Biden pardons his son. Is that justice?

02 Dec 2024

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Hunter Biden no longer has to worry about going to prison.That's because his father President Joe Biden pardoned him with just weeks left in his presi...

The 'Chinese Exclusion Era' shows how Trump's mass deportation plan could unfold

01 Dec 2024

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Donald Trump promises to deport millions of unauthorized immigrants once he returns to the White House. If he follows through, the scale of it would b...

Comedian Stephen Colbert is serious about food

29 Nov 2024

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If you've followed Stephen Colbert's career closely, you might have picked up on something. It's there back in his days on The Colbert Report, when he...

Ina Garten was ready for the luck

28 Nov 2024

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Thirteen bestselling cookbooks, a thriving food business in the Hamptons that she sold decades ago, and now her memoir "Be Ready When the Luck Happens...

Is 'Do Unto Others' the way to bridge the political divide?

27 Nov 2024

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On a Sunday in mid-July, Pastor Chris Morgan welcomed worshipers to Christ United Methodist Church in suburban Pittsburgh with a simple message.That S...

Angela Merkel recounts being the first and only in new memoir

26 Nov 2024

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In her new memoir, Angela Merkel writes about the many dilemmas she had to navigate as Chancellor of Germany. Dilemmas her male colleagues never had t...

Undocumented workers brace for ICE raids, mass deportation under Trump

25 Nov 2024

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President-elect Trump's promises more ICE workplace raids like the ones in 2019. This time, advocates and undocumented people want to be prepared.Lear...

"Wicked" star Cynthia Erivo, can relate to being viewed as different.

25 Nov 2024

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The movie version of the Broadway smash Wicked hits screens Friday, just in time for the holidays. Stage and screen star Cynthia Erivo plays the Wicke...

The "Bad Sisters" are back, and they're better than ever.

22 Nov 2024

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The Apple TV series "Bad Sisters" debuted two years ago. There were laughs. There was murder. And that could've been it for the Garvey sisters, becaus...

Some Trump cabinet picks are accused of sexual misconduct. What's it mean for #MeToo?

21 Nov 2024

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If you're tracking Donald Trump's cabinet picks, you may have noticed common threads among them: top jobs are going to people fiercely loyal to Trump,...

Witnesses say Israel is using sniper drones in Gaza and they're shooting civilians

20 Nov 2024

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Last week British surgeon Nizam Mamode testified in front of a committee in the U.K. Parliament. Dr. Mamode had recently returned from working at a ho...

Is Trump's defense secretary nominee qualified?

19 Nov 2024

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What does it take to run the Department of Defense? That's a question that will be at the heart of Pete Hegseth's confirmation process early next year...

If Trump gets rid of Department of Education, what would it mean for schools?

18 Nov 2024

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President-elect Trump has vowed to elimanate the Department of Education. The DOE oversees everything from college student loans to aid for public sch...

From Trump opponent to Trump loyalist: The evolution of Marco Rubio

17 Nov 2024

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When compared to some of president-elect Trump's other cabinet picks, Senator Marco Rubio for Secretary of State is a pretty conventional choice.He's ...

Trump nominates RFK Jr. to remake healthcare.

15 Nov 2024

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This week President-elect Donald Trump announced Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services.The nominatio...

Kamala Harris ran a historic campaign. What will her legacy be?

14 Nov 2024

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Vice President Kamala Harris made history as the first woman of color to lead the ticket of a major party. But despite her historic run, she ultimatel...

How will Democrats move forward? Three strategists weigh in

13 Nov 2024

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Since Donald Trump won the presidency last week, Democrats have been pointing fingers, laying blame and second-guessing themselves.All Things Consider...

With "Wicked," director Jon M. Chu writes his own story

12 Nov 2024

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Wicked – the 20-year-old – smash hit on Broadway turns the story of the "Wizard of Oz" on its head. Now, the story of Elfaba the Wicked Witch of t...

In second term, will Trump punish news outlets that anger him?

11 Nov 2024

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During the campaign, President-elect Trump called for reporters to be imprisoned and for media outlets to lose their licenses over unfavorable coverag...

What happens to Trump's criminal cases now that he's won re-election?

10 Nov 2024

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Today, we're sharing an episode of Trump's Trials for listeners.Now that Donald Trump is headed back to the White House the three remaining criminal c...

The Morgan Library's quest to honor a matriarch in archiving

08 Nov 2024

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Referred to as one of the most fascinating librarians in American history, Belle da Costa Greene is the figure who is responsible for the depth and le...

Exploring what the early days of a second Trump administration could look like.

07 Nov 2024

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In just over 70 days, Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States will become the 47th, and he'll begin implementing his vision of an all po...

Who's sending Trump back to the White House and why?

07 Nov 2024

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In the days leading up to election night, news outlets across the country were predicting a historically close race, one that could take days to call....

Who's paying to elect the president?

05 Nov 2024

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The homestretch of the presidential campaign means huge rallies, a final barrage of campaign ads, and massive multi-state get out the vote efforts. Al...

A look at the life of the singular Quincy Jones

04 Nov 2024

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Quincy Jones, the famed music producer who helped artists dominate popular music for half a century, has died. NPR's Walter Ray Watson described Jones...

Separating election facts from fiction

03 Nov 2024

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In these closing days of the presidential election, polling across the board has nearly every swing state in a statistical tie, meaning the election m...

The 2024 presidential race went from deja vu to unprecedented overnight

01 Nov 2024

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When the 2024 presidential campaign began, it looked a lot like the last one. Former President Donald Trump and sitting President Joe Biden became the...

How many ways can you tell someone to vote?

31 Oct 2024

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There are plenty of ways to encourage people to vote, as the presidential candidates and their supporters are demonstrating in this final stretch of t...

Harris makes her final pitch for her presidency

30 Oct 2024

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On Tuesday night, one week before election day, Vice President Kamala Harris made her closing argument to the American people. For sponsor-free episod...

Democrats are vying for the support of rural voters in North Carolina

29 Oct 2024

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North Carolina has more rural voters than any other 2024 presidential swing state. As early voting continues across the state, canvassing groups are w...

Donald Trump's closing argument: leaning into the extreme rhetoric

28 Oct 2024

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At a recent Trump rally, many speakers leaned into racist, misogynistic and vulgar rhetoric. So what could it do for his campaign in the final days of...

For some conservative Christians supporting Trump, it's about the policies

27 Oct 2024

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Evangelical and Pentecostal conservatives are a powerful force in Republican politics.They've stuck by former President Donald Trump for three preside...

Election battles are being waged at the ballot box and in the courtroom.

25 Oct 2024

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Election day is almost here, and we could soon find out who will become our next president. But winning doesn't only happen at the ballot box, and the...

Are biodiversity efforts keeping up with the effects of climate change?

24 Oct 2024

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This week and next, world leaders are gathering in Colombia for the 16th United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to check up on their collec...

Emo music gets its flowers at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

23 Oct 2024

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If you had any doubts, we can clear them up now. Emo music not only still exists — it's thriving. A new exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame fo...

Even in death, Alexei Navalny hasn't given up the fight against corruption in Russia

22 Oct 2024

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In his posthumous memoir, Patriot, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny wrote - "If they do finally whack me, the book will be my memorial."Though...

A look into Trump's recent rhetoric focusing on revenge and threats

21 Oct 2024

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An NPR investigation has found more than 100 times when former president Donald Trump has said his rivals, critics and even private citizens should be...

What does it take to run a free, fair and peaceful election?

20 Oct 2024

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Millions of ballots are tabulated at the Maricopa County Tabulation Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Inside and out, the building is a fortress.It's the le...

Latinos are more pro-choice than ever before. What spurred this change?

19 Oct 2024

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Two decades ago, only a third of Latinos believed abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Today, that number has risen to 62 percent. So why ar...

Hamas and Hezbollah are both without leaders. What now?

17 Oct 2024

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Today, Israel announced that they had killed Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas.Sinwar came to power in the wake of the death of hiss predecessor, as w...

The meaning behind Israel's 'right to defend itself'.

16 Oct 2024

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"Israel has a right to defend itself and its people." It's a phrase that's been spoken by Israel's allies – and American presidents – for decades,...

Bob Woodward's newest book is making headlines

15 Oct 2024

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Legendary journalist Bob Woodward's new book War, like so many of his books about the American presidency over the last half century, is generating he...

What would a Harris win mean for mixed-race Americans?

14 Oct 2024

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Vice President Harris' multiracial identity has not been a major focal point during her short campaign. But what do members of her communities think?F...

Deep inside a Norwegian fjord, a dream of farming salmon sustainably

13 Oct 2024

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If you eat salmon, there's a good chance that it comes from a salmon farm in Norway. The country has been farming salmon for over 50 years. The indust...

TikTok executives know about app's effect on teens, lawsuit documents allege

11 Oct 2024

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For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American tee...

Hurricane Milton's path of destruction

10 Oct 2024

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Hurricane Milton tore a path of destruction through Florida late Wednesday, leaving multiple dead and wrenching buildings apart.Many across the southe...

How Helene and Milton were supercharged by climate change

09 Oct 2024

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As Hurricane Milton approaches Florida's central west coast, residents are preparing for the worst. The storm exploded into a Category 5 hurricane ear...

Hurricane Milton's triple threat

08 Oct 2024

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In the span of one day, a Category 1 hurricane headed for western Florida escalated to the highest intensity there is: Category 5.Since then, the pred...

Is there finally hope in America's overdose crisis?

07 Oct 2024

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In a twist that many addiction experts thought impossible, the decades long upward trend of opioid deaths in the United States has finally started to ...

October 7th: A year of war through the eyes of those who lived it

06 Oct 2024

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The October 7th Hamas-led attacks on Israel and the subsequent Israeli invasion of Gaza have changed the course of geopolitics. The events have upende...

In states where votes are close, organizers are aiming to 'lose by less.' Why?

04 Oct 2024

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In a state where every vote matters, campaigns are not only trying to win in counties where they're strongest. They're also trying to lose by less in ...

Wisconsin's vote is vital to the presidency. What are residents there looking for?

03 Oct 2024

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Consider This host Ari Shapiro and WUWM's Maayan Silver speak with voters along a 15-mile road that cuts through the Milwaukee area's segregated neigh...

Neighbors have been helping neighbors recover from hurricane Helene

02 Oct 2024

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The effort to recover from Hurricane Helene is only beginning. But neighbors and volunteers from humanitarian organizations are pitching in to help.Le...

Conflict in the Middle East is spreading. Is a wider regional war imminent?

01 Oct 2024

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The war in the Middle East appears to be widening, almost one year after Hamas launched its attack on Israel.For more on what might unfold from here, ...

How much can the upcoming vice presidential debate impact the election?

30 Sep 2024

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In a race where so much of the polling is within the margin of error — it seems as though any one thing could affect the outcome of the 2024 preside...

Author Robert Caro on the history of power

29 Sep 2024

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Historian Robert Caro's book "The Power Broker" details how urban planner Robert Moses reshaped New York through the roads and bridges he built, and t...

Are we entering a #MeToo reckoning for the music industry?

27 Sep 2024

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When Sean "Diddy" Combs sang about being a bad boy in his 2001 hit, the lyrics were a mission statement and a boast. But today, the lyrics might sound...

Meet the man in charge of prosecuting war crimes

27 Sep 2024

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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Karim Khan, the lead prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, about the pager explosions and conflict in th...

Without immigrants, America's job growth would have stalled

25 Sep 2024

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The share of Americans who are in the workforce today is the highest it's been in decades. But it's still not enough to replace all the baby boomers w...

Young voters in GA. will have a huge stake in the election. What do they want?

24 Sep 2024

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Consider This host Mary Louise Kelly wanted to find out what young voters in Georgia are most concerned with ahead of the presidential election this y...

More forever wars?

23 Sep 2024

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The US is trying to broker an end to the war between Israel and Hamas. Ceasefire talks begin and end and begin again. Secretary of State Antony Blinke...

Would long-range missiles for Ukraine pull the U.S. into a war with Russia?

22 Sep 2024

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It's been more than two and half years since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Since then, the U.S. and its NATO allies have slowly and increme...

Is Georgia ready to vote for a female president?

20 Sep 2024

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A few months ago, it was looking like Donald Trump had Georgia all but locked up.Now with Harris in the race, Georgia is once again in play for democr...

The unraveling of Eric Adams' administration

19 Sep 2024

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The biggest city in the country is in the midst of a major political scandal, and things appear to be unraveling in New York Mayor Eric Adam's adminis...

Israel rigged pagers and radios to explode across Lebanon

18 Sep 2024

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Two unusual attacks against the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah come at a time when negotiations over a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas have...

A year after the strike is the UAW still winning?

17 Sep 2024

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A year ago at this time, members of the United Auto Workers Union were feeling powerful and optimistic. The group's new President Shawn Fain had calle...

Another attempt was made on Trump's life. What do we know?

16 Sep 2024

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Former President Donald Trump was targeted in what "appears to be an attempted assassination" on Sunday afternoon, the FBI says.What do we know about ...

The Republicans who stood up to Trump after the 2020 election

15 Sep 2024

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In the new HBO documentary "Stopping the Steal," we hear from Republican officials in Arizona and Georgia who wanted Donald Trump to win the 2020 pres...

NASA prepares to head back to the moon.

13 Sep 2024

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This time next year, if everything stays on schedule, NASA will send its first crewed mission to the moon, since the end of the Apollo program. Artemi...

Anne Lamott has some ideas on getting older in the United States

12 Sep 2024

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Getting older has been a punchline for as long as anyone can remember. And while there are plenty of jokes to be made about aging, it can also have so...

During Tuesday's debate, Harris was in command; Trump was incoherent

11 Sep 2024

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Vice President Kamala Harris was dominant during Tuesday's presidential debate in Philadelphia. Former President Donald Trump struggled to stay on top...

Cooking for the most powerful person in the world

10 Sep 2024

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There's an old line: "Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you who you are?" Well if it's true, then Cristeta Comerford knows the last five Presidents b...

Should the presidential debate moderators hold candidates accountable?

09 Sep 2024

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After days of back and forth, both presidential campaigns finally agreed on the rules for Tuesday night's debate. But what are the rules for moderato...

As debate looms political impressionists get into character

08 Sep 2024

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Ahead of the presidential debate, host Scott Detrow talks to comedians Matt Friend and Allison Reese. They're two of the most prominent political impr...

The rise and fall of the DEI movement

06 Sep 2024

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We're in a moment where DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) hiring practices mean many different things to many people. Over the past four years, m...

Project 2025: Political winner or loser?

05 Sep 2024

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Project 2025 - you've probably heard about it. It's a roadmap from the conservative Heritage Foundation for the next Republican president.It's also be...

'Bring them home.' Hostages' families cry.

04 Sep 2024

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It was a night of mourning on Tuesday, when Doug Emhoff, second gentlemen and the first Jewish spouse to a US president or Vice president, spoke at th...

Ketanji Brown Jackson chronicles her path to the Supreme Court

03 Sep 2024

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When Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson entered the national spotlight, she found praise and also criticism.In her new book, Lovely One, Jack...

Measles cases are up and childhood vaccinations are down

02 Sep 2024

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For about three weeks in 2000, there were zero measles cases in the United States. It was declared eradicated.Fast forward to 2024, and measles cases ...

Game on: the sprint to election day

01 Sep 2024

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Labor Day is considered the beginning of the end of the Presidential election, but as history shows, things can change a lot by election day. Host Sco...

'American Pie', and the bygone era of raunchy teen comedies

30 Aug 2024

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Raunchy sex comedies had a moment at the end of the 20th century. And perhaps the king of them all, was American Pie. Even people who have never seen ...

Wrongfully imprisoned for decades, Ben Spencer is exonerated

29 Aug 2024

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In 1988, Ben Spencer was sentenced to life in prison for a brutal robbery and murder he has always insisted he did not commit. Spencer spent the next ...

Is the U.S. military ready for the wars of the future?

28 Aug 2024

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Earlier this month, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, and the former head of Google, Eric Schmidt, wrote a piece for ...

Why this writer says her son deserves a champion like Tim Walz

27 Aug 2024

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When Tim Walz accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president, his son stole the show.In a viral moment, the cameras panned to 17-year-old Gus W...

Eggs and Bananas: Life after a Russian prison

27 Aug 2024

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It's been more than three weeks since the U.S. and Russia completed the largest prisoner swap since the collapse of the Soviet Union.Speaking from the...

How would banning taxes on tips actually work?

25 Aug 2024

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Both major party presidential nominees Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are on the same side of one issue. Getting rid of taxes on tips. But what would ...

Looking The Other Way Pt 2: On tape and under oath

24 Aug 2024

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What happens when political ambition collides with a #MeToo allegation in the Democratic party? Episode 2 of our two-part investigation. For sponsor-f...

Looking The Other Way Pt 1: A powerful Democrat and a #MeToo scandal

24 Aug 2024

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Did Eric Garcetti, a powerful Democrat, lie under oath about a #MeToo scandal in his office? That's the question at the center of a new investigation ...

The fine line between providing campus security and allowing for free speech

23 Aug 2024

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College students are trickling back onto campuses for the fall semester, just months after protests exploded across the U.S. over Israel's war in Gaza...

How blue candidates might win in red districts

22 Aug 2024

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Before she became vice president, Kamala Harris had only ever won elections in California — a solid blue state.To win the White House, the Harris-Wa...

For the first time, the DNC welcomes influencers to the stage

21 Aug 2024

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Olivia Julianna, 21, is one of more than 200 digital content creators who has been given media credentials to the Democratic National Convention this ...

Bangladesh's student protestors are now helping to run the country

20 Aug 2024

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Earlier this month, student protestors filled the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh, in opposition to a controversial quota system for government jobs.Auth...

Weight loss drugs have transformed an American city. Is that a good thing?

19 Aug 2024

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They've been called "Hollywood's worst-kept secret." Medications like Ozempic or Mounjaro, which are commonly used to treat diabetes, are part of the ...

Looking ahead to the DNC, the Harris-Walz campaign prepares for a defining moment

18 Aug 2024

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The state of the presidential race is a far cry from what it was just a few months ago. Vice President Kamala Harris's rise to the top of the Democrat...

'The Sixth Sense' and a career of plot twists

16 Aug 2024

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Twenty-five years ago this month, one film, and one filmmaker, became synonymous with the big plot twist.So what was it about The Sixth Sense that mad...

Trump is promising mass deportations. His own record shows it's not so simple

15 Aug 2024

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Donald Trump is pledging to go further on immigration than he did in his first term as president, if he is re-elected in November.Internal emails and ...

A new Israel-Hamas cease-fire talk starts this week. Is anything different?

14 Aug 2024

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So often, telling the story of the Israel-Hamas war is reduced to a catalog of numbers.But this war is much more than all of that. It is the daily lif...

The plan to tackle customer service bots and subscription fatigue

13 Aug 2024

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This week, the Biden administration announced it is taking on more of what it calls "everyday headaches and hassles that waste Americans' time and mon...

How a candidate's military service can help or hurt their campaign

12 Aug 2024

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By most measures, the new Democratic ticket has had an impressively smooth launch.But there is one caveat to that — controversy over how vice presid...

Young people are dying of opioid overdoses. Are students and campuses prepared?

11 Aug 2024

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Overdose death rates have spiked dramatically for young adults, rising 34 percent between 2018 and 2022, according to recent data from the Centers for...