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The White House paused rules to curb steel plant pollution. Locals weigh in
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In parts of Western Pennsylvania, steel plants are big employers – and big polluters. This summer, the Trump administration paused regulations that would have forced steel mills to curb air pollution.By Reid Frazier
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Zelenskyy touted Ukraine's ingenuity against Russia in UN address
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the U.N. General Assembly, as diplomats struggle to stop Russia's aggression.By Michele Kelemen
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Warming waters are shifting the diversity of American river fish
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A pair of studies show that American rivers are getting hotter, posing a risk for many fish species.By Nathan Rott
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California is seeing a spike in cases of Valley Fever
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California is seeing a spike in cases valley fever — an illness spread by fungal spores. Researchers speculate the rise is tied to patterns of drought and precipitation.By Jerimiah Oetting
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Deadly shooting at Dallas ICE detention facility may have been politically motivated
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NPR's Sergio Martinez-Beltran has the latest update from Dallas, where four people were shot at an ICE detention facility Wednesday morning.By Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
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MLB will allow players to challenge balls and strikes starting in 2026
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With a tap of their head, players will be able to trigger an automated review when they disagree with an umpire's call. In spring training this year, just over half of challenges were successful.By Becky Sullivan
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In this episode we’ll explore AI – from deepfakes to the growing importance of social media verification. Our guest Robyn Caplan is an Assistant Professor at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy and is currently teaching a class on the transformation of media. Her latest research considers the blue-check verification process that is used on many …
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A year after Hurricane Helene, communities still wait for federal reimbursements
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A year after Hurricane Helene devastated parts of Western North Carolina, communities are eager for FEMA funds to reimburse recovery expenses, but it's not clear when and if that money will come.By Gerard Albert III
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Elon Musk's company wants to build tunnels to alleviate Houston's floodwater problems
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One idea to prevent another hurricane catastrophe in Houston is massive underground tunnels to redirect storm water. New reporting reveals Elon Musk's Boring Company has been involved in the planning.By Lauren McGaughy
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Multiple Casualties Reported After Shooting at Dallas ICE Facility; Causes of Autism Exposed in New Government Report
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One dead and two are critically injured after a shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office occurred in Dallas this morning, according to local authorities. In other news, the long-awaited study on the causes of autism has now been released. The Food and Drug Administration has declared that acetaminophen, also known as Ty…
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Amanda Shires new album 'Nobody's Girl' tells her side of public breakup
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Amanda Shires new album, Nobody's Girl, explores the very public breakup with her husband, fellow musician Jason Isbell.By Scott Detrow
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As AI advances, doomers warn the superintelligence apocalypse is nigh
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Profile feature about the small but dedicated band of computer scientists and others in Silicon Valley who say humanity is about to make an extinction-level mistake by creating an AI superintelligence.By Martin Kaste
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Researchers are calling for greater recognition of an obscure form of malnutrition-related diabetes. This year, the International Diabetes Federation gave it an official classification.By Jonathan Lambert
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Trump is changing public health guidance. What's it mean for you?
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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with the head of the American Academy of Family Physicians about changing public health guidance, what doctors are hearing from patients, and how to best navigate changes.By Ari Shapiro
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I'm joined by Lauren Augustine, the curator of reptiles and amphibians at the Philadelphia Zoo, for an exciting Galapagos tortoise announcement, cool facts, and the wild (and sometimes glittery-poop filled) details behind-the-scenes at zoos. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By iHeartPodcasts
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In this special two part episode from Jerusalem, Dinesh has a timely and candid conversation with Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of one of the founders of Hamas, who has become a prominent “insider” critic of Islamic radicalism and terrorism. Yousef, author of “Son of Hamas” and other books, reported Hamas activity to the Israeli government, and conseque…
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Left-Abstention & Message Discipline with Liam Bright
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Does my argument that the left should not threaten abstention survive Liam's case that we can't impose message discipline on online communities? An open free-form chat.By Toby Buckle
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A student's winning podcast looks back to a way of life she never knew
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Avani Yaltho, this year's high school winner in NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, brought three generations of her family together to talk about their shared history.By Sequoia Carrillo
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Fact-checking Trump’s autism announcement
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In a televised press conference on Monday, Donald Trump and health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr made a series of unproven claims about autism and its links to paracetamol use in pregnant women, and about childhood vaccinations. The comments were immediately refuted by scientists and health agencies around the world, but many expressed concern abou…
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The Future of Canada’s North: Critical Minerals and the Arctic Security Corridor
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In this episode, RJ Simpson, Premier of the Northwest Territories, joins us for a conversation about how the North can help shape Canada’s economic and security future. Simpson highlights the region’s wealth of critical minerals and the importance of projects like the proposed Arctic Security Corridor to unlock new opportunities. He underscores the…
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Was it easier to deport migrants to France before Brexit?
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Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news. This week: Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey says it was easier to deport illegal migrants to Europe when we were in the EU. Is that true? Did the governor of the Bank of England get his numbers wrong on the UK’s ageing population? Why is the price of beef up by 25% in a year? Is it possible to pr…
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Jacinto Cuvi, "The Edge of the Law: Street Vendors and the Erosion of Citizenship in São Paulo" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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How street vendors tangle with the law in São Paulo, Brazil. With a little initiative and very little startup money, an outgoing individual might sell you a number of delights and conveniences familiar to city dwellers—from cold water bottles while you’re sitting in traffic to a popsicle from a cart on a summer afternoon in the park. Such vendors f…
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Jacinto Cuvi, "The Edge of the Law: Street Vendors and the Erosion of Citizenship in São Paulo" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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How street vendors tangle with the law in São Paulo, Brazil. With a little initiative and very little startup money, an outgoing individual might sell you a number of delights and conveniences familiar to city dwellers—from cold water bottles while you’re sitting in traffic to a popsicle from a cart on a summer afternoon in the park. Such vendors f…
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Tea Gerbeza, "How I Bend Into More" (Anstruther Books, 2025)
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Based on Tea Gerbeza's experience with scoliosis, How I Bend Into More (Anstruther Books, 2025) re-articulates selfhood in the face of ableism and trauma. Meditating on pain, consent, and disability, this long poem builds a body both visually and linguistically, creating a multimodal space that forges Gerbeza's grammar of embodiment as an act of re…
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Laurian R. Bowles, "Headstrong: Women Porters, Blackness, and Modernity in Accra" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
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Headstrong: Women Porters, Blackness, and Modernity in Accra (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025) explores the experiences of women porters, called kayayei, in Accra, Ghana. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, anthropologist Laurian R. Bowles shows how kayayei navigate precarity, bringing into sharp relief how racialization, rooted in histories of colonialis…
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Mark Archuleta, "The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr: From Gentleman Bandit to Movie Star and Back Again" (U North Texas Press, 2025)
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In 1921 headlines across the country announced the death of Henry Starr, a burgeoning silent film star who was killed while attempting to rob a bank in Harrison, Arkansas. Cynics who knew the real Starr were not surprised. Before becoming a matinee idol, Starr had been the greatest bank robber of the horseback bandit era. Born in 1873, Cherokee out…
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Constance Bailey, "Conversations with Kiese Laymon" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
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This is a very special episode of the New Books Network, as the editor of Conversations with Kiese Laymon (UP of Mississippi, 2025), Dr. Constance Bailey, discusses the process of selecting, compiling, and publishing the volume with the subject himself, award-winning author, Kiese Laymon. Conversations with Kiese Laymon provides an in-depth look at…
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Authoritarian Ideas, Old and New: From Schmitt to “JD”
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On this episode of International Horizons, RBI Acting Director, Eli Karetny talks with Richard Wolin (Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center) about the intellectual roots of today’s anti-liberal right. Tracing a line from Germany’s “conservative revolutionaries” (Carl Schmitt, Oswald Spengler, Ernst Jünger, Heidegger) to France’s nouvelle dr…
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Adrian Pole, "Making Antifascist War: The International Brigades' Transnational Encounters with Civil-War Spain, 1936-1939" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Making Antifascist War: The International Brigades' Transnational Encounters with Civil-War Spain, 1936-1939 (Cambridge UP, 2025) is a study of the 35,000 antifascists who joined the International Brigades in order to defend the Second Spanish Republic and of their encounters with civil-war Spain. Dr. Adrian Pole offers the first in-depth history o…
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Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (NYU Press, 2025)
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A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers Though both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls to arms, many of the men who eventually served were black. Simultaneously, photography culture blossomed--marking the Civil War as the first con…
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The centuries-old international battle over the real sound of a musical note. Guest: Fanny Gribenski, historical musicologist and author of Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955 Reported for Unexplainable by Emily Siner For show transcripts, go to vox.com/unxtranscripts Fo…
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Emily Vine, "Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Early modern London has long been recognised as a centre of religious diversity, yet the role of the home as the setting of religious practice for all faiths has been largely overlooked. In contrast, Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London (Cambridge UP, 2025), Dr. Emily Vine offers the first examination of domestic religion in L…
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Samer Al-Saber, "A Movement's Promise: The Making of Contemporary Palestinian Theater" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Starting in the 1970s, Palestinian theater flourished as part of a Palestinian cultural spring. In the absence of local radio, television, and uncensored journalism, theater production became the leading form of artistic expression, and Palestinian theater artists self-identified as a movement. Although resistance was not their sole function, these…
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Weathering the Storm: Policy, People, and Public Safety
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Guest: Rep. Eric Sorensen, IL-17 When severe weather strikes, the National Weather Service is on the front lines saving lives, but what happens when those front lines are short-staffed as storms get stronger? As a former broadcast meteorologist turned Congressman, Representative Eric Sorensen knows firsthand how critical timely, accurate forecasts …
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Tylenol and Autism: What’s True and What Isn’t
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On Monday, the Trump administration linked the use of Tylenol with rising autism rates, but science doesn’t support that claim. Guest host Sydney Lupkin talks to autism researcher Helen Tager-Flusberg about how autism is studied, the findings from decades of research, and what people–especially those who are pregnant–should do when they experience …
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How Race-Based Policies Are Harming South Africa: Ernst Roets
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“South Africa moved from one race-based system to another race-based system. ... We need to move away from race-based systems,” argues Ernst Roets. He’s the Founder and Executive Director of Lex Libertas, an organization that advocates for constitutional reform and more decentralized governance in South Africa. While many have highlighted the killi…
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China's largest ride-hailing company now asks customers to rate the aroma
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China's ride-hailing companies are penalizing drivers for smelly rides. A surplus of labor means many drivers work 15 hours a day and live in their cars to make ends meet, hence the odor.By Anthony Kuhn
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To a survivor of Japanese incarceration, ICE detentions feel painfully familiar
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Mary Murakami was 14 years old when she was forcibly relocated and imprisoned during World War II. The Trump Administration's immigration enforcement actions resurface painful memories.By Kai McNamee
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Trump's announcement of a steep fee hike to H1-B visa sparks confusion in India
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President Trump announced a $100,000 fee hike to a visa category overwhelmingly used by Indian nationals to work in tech. it's causing confusion and concern in India.By Diaa Hadid
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Remembering Sonny Curtis, singer and 'Mary Tyler Moore Show' theme song writer
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Prolific singer and songwriter Sonny Curtis has died. He wrote and performed "Love Is All Around," the theme song for The Mary Tyler Moore Show.By Mallory Yu
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Experts alarmed by Trump plan to force homeless Americans into institutions
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President Trump wants far more homeless people forced into mandatory long-term addiction or mental health treatment but critics say forcing people to accept care is risky and expensive.By Brian Mann
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Trump issues executive order designating antifa a 'domestic terrorist organization'
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President Trump has issued an order designating antifa a "domestic terrorist organization," as he has long promised. It sets a precedent and is prompting many questions.By Odette Yousef
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In this episode, Dinesh discusses the issue of "Did the Jews kill Christ?" in the larger context of a debate on the Right over Israel, the Jews and anti-Semitism. Dinesh explains the meaning of the title of his new film "The Dragon's Prophecy." Rainmaker CEO Augustus Doricko joins Dinesh to talk about a congressional hearing on weather manipulation…
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Despite past complications, crypto company Tether is ready for American debut
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Global crypto giant Tether has a controversial history but it now has an ambitious plan to expand across the U.S. It's a sign of how much things have changed for crypto under President Trump.By Rafael Nam
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What's long COVID like? Novelist says it gave her 'Brian fog' — That's not a typo
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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with author Patricia Lockwood about her latest novel Will There Ever Be Another You. She spent years fighting long COVID and her book captures that sense of disorientation.By Ari Shapiro
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The 'dark patterns' at the center of FTC's lawsuit against Amazon
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This week, the trial starts in a consequential FTC lawsuit against Amazon. The suit alleges that Amazon for years "tricked" people into buying Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel.By Monica Nickelsburg
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Want a seat at this synagogue for the High Holidays? You have to register to vote fir
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A synagogue in Brooklyn has taken an unusual step by requiring congregants to show proof of voter registration in order to secure seats for High Holiday services — the holiest days of the year.By Sarah Ventre
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How Trump's speech to the UN landed, as a high level week gets underway
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We look at how President Trump's speech to the U.N. General Assembly landed Tuesday as a week of high-level events gets underway.By Michele Kelemen
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Beauty and health gurus love it. Do claims about sea moss sink or swim?
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Wellness influences claim sea moss can boost gut health, reduce anxiety and give you glowing skin. But is there evidence it works?By Maria Godoy
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