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Thieves raided Catherine's family shop. California blames organized retail gangs

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Catherine Kim's family kiosk is just one business targeted by shoplifters in California in recent weeks in what California Attorney General Rob Banta says is an organized operation.

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Kellogg's workers end 11-week strike with a new contract

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with HuffPost labor reporter Dave Jamieson about the announced end to the Kellogg's strike in Michigan.

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California attorney general announces steps against 'smash and grab' robberies

Monday, December 20, 2021

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with California Attorney General Rob Bonta about a recent spate of "smash and grab" incidents at California retailers.

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Civil engineer says buildings will need to prepare for stronger storms

Monday, December 13, 2021

NPR's Audie Cornish chats with civil engineering expert David Prevatt about how to prepare buildings for tornadoes following a series of deadly storms.

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Fix the global vaccine rollout or face even worse COVID variants, experts warn

Thursday, December 09, 2021

The world has "lost the plot" on equitable vaccine access and is falling far short of targets to vaccinate the global south, according to scathing assessments from experts.

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We may be one step closer to storing data in DNA

Thursday, December 02, 2021

Researchers at Microsoft have developed a faster way to write data into DNA — a biological alternative to the bits on a hard drive.

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As omicron spreads, vaccine inequity risks creating further variants

Wednesday, December 01, 2021

NPR's Ari Shapiro chats with Madhu Pai, a global health expert at McGill University, about the state of vaccine deliveries to Africa and the global south.

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Western U.S. monarch butterfly population is doing better than expected

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

In recent years, monarch butterflies have all but disappeared from their annual Pacific Coast migration. But there are promising signs the population could stage a comeback.

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Former prosecutor discusses how the Kyle Rittenhouse trial played out

Friday, November 19, 2021

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Charles Coleman Jr., a civil rights lawyer and former prosecutor, about Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot and killed two people, being found not-guilty of all charges.

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Ethiopia's capital prepares for possible rebel attack

Thursday, November 18, 2021

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Samuel Getachew, a journalist based in Addis Ababa, about Ethiopia's government telling residents of the nation's capital to prepare for a rebel attack.

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Married for 52 years, William and Diana Gutierrez died of COVID months apart

Friday, November 12, 2021

William and Diana Gutierrez lost their lives to COVID approximately two months apart last winter. We take a moment to remember their lives.

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Migrants entering Poland from Belarus face sub-zero temperatures and military patrols

Thursday, November 11, 2021

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Matthew Luxmoore of Radio Free Europe about the growing migrant crisis on the border of Belarus and Poland.

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What is the citizen's arrest law at the heart of the trial over Ahmaud Arbery's death?

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Law professor Joseph Margulies explains how the now-repealed Georgia statute came about — and how its interpretation could decide the fate of the three men accused of Arbery's murder.

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60 years after a massacre in Paris, French-Algerians are still pushing for justice

Thursday, October 21, 2021

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Melissa Chemam, a French-Algerian journalist, about the 60th anniversary of a massacre of Algerians in Paris.

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A now-repealed law will weigh on the trial of Ahmaud Arbery's accused killers

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Joseph Margulies, a criminal law expert, about how citizen's arrest laws factor into the trial of three white men charged in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery.

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Maori leader calls New Zealand's COVID-19 strategy a 'death warrant' for her people

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Debbie Ngarewa-Packer of the country's Maori Party says the shift from a zero-tolerance pandemic approach to an easing of restrictions will disproportionately impact Indigenous people.

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Southwest pilots' union explains flight cancellations

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Capt. Casey Murray, president of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, about the widespread flight cancellations that the airline had this weekend.

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Maori politician worries New Zealand's COVID plan is a 'death warrant' for her people

Friday, October 08, 2021

New Zealand is moving away from a "zero cases" approach to COVID-19. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Maori party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer about why she opposes the change.

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How Surveillance Programs Developed After 9/11 — And How Those Targeted Pushed Back

Friday, September 10, 2021

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Ahmed Mohamed, legal director at the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, about the surveillance of Muslim communities after 9/11.

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What It Was Like Entering The Kabul Airport Alongside The Taliban

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Nabih Bulos, Middle East correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, about the Taliban's takeover of the Kabul airport.

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