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News brief: social spending bill, Facebook's name change, Cuomo criminal complaint

Friday, October 29, 2021

Democrats say they have a path forward on social spending. Facebook's new corporate name is Meta, but the app is still Facebook. Ex-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo faces a misdemeanor sex charge.

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Biden makes his case to House Democrats for a $1.75 trillion spending framework

Thursday, October 28, 2021

It does not include progressive priorities like paid family leave or measures to lower the costs of prescription drugs. Still, President Biden thinks it would pass both chambers.

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Biden will attend summits in Europe as he struggles to get agreements at home

Thursday, October 28, 2021

President Biden leaves Washington to attend the G-20 in Rome and the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow. But will he have progress to show at home on his priorities, as Democrats try to hash out a deal?

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News brief: Biden priorities, U.S. economic stats, parole challenges

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Biden is about to leave on a five-day trip to Europe. Data is expected to show the U.S. economy has slowed. Parole in Washington, D.C. is adjudicated by a federal commission and that's created issues.

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Pianist Lara Downes re-centers the music of the Great Migration

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Pianist Lara Downes' latest mini-album traces the story of the Great Migration of Black Americans from the south in the early to mid-20th century, with music by Florence Price and Harry T. Burleigh.

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NIH study of COVID-19 vaccine boosters suggests Moderna or Pfizer works best

Thursday, October 14, 2021

The long-awaited study finds that people who got the J&J vaccine would benefit more from getting a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine as their booster instead of another J&J shot.

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News brief: COVID boosters, Jan. 6 probe, shipping backlog

Thursday, October 14, 2021

A COVID-19 booster study suggests Moderna or Pfizer works best. A House panel investigating the U.S. Capitol attack issues more subpoenas. The Biden administration aims to break up shipping logjams.

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White House organizes virtual global summit to tackle ransomware

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

The White House is hosting a virtual meeting for more than 30 countries — from Ukraine to the United Arab Emirates — this week to find ways to fight ransomware together.

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Ethiopia's year-long civil war may be entering a more destructive phase

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

The civil war is worsening as the Ethiopian government announces it is launching a new offensive against insurgents in Tigray.

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News brief: inflation watch, ransomware summit, e-cigarette authorization

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

The Labor Department reports consumer prices data. The White House hosts a virtual global summit to discuss ransomware. The FDA allows a brand of e-cigarettes to stay on the market.

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Moderna and Johnson & Johnson release documents about COVID vaccine boosters

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Moderna and Johnson & Johnson say people who got COVID-19 vaccines should get additional doses to boost their protection against the delta variant. Both companies submitted evidence to the FDA.

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News brief: NPR Poll on delta surge, Jon Gruden's emails, espionage case

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

The surge pushed Americans further behind. Las Vegas Raiders coach resigns after reports he used derogatory language. Ex-Navy engineer and his wife are accused of trying to sell submarine secrets.

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Poland says Belarus has turned human trafficking into a business

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Belarus is sending migrants across its border with Poland to pressure the EU, and when Poland illegally sends asylum-seekers back across the border, they face mistreatment by Belarussian police.

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Ex-Navy nuclear engineer and his wife are charged in an espionage plot

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

A former U.S. Navy engineer and his wife are due in federal court Tuesday. The Justice Department accuses them of trying to share secrets about nuclear submarine technology with another country.

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Early results in Iraq show record low election turnout

Monday, October 11, 2021

Most Iraqis don't expect Sunday's parliamentary elections will bring much change to a leaderships blamed for corruption and mismanagement, but some voters still thought it was important to be counted.

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News brief: vaccinations, Iraq election, China-Taiwan tensions

Monday, October 11, 2021

It's expected to be a big week for COVID-19 vaccines and boosters. Ballots are being counted in Iraq's parliamentary elections. China and Taiwan used a weekend occasion to heat up their rhetoric.

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A Black family got their beach back — and inspired others to fight against land theft

Sunday, October 10, 2021

The beachfront land — known as Bruce's Beach in Manhattan Beach, Calif. — is being returned to the descendants of Charles and Willa Bruce 97 years after it was taken from them.

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Iraqis will vote for a new parliament on Sunday

Friday, October 08, 2021

While some new voices have emerged in the campaigning, it looks like the usual parties will win. One underdog candidate got some voters on her side when she resolved a sewer problem in a Baghdad slum.

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'No Time to Die,' Daniel Craig's last Bond film, is in U.S. theaters Friday

Thursday, October 07, 2021

NPR's A Martínez talks to Glen Weldon of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast and Jourdain Searles, co-host of the podcast Bad Romance, about Daniel Craig's epic conclusion as James Bond.

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Preview: Nobel Prize for literature is announced on Thursday

Thursday, October 07, 2021

Past laureates have included the authors Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow and Ernest Hemingway. The American poet Louise Glück won the 2020 Nobel Prize in literature.

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