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Matt Reeves, a former employee of Montpelier who was fired this week, is pictured outside of the historic Gilmore cabin at Montpelier.

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  • Race

Montpelier says it's open to parity with slave descendants. Descendants call foul

Problems at Montpelier, years in the making, reached a boiling point this week when a number of employees who had supported descendants of the enslaved were fired.

April 23, 2022
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By:
  • Alana Wise
Faced with Elon Musk's hostile takeover bid, Twitter's board and management will have to show their plan to address long-standing problems.

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  • Technology

Why Twitter is an easy target for outsiders like Elon Musk intent on change

To ward off Elon Musk, Twitter's board will have to show it finally has a plan to address long-standing business problems.

April 23, 2022
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
Firearms were the leading cause of children under the age of 19 in 2020. Until then, motor vehicle accidents had spent the last 60 years as the leading cause of death for kids.

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  • Health

Firearms overtook auto accidents as the leading cause of death in children

The change occurred in 2020, researchers say. Overall firearm-related deaths increased 13.5% between 2019 and 2020, but such fatalities for those 1 to 19 years old jumped nearly 30%.

April 22, 2022
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By:
  • Dustin Jones
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at the Tesla Giga Texas manufacturing "Cyber Rodeo" grand opening party in Austin, Texas, on April 7, 2022.

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  • Technology

'Love Me Tender' and poison pills: Unpacking the Elon Musk-Twitter saga

Elon Musk is trying to buy Twitter in a $43 billion takeover, which the company's board is attempting to resist. What's at stake, and where is all this going?

April 19, 2022
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By:
  • Shannon Bond and
  • Bobby Allyn
This week Vice President Harris announced new actions the Biden administration is taking to help people in the United States struggling with medical debt.

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  • Health

What the White House's actions on medical debt could mean for consumers

The Biden administration announced new measures to ease the financial burden of high medical bills. Here's how the measures can help and what's still missing to protect patients.

April 14, 2022
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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
GPB News NPR

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  • Europe

Where do sanctions on Russia go from here? A foreign policy expert weighs in

Despite heavy sanctions, Russia has not slowed down its invasion of Ukraine. Some are left wondering just how much sanctions can achieve.

April 14, 2022
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin,
  • Jonaki Mehta,
  • and 1 more
GPB News NPR

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  • Europe

Where do sanctions on Russia go from here? A foreign policy expert weighs in

Despite heavy sanctions, Russia has not slowed down its invasion of Ukraine. Some are left wondering just how much sanctions can achieve.

April 14, 2022
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin,
  • Jonaki Mehta,
  • and 1 more
Elon Musk is a vocal Twitter user with more than 80 million followers.

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  • Business

Will Elon Musk turn activist at Twitter?

Musk is now Twitter's largest shareholder. That gives him a legal right to coerce and cajole and persuade and shout about what the company does.

April 12, 2022
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  • Paddy Hirsch
Sheet metal worker Carey Mercer assembles ductwork at Contractors Sheet Metal on Aug. 3, 2021, in New York. New York City and Washington, D.C., are among the cities in which young women earn more than young men, a Pew Research Center study found.

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  • National

Young women earn more than young men in several U.S. cities

In 22 of 250 metro areas, women under the age of 30 earn as much or more than their male counterparts, a Pew Research Center report found.

April 02, 2022
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  • Jeff Dean
In this March 10, 2011 file photo, then-Vice President Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia.

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  • Analysis

Biden is the latest president to go off script on Russia

Biden was far from the first U.S. president to say what he thought about Russia or its leaders — or to pay a price for it.

April 02, 2022
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By:
  • Ron Elving
According to a new report, Nicki Minaj is one of the few top female songwriters in an industry where 57% of songs have no female writers.

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  • Music

Women are still missing in the music industry, especially behind the scenes

According to a new study, fewer than 4% of producers making songs on the Billboard Top 100 last year were women — a number that hasn't changed much over the past decade.

March 31, 2022
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 27: Jada Pinkett Smith attends the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on March 27, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

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  • National

The long history of Black hair in America took center stage at the Oscars

Will Smith smacked Chris Rock over an insensitive joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's hair. Many in Black hair care saw it as an unfortunate but important moment.

March 29, 2022
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By:
  • Alana Wise
Will Smith holds his Oscar for best actor in a leading role for <em>King Richard</em> at the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.

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  • Movies

Should Will Smith have been allowed to collect an Oscar after he slapped Chris Rock?

When the moment came for the Oscar show's producers to step up and say that someone who commits violence on live television doesn't get their moment in the winners' circle, the producers blinked.

March 29, 2022
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By:
  • Eric Deggans
Some of the likely AI-generated faces from fake LinkedIn profiles identified by Stanford University researchers. The central positioning of the eyes is a telltale sign of a computer-created face.

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  • Technology

That smiling LinkedIn profile face might be a computer-generated fake

Stanford researchers uncovered more than 1,000 of these LinkedIn profiles. A technology that has been used to promote misinformation online has now entered the corporate world.

March 27, 2022
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
Demonstrators stand around a peace sign during a vigil for Ukraine near the European Union headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday. Activists are calling on EU leaders to impose a full ban on Russian fuel.

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  • World

Russia's invasion of Ukraine transforms Europe's political and military landscape

As Russia's war in Ukraine grinds through its fourth week, President Vladimir Putin's greatest accomplishment so far may be one he never intended: a unified Europe.

March 24, 2022
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  • Frank Langfitt
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