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News Articles: Weekend Edition Sunday

Steven Meland, co-owner of Hotbox Farms in Ontario now employs close to fifty people with plans to hire more as his business keeps expanding.

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  • Politics

State line pot shops latest flashpoint in Idaho-Oregon border debate

There is a marijuana boom in Ontario, Oregon, just across the river from the Boise metro area where pot is illegal. It's the latest flashpoint for conservatives who want to annex eastern Oregon.

April 02, 2023
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By:
  • Kirk Siegler
Indie icons Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus make up the supergroup boygenius.

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  • Music Interviews

On its full-length album 'the record,' boygenius' friendship has never been stronger

NPR's Miles Parks speaks to the members of indie supergroup boygenius about its new full-length album, the record.

March 28, 2023
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By:
  • Miles Parks,
  • Michael Radcliffe,
  • and 1 more
GPB  NPR

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  • Health

A common-sense initiative in Boston aims to reduce maternal mortality for Black women

One of the complications contributing to high U.S. maternal mortality among Black women is preeclampsia. A common-sense initiative in Boston gives women a blood pressure cuff to take home.

March 28, 2023
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By:
  • Priyanka Dayal McCluskey
GPB  NPR

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  • Health

Why the COVID-19 death rate varies dramatically across the U.S.

NPR's Miles Parks speaks to Thomas Bollyky, the co-author of a new report examining why COVID-19 death rates varied dramatically across the U.S. — and how that might improve future outcomes.

March 27, 2023
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By:
  • Miles Parks
Ilya Ponomarev is the founder of February Morning, an opposition Russian-language online newscast aimed at viewers in Russia. Behind him is a flag symbolizing the "free Russia of the future," created following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Ponomarev calls it the "Russian tricolor without the blood."

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  • Europe

A scrappy newscast in Kyiv aimed at Russians counters Putin's propaganda machine

February Morning, an online TV channel broadcast in Russian, offers its audience a different take on the war in Ukraine. Its founder says his goal is nothing less than the end of the Putin regime.

March 26, 2023
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By:
  • Eleanor Beardsley
The banking sector has been hammered by the failure of Silicon Valley Bank. But the bank had money stashed into what's supposed to be the safest asset around. What happened?

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  • Business

Bank fail: How rising interest rates paved the way for Silicon Valley Bank's collapse

Silicon Valley Bank invested billions of dollars in super safe U.S. government bonds. But that choice exposed to the bank to a whole other set of risks.

March 19, 2023
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By:
  • Stacey Vanek Smith
As more robots and people travel to the moon in coming years, some researchers believe it's time to set a lunar time standard.

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  • Space

If daylight saving time seems tricky, try figuring out the time on the moon

Scientists are pondering how to tell time on other celestial bodies. It's a lot harder than you might think.

March 12, 2023
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel and
  • Carmen Molina Acosta
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday.

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  • Politics

Despite Republicans cooling on him, CPAC is still the Trump show

The Conservative Political Action Conference wrapped up Saturday with a speech by former President Donald Trump. Conference-goers cheered Trump even though his popularity within the party is waning.

March 06, 2023
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By:
  • Elena Moore
GPB  NPR

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  • Politics

Politics chat: The takeaways from the Democratic and Republican conferences

We look at what came out of the annual House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference as well as the GOP's Conservative Action Conference — or CPAC. Both events were held in Maryland this past week.

March 06, 2023
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By:
  • Ayesha Rascoe and
  • Mara Liasson
GPB  NPR

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  • Environment

United Nations member nations have agreed on a treaty to protect oceans

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with ocean researcher Robert Blasiak of Stockholm University about a historic new treaty to protect oceans.

March 06, 2023
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By:
  • Ayesha Rascoe
Fatma Guner has spent the days since the Turkey earthquake living in a tent city in Arsuz, a town in Hatay province. "I honestly can't stay here, it's really crowded," she says.

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  • Middle East

Inside tent cities, Turkey's quake survivors wonder when they'll have a home again

Some of those who lost their homes in the earthquakes that devastated southern Turkey still need tents - and dream of someday having a container to live in.

February 26, 2023
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By:
  • Peter Kenyon and
  • Gokce Saracoglu
Neudy Rojop decided to work in public health when she was a young girl observing how frequently her young family members and neighbors got sick with unknown illnesses.

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  • Global Health

A kid in Guatemala had a dream. Today she's a disease detective

Neudy Rojop made a girlhood pledge. When family members fell ill, she says she decided to become a nurse "so I could change my community for good."

February 20, 2023
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By:
  • Ari Daniel and
  • Rebecca Davis
Lisa B. Stokes, 60, is a retired schoolteacher from Bamberg.

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  • Politics

A visit to Nikki Haley's hometown — where division 'still exists'

Nikki Haley paints her hometown as a place where race was a reality, but not a limitation. But residents say some racial divisions still exist.

February 19, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
GPB  NPR

Tagged as: 

  • Politics

Politics chat: Biden on Social Security; DeSantis' battle with Disney

Some political items of note, including President Biden capitalizing on Republican calls to cut Social Security and Medicare, and Gov. Ron DeSantis' battle with Disney.

February 13, 2023
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By:
  • Ayesha Rascoe and
  • Scott Detrow
GPB  NPR

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  • Health Care

Hospitals contracted with private companies are cutting costs by relying on nurses

More and more hospitals are contracting with private companies to run their emergency departments. To save money, many are increasingly relying on nurses and physician assistants instead of doctors.

February 12, 2023
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By:
  • Blake Farmer
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