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In more than a dozen states, Republican lawmakers have been pushing similar bills.
Historian Jules Gill-Peterson of Johns Hopkins University says laws that target drag have a long history in the U.S, and LGBTQ people have fought back before.
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But crime is not just a Chicago issue. Nationally, murders, shootings, and thefts are up. Communities that feel under siege are looking to hold elected leaders accountable for their failure to address the problem. But when agreements on how to solve crime break down along party lines -and even within parties- are politics hindering potential solutions?
Host Michel Martin talks to Thomas Abt, senior fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice, about non-partisan, research-based solutions. We also hear from Ja’Ron Smith, a fellow with Right on Crime, a conservative criminal justice reform coalition.
The documents were released by Dominion Voting Systems as part of its lawsuit against both Fox News and its parent company. They include text messages sent by Fox News personalities and statements made under oath by the network’s controlling owner Rupert Murdoch.
NPR Media Correspondent David Folkenflik explains that the lawsuit is the latest in a series of ethical breaches during Murdoch’s decades-long reign at the helm of one of the most powerful media companies in the world.
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Last fall a panel of three Trump appointees on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals outlined that if funding for a federal agency like the CFPB is not appropriated annually by Congress, then everything that agency does is deemed unconstitutional.
While the agency’s fate is in limbo, its latest initiative is aimed at cracking down on junk fees that can cost Americans a lot of money.
We speak with CFPB’s director, Rohit Chopra, on how unnecessary fees impact everyday people.
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But the difficulty of life there — power outages, mud slides, razed streets she could barely recognize — eventually it all became too much. She left her home there and moved to Southern California.
Jake Bittle’s new book, The Great Displacement: Climate Change And The Next American Migration, argues that stories like this are becoming more common. From drought-hit farms in Arizona to flooded coastlines in Virginia, it’s a close look at the way climate-fueled disasters are forcing people to move.
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But residents in the area still have safety concerns.
NPR’s Ari Shapiro asks EPA Administrator Michael Regan about those concerns and about the agency’s response to the disaster.
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On the heels of Haley’s announcement, Democratic Senator John Fetterman checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to seek treatment for clinical depression, a condition often associated with recovery from a stroke, which he experienced last May.
While Fetterman’s case differs from age-related cognitive decline, both issues raise questions about how much the public has the right to know about a public figure’s mental health, and whether acknowledging these very common, very human conditions alleviates stigma or just reinforces it.
Host Michel Martin talks to former Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy about how his decision to speak publicly about his own issues with mental health.
We also hear from Matthew Rozsa, who writes about health and science for Salon.
But an army of citizen spies defied Moscow’s expectations, and helped Ukrainian forces liberate the city last November.
A year after Russia launched its invasion, NPR’s Joanna Kakissis has the story of Kherson’s partisans: teachers and accountants and landscape designers, who became eyes and ears for the Ukrainian military.
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The course hasn’t official launched yet, but it’s currently being piloted in 60 schools across the U.S.
The course has drawn national attention after controversies erupted over what is, and isn’t, in the curriculum. We ask three educators who are teaching the course what they are actually teaching and why it matters.