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Just weeks before the election, President Trump announced on Friday that he and his wife had joined the more than 7 million Americans who've tested positive for the coronavirus. The president tweeted a video update from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Saturday night that attempted to put to rest the many concerns raised by a briefing by his medical team earlier in the day. But questions remain about what happened before and after Trump's announcement — when he was first diagnosed, started experiencing symptoms and what treatment he received and when. Click here for updates on this rapidly developing story. |
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Researchers in India tested more than a half-million contacts of 85,000 cases to examine how and to whom the coronavirus is spreading. The first interesting finding: Children are spreading the virus amongst themselves and also to adults. Second: The greatest risk for infection among people in two southern Indian states is a long bus or train ride.
The coronavirus pandemic is taking a heavy economic toll on Asian Americans. From Vietnamese nail salons to Cambodian doughnut shops, Asian-owned businesses have struggled. But their job losses aren’t attracting much notice.
New York City will start imposing fines of up to $1,000 for people who refuse to wear face masks after it saw a positivity rate for coronavirus tests of over 3% for the first time since June. |
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Women are leaving the workforce at four times the rate as men. The burden of parenting and running a household while also working a job during the pandemic has created a pressure cooker environment in many households, and women are bearing the brunt of it. Click here to listen or read the story.
The pandemic is eroding progress made by women in the workplace, a new report by Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In foundation finds. COVID-19 "threatens to roll back the progress we have painstakingly made over the last five to 10 years for women in the workplace," Sandberg says. Click here to listen or read the story. |
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Pomologist Juan Carlos Melgar explains two key factors to why some fruits ripen faster in a paper bag — and others don't. (Short Wave)
Just because you (or your kids) are home all day doesn't mean you should skip your vaccines, including a flu shot. (Life Kit)
The Code Switch team often uses the term "people of color." It wasn’t something they thought about much until the Black Lives Matter protests reignited this summer, and they saw a refrain across social media, particularly among Black people: Stop calling me a person of color. (Code Switch) In the same vein, a new study says the term Latinx just hasn’t caught on.
With 10 vaccine candidates now in phase three trials, one expert predicts another million people worldwide could die within three to six months. (Consider This)
Health insurance for millions of Americans is dependent on their jobs. But it's not like that everywhere. So, how did the U.S. end up with such a fragile system that leaves so many vulnerable or with no health insurance at all? (Throughline)
The Dorr brothers have become known for their network of ultra pro-gun Facebook groups. But their family name has also been connected to an extreme religious movement that has sought to eliminate public education, outlaw homosexuality and replace all laws with rules from the Old Testament. (No Compromise)
The U.S. is experiencing the worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression. Meanwhile, some employers claim that they can't find the workers they need. What's going on? (The Indicator From Planet Money) |
For the Aldabaans, a Syrian refugee family, the path to the American Dream has not been easy. Their stories are told in a powerful and moving new graphic novel Welcome to the New World, which begins in 2016 when the Aldabaans arrive on election day in November — and wake up in Donald Trump's America. Listen here.
In numerous recent interviews, educators have told NPR they're concerned the rural-urban divide will only worsen if kids can't get online to learn. Listen here.
The Mid-Autumn Festival began last week in China and around the world. People celebrate the harvest moon by lighting lanterns and eating handmade pastries called mooncakes. NPR discusses the symbolism behind the beloved treats. Listen here.
NASA sent a new toilet to the International Space Station on Thursday. The new commode is smaller and more efficient for deep space exploration and better accommodates female astronauts. Listen here. |
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Recording artist The Teaches of Peaches has spent 20 years seeping into the mainstream, widening pop's window for abrasive sounds and NSFW sexual expression. Her influential debut album, released in 2000, seized on her pain and pleasure.
Tucker Carlson, Fox News' top-rated host, has been repeatedly accused of anti-immigrant and racist comments, which have cost his political opinion show many of its major advertisers. Yet Carlson has kept his prime-time slot.
For more than 50 years, enslaved people served Virginia governors from the kitchen quarter in a small building near the Executive Mansion in Richmond, Va. Descendants of the enslaved are now leading an effort to tell the complete history of the property. |
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