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The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and major Hollywood studios have reached a tentative deal. If ratified by WGA members, it will bring their nearly 150-day strike to an end.
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🎧 The halt in Hollywood productions is likely to continue while the actors union, SAG-AFTRA is still on strike, NPR’s Mandalit del Barco, who’s been reporting on the strike since May, tells Up First. 🎧 One screenwriter she spoke with said the writers will support everyone who supported them. ➡️ The WGA’s demands included higher pay and residuals for streaming services, guaranteed staffing levels on television shows and protections against the use of artificial intelligence to replace them.
Congress has just five days left to avoid a government shutdown. A shutdown would directly affect the economy, with hundreds of thousands of government workers going without pay.
➡️ NPR's David Gura reports the impact of a shutdown will depend on how long it lasts. If it were to extend beyond a few days or weeks, the U.S. economy would take a bigger hit.
🎧 Besides the economic challenges, a shutdown would also mean that policymakers won’t be able to access new economic data, as the government officials responsible for collecting and reporting it would be unable to work.
🎧 The black pebbles and dirt are remnants of the solar system's early days of planet formation. Scientists took the canister to a clean room nearby and put it under a cloak of nitrogen gas to protect it from the Earth's atmosphere as it's transported to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
➡️ NASA is planning to reveal its final findings from the treasure at an event in October.
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Leila Fadel hosts Morning Edition and Up First. She was previously an NPR national correspondent covering race and identity. Prior to that, she was an international correspondent based in Cairo.
Khaled Mattawa
A poem. A warning. A prophecy. That is what Mustafa al-Trabelsi left behind when the floods in Derna swept him away with much of his Libyan city more than two weeks ago. He died with thousands of others. But the words he wrote and reposted on Facebook just hours before the floods now capture the sentiment of a nation that is grieving and angry. Libyans say they’ve lived with years of conflict and corruption that compounded the impact of Storm Daniel. Listen to the poem and the reason why the poet Khaled Mattawa chose to translate it into English.
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The messy breakup of the Talking Heads is a major part of the band’s legacy, with its four members rarely appearing in public together. Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and David Byrne recently sat down with Morning Edition’s Steve Inskeep to discuss the 40th anniversary re-release of Stop Making Sense, the concert film that captured them in their prime in 1983. As they reminisced on those days and all that’s happened since, there was a sense of warmth, nostalgia and growth. Listen to their conversation and read an expanded version.
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A government shutdown could play spoilsport to a farewell party for pandas at the National Zoo. The zoo is holding the "Panda Palooza," a goodbye party for the pandas, from Sept. 23 to Oct.1.
Politicians across the aisle in the Senate are setting their differences aside to come together in an unlikely place: the pickleball court.
Ethiopian runner Tigst Assefa set a new women’s world record at the BMW Berlin Marathon on Sunday. She smashed the previous record by more than two minutes.
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