Month: September 2022
What we know about the failed attempt to assassinate Argentina’s vice president
NPR’s Ailsa Chang speaks with Buenos Aires-based journalist Natalie Alcoba about the failed assassination attempt on Argentina’s vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
Read MoreThe United Kingdom’s next prime minister could be a foreign policy hard-liner
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Ben Judah, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, about British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who will likely succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister.
Read MoreWhat It’s Like to Participate in a Clinical Trial for Bladder Cancer
Sometimes numbers tell a story, but sometimes they obscure one. According to the latest figures from the National Cancer Institute, the death rate for people diagnosed with bladder cancer has hardly budged during the past 30 years. But experts who
Read More‘I can breathe a little bit more.’ How student debt relief will affect 8 borrowers, in their words
What eight borrowers of federal student loans told the PBS NewsHour about student loan debt relief.
Read MoreExoplanets Have Been Impossible to Photograph Directly—Until Now
There’s nothing terribly special about the exoplanet known as HIP 65426 b. It’s a gas giant nine times the mass of Jupiter, orbiting its host star 385 light years from Earth. Just one of at least 5,000 exoplanets astronomers have
Read MoreProsecutors detail items seized from Trump estate, including dozens of empty ‘classified’ folders – POLITICO
Prosecutors detail items seized from Trump estate, including dozens of empty ‘classified’ folders POLITICO Unsealed documents reveal new details from search of Trump’s home Al Jazeera English FBI materials seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home included 90 empty folders The Guardian US DOJ Reveals
Read MoreAid pours into Pakistan as deaths from flooding cross 1,200 mark
Officials say planes carrying fresh aid from the United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan have landed overnight at an airport near Pakistan’s capital.
Read MoreEnergy war as West caps Russian oil price, Moscow keeps gas pipe shut
By Tom Balmforth ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) -Rich countries agreed on Friday to try to cap the global price of Russian oil, while Russia delayed the re-opening of its main gas pipeline to Germany, as both sides raised the stakes in
Read MoreHow some encounters between police and people with mental illness can turn tragic
People experiencing mental health crises have been being killed by police in America. But how many is unknown.
Read More‘Red flag’ laws get little use even as mass shootings, gun deaths soar
An AP analysis found many U.S. states barely use “red flag” laws that allow police to take guns away from people threatening to kill, a trend blamed on lack of awareness of the laws and a reluctance to enforce them
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