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More salaried workers will get overtime pay with new Biden administration rules
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Starting in July workers making $44,000 a year or less qualify. And starting in January workers making about $59,000 or less will qualify.By WBUR & NPR
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Music man or con man? Is a popular piano teacher scamming?
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The internet is full of people offering to kindly separate you from your money.By WBUR & NPR
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'Dead Boy Detectives' is a rollicking supernatural mystery set in Netflix's 'Sandman' universe
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Netflix's new show "Dead Boy Detectives," centers on two boys who died in the 1900s and now solve crimes involving ghosts, demons, witches and more.By WBUR & NPR
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Campus protests and Trump legal landscape dominate week in politics
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Courts hearing cases against former President Donald Trump might shape the 2024 election.By WBUR & NPR
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A Mississippi farmer's World War II-era biplane takes flight
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This week Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd reported on an autonomous, electric crop duster in California. It reminded him of the last time he did a story about a crop duster.By WBUR & NPR
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Animal abuse of a wolf is being investigated in Wyoming
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The story of a man in Wyoming who allegedly tortured and killed a wolf, then walked away with a fine, is drawing outrage from around the world.By WBUR & NPR
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What Congress' TikTok ban means for 170 million users in U.S.
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TikTok’s Chinese parent company says it has no intention of selling after Congress passed a law forcing it to sell the popular social media app or be banned in the U.S.By WBUR & NPR
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Meet Stephanie Pacheco, the 2024 National Youth Poet Laureate
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From the Bronx, Pacheco was previously named New York City youth poet laureate and the inaugural New York state youth poet laureate.By WBUR & NPR
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Reverse Course: Considering your place in the global supply chain
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Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd and Chris Bentley reflect on their stories covering electric trucks, clean aviation and wind-powered cargo ships.By WBUR & NPR
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Puerto Rico's path to 100% renewable energy just got a little clearer
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The territory already passed a law committing to that goal by 2050, but getting there is easier said than done.By WBUR & NPR
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Ichthyosaur — the largest marine reptile — fossil discovered
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Scientists say a teenager and her father discovered fossilized pieces of jawbone that belonged to an ichthyosaur, an ancient marine reptile. This particular species may be the largest ever found.By WBUR & NPR
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Taiwan, trade and China's support for Russia are some of the major issues between the U.S. and China.By WBUR & NPR
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Underground carbon dioxide storage project proposal brings promise — and concern
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The project would allow industrial facilities like steel manufacturers to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions as part of the federal plan to address the climate crisis. But some landowners and others have concerns about this carbon capture and sequestration technique.By WBUR & NPR
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Causes posited by demographers for the continuing declining rate include economic, fertility and age factors.By WBUR & NPR
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Teachers can now carry concealed handguns in Tennessee
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Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill allowing teachers to carry concealed handguns in schools despite heavy protests at the state capitol.By WBUR & NPR
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Detroit debuts 'road of the future' with wireless electric vehicle charging
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Detroit is testing a new way to charge electric vehicles that don’t require plugging in. Just park or drive your car on the right strip of road and watch the battery meter tick up.By WBUR & NPR
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New airline rules make it easier to get refunds for delayed or canceled flights
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Taking effect over the next two years, the new rules will require airlines to issue consumers automatic cash refunds within a few weeks.By WBUR & NPR
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Trump claims he's immune from prosecution. Supreme Court hears arguments in the case
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Former President Donald Trump claims that he is immune from prosecution on charges that he plotted to overturn his loss in the 2020 election.By WBUR & NPR
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New York State's plans to give $30 million to local newsrooms: Why it matters
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Big publishers like Gannett and the New York Times aren’t eligible for the tax credits.By WBUR & NPR
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Arizona jury indicts Trump allies in 'fake elector' scheme
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A grand jury indicted former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and other allies of former President Donald Trump for their efforts involvement in a so-called 'fake electors' scheme to undermine Biden's victory in the 2020 election.By WBUR & NPR
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Missy Nester grew up in Welch and bought a paper in 2018 to save it. But she couldn't make the economics work and last year, shuttered the Welch News.By WBUR & NPR
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'Beyond dreams': An Oregon drumline celebrates success
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The Kingsmen Thunder Drumline at Rex Putnam High School in Milwaukie, Oregon, just returned from their first appearance at the Percussion World Championships.By WBUR & NPR
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Is your teenager just moody? Or really struggling with mental health?
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The rate of kids dealing with serious mental health issues has been on the rise since the pandemic. But if parents want to help their kids, research suggests they should look at themselves and their own mental health issues.By WBUR & NPR
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A cherrific discovery: Centuries-old bottles of cherries excavated from George Washington's home
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Two centuries-old bottles of preserved cherries were recently found in the basement of George Washington’s home at Mount Vernon.By WBUR & NPR
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Supreme Court hears arguments in Trump immunity claims
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The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in former President Donald Trump's claims that he should be immune from prosecution on charges that he plotted to subvert his 2020 election loss.By WBUR & NPR
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What's behind House Speaker Mike Johnson's big gamble on foreign aid
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House Speaker Mike Johnson has been moving a big foreign aid package through the House.By WBUR & NPR
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Kevin Bacon visits high school where he starred in 'Footloose' 40 years ago
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The Utah high school where "Footloose" was filmed invited Kevin Bacon to visit for their prom on the 40th anniversary of the film's release.By WBUR & NPR
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California's oldest water rights exist only on paper. A new project aims to change that
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College students in California have begun scanning 2 million pages of water rights records on paper to make them more easily available in digital form to the public as part of a $60 million project.By WBUR & NPR
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Dennis Lehane taps his Boston roots for novel 'Small Mercies'
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Author Dennis Lehane's vivid recollections of growing up in Boston during the busing desegregation crisis in the mid-1970s inspired his 2023 novel "Small Mercies."By WBUR & NPR
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California's state board that regulates water recently voted to impose fees for farmers using groundwater in one of the state's largest farming areas.By WBUR & NPR
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The playoffs have already had several close games and plenty of upset victories as teams battle to reach the Stanley Cup final.By WBUR & NPR
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Shipbuilders harness the wind to clean up global shipping
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Container ships use heavy fuel oil called bunker fuel. They’re more efficient than trains, trucks and planes. But bunker fuel is highly polluting, and container ships produce about 3% of the world’s emissions.By WBUR & NPR
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Pennsylvania primary: Takeaways and surprises
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The results could provide important insight into how November’s general election might unfold in the swing state.By WBUR & NPR
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FTC bans noncompete clauses between employees and workers
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The Federal Trade Commission voted Tuesday to ban employers from using noncompete clauses to prevent employees from going to work for rival companies.By WBUR & NPR
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Review finds Israel failed to provide evidence linking UN aid agency to terrorist groups
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A new independent review has found Israel provided no evidence for its claim that staff in a United Nations aid agency called UNRWA have ties to terrorist groups.By WBUR & NPR
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NASA makes sense of Voyager 1's garbled signals from the edge of the solar system
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A computer glitch scrambled Voyager 1's communications with Earth, leaving NASA in the dark. Now, scientists have restored Voyager 1 and are making sense of its signals from interstellar space.By WBUR & NPR
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Lachlan Cartwright recounts 'catch and kill' at the National Enquirer
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Trump is accused of falsifying business records to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election. At the center of the trial are payments that the National Enquirer made to keep damaging stories about Trump under wraps.By WBUR & NPR
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UN official 'horrified' by mass grave discovery: The latest updates from Gaza
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Palestinian officials say they exhumed 283 bodies.By WBUR & NPR
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'Black AF History' retells the story of America from the Black perspective
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Author and political commentator Michael Harriot casts well-known historical narratives in an entirely new light.By WBUR & NPR
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Supreme Court weighs Idaho case about abortion restrictions in medical emergencies
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The Biden administration argues that federal emergency care law overrides the state of Idaho's law that only allows abortions in a medical emergency if the mother faces death.By WBUR & NPR
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How the FDA tracks foodborne illness, and what could be done better
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress introduced a bill that would allow the FDA to quickly respond when there’s a problem.By WBUR & NPR
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How did Amazon come to be worth more than $1 trillion?
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Was Amazon's success from innovating retail or cornering the market on e-commerce when the internet was still a fringe part of society? Was it by creeping into every part of our daily lives, from shopping to entertainment to health care?By WBUR & NPR
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One year since Tennessee drag law was struck down
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The law would have forbidden any public performance where actors impersonate someone of another gender.By WBUR & NPR
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Planes pollute the planet, but new technology could clean up the aviation industry
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A nonstop flight from Los Angeles to New York spews about 1,300 pounds of planet-warming carbon into the air — per passenger.By WBUR & NPR
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Undocumented students at U.S. public schools targeted by efforts to overturn Supreme Court case
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The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, is launching a strategy to overturn a landmark Supreme Court decision that protects the right of undocumented students to attend public school.By WBUR & NPR
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Palestinian protester at Columbia says it's 'inspiring' to feel like students have agency
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Police in New York made arrests last week at an encampment at Columbia University.By WBUR & NPR
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Arts program supports displaced children in Lebanon
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Hundreds of thousands of civilians on both sides of the Israel–Lebanon border have been displaced.By WBUR & NPR
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'Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts' tells Black Appalachian stories through food
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Former Kentucky Poet-Laureate Crystal Wilkinson's "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" is both a family memoir and a cookbook.By WBUR & NPR
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Tennessee Volkswagen workers vote to join UAW, a big score for the union
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It's the first time the union has successfully organized workers at an automaker outside Detroit's big three.By WBUR & NPR
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What Pennsylvania's primary might say about November's general election
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Several down ballot races could predict how November’s general election might play out in the Keystone State.By WBUR & NPR
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