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'Creepy' Robot Dog Loses Job With New York Police Department

NYPD canceled its contract with Boston Dynamics last week after its test run of the company's Spot robot sparked concerns of misuse of city funds and potential police abuse. Josh Reynolds/AP hide caption

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Law

'Creepy' Robot Dog Loses Job With New York Police Department

Following public outrage, the NYPD terminated a $94,000 contract to test a canine-like surveillance device designed to keep officers out of harms way. Critics panned the department's investment.

Pasquotank County Sheriff: Public Should See Andrew Brown Jr. Video

Protestors take to the streets on Saturday calling for the release of bodycam footage of the police killing of Andrew Brown Jr. in Elizabeth City, N.C. Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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America Reckons With Racial Injustice

Pasquotank County Sheriff: Public Should See Andrew Brown Jr. Video

Pasquotank County, N.C., Sheriff Tommy Wooten says he wants the bodycam footage from the killing of Andrew Brown Jr., made public.

Pasquotank County Sheriff: Public Should See Andrew Brown Jr. Video

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Radio Diaries: 25 Years Of Telling Complex Stories Through Everyday Moments

Thembi Ngubane was willing to speak out at a time when few South Africans were willing to say, "I have AIDS." She carried a tape recorder from 2004 to 2005 to document her life. She died in 2009. Sue Jaye Johnson hide caption

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Opinion

Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries: 25 Years Of Telling Complex Stories Through Everyday Moments

Surprises and lucky accidents are part of the DNA of audio diaries. There's something magical about handing someone a tape recorder, because you never know what will happen.

Radio Diaries: 25 Years Of Telling Complex Stories Through Everyday Moments

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Newsmax Issues Retraction And Apology To Dominion Employee Over Election Stories

A worker passes a Dominion Voting Systems ballot scanner during Georgia's runoff Senate elections in January in Gwinnett County outside Atlanta. Former President Donald Trump and his allies spread falsehoods about the company's role in the 2020 election, leading to a slew of defamation lawsuits. Ben Gray/AP hide caption

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Untangling Disinformation

Newsmax Issues Retraction And Apology To Dominion Employee Over Election Stories

CPR News

Voting machine engineer Eric Coomer was falsely accused of rigging the election against former President Donald Trump by the conservative cable network. He faced death threats and has been in hiding.

Cruise Lines Are Getting Antsy To Set Sail

After being shut down for more than a year, the cruise industry is frustrated over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's lack of a clear timeline for setting sail again.

Cruise Lines Are Getting Antsy To Set Sail

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Business

Stocks Have Done Better In Biden's 1st 100 Days Than Any Other President Since FDR

Under President Biden, the Standard and Poor's 500 is set to post its best performance in the first 100 days of any president since Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term.

Stocks Have Done Better In Biden's 1st 100 Days Than Any Other President Since FDR

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Business

Big Oil Is Seeing Big Earnings Again

The world's oil and gas mega-companies are raking it in again. The earnings reflect the remarkable comeback in the global economy, powered by U.S. growth, which is sharply pushing up demand for oil.

Big Oil Is Seeing Big Earnings Again

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Politics

West Virginia Governor Discusses His $100 Offer To Young People Who Get Vaccinated

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Republican Gov. Jim Justice of West Virginia about his plan offering $100 savings bonds to people between the ages of 16 and 35 who get a COVID-19 vaccine.

West Virginia Governor Discusses His $100 Offer To Young People Who Get Vaccinated

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Environment

Do Carbon Offsets Actually Work? 'Planet Money' Takes A Look

More and more companies are pledging to cut carbon emissions. Many say they'll buy carbon offsets that save forests, but counting how much carbon is actually saved is fuzzy math.

Do Carbon Offsets Actually Work? 'Planet Money' Takes A Look

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Law

Wave Of 'Anti-Protest' Bills Could Threaten First Amendment

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Nick Robinson, of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, about the dozens of anti-protest bills introduced by Republican lawmakers this year.

Wave Of 'Anti-Protest' Bills Could Threaten First Amendment

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Education

Chicago High Schoolers Return To Classrooms For A Bittersweet End To The School Year

Thousands of high school students return to in-class learning in Chicago this week. Some are excited to spend the remaining weeks with classmates, but for many seniors, it's a bittersweet return.

Chicago High Schoolers Return To Classrooms For A Bittersweet End To The School Year

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Technology

New Tiny Computers Could Have A Huge Impact

It seems like computers are getting smaller all the time. Now some companies are betting big on new ones that run at the atomic level — tiny machines that could have a huge impact.

New Tiny Computers Could Have A Huge Impact

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U.S. Will Impose New Ban On Travel From India As Coronavirus Rages

Funeral pyres burn in a disused granite quarry repurposed to cremate the dead due to COVID-19 on Friday in Bengaluru, India. The U.S. is set to impose new travel restrictions against travelers from the country. Abhishek Chinnappa/Getty Images hide caption

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Coronavirus Updates

U.S. Will Impose New Ban On Travel From India As Coronavirus Rages

The travel ban is being imposed due to "extraordinarily high COVID-19 caseloads and multiple variants circulating" in India, the White House says.

Trial Of Other Former Officers Charged In George Floyd's Killing To Be Broadcast Live

In this image from surveillance video, Minneapolis police officers (from left) Tou Thao, Derek Chauvin, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane are seen during the incident that killed George Floyd in Minneapolis last May. Court TV/AP hide caption

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Live Updates: Trial Over George Floyd's Killing

Trial Of Other Former Officers Charged In George Floyd's Killing To Be Broadcast Live

A judge's order to allow the broadcast of Derek Chauvin's trial will still apply to the trial of the other three former Minneapolis officers charged in Floyd's death, according to the court system.