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How Police Reports Became Bulletproof

4:17pm May 26, 2021

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Phillip Atiba Goff, Center for Policing Equity co-founder and professor of African-American studies and psychology at Yale, on the role police reports in news coverage.

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8 Victims Killed In Shooting At San Jose, Calif., Rail Yard

4:17pm May 26, 2021

by Ezra David Romero

Multiple people are dead after a shooting Wednesday morning at a light rail facility in downtown San Jose, Calif. Law enforcement has said the shooter is also dead.

Closing The Vaccination Gap Between Latino And White Americans

4:17pm May 26, 2021

There's evidence that vaccination rates for Latinos are significantly lower than those for whites. But the rates have surged in the last month, and the gap is growing smaller.

A gas pump is marked "out of service" as cars line up May 11 at a Circle K in Charlotte, N.C., following a ransomware attack that shut down Colonial Pipeline.

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Pipeline Companies Will Have To Report Cyberattacks To The Government

4:04pm May 26, 2021

by Avie Schneider

Pipeline and other key infrastructure companies aren't currently required to report ransomware attacks, so "we don't really understand how bad the problem is," says a former cybersecurity official.

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Yusef Salaam, shown above in 2019, reflects on his wrongful conviction in the memoir, Better, Not Bitter.

Central Park 'Exonerated 5' Member Reflects On Freedom And Forgiveness

2:06pm May 26, 2021

by Terry Gross

In 1990, Yusef Salaam was one of the five boys wrongly convicted in the so-called Central Park jogger case. They weren't exonerated until 2002. Salaam tells his story in Better, Not Bitter.

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The federal opioid trial involving drug distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson is taking place in the Robert C. Byrd Courthouse in Charleston, W.Va. The trial is expected to establish whether the drug distributors, accused of failing

Opioid Trial In West Virginia Comes Amid A National Reckoning For Big Pharma

1:22pm May 26, 2021

by Brian Mann

Drug distributors have faced embarrassing revelations about their internal practices. One email shared by corporate executives described rural Americans addicted to opioids as "pillbillies."

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This image from a police body camera shows bystanders including Darnella Frazier (third from right) as Derek Chauvin, who was a police officer at the time, pressed his knee on George Floyd's neck in Minneapolis.

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Read This Powerful Statement From Darnella Frazier, Who Filmed George Floyd's Murder

11:40am May 26, 2021

by Joe Hernandez

"If it weren't for my video, the world wouldn't have known the truth. I own that," says Frazier, who was 17 at the time. "It made me realize how dangerous it is to be Black in America."

Derrick Young, co-owner of Mahogany Books in Washington, D.C., says his store has seen new customers in the last year who seem to be "willing to do the work" to educate themselves on issues of race in America.

A Moment Or A Movement? Black Bookstore Owners On Business One Year Later

11:30am May 26, 2021

by Jason Fuller

After last summer's surge in anti-racist book sales, NPR spoke to three Black bookstore owners across the country to ask if customers are still engaged with their businesses and anti-racist reading.

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Amazon has made a deal to purchase MGM for $8.5 billion.

Amazon Makes A Deal To Buy MGM For Nearly $8.5 Billion

10:52am May 26, 2021

by Mandalit del Barco

It's the second-largest acquisition for Amazon after purchasing Whole Foods — and its biggest move into entertainment.

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N.Y. Hospital, Schools Aim To Improve Kids' Access To Mental Health Provider

7:21am May 26, 2021

As rates of anxiety, depression and suicide in children have been rising in recent years, only 20% of kids have access to mental health care. To change that, a hospital joined with school districts.

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