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Financial technology companies enabled Paycheck Protection Program fraud

4:35pm December 01, 2022

by Sacha Pfeiffer

A new congressional report finds that financial technology companies enabled fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program, which gave forgivable loans to small businesses during the pandemic.

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New Yorkers fill Rockefeller Center for the annual Christmas tree lighting

4:35pm December 01, 2022

by Camille Petersen

After the pandemic caused limited attendance in 2021, New Yorkers filled Rockefeller Center for the annual Christmas tree lighting.

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Labor historians urge Biden against intervening rail labor deal

4:35pm December 01, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Joseph McCartin, executive director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, about Biden's track record on labor.

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Closing arguments begin in the Trump Organization's tax fraud trial

4:35pm December 01, 2022

by Ilya Marritz

Closing arguments began in the Trump Organization's tax fraud trial in New York Thursday. The company's lawyers say it can't be held accountable for crimes executives committed to benefit themselves.

Merritt Paulson, the owner of the Portland Thorns, announced Thursday he is putting the women's professional soccer team up for sale.

The Portland Thorns will be sold, the latest fallout from scandals in women's soccer

3:40pm December 01, 2022

by The Associated Press

Merritt Paulson's decision to sell the Thorns comes after a pair of team executives were dismissed for their roles in systemic abuse and misconduct in the National Women's Soccer League.

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New Hampshire man accidently throws out his wife's wedding rings

6:29am December 01, 2022

Kevin Butler tossed a napkin into the trash and later took it to a transfer station. In the napkin were his wife's wedding rings. He and the transfer station crew were able to locate the trash bag.

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University of Idaho holds a vigil for 4 students stabbed to death last month

6:29am December 01, 2022

by Martin Kaste

The attacked happened in an off-campus house. Police have not yet identified a suspect and that has cast a shadow over the campus.

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Antwon McGhee is one of about 500 Warrior Met Coal miners in Brookwood, Ala., who have been on strike for 20 months.

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Alabama coal miners begin their 20th month on strike

5:02am December 01, 2022

by Stephan Bisaha

The miners have survived more than 600 days on the picket line, thanks to widespread support and anger at their employer, Warrior Met Coal. Even now, neither side seems ready to budge.

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ICE inadvertently discloses personal data online of 6,252 immigrants

5:02am December 01, 2022

NPR's A Martinez talks to Hamed Aleaziz of the Los Angeles Times about the information of more than 6,000 people in ICE custody that was mistakenly revealed to the public.

This photo from 2019 provided by the U.S. Air Force/Alaska National Guard photo shows how closely the village of Napakiak, Alaska is at risk of severe erosion by the nearby Kuskokwim River.

3 tribes dealing with the toll of climate change get $75 million to relocate

5:01am December 01, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

The Biden administration gave $75 million in aid to the three communities in Alaska and Washington. Eight other Tribal communities received an additional $40 million.