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Advertising Giant WPP Faces Slow Growth As Companies Cut Ad Spending

4:35pm August 25, 2017

by Alina Selyukh

The world's largest advertising company, WPP, is sometimes viewed as a bellwether for the health of the global economy. This week, it jolted the ad and media industries when it slashed the forecast for its own growth this year. WPP has blamed the unexpectedly steep decline in ad spending by some of the most influential consumer goods companies.

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Texas Residents Prepare For Hurricane Harvey's Landfall Along Coast

4:35pm August 25, 2017

by John Burnett

In Corpus Christi, TX, people are making preparations for Hurricane Harvey. The storm is expected to make landfall along the Texas coast sometime Friday night.

Racial Conflict Draws Boxing Fans To Mayweather-McGregor Fight

4:35pm August 25, 2017

Almost everyone agrees that the much-hyped boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and MMA champ Conor McGregor will not be much of a fight. But fans will shell out an estimated half a billion dollars to watch. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with sports columnist Adam Kilgore of The Washington Post about the fight.

One of Starry Kitchen's signature dishes is Singaporean chili crab, which is served with beer buttermilk beignets to sop up the spicy sauce.

Starry Kitchen Cookbook: The Rocky Journey Of A Famed Underground Restaurant

4:35pm August 25, 2017

Nguyen and Thi Tran started Starry Kitchen out of desperation. Now the couple has a new book with their best recipes and stories of their adventures in the culinary world.

Border Patrol checkpoints, like this one in Arizona, are a fact of life for thousands of undocumented immigrants and their families in the Rio Grande Valley. They exist up to 100 miles north of the border.

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Border Patrol Says Checkpoints Will Remain Open During Hurricane Harvey

4:21pm August 25, 2017

by Joel Rose

Advocates warn the move will force undocumented immigrants to ignore evacuation warnings for fear they will be caught and deported.

Bananas will be cheaper at Whole Foods stores next week, as Amazon finalizes its purchase of the grocery chain.

Whole Foods Will Drop Prices On Monday, Amazon Says In Detailing New Grocery Strategy

3:49pm August 25, 2017

by Bill Chappell

Amazon sets new prices on bananas, butter, organic eggs, and other best-selling staples. The online giant also says its Amazon Prime members will get special prices and perks at Whole Foods.

Vials of medicine. The new book Pandora's Lab details instances of "science gone wrong."

Science 'Gone Wrong' Can Teach Us

2:53pm August 25, 2017

by Alva Noë

Pandora's Lab stresses that for science to work, it needs to base claims on data, studies need to be replicable, and scientists must be more attached to science than to their own ideas, says Alva Noë.

Alt-right demonstrators clash with counter-demonstrators at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12.

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Bay Area Braces For Protests: 'Charlottesville Has Raised The Stakes'

2:40pm August 25, 2017

by Eric Westervelt

Police are preparing for far-right rallies this weekend in San Francisco and Berkeley, what one supporter calls "kicking the hornets' nest." Scores of counter-protests are planned.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen testifies before the Senate Banking Committee in July. President Trump has given mixed signals about whether he will re-appoint her when her term as chair expires in February.

Fed Chief Yellen Warns Against Dismantling Bank Regulations

2:31pm August 25, 2017

by Jim Zarroli

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's remarks in Jackson Hole, Wyo., on Friday put her at odds with President Trump. She applauded the post-crisis regulations that he says are hurting businesses.

A photo provided by the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania shows an Aetna mailer in which a reference to HIV medication is partly visible though the envelope window.

Aetna Mailer Accidentally Reveals HIV Status Of Up To 12,000 Customers

1:12pm August 25, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

"Aetna's privacy violation devastated people whose neighbors and family learned their intimate health information," a legal group representing customers says. Aetna calls its mistake "unacceptable."