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Tristan Harris: What Is The Cost Of Infinite Distractions?

10:28am May 25, 2018

by NPR/TED Staff

Designer Tristan Harris says attention is at the core of human experience. He argues that our addiction to technology has the power to threaten our very capacity to think, reason and problem solve.

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National

Disgraced Movie Mogul Harvey Weinstein Faces Criminal Charges

7:59am May 25, 2018

Weinstein surrendered to police Friday in New York City. Rachel Martin talks to Jodi Kantor of The New York Times, who won a Pulitzer Prize for co-reporting the paper's original story in 2017.

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World News

Why A Europe-Wide Data Protection Law Matters To Others

6:28am May 25, 2018

David Greene talks to Helen Dixon, Ireland's Data Protection commissioner, about a Europe-wide law that takes effect Friday, which also affects Internet users in the U.S. and globally.

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National

Traveling For The Memorial Day Holiday? You're Not Alone

6:28am May 25, 2018

by David Schaper

Millions of Americans are hitting the road, rails or jetting off for the weekend. Gas prices are about 60 cents a gallon higher than this time last year. Roads and planes are expected to be packed.

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Trump Administration Considers Steep Tariffs Against Foreign Automakers

8:06pm May 24, 2018

by Chris Arnold

The president has suggested this will be good for U.S. autoworkers, but economists and industry executives warn the move could spark a destructive trade war that would hurt all countries involved.

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Women Accuse Morgan Freeman Of Harassment, Inappropriate Behavior, CNN Reports

5:47pm May 24, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

Eight people told CNN that they were victims of harassment or inappropriate behavior by Freeman, and eight others said they had witnessed such conduct by the Oscar-winning actor.

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Johanna Humphrey, left, ended up with 24 boxes of crayons she didn't need. She gave them to teacher Laura Smith, right, through the Buy Nothing Project. It encourages people to share without money changing hands.

Facebook Project Wants You To 'Buy Nothing' And Ask For What You Need

5:46pm May 24, 2018

by Jeff Brady

The Buy Nothing Project encourages people to share without money changing hands. In five years it has spread around the world on Facebook with the help of more than 3,000 volunteers.

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Economy

The Money Detectives

4:33pm May 24, 2018

Recent news has cast a spotlight on a little-known regulatory agency quietly working behind the scenes of our economy. What is FinCEN and why is it so important?

Dollar General To Open Over 700 New Stores In 2015

The Billion-Dollar Discount Chain: How Dollar General Remade America

3:08pm May 24, 2018

There are more than 13,000 Dollar General stores in the United States.

Biometric data is considered a special category requiring explicit consent under the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation law, which goes into effect Friday.

World News

3 Things You Should Know About Europe's Sweeping New Data Privacy Law

11:37am May 24, 2018

by Aarti Shahani

The General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect Friday, but it also has implications in the U.S. Firms like Spotify and eBay now say you can ask them to delete data about you they've stored.

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