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Rock 'n' roll's Creem Magazine is back in print and online

9:38am June 11, 2022

by Danny Hensel

Creem Magazine, which covered rock 'n' roll from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, is returning: first as a digital magazine with full archives, then in the fall as a quarterly print publication.

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Politics & Government

Major broadcasters aired the Jan. 6 committee hearings live. Fox News did not

9:09am June 11, 2022

by David Folkenflik

We look at how Fox News covered the first of the Jan. 6 committee hearings, which it did not air live. The network chose to air it on its business channel, the Fox Business Network, instead.

Economy

Housing prices soar with rising inflation

8:06am June 11, 2022

by Chris Arnold

Inflation is on the rise throughout the economy but it's hitting the housing and rental markets the hardest. Housing is often Americans biggest single expense.

National

PC game collectors uncover multiple forgeries from prominent collector

4:54pm June 10, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Kyle Orland, a senior gaming editor at Ars Technica, on forged copies of old PC video games discovered in the world of rare PC game collecting.

A customer shops at a grocery store in San Rafael, Calif., on June 8. Inflation has surged to its highest rate in nearly 40 years, and Americans are having to adjust some of their spending patterns.

Economy

Inflation soars to an over 40-year high. These are the ways Americans are coping

3:50pm June 10, 2022

by Scott Horsley

Consumers are watching their pennies at the gas station and grocery store as consumer prices surged 8.6% in May, pushing the annual inflation rate to its highest in over 40 years.

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A woman in Missouri says a man she had sex with in a Hyundai Genesis infected her with HPV through neglect — and she wants his insurance company to cover her medical costs and other damages. Here, Hyundai representatives display the 2014 model of the Ge

National

GEICO may have to pay $5.2 million to a woman who got an STD in an insured car

1:27pm June 10, 2022

by Bill Chappell

The woman says a man infected her with HPV when they had unprotected sex in his 2014 Hyundai Genesis. She's now trying to enforce a large arbitration award.

Starbucks' lawyers met twice with the unionized workers of the Ithaca store to offer them the option of applying to transfer to another location after announcing the store closure. However, the company would not guarantee the workers' jobs moving forward,

National

Starbucks union in Ithaca protests store's closure and calls for a boycott

11:59am June 10, 2022

by Shruti Rajkumar

The decision to close the store on College Avenue has left workers with less than a week's notice and resulted in them calling for a boycott of other Starbucks stores around the city.

Fox News personalities adorn the front of the News Corporation building in 2019 in New York City.

Politics & Government

Only one major cable news channel did not carry the Jan. 6 hearing live: Fox News

10:55am June 10, 2022

by David Folkenflik

Airing the hearing would have required Fox to broadcast flat contradictions of what its personalities have told their audience in the past year and a half: that the riot was a mere legal protest.

Oregon's ambitious sustainable power plant

8:05am June 10, 2022

by Monica Samayoa

An Oregon utility has constructed a renewable energy power plant that relies on wind, solar energy and batteries to power the grid when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing.

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Quirky roadside attractions bring small town pride

5:01am June 10, 2022

by David Condos

For small towns with dwindling populations and shrinking tax bases, luring travelers to stop and spend a few dollars is a matter of survival. Some turn to quirky roadside tourist attractions.