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Former NOAA Official On Trump's Alabama Hurricane Threat

5:13pm September 07, 2019

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Monica Medina, a former official for the NOAA, about the controversy surrounding president Trump's assertion that Alabama had been in the path of Hurricane Dorian.

MIT Media Lab Director Resigns Over Reported Epstein Ties

5:13pm September 07, 2019

by David Folkenflik

Joichi Ito has resigned as director of the MIT Media Lab after a New Yorker article detailed the lengths to which the Lab concealed funds received from Jeffrey Epstein.

Seeing dogs all day has its perks, veterinary neurologist Carrie Jurney says. But it also has downsides, including stress, debt, long hours and facing online harassment.

Veterinarians Are Killing Themselves. An Online Group Is There To Listen And Help

11:42am September 07, 2019

Veterinarians have suicide rates of more than double that of the general population. One group is building an online community to give advice and help out when stress adds up.

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Dorian Hits Parts Of North Carolina, Spares Others

11:42am September 07, 2019

by Joel Rose

For a lot of North Carolina, Hurricane Dorian felt like a near miss. But for those in its path, the storm felt like a direct hit.

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Ronan Farrow On MIT And Jeffrey Epstein

11:42am September 07, 2019

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Ronan Farrow of The New Yorker about Jeffrey Epstein's financial ties to the MIT Media Lab.

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Radio Host Art Bell's Vault Now Online

8:29am September 07, 2019

Before conspiracy theories ran amok on the Internet, there was AM and talk radio host Art Bell. Scott Simon talks with Andrew Paul, who wrote about the newly launched Art Bell Vault for AV Club.

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Smoking Hemp Catches On

8:29am September 07, 2019

by Emily Corwin

Smoking hemp flower is gaining popularity and proving profitable in Vermont, even though it doesn't have the same effect as its psychoactive relative, marijuana.

Nora Isabel Gallegos, left, stands with her daughter Priscila Arévalo in the riverside park in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, where her husband Guillermo was killed by the Border Patrol seven years ago.

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Investigations Of Fatal Shootings On The Border Can Drag On For Years

8:00am September 07, 2019

by John Burnett

A seven-year delay in the investigation of a controversial shooting by a Border Patrol agent of a Mexican national is emblematic of a larger problem when federal officials investigate these cases.

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President Trump holds a chart as he talks with reporters after receiving a briefing on Hurricane Dorian in the Oval Office of the White House, on Wednesday in Washington.

NOAA Contradicts Weather Service, Backs Trump On Hurricane Threat In Alabama

11:42pm September 06, 2019

by Richard Gonzales

In the escalating debate over weather projections, meteorologists fear their credibility is at stake.

New York State Attorney General Letitia James speaks at a June news conference in New York City. James' office is now leading a coalition of states and other groups in defending the Census Bureau's long-standing policy of including unauthorized immigrants

15 States Say Unauthorized Immigrants Should Continue To Count For Seats In Congress

8:45pm September 06, 2019

by Hansi Lo Wang

A judge is allowing New York and others to intervene in Alabama's lawsuit challenging the long-standing inclusion of unauthorized immigrants in census numbers used to divide up seats in Congress.