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A new type of traveler is part of the post-pandemic reset at U.S. hotels, along with fewer daily cleanings and pancake-slinging machines.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Emerson Sprick, an economist with the Bipartisan Policy Center, about potential solutions for keeping Social Security solvent.
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A profile of a small frontline newspaper that has been reporting on Ukrainian POWs released from captivity in Russia.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Bryan J. Cook, director of higher education policy at the Urban Institute Center on Education Data and Policy, about how complications with FAFSA affect Black students.
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Sen. Bob Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, goes on trial beginning Monday. He's been accused of taking bribes from foreign governments in return for favors.
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We hear from NPR listeners on what they'd like to thank their mothers for on this Mother's Day.
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Sawney Freeman may be America's first Black composer. He was likely enslaved in Connecticut, and his music has been performed there for the first time in two centuries.
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Whale families communicate a lot underwater. So now, researchers are using artificial intelligence to try to figure out what they're saying.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Joe Weisenthal co-host of Bloomberg's "Odd Lots" podcast about how the Strategic Petroleum Reserves can be utilized in 2024.
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About half of Gaza's southern area of Rafah is under Israeli evacuation orders as aid groups race to assist those fleeing.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Vicky Farewell about her new album "Give A Damn" and turning bedroom, bubble-gum pop into brutally honest reflections on relationships.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with David Thomas, president of Morehouse College, about preparations — and controversy — ahead of President Joe Biden's commencement address there next weekend.
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We look at President Biden's response to Israel's escalated military operation in the town of Rafah, in southern Gaza, where over a million Palestinians are sheltering.