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  • China Unicom's tailor has set up a sewing machine, ready to alter concerned customers' pants so that the larger version of the phone will fit in their pockets.
  • The report, which accounts for data recorded between Sept. 6 and Sept. 26, shows a limited picture of COVID-19 cases tied to schools.
  • In a move to prevent the spread of coronavirus, on Thursday evening Monroe County ordered hotels and other tourist lodging — like vacation rentals and RV…
  • Linda visited with people at the Inaugural Celebration today who had come to witness President Clinton's second swearing-in and Inaugural address. Many of the visitors to the nation's capital waited up to three hours in the cold, just for a glimpse of the President. She talked with a family from South Carolina, which was having an ongoing argument about which celebration would be better...the Inaugural, or the one in New Orleans preparing for this weekend's Super Bowl...and also found some surprise foreign visitors, including General Aleksandr Lebed of Russia. (6:00) ((ST
  • Daisann (day-ZANN) McLane reports on last week's annual Carnival in Port Au Prince, Haiti. In 1990, the group Boukman Eksperyans (BOOK-mahn ex-pair-YANS) first brought overt politics into the music of the annual street party known as Carnival. Now politics are an expected part of music at Carnival. The most notable political song this year was the group Koudjae's (KOO-jai) dig at the democratically elected government. But the most appealing song was by a group of Haitian American teenagers calling themselves King Posse. (6:00) ((ST
  • In light of newly-leaked documents on its membership, we look at Oath Keepers, a group charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
  • David Kertzer is the author of The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism (Knopf). In the book he focuses on the time period from Napoleon to Hitler, and how "traditional" Catholic forms of dealing with Jews became transformed into modern anti-Semitism. Kertzer is Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science and a professor of anthropology and Italian Studies at Brown University. He's also the author of The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara about a 6-year-old Jewish boy in Italy who in 1858 was taken from his family, secretly baptized, and sent to live in a Catholic household.
  • The Department of Homeland Security is warning about the threat of an attack by domestic extremists. The department says the recent mob assault on the U.S. Capitol may have emboldened radical groups.
  • More than 400 people have been charged in connection with the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. We look at the latest on the FBI investigation and what those charged have in common.
  • The Los Angeles Fire Department depends on help from amateur radio volunteers when fire threatens communications infrastructure. NPR looks at how ham radio operators are keeping residents safe.
  • Chile has started vaccinating kids age 6 to 11 against COVID, one of the few nations in the world to immunize kids under 12. A handful of other countries are also giving shots to younger kids.
  • After the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, Washington sent a team of researchers to interview eyewitnesses. Only one interview was conducted in English. A Russian woman living near the destroyed city tells her tale of seeing people caught by the blast. Hear a part of her story.
  • Extremism researchers say online rhetoric from the far right has heated up since Trump was indicted. But they're not seeing signs that it will translate to collective violence.
  • The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, says the Senate's immigration overhaul will cost the country more than $6 trillion over 50 years. A similar report six years ago helped sink that attempt at changing immigration. Critics argue that both reports are fundamentally flawed, and fail to account for the economic benefits of restructuring the immigration system.
  • India's government has banned condom ads between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. to protect children from seeing them on TV. Some citizens are outraged by the censorship.
  • As part of a major restructuring that will prioritize GM's electric and autonomous vehicle programs, the automaker plans to cut 15 percent of its workforce to save some $6 billion by the end of 2020.
  • Today was supposed to be a good day for detained Iraqis who were rounded up starting in the summer of 2017. A district court judge had ordered the remaining 110 of the group to be released, but today's opinion from the 6th Circuit Court throws the case into turmoil.
  • The Trump administration wants to shift money for Pell Grants for college education to fund new spending, including a $1.6 billion bump for NASA to...
  • Broward County homeowners who are interested in installing solar panels now have a chance to buy in to renewable energy. Members from climate change…
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