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Pandemic social distancing has made candidates for New York mayor both more and less accessible.
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The new movie Cherry follows an Iraq war vet who gets addicted to heroin and starts robbing banks. It's based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Nico Walker, who was just released from prison.
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NPR's Scott Simon asks Pete Pattisson of The Guardianabout his reporting on migrant worker deaths in Qatar, including those who died while constructing venues for FIFA's 2022 World Cup.
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Araceli Gonzalez-Burkle was hit hard by the pandemic. She lost her job and was hospitalized with COVID-19. She's had to rely on food banks, public assistance, and her mother while she recovers.
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By releasing intelligence tying Saudi Arabia's crown prince to the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, President Biden is toughening U.S. posture toward the kingdom.
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The committee voted 22 to nothing in favor of the new vaccine.
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After taking a two-year step back from the spotlight, Julien Baker returns with a self-produced album titled Little Oblivions.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Larry Wilmore about his new Netflix docu-series, Amend: The Fight for America," about the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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NPR's Scott Simon asks journalist Jennifer Chen about the surge in violence against Asian-Americans.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died Feb. 22 at age 101, wrote a string of verses called "What is Poetry." We remember him by excerpting some lines.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning spy novel The Sympathizertold the story of a communist double agent just after the Vietnam War — his quest for revolution resumes in The Committed.
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The Saudi crown prince may escape punishment for his order to kill a columnist. A pandemic relief package is moving through Congress. Donald Trump remains popular with conservative activists.