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Los Angeles Cuts Power To A Home, Saying It Violated Public Health Orders

Los Angeles has turned off the power to a home that hosted several large parties. The city said the resident violated public health orders meant to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

August 26, 2020
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  • Aaron Schrank
GPB News NPR

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  • Sports

Is Messi Leaving Barcelona?

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Pablo Maurer of The Athletic about the possibility of soccer star Lionel Messi leaving his longtime club Barcelona.

August 26, 2020
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GPB News NPR

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Highlights Of Day 2 Of The Republican National Convention

The Republican National Convention heads to Baltimore, where Vice President Pence will give his keynote. Some of the party's biggest stars in Congress are expected to speak, too.

August 26, 2020
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  • Tamara Keith
"Poverty, inequities, the jobs that they perform ... create the perfect environment for the virus to spread quickly," says Omar Carrera CEO of the nonprofit Canal Alliance.

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'Our Communities Are In Crisis': Latinos And COVID-19

A Latinx neighborhood in a wealthy California county hard-hit by COVID-19 reflects on the complex challenges and policy failures affecting vulnerable communities across the U.S. during the pandemic.

August 26, 2020
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  • Eric Westervelt and
  • Marisa Peñaloza
Vice President Mike Pence is seen as a loyal wing man to President Trump at the White House and on the campaign trail. He speaks to the Republican National Convention on Wednesday from Fort McHenry.

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  • Politics

Pence, Trump's Loyal Wing Man, To Lay Out Choice For Nov. 3 Election

Pence is a bridge between Trump and evangelicals and social conservatives, reshaping the president's bombast into language more palatable to the Republican mainstream.

August 26, 2020
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  • Franco Ordoñez
GPB News NPR

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  • Health

CDC Changes Testing Guidelines To Exclude People With No COVID-19 Symptoms

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has changed its coronavirus testing guidelines, raising questions about whether the move was done to reduce testing.

August 26, 2020
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  • Richard Harris
By One Vote: Woman Suffrage in the South: asset-mezzanine-16x9

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Georgia Took 50 Years To Back Women's Right To Vote

When women gained the right to vote under the U.S. Constitution 100 years ago today, Georgia was not on board. 

State lawmakers had passionately rejected ratifying the 19th amendment. 

To learn more about Georgians' attitudes about women's suffrage, GPB's Rickey Bevington interviewed Tamar Hallerman, Senior Reporter with the Atlanta Journal Constitution.  

August 26, 2020
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  • Rickey Bevington
GPB News NPR

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  • Politics

Highlights Of Day 2 Of The Republican National Convention

First lady Melania Trump is expected to headline the second night of the Republican National Convention with a speech from the Rose Garden.

August 25, 2020
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  • Mara Liasson
The former director of the National Security Agency, Adm. Mike Rogers, tells NPR that in the run-up to the 2016 election he wishes "we had taken more direct, more public action (against Russia) sooner as opposed to doing so after the election." He's shown here in 2014.

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  • Elections

Ex-Intel Chief: 'I Wish We Had Taken More Action' Against Russian Meddling

Former NSA chief Mike Rogers says the intelligence community knew Russia was taking unprecedented steps during the 2016 election, but only later did it fully grasp the extent of that effort.

August 25, 2020
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  • Greg Myre
GPB News NPR

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  • Politics

The South Asian Identity In The Current Political Moment

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Karthick Ramakrishnan, a public policy professor at the University of California, Riverside, about the South Asian political moment at the parties' conventions.

August 25, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
GPB News NPR

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'My Spirit Is On The Verge Of Being Broken': Billy Porter On This Moment In History

A record number of Black actors have received Emmy nominations this year. American actor and singer Billy Porter talked with NPR about his work on Pose and his feelings about this moment.

August 25, 2020
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  • Sam Sanders
GPB News NPR

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Researcher Criticizes FDA's Exaggeration Of Plasma's Efficacy In COVID-19 Treatment

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Eric Topol of the Scripps Research Translational Institute about his concerns about the use of convalescent plasma for COVID-19 treatment.

August 25, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
A redwood forest caught in the CZU Lightning Complex Fire on the Northern California coast.

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Wildfires Hit California's Redwoods And Condors, But There's Still Hope

Growing wildfires have overtaken old-growth redwoods and endangered condor nests, but biologists say they could survive.

August 25, 2020
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  • Lauren Sommer
Kristen Trogler was unable to find on a sex offender registry the man who sexually abused her when she was 5 years old.

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Sex Offender Registries Often Fail Those They Are Designed To Protect

NPR reviewed sex offender registry databases nationwide and found a system with myriad problems, including tens of thousands of convicted offenders who law enforcement have lost track of.

August 25, 2020
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  • Cheryl W. Thompson
GPB News NPR

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  • National

Rep. Mike Johnson On The RNC, The Coronavirus And The Storms Facing Louisiana

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., about the first night of the GOP convention and the storms facing Louisiana this week, 15 years after Katrina tore through the state.

August 25, 2020
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