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Former President Donald Trump is suing <em>Washington Post</em> journalist Bob Woodward over Woodward's latest book, <em>T</em><em>he Trump Tapes</em>.

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  • Politics

Trump sues Bob Woodward for releasing audio of their interviews without permission

The former president has made good on his threat to sue the Washington Post reporter over his use of interview recordings. The lawsuit seeks nearly $50 million in damages.

January 31, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
GPB News NPR

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  • Economy

The Fed kicks off a 2-day meeting with another interest rate hike expected

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Ken Kuttner, economics professor at Williams College, about the Federal Reserve's next expected interest rate hike. It would mark the eighth increase since March of 2022.

January 31, 2023
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  • GPB Newsroom
An employee examines a vanadium flow battery stack in the Battery Reliability Test Laboratory at PNNL.

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  • Investigations

Congress tightens U.S. manufacturing rules after battery technology ends up in China

The Department of Energy allowed a taxpayer-funded breakthrough in batteries to transfer overseas with little oversight

January 31, 2023
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  • Laura Sullivan
Humira, the injectable biologic treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, now faces its first competition from one of several copycat "biosimilar" drugs expected to come to market this year. Some patients spend $70,000 a year on Humira.

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  • Health

AbbVie's blockbuster drug Humira finally loses its 20-year, $200 billion monopoly

U.S. doctors can now choose Amjevita instead, the first of several close copies of the popular rheumatoid arthritis drug expected this year. But industry-watchers warn consumer savings may be limited.

January 31, 2023
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By:
  • Leslie Walker and
  • Dan Gorenstein
The TikTok app logo is pictured in Tokyo, Sept. 28, 2020. University of Wisconsin System officials said Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, that they will restrict the use of TikTok on system devices.

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  • Politics

The CEO of TikTok will testify before Congress amid security concerns about the app

TikTok has been under scrutiny in recent years about its privacy and security practices and its effect on young people's mental health. Various bans of the app have been enacted across the country.

January 31, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
These screenshots show deployed service members that <em>Wove</em> worked with to design engagement rings while they are away from home. The rings in the photos are replicas that the service members received so they would have a sense of what the actual ones would be like.

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  • National

These combat vets want to help you design the perfect engagement ring

'Wove' is a design-your-own engagement ring company started by two former Army Rangers who got the idea while on combat deployment.

January 31, 2023
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  • Quil Lawrence
Johnson & Johnson<a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/jj-stop-selling-talc-based-baby-powder-globally-2023-2022-08-11/"> </a>announced last year that it would suspend all talc baby powder sales worldwide.

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  • Law

Appeals court clears the way for more lawsuits over Johnson's Baby Powder

A U.S. appeals court has dismissed the bankruptcy case filed by a Johnson & Johnson spinoff company. Around 40,000 cancer patients have filed suit, alleging the powder was contaminated with asbestos.

January 30, 2023
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  • Scott Horsley and
  • Brian Mann
An undated photo provided by the Grants Pass Police Department shows Benjamin Obadiah Foster, who is wanted by authorities for attempted murder, kidnapping and assault.

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  • National

A man accused of torturing women is using dating apps to look for victims, police say

Authorities are looking for Benjamin Obadiah Foster, who they accuse of kidnapping and assaulting a woman in Oregon — years after he was charged with holding his then-girlfriend captive in Las Vegas.

January 30, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
A delivery rider picks up his customers' online order as residents line up outside a store to buy Lunar New Year desserts in Beijing, Jan. 17. China's economic growth fell to its second-lowest level in at least four decades last year under pressure from anti-virus controls and a real estate slump.

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  • World

With COVID lockdowns lifted, China says it's back in business. But it's not so easy

China has been trying to woo back foreign investors and businesses after nearly three years of self-imposed isolation, but a quick economic recovery will also hinge on domestic consumption.

January 30, 2023
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  • Emily Feng
Google last week announced it would layoff 12,000 people from its staff, the latest Big Tech company to enact mass workforce reductions in recent months.

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  • Technology

5 takeaways from the massive layoffs hitting Big Tech right now

Some 200,000 tech jobs have been lost in what is seen as one of the sharpest downturns in the tech industry's history. Here is what you need to know about the mass layoffs in Silicon Valley.

January 29, 2023
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  • Bobby Allyn
GPB News NPR

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  • Economy

What prices at a Walmart in Georgia tell us about inflation

NPR has been tracking prices at a Walmart in Georgia for four years. The latest shopping trip tells us a lot about what's been happening in world trade and the U.S. economy.

January 28, 2023
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By:
  • Scott Simon and
  • Alina Selyukh
SCAD Foundry, located on Drayton Street just south of downtown Savannah, occupies the building that once housed Georgia's first hospital.

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  • Business

Savannah College of Art and Design creates new studios in partnership with Deloitte

SCAD Foundry will house several new student initiatives with global consulting firm Deloitte.

January 27, 2023
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  • Benjamin Payne
Recent findings about the pollution of waterways near oil refineries underscore health and environmental dangers.

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  • Climate

Oil refineries release lots of water pollution near communities of color, data show

Oil refineries release billions of pounds of pollution into waterways each year, according to regulatory data. NPR found that pollution is concentrated near places where people of color live.

January 27, 2023
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  • Rebecca Hersher
People shop at Walmart on Black Friday 2022 in Dunwoody,  Ga.

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  • Business

What tracking one Walmart store's prices for years taught us about the economy

Inside our shopping cart is a story of global trade, extreme weather, shrinking packages and rising prices.

January 27, 2023
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh,
  • Jacqueline GaNun,
  • and 1 more
GPB News NPR

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  • Business

America, we have a problem. People aren't feeling engaged with their work

A new Gallup report finds employee engagement in the U.S. fell in 2022. Younger workers in particular felt they had fewer opportunities to learn and grow. (Story first aired on ATC on Jan. 25, 2023.)

January 27, 2023
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  • Andrea Hsu
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