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The News Corp. building in New York City, home to Fox News.

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  • Media

Fox News' defense in defamation suit invokes debunked election-fraud claims

Disproven claims about Donald Trump's loss in 2020, many debunked in real time by Fox's own reporters, are part of Fox News' defense against a $1.6 billion lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems.

January 23, 2023
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By:
  • David Folkenflik
U.S. taxpayers are navigating several changes in this year's tax filing season, which runs from Jan. 23 to April 18. Here, the Internal Revenue Service building is seen in Washington, D.C.

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  • Your Money

Your tax refund will likely be smaller this year. Here are more things to know

The IRS starts accepting tax returns for 2022 on Jan. 23. A financial expert breaks down the changes from last year, and shares her tips for coping with tax season.

January 23, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
GPB News NPR

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  • National

Why higher winter temperatures are affecting the logging industry

It's been an unusually warm winter in the Northeast. Loggers there need frozen ground to reach some forested areas. (Story first aired on Jan. 21, 2023 on Weekend Edition Saturday.)

January 23, 2023
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By:
  • Henry Epp
GPB News NPR

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  • Business

The Fed has been raising interest rates. Why then are savings interest rates low?

When the Federal Reserve hikes interest rates, the interest rate on savings account usually follows in step. But recently, that logic hasn't held up. (Story aired on ATC on Jan. 15, 2023.)

January 23, 2023
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By:
  • Wailin Wong and
  • Adrian Ma
The end of AmazonSmile has some shoppers thinking about how to shop more ethically.

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  • Business

Looking for Amazon alternatives for ethical shopping? Here are some ideas

Amazon ended its charity donation program, AmazonSmile, after a series of other cost-cutting measures. Many shoppers expressed disapproval on social media and have been searching for alternatives.

January 23, 2023
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  • Kaitlyn Radde
GPB News NPR

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  • Economy

What's behind the rising price of eggs

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Ron Eichner, the owner of Eichner's Family Farm in Wexford, Pa., about how rising production costs and the avian flu are inflating the price of eggs.

January 21, 2023
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  • Scott Simon
A display of Starbucks coffee pods at a Costco Warehouse in Pennsylvania. A recent article says using coffee pods might be better for the climate, but the science is far from settled. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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  • Climate

Yeah, actually, your plastic coffee pod may not be great for the climate

Across social media, headlines this week said that single use coffee pods may be more climate friendly than other ways of making coffee. That may not be the case, based on the science.

January 21, 2023
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  • Julia Simon
Oil tankers are seen at the Sheskharis complex, part of Chernomortransneft JSC, a subsidiary of Transneft PJSC, in Novorossiysk, Russia, on Oct. 11. This is one of the largest facilities for oil and petroleum products in southern Russia.

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  • World

Russia has amassed a shadow fleet to ship its oil around sanctions

Russia would have to use tankers willing to get around sanctions to ship its crude to Asia. It's known in the oil industry as a "shadow fleet."

January 21, 2023
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  • Jackie Northam
Border officials are reporting a spike in people attempting to smuggle eggs into the U.S.

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  • Business

As prices soar, border officials are seeing a spike in egg smuggling from Mexico

U.S. egg prices have climbed 60% in the past year, making it tempting to bring eggs over from Mexico, where prices are lower. But those who try to smuggle them risk thousands of dollars in fines.

January 21, 2023
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By:
  • Giulia Heyward and
  • Angela Kocherga
In this courtroom sketch, Elon Musk, left, with shareholder attorney Nicholas Porritt, appears in federal court in San Francisco on Friday.

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  • Business

Elon Musk takes the witness stand to defend his Tesla buyout tweets

Two tweets in 2018 led to a class-action lawsuit alleging Musk misled investors, pulling him into court for about a half hour to deliver sworn testimony in front of a nine-person jury.

January 21, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Harold Davis, who's 29 years old, bought this truck and snowplow in the fall. Opportunities to use his new plow have been few and far between.

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  • Climate

This snowplow driver just started his own service. But warmer winters threaten it

Winter is the fastest warming season across the U.S. and New England's winters are no exception. A snowplow driver in New Hampshire reflects on what climate change means.

January 20, 2023
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By:
  • Mara Hoplamazian
Lensa, an AI photo app developed by Prisma Labs, saw its popularity skyrocket with the introduction in November of its "Magic Avatar" feature that turned selfies into images that strikingly resembled professional digital art.

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  • Technology

A rocky past haunts the mysterious company behind the Lensa AI photo app

Little was previously known about the artificial intelligence company founded by five Russian tech workers who for years have been quietly developing AI tools from its homebase of Cyprus.

January 20, 2023
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
A passenger at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport looks at a flight board after a system outage grounded thousands of flights throughout the country on Jan. 11.

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  • National

FAA contractors deleted files — and inadvertently grounded thousands of flights

The agency's preliminary review determined it was unintentional as the contractors worked "to correct synchronization" between databases.

January 20, 2023
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By:
  • Nicole Hernandez and
  • Ayana Archie
The Westin St. Francis San Francisco on Union Square hotel hosted this year's JPMorgan Healthcare Conference — the first since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. (Darius Tahir/KHN)

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  • Health

At buzzy health care business conference, investors fear the bubble will burst

JPMorgan's cheery confab returned to San Francisco, but the health care capitalists had economic anxiety, too.

January 20, 2023
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By:
  • Darius Tahir
U.S. wireless carrier T-Mobile said Thursday that an unidentified malicious intruder breached its network in late November and stole data on 37 million customers, including addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth.

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  • Business

T-Mobile says breach exposed personal data of 37 million customers

T-Mobile said data exposed to theft — based on its investigation to date — did not include passwords or PINs, bank account or credit card information, Social Security numbers or other government IDs.

January 20, 2023
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