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  • Health

It cost $38,398 for a single shot of a very old cancer drug

Lupron, a drug patented half a century ago, treats advanced prostate cancer. It costs a few hundred dollars in the U.K. — so why are U.S. hospitals charging so much more to administer it?

October 26, 2022
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  • Arthur Allen
Weathering at the Penumbra Theatre

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  • Arts & Life

When a regional theater got millions to remake itself, it focused on racial healing

The historically Black Penumbra Theatre has received millions in grants to remake itself into a center for racial healing. What will its choices reveal about regional theater's future?

October 26, 2022
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
An electron microscope image shows a SARS-CoV-2 particle isolated in the early days of the pandemic. It's been nearly a year since omicron was first detected, and scientists say this branch of the coronavirus family tree is still thriving.

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  • Health

Omicron keeps finding new evolutionary tricks to outsmart our immunity

SARS-CoV-2 is evolving "rapidly," spawning one new variant after another. But omicron continues to dominate, raising new questions about how evolution of the virus is headed.

October 25, 2022
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By:
  • Rob Stein
A Dominion Voting Systems ballot scanner is seen in this 2021 file photo. Election deniers have spread conspiracies about the Denver-based company's voting machines.

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  • Elections

Clerks battle false claims as they prepare to administer elections

Even though it wasn't a swing state in 2020, Colorado has been at the forefront of false claims that the election was stolen.

October 25, 2022
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By:
  • Bente Birkeland
Writer and LGBTQ activist George M. Johnson sparked conversation — and controversy — with their 2020 memoir about growing up Black and queer. <em>All Boys Aren't Blue</em> has been banned in dozens of school libraries.

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  • Author Interviews

Their book is banned from dozens of districts, but has helped countless young readers

Writer and LGBTQ activist George M. Johnson spoke with Morning Edition about what's lost when books like their 2020 memoir All Boys Aren't Blue are banned from school libraries.

October 25, 2022
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By:
  • Reena Advani and
  • Rachel Treisman
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  • Business

Time is running out to book relatively inexpensive flights over the holidays

If you haven't booked your holiday air travel yet, you probably should. Airlines are reporting high demand and rising prices. (Story aired on ATC on Oct. 21, 2022.)

October 24, 2022
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  • David Schaper
Police officers respond to a call that an active shooter had reportedly injured 24 students at Chillicothe High School in Chillicothe, Ohio, in September. The call turned out to be a hoax. Similar scenes have played out at schools across the country in recent weeks.

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  • National Security

Those fake active shooter calls to schools? A similar thing happened before

As schools across the U.S. are targeted by false calls about active shooters, NPR has found evidence that a similar scheme took place in the spring.

October 24, 2022
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  • Odette Yousef and
  • Jenna McLaughlin
Latonia Moore at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 18, 2022.

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  • Music News

From gospel to opera, soprano Latonia Moore makes the world her stage

Soprano Latonia Moore's journey to the world's greatest opera stages began singing gospel — in her grandfather's church — and jazz

October 24, 2022
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  • Olivia Hampton
The Bulldog watch, released by MB&F in March 2020, retails for $100,000 and sold out almost immediately.

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  • Business

What the wild journey of a $100,000 watch can teach us about global markets

The luxury watch market was a sleepy, shrinking industry until it got caught up in a tidal wave of market forces.

October 23, 2022
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  • Stacey Vanek Smith
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  • Economy

The frenzied housing market has hit a serious speed bump

September's existing home sales dropped 24% from a year ago — to the lowest level in a decade. Prices fell too. Higher mortgage rates have thrown cold water on the once hot market.

October 22, 2022
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  • Steve Inskeep and
  • Chris Arnold
Tony Garfalo, a former OxyChem worker.

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  • Health

They inhaled asbestos for decades on the job. Now, workers break their silence

While the U.S. considers finally banning the carcinogen, a group of men has come forward, saying they were exposed repeatedly while working at a chemical plant in New York.

October 21, 2022
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By:
  • Kathleen McGrory and
  • Neil Bedi
From left: Republican candidate Christine Drazan, Democrat-turned-independent candidate Betsy Johnson and Democratic candidate Tina Kotek are all vying for the Oregon governor's office.

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  • National

Democrats' total control over Oregon politics could end with the race for governor

In the Oregon race for governor, the Democrat, Tina Kotek, and the Republican, Christine Drazan, are in a dead heat thanks to the independent, Betsy Johnson, who has outraised her competitors.

October 21, 2022
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  • Dirk VanderHart
Ye (C), formerly known as Kanye West, attends the Givenchy Spring-Summer 2023 fashion show during the Paris Womenswear Fashion Week, in Paris, on Oct. 2, 2022.

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  • Pop Culture

The family of George Floyd plans to file a $250 million lawsuit against Ye

The announcement of the lawsuit comes after Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, made comments about Floyd's death on the podcast Drink Champs.

October 21, 2022
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By:
  • Matt Adams
GPB  NPR

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  • Law

Bannon receives 4-month sentence for flouting House Jan. 6 panel

A judge has sentenced former Trump political adviser Steve Bannon to 4 months incarceration and a $6,500 fine for flouting demands from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.

October 21, 2022
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By:
  • Leila Fadel and
  • Carrie Johnson
Babyface, photographed in Brooklyn on Sept. 11, 2022.

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  • Music News

On 'Girls Night Out,' Babyface collaborates with a new generation of women artists

In the 1990's few producers matched Babyface's success. From Whitney Houston to TLC to Boyz II Men, his touch led to massive hits. NPR's A Martinez talks to him about his new album.

October 21, 2022
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