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Future Of Ridesharing In California Rocky Following Judge's Order On Drivers

Uber and Lyft are fighting for survival in California after a state judge ordered that the companies consider all of its drivers employees.

August 15, 2020
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  • Bobby Allyn
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  • Politics

Week In Politics: Trump Goes After Kamala Harris After Biden's Running Mate Decision

Joe Biden announced his running mate, prompting Trump to call Sen. Harris "nasty." Congress didn't reach a deal for coronavirus relief. And, the DNC begins virtually next week.

August 15, 2020
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  • Ron Elving
"I've deliberately taken a lot of time to do things on my own terms and in my own time," Jacob Collier says. "I've almost deliberately crafted a space where I can keep on changing things musically and keep on experimenting."

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  • Music Interviews

Jacob Collier On Creating The Negative Space Of 'Djesse Vol. 3'

Twenty-six-year old Grammy-winning multi-instrumental composer and prodigy Jacob Collier talks about his new album, Djesse Vol. 3., which features collaborations with Ty Dolla $ign and T-Pain.

August 15, 2020
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By:
  • Scott Simon and
  • Ned Wharton
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  • Television

Jonathan Majors Discusses His Role In HBO's New 'Lovecraft Country'

In a new HBO series, a Black man travels across 1950s Jim Crow America, facing the racist terrors that seem more out of H.P. Lovecraft's fiction. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to actor Jonathan Majors.

August 15, 2020
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  • Law

Ohio Bribery Scandal Raises Questions About Clean Energy Availability In State

In Ohio, clean energy advocates say it's long been hard to get wind and solar projects approved. Now there are new questions about that after a bribery scandal linked to a controversial energy law.

August 15, 2020
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  • Julie Grant
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  • Politics

Trump Offers Conflicting Statements On Mail-In Voting, USPS Funding

This week, the president appeared to acknowledge that blocking the funds from the U-S Postal Service would help him politically. But yesterday, he started to backtrack.

August 15, 2020
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  • Franco Ordoñez
Classical music concert with a sheet music in the foreground

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  • Religion

Opinion: COVID-19 Cannot Stop The Hum Of A Church Choir

NPR's Scott Simon muses about a choir that had to stop singing because of the pandemic...so now they hum.

August 15, 2020
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  • Scott Simon
A satellite image from Planet Labs, a private satellite company, shows the exhaust from a North Korean missile test on May 4, 2019.

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  • Technology

From Desert Battlefields To Coral Reefs, Private Satellites Revolutionize The View

Satellite images were once restricted to governments. Now anyone can get them, creating a new world of possibilities for environmentalists, human rights groups and those monitoring nuclear weapons.

August 08, 2020
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  • Greg Myre
Members of the Test & Trace Corps meet travelers arriving by Amtrak from Miami at Penn Station in New York. Members of the Test & Trace Corps were out to educate visitors about quarantine restrictions for travelers from coronavirus hot spots.

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  • Health

Welcome To New York, Traveler. Now Please Begin Your Quarantine

New York City is setting up quarantine "checkpoints" for travelers from states that are COVID-19 hot spots. The city wants travelers from high-risk states to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival.

August 08, 2020
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  • Fred Mogul
GPB  NPR

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  • Books

Sean Hannity Changes Book Cover Featuring Latin Motto Error

After student Spencer Alexander McDaniel realized that the Latin on the cover of a new book by Sean Hannity was pretty much gibberish, Hannity changed it.

August 08, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
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  • Elections

Texas Faces Dilemma: How To Accommodate COVID-19 Postive Voters

One challenge for which election officials still don't have a great answer is this: how to handle voters who test positive for COVID-19 after the deadline for absentee ballots has passed.

August 08, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
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  • Health

Oldest Nurse In U.S. Barred From Working Because Of Pandemic

At 95, Florence Rigney is believed to be the oldest working nurse in the U.S. But she's not allowed to work during the pandemic. NPR's Scott Simon talks to her about her wish to go back to the job.

August 08, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
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  • Religion

West Virginia Churchgoer Reflects On Faith During The COVID-19 Pandemic

Mary Tate's church in central West Virginia was part of the first cluster of coronavirus cases in the state. Five months later, she shares that experience and how it's made her faith stronger.

August 08, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
Tim Minchin plays Lucky in the new series <em>Upright.</em>

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  • Television

Tim Minchin Hauls A Piano Across Australia In 'Upright'

Singer, songwriter, and satirist Tim Minchin's new series opens with a bang: A frazzled man is driving an upright piano across the bare Australian landscape when he collides with a mouthy teenager.

August 08, 2020
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  • Scott Simon
GPB  NPR

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  • Health

COVID-19 Pandemic Cancels County Fair Competitions

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Jordan Stivers, of Santa Clara, California whose last year to showcase and auction livestock at the county fair was disrupted by the pandemic.

August 08, 2020
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