NPR’s Juana Summers talks with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer about her new book True Gretch: What I’ve Learned About Life, Leadership and Everything in Between.
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How Israel tried to use AI to covertly sway Americans about Gaza
A new report by an Israeli watchdog group ties an Israeli firm to a covert online campaign intended to sway crucial Democratic lawmakers to continue backing Israel’s campaign in Gaza.
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Stimulant users caught up in fatal ‘fourth wave’ of opioid epidemic
Hundreds of Americans continue to die every day from overdoses. More of those deaths now involve stimulants like cocaine and meth mixed with fentanyl. Men of color have been hit particularly hard.
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He created Oculus headsets as a teenager. Now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine
Palmer Luckey launched his first tech company as a teenager. He sold it to Facebook for $2 billion. Now he’s making AI weapons the Pentagon is buying for itself and also sending to Ukraine.
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Ahead of the Republican Convention, Nikki Haley tells her delegates to vote for Trump
Even though she wasn’t invited to the RNC in Milwaukee, Haley called for unity in the party on Tuesday, urging her convention supporters to vote for former President Donald Trump.
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Zach Bryan makes — and breaks — his own myth on ‘The Great American Bar Scene’
Bruce Springsteen, 40 years on from Born in the U.S.A., shows up on Bryan’s new album to offer the wisdom and regret of a lifetime of telling truths and spinning yarns.
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Families of 737 Max crash victims urge a judge to reject Boeing’s plea deal
Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to misleading regulators in connection with the deadly crashes of two 737 Max jets. But that deal with the DOJ has not quieted the anger of crash victims’ families.
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She was 17. He was 47. #MeToo changed how she thinks of their relationship
Ciment met her husband in the 1970s. At the time of their first kiss, he was a married father of two; she was his art student. In her memoir Consent she reconsiders the origin story of their marriage.
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Actor Jay Johnston of ‘Bob’s Burgers’ and other comedies pleads guilty in Jan. 6 case
In his career, Johnston has repeatedly portrayed police officers and agents, from Arrested Development to The Sarah Silverman Program and Men in Black II. His actions against police cost him a job.
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Touch one of the 100 life-size Indian elephant sculptures now traveling across the country
The herd consists of replicas of real-life elephants personally known to the artisans.
