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1664 episodes transcribedAt least six conservative broadcasters who spread misinformation about COVID-19 and questioned coronavirus vaccines have now died from just this year....
In October of 1941, a young soldier was on leave in southern California when he met the woman he was sure he would marry. Then, two months later while...
Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai made an assault allegation in November, then disappeared from the public eye. She has since re-emerged, but in protest...
Banning books from classrooms and school libraries is nothing new, but it's recently become a topic of considerable political debate. How should paren...
It was only a matter of time before cases of the COVID-19 omicron variant started popping up in the U.S., and now, it's here. Although it's too early...
Buying stuff is a part of this country's DNA. It's a tradition that really took off near the end of World War II, when the American economy was thrivi...
Getting an abortion in Mississippi has never been easy, but it hasn't been impossible. Now, a case before the Supreme Court that centers on a clinic i...
After years of jokes about unsuccessful Infrastructure Weeks, months of deliberation, and bouts of gridlock on the political left, a $1.2 trillion pac...
The World Health Organization is warning that the omicron variant of the coronavirus, which was first detected in South Africa, has a "very high" glob...
This Thanksgiving week, we're sharing a segment from our special series Play It Forward, in which artists tell us about their own music and the musici...
For Thanksgiving Day, we're sharing a segment from our special series Play It Forward, in which artists tell us about their own music and the musician...
The commonly-told version of the first Thanksgiving story leaves out a lot: The indigenous Wampanoag people who lived in a complex society long before...
CTE — chronic traumatic encephalopathy — is a degenerative brain disease found in many former professional football and hockey players, for whom blow...
CTE — chronic traumatic encephalopathy — is a degenerative brain disease found in many former professional football and hockey players, for whom blow...
For those living with long COVID, daily activities like going for a walk, washing the dishes, or being on a Zoom call can be incredibly draining. Thes...
Migrants from faraway countries are stuck in Belarus, just across its border with Poland. They've traveled there to seek asylum in the EU. But Poland...
Afghanistan is facing its worst drought in decades, but that's not the only reason it is on the verge of a hunger crisis. After the Taliban took over,...
This week's virtual summit between President Joe Biden and China's President Xi Jinping may have restored a tone of respect between the world's two la...
The holiday shopping season is basically here. But a lot of things that Americans want to buy are not. Now the race is on to get goods off ships and i...
Thousands of youth activists from all over the world gathered in Scotland this week for the COP26 UN climate summit. They say climate change is alread...
