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The push to alter the filibuster and sidestep a Republican blockade of two voting rights bills was doomed by Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.
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California is asking some 1.4 million unemployment recipients to prove their eligibility months after receiving aid as part of a fraud recovery campaign. -
Updated COVID workplace rules go into effect today. Several of the changes increase protections for vaccinated workers.
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The Biden administration announced Friday that Americans can begin ordering free at-home COVID-19 tests starting Jan. 19. Orders can be placed using the website COVIDtests.gov.
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This past month the NSPR family lost one of its past family members. Longtime NSPR volunteer, Tom Kinnee, passed away in Santa Monica at 69.
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As the omicron variant surges across the state, many schools across the North State are desperate for substitute teachers.
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Host Dave is joined by special guest co-host Dr. Kendall Hall (Professor of Physics CSU Chico) to visit with James Webb Space Telescope science team member Dr. Charles Beichman, the Executive Director of NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute at CalTech in Pasadena.
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But the court upheld a separate mandate for almost all employees at hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care providers that receive federal funds.
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Cultivating Place takes a behind-the-scenes look at an independent seed source well-known to gardeners and market growers throughout North America: Johnny’s Selected Seeds.
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The interim report says many cases have now been attributed to previously undiagnosed illnesses. But 'a couple dozen' cases remain unresolved and are still under investigation.
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The Biden administration hopes to make deeper inroads in Southeast Asia but lags far behind China, which has already built up major trade ties, as well as roads and a high-speed rail.
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NPR's A Martinez speaks with Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut about his recent trip to Ukraine as part of a bipartisan delegation of senators, and what he learned.
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The U.S. and its partners have sent weapons to Ukraine. They've provided political and moral support. But if Russia invades, Ukraine's army looks to be largely on its own against a stronger force.
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The people who take care of and educate children under 5 years old, who are too young to be vaccinated, are in a special kind of hell right now.
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The project, a first of its kind, aims to study the social and cultural dimensions of living in space and how people adapt their behavior when they're living in a completely new environment.
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