A Mystery: Why Can't We Walk Straight? (www.npr.org)
He helped craft the 'bounty hunter' abortion law in Texas. He's just getting started (www.npr.org)
"It's the chess match in the courts: 'What can I get the courts to sign off on?'" Ziegler said. "He's not concerned about whether voters hate it or it will backfire on the [anti-abortion] movement later."
Companies are defaulting on loan payments for unused office buildings. This is the primary reason for the push to get back to in-person work. (www.npr.org)
Why the Koh-i-noor diamond won't make an appearance at King Charles III's coronation (www.npr.org)
Legend has it the 105-carat diamond — whose name means "mountain of light" in Persian — was found on a bank of the holy Krishna River in southern India at least 800 years ago. From there, the story goes, it spent centuries hidden inside a golden statue at a Hindu temple....
Elon Musk threatens to re-assign @NPR on Twitter to 'another company' (www.npr.org)
Musk, who has been scuffling with the media since acquiring the platform last year, asked if NPR was going to start tweeting again.
More people are getting away with murder in US. Unsolved killings reach a record high. (www.npr.org)
Perennial rice: Plant once, harvest again and again (www.npr.org)
"You Literally Cant Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You" (www.npr.org)
Energy Department assessment: China lab leak was most likely the origin of COVID-19 (www.npr.org)
An activist group is spreading misinformation to stop solar projects in rural America (www.npr.org)
Citizens for Responsible Solar was founded in an exurb of Washington, D.C., by a longtime political operative named Susan Ralston who worked in the White House under President George W. Bush and still has deep ties to power players in conservative politics....
With layoffs, NPR becomes the largest media outlets to cut jobs (www.npr.org)
Google shares drop $100 billion after its new AI chatbot makes a mistake (www.npr.org)
In-N-Out brings 'animal style' to Tennessee with plans to expand further in the U.S. (www.npr.org)
Becky Chambers' A Psalm for the Wild-Built [book review] (www.npr.org)
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In the Southeast, power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics, including clean energy projects (www.npr.org)
NPR reports that six news websites in Alabama and Florida have been taking under-the-table payments from electric utilities in exchange for stories attacking alternative energy.
Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison for Theranos fraud (www.npr.org)
Good riddance
After a night of uncertainty, NASA's Artemis moon rocket takes to the skies (www.npr.org)
Meet the strippers working to unionize a Los Angeles dive bar (www.npr.org)
Children's hospitals are the latest target of anti-LGBTQ harassment (www.npr.org)
State of Ukraine (www.npr.org)
Russia has control of a key eastern Ukrainian city (www.npr.org)
Justine Lindsay is the first openly trans cheerleader in the NFL (www.npr.org)
Select Russian banks are being booted off the SWIFT bank messaging system (www.npr.org)
In Texas, an unrelenting assault on trans rights is taking a mental toll (www.npr.org)
A California redwood forest has officially been returned to a group of Native tribes (www.npr.org)
