With Amazon’s Arrival, A New York Community Pushes To Be Included
Many residents of the Queensbridge public housing development feel they have not benefited much from the area’s booming development. With Amazon, activists are trying to change that story.
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The Senate is expected to vote this week on a bill to fund the government. TSA staff are working without pay during the government shutdown, and about 10 percent of TSA workers called out sick Sunday.
Don’t Rush To Judge Video Of Native American And Students, Official Says
David Greene talks to Kentucky state Rep. Adam Koenig, a graduate of Covington Catholic High School, about a confrontation in Washington, D.C.. with students from the school that went viral.
In Wisconsin, Farmers May Soon Be Milking The Profits Of Solar Energy Instead Of Cows
Wisconsin, the Dairy State, may someday be known as the Solar State too. While solar is a boost for some struggling dairy farmers, others fear the fallout from turning their farm community into a solar production site.
Delta Air Lines Pays To Keep Martin Luther King Jr. National Park Open For Holiday
The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park had been shuttered because of the partial government shutdown. But Delta Air Lines paid to keep it open on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Critics Continue Adding Voices To Challenge Of Hudson River Cleanup Results
General Electric spent six years and hundreds of millions of dollars trying to dredge toxic PCBs from New York’s Hudson River. But now it’s not clear whether this massive cleanup actually worked.
These 3 Former Kansas Republicans Say They No Longer Felt At Home In The GOP
As lawmakers returned to the Kansas state capitol this year, three seats won by Republicans are now in the hands of Democrats. That’s after three suburban Republican women left the GOP.
How Employees With The Federal Bureau Of Prisons Are Coping During The Shutdown
Almost all of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ 36,000 employees are being forced to work without pay. Some can’t afford gas to get to work, others are selling spare household items on the Internet.
Thrift Stores Say They’re Swamped With Donations After ‘Tidying Up with Marie Kondo’
Thrift stores are overwhelmed as people bring stuff in after watching Netflix’s Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. NPR’s Audie Cornish hears from New Yorker fashion columnist Rachel Syme about the trend.
An Excerpt From Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’
In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed in Birmingham, Ala. He wrote “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” James Earl Jones reads an excerpt of the letter at a 1988 event at New York’s 92nd Street Y.
Differing Narratives After Standoff Between Native American Man, High School Student
The interaction between the man and the teen caused an outcry. But a more complicated picture has emerged of the day when several groups of protesters converged at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
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