The suspect in the Wis. Christmas parade attack has a previous criminal record
There are more questions than answers as to why a person drove an SUV through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wis., killing five people and injuring dozens of others.
The Conglomerate Paradox: As GE splinters, Facebook becomes Meta
GE announced it’s breaking into three. Meanwhile, tech companies continue to take over a wider swath of industries.
Detroit homes are being overwhelmed by flooding — and it’s not just water coming in
The city has experienced more frequent and severe flooding due to climate change and an aging stormwater system. Detroiters hope federal infrastructure funding eases the problem.
Former inmates are cooking up some of Philly’s best pizza
A former inmate started Down North Pizza to employ formerly incarcerated people. Philadelphia has had one of the highest incarceration rates in the nation.
News brief: Wis. parade tragedy, Fed chair Powell, Austria’s COVID-19 lockdown
The latest out of Wisconsin after an SUV plowed into a parade. President Biden taps Fed chair Jerome Powell for a second term. Austria returns to a lockdown to try to roll back a wave of COVID cases.
Trans student golfer is suing Tennessee for the right to play his sport
In 10 states, it’s illegal for transgender students to compete on teams that align with their gender. A Tennessee freshman is suing over the law that bans him from playing on the boys’ golf team.
The pandemic has sparked rising house prices across the rural U.S.
The pandemic has helped spread the housing crisis to almost every corner of the United States. A surge of people moving to rural towns is pricing out some long-time residents.
There’s an effort to get EMTs to respond to more than than medical emergencies
An ambulance typically arrives mid-crisis, but a new approach — called community paramedicine — is trying to prevent the emergency altogether.
An Afghan family faces many challenges trying to resettle in the U.S.
NPR’s Rachel Martin follows one family’s journey from Kabul, Afghanistan, to northern Virginia, and their search to find jobs and housing in the U.S.
Families of Parkland shooting victims settle lawsuit with DOJ for about $130 million
Families of more than a dozen victims of the 2018 school shooting have reached a settlement with the Justice Department to resolve their lawsuit over the FBI’s failure to act on tips about the gunman.
After more than 70 years, 4 Black men wrongly accused of rape have been exonerated
The men, known as the Groveland Four, were accused of raping a white woman in 1949. Their families said maybe the case will spark a reexamination of similar convictions from the Jim Crow era.
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