Starbucks and some of its baristas have been in a contentious fight over unionizing since 2021. Now, the Supreme Court is hearing a case that could have implications for unions far beyond Starbucks.
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Public-private housing partnerships have helped lower-income housing flourish in cities like Minneapolis and Charlotte, North Carolina. Tennessee is considering a bill that would incentivize real estate investors to keep housing costs low.
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East Tennessee and Middle Tennessee received the most funding from the Opioid Abatement Council. West Tennessee received fewest grant awards. The settlement money is intended to help alleviate the opioid crisis.
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Cybersecurity experts want more federal protections for good faith security researchers, or "good "hackers, arguing the government shouldn't prosecute good faith efforts to find vulnerabilities.
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The U.K. Parliament has approved Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's controversial plans to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda, regardless of where they're from originally.
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NPR's A Martinez speaks to Debbie Becher, associate professor at Barnard College, about a wave of protests on college campuses amid growing tensions on campuses over Israel's war in Gaza.
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The space probe contacted ground control for the first time in five months with status updates on its engineering systems. A month ago a NASA team discovered corrupted code caused a lapse in contact.
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NPR's A Martinez talks to Hiroyuki Sanada, the lead actor and producer of Shogun, ahead of the finale of the FX miniseries, which is set in 17th century Japan.
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Gaza protests on college campuses stretch across the U.S. British lawmakers OK plan to outsource U.K.'s refugee system to Rwanda. Supreme Court to hear Starbucks case about fired pro-union workers.
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Former AP correspondent Mort Rosenblum remembers his colleague Terry Anderson, who was held captive in Lebanon in the 1980s for nearly seven years. Anderson died on Sunday at age 76.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be in China later this week. Morning Edition will explore the tensions between the U.S. and China.
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