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Most Americans Think It Will Be At Least 6 Months Before A Return To Normal From COVID-19
Most Americans think it will take six months or longer for daily life to return to a relative sense of normal, according to a new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll. And as states begin the process of reopening, a majority of Americans are worried about a second wave of COVID-19 infections, too. Continue Reading Most Americans Think It Will Be At Least 6 Months Before A Return To Normal From COVID-19
Here’s Who’s Being Hit Hardest By The Economic Downturn
The current estimated unemployment rate far exceeds the 10 percent peak reached in the Great Recession in 2009. It is the most devastating loss of jobs since the Great Depression, when economists estimate the unemployment rate reached 25 percent in 1933. Continue Reading Here’s Who’s Being Hit Hardest By The Economic Downturn
Read: Whistleblower Complaint Claims Federal Response To COVID-19 Prioritized Politics Over Science
A former vaccine expert with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) alleges in a whistleblower complaint that he was ousted because his efforts to address the coronavirus pandemic conflicted with those of President Donald Trump and other administration officials. Continue Reading Read: Whistleblower Complaint Claims Federal Response To COVID-19 Prioritized Politics Over Science
Trump’s Taxes, Birth Control, ‘Faithless Electors’ Headline Supreme Court’s Historic Phone Arguments
During historic telephonic arguments this week and next, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up major challenges involving access to President Donald Trump’s financial records, birth control health insurance, “faithless electors” in presidential elections and the constitutionality of the federal ban on robocalls, among others. Continue Reading Trump’s Taxes, Birth Control, ‘Faithless Electors’ Headline Supreme Court’s Historic Phone Arguments
Pop Culture Happy Hour: ‘Downton Abbey’ Returns For An Extravagant New Film
If you thought the end of the series Downton Abbey would be the end of the Crawley family’s adventures, a new film has arrived to prove you wrong. Continue Reading Pop Culture Happy Hour: ‘Downton Abbey’ Returns For An Extravagant New Film
September Focus: The Internment Of Japanese-Americans
Every September more than a million people go to the Washington State Fair — oblivious that the Puyallup fairgrounds site was where people of Japanese ancestry were rounded up and incarcerated during WWII. Continue Reading September Focus: The Internment Of Japanese-Americans
What Happened To Egypt’s Hope Since The Arab Spring?
Five years ago, Egyptian security forces opened fire on a protest tent city in Cairo, killing at least 800. What led to that day was an extraordinarily tumultuous few years in Egypt: the Arab Spring, the coming to power of a Muslim Brotherhood president, a coup, and the emergence of a new soldier strongman. Nick Schifrin talks with “Into the Hands of the Soldiers” author David Kirkpatrick. Continue Reading What Happened To Egypt’s Hope Since The Arab Spring?
A Journalist’s Journey, Guided By Curiosity For Her Father’s Illness
Jean Guerrero’s “Crux” is the odyssey of a daughter in search of herself as she comes to terms with her own mentally ill father. Amna Nawaz talks with the author, who is also a journalist for KPBS, about how she told her own family’s story. Continue Reading A Journalist’s Journey, Guided By Curiosity For Her Father’s Illness
