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Climate Change Activist Spends 589 Days And Counting Picking Up Litter In Calif. Park

by dap | Mar 8, 2021 | NPR

Edgar McGregor began picking up litter daily at the Eaton Canyon Natural Area Park and Nature Center in Los Angeles County in May 2019. He said on March 5, 2021, that it was finally clear of municipal waste.

Edgar McGregor, 20, says he has been cleaning up trash in Eaton Canyon every day for more than a year and a half. He declared it finally free of municipal waste on Friday, but says his work continues.

(Image credit: Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)

Why Scientists Are Infecting Healthy Volunteers With The Coronavirus

by dap | Mar 8, 2021 | NPR

Exposing people to a potentially fatal disease could hasten understanding of COVID-19 and development of new vaccines and treatments. But the risks of such studies raise serious ethical questions.

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Undocumented Venezuelans Given Protected Status In United States

by dap | Mar 8, 2021 | NPR

A Joe Biden supporter with a Venezuelan flag cheers during a Biden campaign event at Camping World Stadium on October 27, 2020 in Orlando, Florida.

The Biden administration’s decision represents a major policy shift from the Trump team, which withstood bipartisan calls to grant the protections to Venezuelans fleeing life-threatening crises.

(Image credit: Octavio Jones/Getty Images)

How Severe Is Your State’s Coronavirus Outbreak?

by dap | Mar 8, 2021 | NPR

Chart: Trend in U.S. COVID-19 cases, as of Feb. 27

View NPR’s maps and graphics to see where COVID-19 is hitting hardest in the U.S., which state outbreaks are growing and which are leveling off.

(Image credit: NPR)

Coronavirus World Map: We’ve Now Passed The 100 Million Mark For Infections

by dap | Mar 8, 2021 | NPR

Growth of coronavirus cases around the world (as of Feb. 27)

A map of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has killed at least 2 million globally.

(Image credit: NPR)

As Hungary Cuts Radio Station, Critics Say Europe Should Put Orban On Notice

by dap | Mar 8, 2021 | NPR

Radio journalists work in the studio at the headquarters of the independent Hungarian radio station, the Klubradio in Budapest on Feb. 9. It was removed from the airways after the national media regulator would not renew its license, raising new press freedom concerns in the European Union member state.

Taking Klubradio off the air was the latest blow to press freedom in a country where the right-wing populist leadership and its allies have increased control and influence over the media.

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Roberts Accuses Supreme Court Justices Of ‘Turning Judges Into Advice Columnists’

by dap | Mar 8, 2021 | NPR

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts broke with his colleagues on the Supreme Court — on his own for the first time in his 16 years on the bench

By an 8-to-1 vote, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of two former students blocked from expressing religious opinions on campus. But Roberts protested keeping the case alive after the college caved.

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Iowa Reporter Goes On Trial In Case That Raises Press Freedom Concerns

by dap | Mar 8, 2021 | NPR

Police officers are shown arresting Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri after a Black Lives Matter protest she was covering on May 31, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa. Sahouri went on trial Monday on charges of failing to disperse and interfering with official acts.

The Des Moines Register reporter, Andrea Sahouri, was arrested as she covered a Black Lives Matter protest. “Treating media work as a crime is a human rights violation,” Amnesty International said.

(Image credit: Katie Akin/AP)

CRISPR Scientist’s Biography Explores Ethics Of Rewriting The Code Of Life

by dap | Mar 8, 2021 | NPR

The Code Breaker profiles Jennifer Doudna, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist key to the development of CRISPR, and examines the technology’s exciting possibilities and need for oversight.

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New Justice Department Team Comes Into Focus Ahead Of Vote On Garland

by dap | Mar 8, 2021 | NPR

Deputy Attorney General nominee Lisa Monaco speaks during an event with then-President-elect Joe Biden in Wilmington, Del., on Jan. 7. Her confirmation hearing is on Tuesday.

Two more of President Biden’s nominees to lead the Justice Department will be questioned by the Senate this week as Merrick Garland prepares for confirmation as attorney general.

(Image credit: Susan Walsh/AP)

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