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What Is 8chan? The suspected shooter at a San Diego-area synagogue posted a hateful screed on the platform before he fired. Read more on NPR

The Economy Is Thriving. But Are You? "The economy has been good for my business but I've never felt more insecure about it," a listener told us. Read more on NPR

As Artificial Intelligence Moves Into Medicine, The Human Touch Could Be A Casualty Will AI in health care create a two-tiered system in which poorer people will be seen by a computer instead of a doctor? That's one concern about the burgeoning technology. Read more on NPR

Religious Freedom Report Offers Grim Review Of Attacks On Faith Groups The 20th annual report identifies 16 countries that engaged in or tolerated egregious violations. It also names five entities as violators of religious freedom, including ISIS and the Taliban. Read more on NPR

In Laos, A Chinese-Funded Railway Sparks Hope For Growth — And Fears Of Debt The more than 250-mile, $6 billion railway is set to cut through the northern part of Laos and is primarily financed and built by the Chinese. So far, the project has mostly employed Chinese workers. Read more on NPR

India Is Changing Some Cities' Names, And Muslims Fear Their Heritage Is Being Erased Officials have been altering names to become more Hinducentric. "It is very dangerous for national integrity and unity," says a historian. The changes accelerated ahead of this year's elections. Read more on NPR

Sri Lanka's Easter Bombings Bring Renewed Violence To A Long-Troubled Country Here are some key things to know about Sunday's deadly attacks, the group that Sri Lanka blames for perpetrating them — and the country's complicated history. Read more on NPR

Lost Pup Finds New Life As Humanitarian Mascot In Refugee Camp The puppy started following a team that was cleaning up the beach in Bangladesh. And now he is an Instagram star. Read more on NPR

'We Pray For The Caliphate To Return': ISIS Families Crowd Into Syrian Camps "The women and children who have been raised on the mentality of ISIS and terrorism need to be rehabilitated," an official warns. "Otherwise, they will be the foundations of future terrorism." Read more on NPR

Protests Calling For Climate Action Disrupt London For 3rd Day Activists occupied four of London's landmarks and thoroughfares and, on Wednesday, targeted the city's rail service. The organizers want a zero-carbon Britain by 2025. Read more on NPR

Why Elephants Pose A Threat To Rohingya Refugees Several of the refugee camps in Bangladesh have had to set up what the U.N. calls a "tusk force" to respond when elephants enter. Read more on NPR

'Our Planet' Nature Documentary Addresses The 800-Pound Gorilla — Human Impact The new Netflix series takes a hard look at the effects of our behavior on the natural world. Series producer Alastair Fothergill says that this is a different, more urgent type of show. Read more on NPR

Bangladesh Struggles To Cope With Pressures Of Hosting 1 Million Rohingya Refugees "We're being outnumbered by the sheer number of the refugee population," says Mohammad Abul Kalam, the head of Bangladesh's Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission in Cox's Bazar. Read more on NPR

As China Hacked, U.S. Businesses Turned A Blind Eye The U.S. has largely failed to stop Chinese cybertheft of U.S. companies, but the companies themselves led the charge in keeping it under wraps. Read more on NPR

Polls Open In The World's Largest Democracy: Fun Facts On India's Election Polls have opened in 18 Indian states and two union territories. It is the first day of a seven-phase election staggered over more than five weeks in the country of 1.3 billion people. Read more on NPR

Ancient Bones And Teeth Found In A Philippine Cave May Rewrite Human History Islands in Southeast Asia were clearly important in the evolution of early humans, say scientists who have turned up 50,000-year-old remains of what they suspect is a previously unknown human species. Read more on NPR

Israel Votes On Netanyahu's Political Future The final results of the Israeli parliamentary election are too close to call. The election is largely seen as a referendum on Israel's longtime right-wing leader Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more on NPR

U.K. Regulators Propose Broad Social Media Regulations To Counter 'Online Harms' Under the proposed rules, Internet companies will face penalties if they don't actively monitor and combat harmful speech online. Companies say the proposal is vague. Read more on NPR

A Daughter Reflects On Her Parents' Addiction In 'All That You Leave Behind' Writer and documentary filmmaker Erin Lee Carr, daughter of the late NY Times columnist David Carr, talks about her parents' drug addiction and what it was like to have her father as a writing mentor. Read more on NPR

Patricia Arquette Explores The 'Toxic Codependency' Of Munchausen By Proxy Arquette plays a Missouri woman who falsely convinced the world that her child was seriously ill, in the Hulu series The Act. She says it was "very weird" getting into the character's head. Read more on NPR

Fresh Air Weekend: Glenda Jackson; The Word 'Socialism'; Baseball In 10 Pitches Jackson is now playing King Lear on Broadway. Linguist Geoff Nunberg explains why "socialism" is no longer a scare word. And Tyler Kepner discusses his book K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches. Read more on NPR

We Listen Back To Conversations With 2019 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Inductees The Zombies and Roxy Music are in this year's class of inductees. We'll listen back to conversations with The Zombies lead singer Colin Blunstone and Roxy Music co-founders Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno. Read more on NPR

'Our Planet' Is A Remorseful Call To Arms David Attenborough's Netflix series offers a strange waltz between wonder and melancholy. The show thrills us with the marvels of nature, and then saddens us that we are rapidly wiping them out. Read more on NPR

'Avengers: Endgame' Is A Thrilling (If Exhausting) Journey Through Time As the grand finale of 22 tightly interconnected movies, Endgame brings this chapter of the saga to a stirring and resonant close. Critic Justin Chang says it's one of Marvel's better pictures. Read more on NPR

Mueller Report Shows How Witnesses, Messaging Apps Stymied Investigation Washington Post investigative reporter Rosalind Helderman broke some of the big stories on the Trump team's ties to Russia. She notes what's new in the report and the questions left unanswered. Read more on NPR

'Mind Fixers' Documents The 'Troubled Search' For Mental Illness Medication Anne Harrington chronicles the search for a biological understanding of mental illness. She believes the revolution in medication has left behind a legacy of over-diagnosis and over-medication. Read more on NPR

'The Beneficiary' Weighs The Emotional Heft Of Inheritance Janny Scott, a biographer and award-winning reporter for The New York Times, has written a vivid and penetrating memoir about her own illustrious family. Read more on NPR

'Socialism' Isn't The Scare Word It Once Was It isn't yet clear where "socialist" will settle in the vocabulary of the American left, as it jostles with labels like "liberal" and "progressive." But it's not the S-word anymore. Read more on NPR

Glenda Jackson On Playing King Lear: Gender Barriers 'Crack' With Age The 82-year-old British actor is currently playing Shakespeare's famed tragic figure on Broadway. "Doors have opened for women that were firmly locked many decades ago," she says. Read more on NPR

Herlin Riley's Swinging, Modern Style Shines On 'Perpetual Optimism' The New Orleans drummer produces jazz with its own distinct character on his new album. Critic Kevin Whitehead says Perpetual Optimism is marked by Riley's upbeat nature and attention to detail. Read more on NPR

Reporter Details Neglect And Disaster In The U.S. Navy ProPublica journalist T. Christian Miller says outdated equipment and a shortage of sailors contributed to two separate collisions involving Navy destroyers in 2017, in which 17 sailors were killed. Read more on NPR

Fresh Air Weekend: Biographer Robert Caro; Actor Christopher Meloni Caro began writing biographies in order to better understand political power. Ken Tucker reviews The Mekons' album, Deserted. After 12 seasons on Law & Order: SVU, Meloni plays a hit man on Happy! Read more on NPR

'Fresh Air' Celebrates Queen Of Soul Aretha Franklin The Pulitzer Prize Board recently awarded Franklin, who died in 2018, with a special citation for her "indelible contribution" to American music and culture. Originally broadcast in 1999. Read more on NPR

As Nuclear Waste Piles Up, Private Companies Pitch New Ways To Store It Nuclear power plants around the country are running out of room to store spent fuel. Federal plans for a permanent disposal site are stalled, so private companies come up with their own solutions. Read more on NPR

Measles Shots Aren't Just For Kids: Many Adults Could Use A Booster Too With U.S. measles cases at record highs, doctors say adults who got vaccinated prior to 1968 should consider getting revaccinated to make sure they and their neighbors are protected. Read more on NPR

After Pentagon Ends Contract, Top-Secret Scientists Group Vows To Carry On The 60 or so members of the Jasons are normal academics by day. But each summer, they come together to study tough problems for the military, intelligence agencies and other parts of the government. Read more on NPR

This Is Your Brain On Ads: How Mass Marketing Affects Our Minds How many ads have you encountered today? On this week's radio show, we discuss the insidiousness of advertising in American media. Read more on NPR

5 Years After Flint's Crisis Began, Is The Water Safe? "In some ways we're better," says activist Melissa Mays. "In other ways, we're forever poisoned, damaged, traumatized ... that's not gonna ever be better." Read more on NPR

NASA's InSight Probe May Have Recorded First Sounds Of Marsquake A NASA probe called InSight is on Mars listening for marsquakes and it seems it has detected the first sounds of a quake, probably. Read more on NPR

Scientists Explain A Common Fight In Basketball Are players just pretending to be so certain the ball is out on their opponent? Or could there be a difference in how they experience the event that has them pointing a finger at the other player? Read more on NPR

Decoded Brain Signals Could Give Voiceless People A Way To Talk Scientists have found a way to transform electrical signals in the brain into intelligible speech. The advance may help people paralyzed by a stroke or disease, but the technology is experimental. Read more on NPR

Candida Auris: The Deadly Fungus Among Us What you need to know about an emerging superbug. Read more on NPR

Teaching Climate Change: Push And Pull A new poll shows that only 42 percent of teachers cover climate change in their classrooms. Read more on NPR

Meal Kits Have A Smaller Carbon Footprint Than Grocery Shopping, Study Says While it may seem that heaps of plastic from meal kit delivery services make them less environmentally friendly than traditional grocery shopping, a new study suggests that's not necessarily true. Read more on NPR

Special K: Ketamine, From Party Drug To Depression Medication A new drug based on ketamine was recently approved by the FDA to treat depression in treatment-resistant patients. Read more on NPR

Scientists Dig Into Hard Questions About The Fluorinated Pollutants Known As PFAS PFAS are a family of chemicals accumulating in the soil, rivers, drinking water and the human body. How much exposure to these substances in clothes, firefighting foam and food wrap is too much? Read more on NPR

Former Astronaut On Watching For Life-Destroying Objects From Space NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to former astronaut Ed Lu, who co-founded a planetary defense nonprofit, about a meteor that exploded with the energy of 10 atomic bombs over the Bering Sea. Read more on NPR

'Einstein's Unfinished Revolution' Looks At The Quantum-Physics-And-Reality Problem A century after the birth of quantum mechanics, no one is sure what it is telling us about the nature of reality — and Lee Smolin's book adds to a stream of excellent works on the topic. Read more on NPR

Political Crisis In Venezuela Escalates Opposition leader Juan Guaidó says he is in the final phase of a plan to oust Nicolás Maduro. Maduro's officials say they are successfully putting down a coup attempt. Read more on NPR

Trump Sues Deutsche Bank And Capital One To Block Records' Release President Trump wants to keep the banks from complying with congressional subpoenas seeking his bank records. He's joined in the suit by three of his children and some of his real estate businesses. Read more on NPR

Jury To Decide The Fate Of Ex-Officer Who Killed 911 Caller A jury resumes deliberations in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor, who shot and killed a woman while responding to her 911 call. Read more on NPR

U.S. Infrastructure Shows The Effects Of Neglect, Smith Says NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Tom Smith, executive director of the American Society of Civil Engineers, about the current state of the nation's infrastructure. The group issued a report card in 2017. Read more on NPR

Infrastructure Gets The Attention Of Trump, Schumer And Pelosi President Trump is meeting with Democratic leaders in the Senate and House Tuesday morning to discuss the nation's infrastructure needs. It seems to be a rare moment of bipartisanship. Read more on NPR

Drone Transports Human Kidney For Transplant The drone was custom built to be able to monitor the payload while in the air. The kidney made it to the University of Maryland Medical Center. The woman who received the kidney called it "amazing." Read more on NPR

Whale Off Norway's Coast Found Wearing Camera Harness The harness read "Equipment St. Petersburg." A researcher told CNN that the whale was probably trained by Russia's navy. He said they've "been known to train belugas to conduct military operations." Read more on NPR

Japan's Emperor Akihito Abdicates The Chrysanthemum Throne Akihito, citing failing health, becomes the first Japanese monarch in some two centuries to step down. His reign ends at midnight Tuesday, and then his son, Crown Prince Naruhito, ascends the throne. Read more on NPR

Trump Lauds Disbarred Lawyer While Criticizing Others, Mueller Report Says Attorney General William Barr heads to Capitol Hill this week to face questions about the Mueller report. Critics say Barr is running interference for President Trump. Read more on NPR

More Than 700 Measles Cases Reported Across 22 States, CDC Data Show NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, about the resurgence of the measles virus. Read more on NPR

After 5 Years, ISIS Leader Purportedly Releases Another Video A video purports to show the ISIS leader speaking to followers and referencing the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka. The first video was released in 2014 as ISIS was rapidly increasing in strength. Read more on NPR

Negotiators Are In Beijing For Talks On Ending U.S.-China Trade War Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has been suggesting that the U.S. and China are closing in on a trade deal. NPR's David Greene talks to Erin Ennis, of the U.S.-China Business Council. Read more on NPR

'High Five' Readers Invited To Participate In Secret Tournament NPR's Rachel Martin talks to best-selling, children's book author Adam Rubin about his latest: High Five. It tells the story of a secret high-five tournament that's been held in the animal kingdom. Read more on NPR

Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi's 'Call Me Zebra' Wins PEN/Faulkner Prize The 35-year-old author won $15,000 along with the prestigious award for fiction. As she tells NPR, the prize also carries a special significance for her personally. Read more on NPR

Ground-Breaking Director John Singleton Dies At 51 Filmmaker John Singleton died Monday after complications from a stroke. He made history with 1991's Boyz n the Hood as the first African American nominated for a best director Oscar. Read more on NPR

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Is Measles Here To Stay? Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. nearly 20 years ago. But with this year's record-setting outbreaks, are we close to measles to making a sustained comeback? Read more on NPR

Trump And Democrats Agree On $2 Trillion For Infrastructure, But Not On How To Pay Democratic congressional leaders called the White House meeting "very constructive," but the big question remains unanswered. The parties will reconvene in a few weeks to discuss funding options. Read more on NPR

A Daughter Reflects On Her Parents' Addiction In 'All That You Leave Behind' Writer and documentary filmmaker Erin Lee Carr, daughter of the late NY Times columnist David Carr, talks about her parents' drug addiction and what it was like to have her father as a writing mentor. Read more on NPR

Trump Orders New Restrictions On Asylum System The changes would charge asylum-seekers application fees and limit access to work permits, among other things. Read more on NPR

Understaffed Alabama Prisons Struggle With Violence, Suicide And Crowding The state's jails have been cited by a recent Justice Department report for corruption, drugs, sexual abuse, lack of mental health support and crumbling facilities. Read more on NPR

Tony Awards Nominations 2019: 'Hadestown' And 'Ain't Too Proud' Lead The Count Tootsie, Beetlejuice and The Prom round up the Tony category for best musical, while The Ferryman, Gary, Ink, Choir Boy and What the Constitution Means to Me are all up for best play. Read more on NPR

Trump Sues Deutsche Bank And Capital One Over Congressional Subpoenas Subpoenas issued by House committees two weeks ago ask the banks to hand over documents related to Trump's finances. Read more on NPR

Abortion Could Become Felony Offense In Alabama If passed, a bill making its way through the state's House of Representatives could punish doctors who perform the procedure with at least 10 years in prison. Read more on NPR

Venezuela Unrest: Opposition Leader Guaidó Calls For Military Uprising Juan Guaidó says he's launched the "final phase" of a plan to oust President Nicolás Maduro. The government says it's putting down a "small coup attempt." Read more on NPR

Political Crisis In Venezuela Escalates Opposition leader Juan Guaidó says he is in the final phase of a plan to oust Nicolás Maduro. Maduro's officials say they are successfully putting down a coup attempt. Read more on NPR

U.S. Measles Outbreaks Are Driven By A Global Surge In The Virus The World Health Organization tallied more than 112,000 measles cases in the first quarter of 2019 — up more than 300% compared to the same period in 2018. Read more on NPR

Mountain Man Singer Reinvents Herself As Daughter Of Swords, Announces Album One of the three gorgeous voices at the heart of Mountain Man, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig releases her first solo album, Dawnbreaker, on June 28. Hear the title track. Read more on NPR

Trump Sues 2 Banks To Block Democrats From Investigating His Finances The lawsuit seeks to prevent Deutsche Bank and Capital One from responding to subpoenas from two House panels seeking personal financial documents related to the president, his family and his company. Read more on NPR

Juan Guaidó Says 'The Moment Is Now!' To Remove Maduro, Sparking Clashes In Venezuela Saying "we are making history," Venezuela's opposition leader makes his boldest attempt yet to oust President Nicolás Maduro. On Tuesday, Juan Guaidó declared "Operation Freedom" has begun. Read more on NPR

Alleged California Synagogue Shooter 'Part Of The History Of Evil,' His Parents Say The parents of the man accused in the attack on the Poway synagogue in San Diego have condemned the attack as shocking and evil. A family attorney says they will not pay for his legal defense. Read more on NPR

Drone Transports Human Kidney For Transplant The drone was custom built to be able to monitor the payload while in the air. The kidney made it to the University of Maryland Medical Center. The woman who received the kidney called it "amazing." Read more on NPR

Even In The Robot Age, Manufacturers Need The Human Touch At modern auto plants, some tasks, like welding together a car's body, are entirely automated. But other essential jobs, including major portions of final assembly, are still best left to people. Read more on NPR

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Site's Ties To Shootings Renews Debate Over Internet's Role In Radicalizing Extremists 8chan is a site where like-minded people gather to talk about Japanese cartoons, Game of Thrones and neo-Nazi ideology. Many experts are saying it's time for law enforcement to crack down. Read more on NPR

Teachers Use Mystery Skype To Give Students A Window On The World Only 25% of eighth graders score proficient in geography on standardized tests. Some teachers are using a video chat game to engage kids in the world around them. Read more on NPR

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TikTok, Explained NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks writer Brittany Spanos of Rolling Stone to explain the new video sharing app TikTok. Read more on NPR

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Facebook Could Face Up To $5 Billion Fine For Privacy Violations Facebook reported strong profits on Wednesday, but also revealed it is setting aside some $3 billion to $5 billion to pay a penalty to regulators for violating user privacy. Read more on NPR

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Facebook Recruits Surveillance Hawk to Be Its Top Lawyer Facebook's new top lawyer is tasked with guiding the firm through increasingly treacherous legal woes. She was one of the lawyers responsible for moving the controversial Patriot Act through Congress. Read more on NPR

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