Some disability advocates worry eliminating state positions will remove a necessary layer of oversight of service providers.
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With the White House press secretary job still left unfilled, maybe an AI assistant might be the answer?
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People all over the country found themselves stuck in airports last night. We hear from some stranded travelers about how they're coping.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks to former Department of Transportation Inspector General Mary Schiavo about Friday's FAA communications crash and ground stop.
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The rare nationwide ground stop, now lifted, paralyzed the U.S. air travel system Friday. Federal officials say telecommunication outages were to blame but offered few details.
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There were more than 30 injuries but no fatalities after a tanker hit a cruise ship in the Port of New Orleans Friday.
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A pair economists argue in a new book that people are more creative and productive when they work together in person. But it's not enough for employers to simply order workers back to the office.
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NPR's Scott Simon asks Lizzi C. Lee of the Asia Society about restrictions on big tech in the wake of allegations of espionage against Nvidia.
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The battle over the next majority leader in the U.S. Senate reflects the turnout by younger and independent voters in the midterm elections.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with legal scholar and Georgetown professor Stephen Vladeck about Texas Attorney General-elect Nathan Johnson, a Democrat, and what that could mean for federal litigation.
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ExxonMobil eyes a return to Venezuela as Trump continues to promise a historic oil deals – but what's the reality on the ground, 10 months after President Nicolas Maduro's departure?
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The Trump administration wants to sell some federal public lands to states, local governments and tribes, a plan that's once again drawing swift bi-partisan opposition.
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SpaceX conducted a major test of its Starship rocket Friday night. It deployed several satellites for the Starlink constellation but its booster was crashed into the Gulf of Mexico.
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NPR's Scott Simon and sports writer Howard Bryant discuss the NFL regular season's halfway point and the expansion of college football's playoff format.
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M. John Harrison has become the first science fiction author to win the prestigious Booker Prize, for "The End of Everything," in a milestone for the genre.