Lead Stories
To cut costs, the penguins at an aquarium in Japan are getting cheaper mackerel snacks. Many of the penguins are turning their beaks up.
Arts & Culture
Josie Norton
Bland food runs wild like a plague amongst this earth! Carrying a shaker of Old Bay, I am Achilles armed with his mighty shield, running into an epic battle against unseasoned food.
Sergei Supinsky
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State & Local News
Rebecca Green
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WBOI News
The area's weather has been driven by heat, humidity and a descending cold front that is causing a cycle of downpours.
WBOI Presents
Trine University
Brendan Allen, an assistant professor in the Department of Humanities and Communication at Trine University, speaks about poetry, video games, and the branching pathways of how we navigate media in our lives.
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An Oregon company has scooped the competition with a new twist on some old summertime picnic standards, and turned them into flavors of ice cream. (Aired on All Things Considered on June 27, 2022.)
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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Bloomberg reporter Stephen Stapczynski about why natural gas prices are falling in the U.S., but soaring in Europe and Asia.
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Preparations to roll out the 988 mental health crisis hotline are in full swing but call centers are scrambling to hire enough people and some states may not be able to handle the volume.
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The monthly jobs report will be released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. To help put this critical economic indicator together, hundreds of people work the phones.
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NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Tanya Melendez, a doctoral fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who says television has helped shape Americans' conversations centered on abortion.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken is leading the U.S. delegation at the G-20 ministerial meeting. It could be the scene of some awkward diplomatic encounters involving Russia's war in Ukraine.
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Thousands of athletes are gathering in Birmingham, Alabama, to compete in the World Games. The events, which include drone racing and tug o' war, are anything but traditional.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has agreed to resign, according to British reports.
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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Miami Herald correspondent Jacqueline Charles about lawlessness in Haiti — a year after the assassination of Prime Minister Jovenel Moise.
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NPR's A Martinez speaks with David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution, about economic indicators and the likelihood of a recession in the U.S.
