Starbucks and some of its baristas have been in a contentious fight over unionizing since 2021. Now, the Supreme Court is hearing a case that could have implications for unions far beyond Starbucks.
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Raised largely on garden hose water and limited parental supervision, there is a generation of Americans tucked rather indifferently between baby boomers and millennials. Demographers call this cohort of 60 million born between 1965-1980, Generation X. Educators referred to millions of Gen X as latchkey kids, students returning to an empty house with a key to let themselves in. Working parents indeed mostly left us alone – afterschool, weekends, and summers – so we fended for ourselves, self-reliant, and let's be honest, kind of feral.
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"I'm not playing with persona," St. Vincent says of All Born Screaming. "It's a really a record about life and death and love. That's it. That's all we got."
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“Prologue. October 13, 2023. The baby stops fussing, settling into my arms like a sleepy puppy. The soft weight of her. She is back to sleep, her face peaceful as a porcelain doll’s. That wasn’t hard. The living room window is open; fevered voices carry in from the terrace of the apartment above. Commotion. Mania. I shouldn’t be surprised. I recognize the sound of Cassie’s screaming, obviously - I’ve heard her scream dozens of times.”
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It seems like almost yesterday that streetcars in Cape Girardeau stopped rolling through the city. On August 10, 1934, the last car was driven into the north Main Street barns at 9:30 p.m., signaling the end of a community service that had been available for 29 years.
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Cybersecurity experts want more federal protections for good faith security researchers, or "good "hackers, arguing the government shouldn't prosecute good faith efforts to find vulnerabilities.
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The U.K. Parliament has approved Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's controversial plans to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda, regardless of where they're from originally.
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NPR's A Martinez speaks to Debbie Becher, associate professor at Barnard College, about a wave of protests on college campuses amid growing tensions on campuses over Israel's war in Gaza.
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The space probe contacted ground control for the first time in five months with status updates on its engineering systems. A month ago a NASA team discovered corrupted code caused a lapse in contact.
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