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Zahra Nealy (left) and Victoria Chamberlin both stand to benefit from recent changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
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Education

Student loan forgiveness is a lot closer for some borrowers, and they are pumped

Oct 20, 2021
Thousands of teachers, nurses and other public servants are learning they could have some of their federal student loan debts erased months — and even years — earlier than expected.

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Hospitals around the U.S., including large academic medical centers like Vanderbilt University's in Nashville, Tenn., have been forced to rely on traveling nurses to keep their intensive care units fully staffed. The demand for travel nurses has driven u

Worn-out nurses hit the road for better pay, stressing hospital budgets — and morale

Oct 20, 2021
In areas overwhelmed by COVID cases, hospitals must rely on traveling nurses to operate ICUs. Hospitals pay a premium for that temporary help, while also struggling to keep their staff nurses happy.
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Politics

Teachers and civil rights groups sue over Oklahoma's ban on critical race theory

Oct 20, 2021
The lawsuit argues Oklahoma's law banning lessons on gender and race interferes with students' and educators' First Amendment right to learn and talk about those issues in school.
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Arts & Life
The Netflix headquarters in Los Angeles, where a rally in support of the employees walking out is set to happen today.

Netflix employees are staging a walkout today as a fired organizer speaks out

Oct 20, 2021
The Netflix employee resource group supporting trans and non-binary people is demanding better representation, both onscreen and in management.
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Animals

Hippos smuggled into Colombia by drug lord Pablo Escobar will be sterilized

Oct 20, 2021
The late drug lord Pablo Escobar smuggled four hippos into his private zoo. In the 27 years since his death, the hippos have multiplied to at least 80.
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National

Elected officials in Detroit face a widening federal public corruption probe

Oct 20, 2021
Federal investigators have implicated much of Detroit's city hall in a corruption probe involving council members and their staffs. Bribery and campaign finance violations are central to the claims.
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Latin America

Brazil's president should face homicide charges over pandemic, Senate report to say

Oct 20, 2021
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jack Nicas of The New York Times about a panel in Brazil expected to recommend that the country's president be charged with homicide for his handling of the pandemic.
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Author Interviews

Author profiles workers who were laid off when their jobs went to Mexico

Oct 20, 2021
An Indiana steel plant closed in 2017 and hundreds of jobs went to Mexico. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Farah Stockman about her book: American Made — What Happens to People when Work Disappears.
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Middle East

Palestinian protests turn deadly as Israel considers the future of a new settlement

Oct 20, 2021
Israeli settlers are pressing ahead with a new outpost on occupied West Bank land — closing it off to Palestinians and posing a test for Israeli leaders who will have to rule on it.
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