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Dhaval Bhatt plays Monopoly with his children, Rhidya (left) and Martand, at their home in St. Peters, Missouri. Martand's mother took him to a children's hospital in April after he burned his hand, and the bill for the emergency room visit was more than

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Shots - Health News

The doctor didn't show up, but the hospital ER still billed $1,012

Jan 24, 2022

A toddler burned his hand on the stove. The pediatrician told mom over the phone to take him to the emergency room. But after a long wait for a doctor who never showed, they left. Then the bill came.

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Air Date: Friday, January 21, 2022

Coming up on Friday's program ...
John Katsilometes joins us for show closures, postponements and the recent deaths of two big figures in entertainment. Then Las Vegas native Tyler Merit know for his social media videos, "Before you call the Cops" reflects on politics, race and culture in his new book.

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Middle East

This satellite image provided by Planet Labs PBC shows the aftermath of an attack claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels on an Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. fuel depot in the Mussafah neighborhood of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022.

UAE says it has intercepted 2 missiles from Yemen's Houthis

Jan 23, 2022

The missile fire further escalates tensions across the Persian Gulf, which previously had seen a series of assaults near Emirati soil.

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Africa

Protestors take to the streets of Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou Saturday Jan. 22, 2022, 27, 2021.

Burkina Faso's president is being held by mutinous soldiers

Jan 23, 2022

The mutiny came a day after a public demonstration calling for Kabore's resignation.

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Arts & Life

French designer Thierry Mugler acknowledges applause following his fall/winter 2001-2002 ready-to-wear collection presentation in Paris on March 12, 2001.

French fashion designer Thierry Mugler dies at 73

Jan 23, 2022

"May his soul Rest In Peace," his Instagram said in a post that was all black with no image. It did not give a cause of death.

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Business

In this Nov. 10, 2018 file photo, with a downed power utility pole in the foreground, Eric England, right, searches through a friend's vehicle after the wildfire burned through Paradise, Calif.

California's embattled utility leaves criminal probation, but more charges loom

Jan 24, 2022

Since 2017 the utility has been blamed for more than 30 wildfires that wiped out more than 23,000 homes and businesses and killed more than 100 people.

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World

Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks as he greets embassy staff at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv on Jan. 19. The State Department is ordering family members of embassy staff to leave.

State Department orders families of embassy staff to leave Ukraine

Jan 23, 2022

Citing a "continued threat of Russian military action," the U.S. State Department also authorized the voluntary departure of nonessential embassy employees at its embassy in Kyiv.

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Politics

Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., of the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection testifies before the House Rules Committee in December.

Jan. 6 panel is investigating a Trump administration plan to seize voting machines

Jan 23, 2022

Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi confirmed Sunday that an executive order was drafted for Trump to sign that would have used the military to seize machines in battleground states.

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National Security

Soldiers of Poland, Britain, US and Romania take part in military exercises at the military training ground in Bemowo Piskie, Poland on Nov. 18, 2021.

U.S. weighs sending 5,000 troops to Eastern Europe to counter Russia

Jan 23, 2022

Biden is considering sending up to 5,000 troops to Eastern European countries, including Romania and Poland, a U.S. official told NPR. Russia has stationed 100,000 troops near Ukraine.

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Rapid tests can help you figure out if you have been infected with the coronavirus. But how accurate are they? Scientists trying to find out whether they are less sensitive to omicron and why.

Why rapid COVID tests aren't more accurate and how scientists hope to improve them

Jan 23, 2022

Recent research and anecdotes suggest people are testing negative on rapid tests even after they have symptoms, then later testing positive. Here's what researchers think is going on.