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In this Friday, Aug. 9, 2019 photo, released by Lima 2019 News Services, Race Imboden of the United States takes a knee, as teammates Mick Itkin and Gerek Meinhardt stand on the podium after winning the gold medal in team's foil, at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. 'Racism, gun control, mistreatment of immigrants, and a president who spreads hate are at the top of a long list' of America's problems, Imboden said in a tweet sent after his medals ceremony. 'I chose to sacrifice my moment today at the top of the podium to call attention to issues that I believe need to be addressed.' (Jose Sotomayor/Lima 2019 News Services via AP)
Community

Americans protest on medals stand at Pan Am Games

Two Americans used their medal-winning moments at the Pan American Games to draw attention to social issues back home that they feel are spiraling out of control.

7 years ago

A Chinese bank employee counts 100-yuan notes and dollar bills at a counter in Nantong, in China's eastern Jiangsu province, on Tuesday. (AFP/Getty Images)
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Money

A U.S.-China currency war? What you need to know

Here are four things to know about how China manages its currency and what a currency war could mean for the two countries.

7 years ago

Renee Bach, 30, is being sued in Ugandan civil court over the deaths of children who were treated at the critical care center she ran in Uganda. She has left Uganda and is now living in Bedford County, Virginia, where she grew up. (Julia Rendleman/for NPR)
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Health

American with no medical training ran center for malnourished Ugandan kids. 105 died

Renee Bach founded a charity that went on to care for over 900 severely malnourished babies and children. Now she is being sued by two of the mothers whose children died.

7 years ago

The PLCB launched its flexible pricing after the legislature approved it in 2016. (Gerald Herbert/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Foreign spirits producers say Pa. liquor pricing violates international law

Pennsylvania's state-run wine and liquor industry may have run afoul of international trade law.

7 years ago

Small coffee producer Hector Perez dries coffee beans on his home's roof in San Gaspar Vivar, Guatemala, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

“The migration problem is a coffee problem”

We talk about how low coffee prices are driving Central American farmers to migrate to the U.S. and with La Colombe's Todd Carmichael about the coffee business.

Air Date: August 9, 2019 10:00 am

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Pedro Pierluisi, sworn in as Puerto Rico's governor last week, has been ordered by the island's Supreme Court to resign as governor, following his swearing in last Friday. (Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo/AP Photo)
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Politics & Policy

Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court rules Pierluisi unconstitutionally sworn in as governor

The decision voids Pedro Pierluisi's swearing-in because he was not previously approved as secretary of state by both Puerto Rico's Senate and House.

7 years ago

NPR
Money

Get ready for higher prices if new tariffs hit goods from China, retailers warn

Retailers predict rising prices if Trump goes through with his threat to add new tariffs to Chinese imports. Meanwhile, the White House announced a deal to boost beef exports.

7 years ago

Flowers adorn a makeshift memorial near the scene of a mass shooting at a shopping complex Sunday in El Paso, Texas. (John Locher/AP Photo)
NPR
Courts & Law

State officials will pursue death penalty against suspected El Paso gunman

A manifesto attributed to the suspect is filled with anti-immigrant and white nationalist ideology.

7 years ago

Bangladeshi commuters use boats to cross the Buriganga River in the capital Dhaka in 2018. In July, Bangladesh's top court granted all the country's rivers the same legal rights as humans. (Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Science

Should rivers have same legal rights as humans? A growing number of voices say yes

Traditionally, nature has been subject to a Western-conceived legal regime of property-based ownership.

7 years ago

Bomba drummer Jose Emmannuelli Nater plays for Rochel Rojas as she dances at the celebration of the resignation of Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Rosselló at Fairhill Square in Kensington. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Resignation of Puerto Rico’s governor prompts celebration in North Philly

Dozens of Philadelphia Puertorriqueños sang, danced, and gave speeches celebrating the resignation of Puerto Rico’s scandal-entangled governor.

7 years ago

A scene from 'The Burial of Kojo,' a film from Ghana that is one of the highlights of the BlackStar Film Festival. (Courtesy of BlackStar Film Festival)
Arts & Entertainment

Philly’s BlackStar Film Festival is looking for a new home

The annual showcase of African-American cinema launched at UPenn’s International House, but the building’s pending closure may force the fest to relocate.

7 years ago

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Computer illustration of malignant B-cell lymphocytes seen in Burkitt's lymphoma, the most common childhood cancer in sub-Saharan Africa. (Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

How to bring cancer care to the world’s poorest children

Worldwide, childhood cancers are relatively rare, but they're a far bigger problem than previously believed. Close to half of all kids with cancer go undiagnosed and untreated

7 years ago

Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced late Wednesday that he is resigning from office amid a scandal over hundreds of pages of text messages he exchanged with his inner circle that included sexist, homophobic and other insulting material. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló resigns in wake of text message scandal

His resignation comes after nearly two weeks of street protests. On Monday, hundreds of thousands of people shut down a large highway.

7 years ago

Reporters for various Chinese media outlets came to the Kimmel Center Friday to sit with musicians who were on the historic China tour in 1973 (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Cranes, bicycles, and Beethoven’s 6th: Philadelphia Orchestra remembers 1973 in Beijing

Reporters from Chinese media invited to Philadelphia, ask the Orchestra about U.S-China relations, and what China was like back during their first visit.

7 years ago

The Candylicious store in the Dubai Mall in the United Arab Emirates. (John Stanmeyer for NPR)
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Health

Study: Sugar rules the world and ruins teeth

The authors of a new study say dental health is especially bad in low- and middle-income countries.

7 years ago

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