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“Fake News” Is An Oxymoron
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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In recent years, “fake news” has become a prevalent and contentious phrase, often used to describe misinformation or disinformation presented as le...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 03:01
A World in Turmoil: 2023's Defining Moments
From: Mateo Schimpf
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That's a wrap.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, KICI Iowa City, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Yonder Report - December 21, 2023
From: Center for Rural Strategies
Series: The Yonder Report
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Small-town papers; wildfire smoke and mental health; working out with recovery court judges

  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
777-Psyche Bound
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Psyche Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
The NASA Psyche Spacecraft will use a multispectral imager, gamma and neutron spectrometers, and other instruments to map, measure, and characteriz...

Bought by Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP and more


  • Added: Dec 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Despite policy changes, critics say the Army doesn't do enough to find soldiers who go missing
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Kevin and Lisa Bushling - the parents of Joseph Bushling - take a break during a 2012 search for their son near Dugway, Utah. The search, conducted mainly by volunteers, was one of several unsuccessful attempts to find Kevin, who disappeared in 2011 and w, Credit: Tooele (Utah) Transcript Bulletin
After a string of high-profile deaths and disappearances, the Army is trying harder to find soldiers who fail to report for duty.

Bought by KTEP, KRPS, North Country Public Radio, KMXT, KUT and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 8
776-Naming Asteroids and Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Sun and Asteroids, Credit: NASA
Historically explorers in many fields of human endeavor have been granted the privilege to name their discovery. If you find a new comet and it r...

Bought by Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., RADIOLEX, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 10, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
IE: Inside Europe, 12/8/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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Energy policy and international security - why the two go hand in hand Across the border - Russian activists seek a safe haven in Bulgaria And EU s...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
More Hospitals Move to Confront Medical Errors Head On
From: Tradeoffs
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One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals hav...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 22:59
Can the U.S. Put an End to Surprise Ambulance Bills?
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Precious Mae Clark reviews her medical bills.
Congress banned most surprise medical bills back in 2020, with one major exception: ambulance rides. Most people agree that patients should be shie...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:50
A Poem to the President of the NRA
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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This poem to the President of the NRA has no statistics, no logic, no legal reasoning or principle. Only profound grief and sadness..

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:09
The Systemic Challenges of Addressing Homelessness, with Tony Sparks
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we explore the persistent challenge of how to ensure that everyone has adequate housing. We discuss why the U.S. faces these issue...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
Growing Pains as California Adds Social Services to Medicaid
From: Tradeoffs
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California’s Medicaid program is two years into the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing a...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 16:55
Medical or recreational? States Debate where Psychedelics Belong
From: Tradeoffs
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A wave of new research is showing the promise of psychedelics to help with mental health conditions —- like depression and post traumatic stress di...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 16:39
After a series of suicides, the USS George Washington returns to sea with more mental healthcare
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: The USS George Washington is returning to sea after a six-year maintenance cycle when it remained in the shipyard in Norfolk, Va., Credit: Steve Walsh / American Homefront
The deaths among Washington crewmembers occurred during a six-year period when the carrier remained in the shipyard for maintenance.

Bought by KPBS, KMXT, WRFA-LP, KUT, KRPS and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2023
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 6
IE: Inside Europe , 10/13/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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How Russia is using the Israel-Hamas conflict for its own ends No show for Syria in the Hague as the country is tried for war crimes And Ukraine'...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Khalistan Returns
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The breakdown of Indian-Canadian relations is front page news in India., Credit: Sandip Roy
Khalistan - a word that used to be on the front pages of Indian newspapers in the 1980s has resurfaced in headlines thanks to the diplomatic row be...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
The 12 Million People Lost in a Maze of Medicare and Medicaid
From: Tradeoffs
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Many of America’s poorest and sickest patients are stuck navigating two separate insurance programs — Medicare and Medicaid — to get the care they ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 22, 2023
  • Length: 24:12
  • Purchases: 1
Smithsonian Associates: Decoding the Cable Revolution: How 24/7 Politics Shaped a Generation and Our Democracy with Kathryn Cramer Brownell
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show
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Smithsonian Associates: Decoding the Cable Revolution: How 24/7 Politics Shaped a Generation and Our Democracy with Kathryn Cramer Brownell

  • Added: Sep 19, 2023
  • Length: 32:48
764 Green Airglow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Green Airglow Over Colorado, Credit: Aaron Watson
The natural night sky is alive with its own lights. In addition to celestial sources often there is natural night sky airglow powered by space wea...

Bought by Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WTIP, KGLP and more


  • Added: Sep 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
A new lawsuit says the military still isn't complying with the federal gun background check law
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Navy corpsman Devon Rideout (left) poses with her mother, Leslie Woods, in Vacaville, California. Rideout was murdered in 2018. Her killer is a former Marine who had been found not mentally competent during a court-martial proceeding two years before the , Credit: Courtesy Leslie Woods
The family of a woman murdered by a former Marine is taking the government to court. They say the killer - who was forced out of the military for m...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WHRV, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KTEP and more


  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:49
  • Purchases: 6
3M has agreed to pay $6 billion over faulty earplugs. Now, plaintiffs must decide whether to accept.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: 3M's dual-ended "Combat Arms" earplugs were issued to troops from 2003 to 2015. They were designed to let conversation, commands, and other normal sounds through, but blunt the force of loud noises like gunfire., Credit: Jay Price / American Homefront
About a quarter million troops and veterans have signed on as plaintiffs in litigation claiming the "Combat Arms" earplugs - manufactured by a 3M s...

Bought by KPBS, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KRPS, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 7
Moonstruck
From: KALW
Caption: The path retraced by the Chandrayaan-3 Rover on Aug. 27, 2023 as viewed by the Navigation Camera onboard the rover., Credit: Image from the ‘X’ account of @isro (Indian Space Research Organisation)
India became the first nation in the world to pull off a soft landing on the moon's south pole.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
After decades of desert wars, the Navy and Marines are preparing for bigger global fights
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Troops from Marine Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina monitor a refueling operation during "Large Scale Exercise 2023." The exercise involved 25,000 Navy sailors and Marines and dozens of ships across 22 time zones., Credit: Steve Walsh / American Homefront
A worldwide joint training exercise simulated a major battle with adversaries like China and Russia.

Bought by WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KRPS, and KUT


  • Added: Aug 22, 2023
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 4
Ragging
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The Indian newspaper The Telegraph covers the death of a teenaged student allegedly because of "ragging" by older students. , Credit: Sandip Roy
The death of a Kolkata teen allegedly because of ragging, or hazing, has re focused attention on bullying in schools and colleges.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 22, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
IE: Inside Europe , 7/28/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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On today's programme: Spain’s election ends in deadlock - but will a fugitive separatist leader be the kingmaker? Devastating wildfires in Greece ...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00

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