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Port strikes end with deal on wages, averting economic disaster
The two sides have agreed to a 62% wage increase over 6 years in a deal between the International Longshoremen's Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance. The union had been seeking a 77% increase.
The unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, matching its lowest level in the last 50 years
by Scott Horsley
U.S. employers added more than half a million jobs in July: more than twice as many as forecasters had expected. The unemployment rate fell to just 3.5%, matching the level before the COVID pandemic.
Deep sea mining could provide materials to help us quit fossil fuels — but at a cost
Building everything necessary for fighting climate change is going require metal. There's plenty on the ocean floor. But extracting it is controversial because it involves deep sea mining.
Former Republicans and Democrats form a new 3rd political party
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Andrew Yang and Christine Todd Whitman, two of the co-chairs of the new national political third party, called "Forward."
Senate Dems are closer to passing the Inflation Reduction Act, but there's work ahead
by Deepa Shivaram
Democrats are one step closer to passing the Inflation Reduction Act, but they still have a long weekend ahead on Capitol Hill.
Deaton Chris Anthony reconfigures the sound of nostalgia
by Miguel Perez
The new album from Deaton Chris Anthony, Sid the Kid, conjures a glitchy, abrasive, digital nostalgia from his childhood in Kansas.
A trio of economists have come up with a new way to evaluate the health of an economy
GDP has declined for a second quarter in a row — a common definition of a recession. But a group of economists are asking, why rely on that single number to determine the health of the economy?
Many Republicans on the campaign trail are shunning mainstream press
by Danielle Kurtzleben
Republican candidates for public office are now commonly refusing to grant access to reporters from mainstream national news media, often speaking to friendly partisan press.
The fallout continues from Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan
The White House summoned China's ambassador to the U.S. to address concerns about military exercises around Taiwan — the latest in the fallout over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the island.
Senate to vote on huge package that would change drug pricing and health insurance
by Selena Simmons-Duffin
The Inflation Reduction Act aims to put caps on drug price increases and out of pocket spending. It also includes a provision allowing Medicare to negotiate price some drugs.
Kabul's fall to the Taliban, 1 year later
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with retired Marine Corps Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of CENTCOM, about the fall of Kabul, Afghanistan, to the Taliban one year later.
Matt de la Peña and Hanif Abdurraqib on how basketball feeds their writing
Children's book writer Matt de la Pena and poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib talk about how basketball feeds their writing.