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National

As corporations buy up rentals, more tenants struggle to reach landlords about issues

6:23pm May 10, 2024

by Abigail Brone

There's a growing trend of tenants unable to identify their landlords as corporations buy up properties. When a Connecticut woman's apartment started falling apart, she didn't know where to turn.

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The U.S. Treasury ran a surplus in April, as tax payments jumped by 22% from a year ago. The federal government is still on track to run a deficit of more than $1.5 trillion this year.

Tax revenue jumps 22% in April, but U.S. deficit still looms large

5:24pm May 10, 2024

by Scott Horsley

The U.S. Treasury ran a surplus last month, thanks in part to the April 15th tax deadline. But the federal government is still expected to end the year more than $1.5 trillion in the red.

Arts

Can Netflix build a factory for appointment TV?

4:00pm May 10, 2024

by Eric Deggans

The streamer has tried to create an avalanche of appointment television this week. We analyze whether it succeeded.

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A screenshot from the new ad for "the thinnest Apple product ever."

Arts

Yes, Apple's new iPad ad is ugly and crushing, but art can't be flattened

10:12am May 10, 2024

by Linda Holmes

The newest iPad ad depicts instruments, books and art supplies flattened into Apple's thinnest product ever. But anyone who owns and loves art in any form knows: The practicality isn't the point.

Should commercial space companies contribute to the FAA the way airlines do?

5:53am May 10, 2024

There's a fund that commercial airlines pay into for things such as safety inspections, but commercial space companies don't pay into that fund. (Story aired on All Things Considered on May 9, 2024.)

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Panera Bread said it's discontinuing its Charged Sips drinks

5:22am May 10, 2024

Panera Bread is getting rid of Charged Lemonade from its menu. The highly caffeinated beverage is at the center of at least two wrongful death lawsuits.

If a California restaurant violates a new law requiring transparent pricing, it allows a consumer to seek "actual damages of at least $1,000."

California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices

5:01am May 10, 2024

by Bill Chappell

Service charges; resort fees; "surcharge" add-ons: A new state law requiring price transparency is set to take effect in July. Until now, no one knew how it would apply to restaurants.

Medical debt is as much a hallmark of having children as long nights and dirty diapers. The Crivilare family, Andrew, Heather and Rita, 2, are pictured at their kitchen table in Jacksonville, Ill.

Their first baby came with medical debt. These Illinois parents won't have another.

7:18pm May 09, 2024

by Noam Levey

Millions of new parents in the U.S. are swamped by medical debt during and after pregnancy, forcing many to cut back on food, clothing, and other essentials.

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Tenke Fungurume Mine, one of the largest copper and cobalt mines in the world, is owned by Chinese company CMOC, in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Minerals like cobalt are important components of electric vehicle batteries, but mines that produce them can hurt the environment and people nearby.

Their batteries hurt the environment, but EVs still beat gas cars. Here's why

5:31pm May 09, 2024

by Camila Domonoske

NPR listeners wrote to ask whether the environmental harm from building EVs "cancels out" the cars' climate benefits. Experts say the answer is clear.

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National

Should commercial space companies contribute to the FAA the way airlines do?

5:18pm May 09, 2024

by Wailin Wong

There's this fund that all commercial airlines pay into for things like safety inspections. But there's a growing user of FAA resources that doesn't pay into that fund: Commercial space companies.