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Lessons from Portland's 2021 heatwave that can help us prep for the hot summer ahead

4:42pm July 01, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Dr. Jennifer Vines, lead health officer of the Portland metropolitan area, about lessons learned from the deadly 2021 Portland heatwave as a sweltering summer awaits.

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Fourth of July fireworks canceled due to pyrotechnician shortage

4:42pm July 01, 2022

Some fireworks companies are still reeling after the pandemic hit the industry hard. Due to a pyrotechnician shortage, some cities and towns are rescheduling or canceling their July Fourth fireworks.

President Biden and a group of governors met about protecting abortion rights

4:42pm July 01, 2022

by Barbara Sprunt

President Biden met with a group of Democratic governors on how to protect abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

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It's Bobby Bonilla Day, the day each year the Mets pay the former player $1.2 million

4:42pm July 01, 2022

Each year on July 1, the New York Mets must send a $1.2 million check to an All Star player named Bobby Bonilla. The strange thing is: Bonilla hasn't played baseball in over 20 years.

How Americans are rethinking their spending habits

4:42pm July 01, 2022

Inflation has affected the price of just about everything, from gas prices, to food, to housing. Across the country, Americans are rethinking their spending habits.

Beyonce? Lizzo? Drake? Here are the early contenders for song of the summer

4:42pm July 01, 2022

What makes a song of the summer? And are there any early contenders for 2022? NPR Music's Stephen Thompson makes his predictions.

The number of new pilots entering the industry is below the demand.

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A pilot shortage that's been brewing for years adds to the summer travel chaos

2:56pm July 01, 2022

by Alejandra Marquez Janse

The pipeline of new pilots has been shrinking for years. As summer travel demand increases, the shortage is adding to the strain in airlines and chaos at the airports.

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Republican Reps. Mary Miller of Illinois, left, and Lauren Boebert of Colorado appear at a Save America rally with former President Donald Trump at the Adams County Fairgrounds on June 25, 2022, in Mendon, Ill.

The Christian Right is winning in court while losing in public opinion

2:44pm July 01, 2022

by Ashley Lopez

The Christian Right's wins in the Supreme Court on abortion and prayer in school come at a time when a growing majority of Americans are strongly opposed to its views.

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"This will help a lot of single parents out there," Daisy Hohman, a Minnesota mother whose tax refunds were garnished after her three children were placed in foster care, says of the change in federal guidance.

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The federal government will allow states to stop charging families for foster care

1:43pm July 01, 2022

by Joseph Shapiro

Following an NPR investigation, the Department of Health and Human Services issued guidance to state and county officials that lets them stop charging parents whose children are placed in foster care.

Simone Biles poses wearing her bronze medal from balance beam competition during artistic gymnastics at the Summer Olympics on Aug. 3, 2021, in Tokyo. President Biden will present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Biles and 16 others at the White House

Biden will award the Medal of Freedom to Biles, McCain, Giffords and others

12:56pm July 01, 2022

by The Associated Press

The president will present the nation's highest civilian honor to 17 people, who also include Oscar-winning Denzel Washington, the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and soccer Olympian Megan Rapinoe.