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News brief: Allen Weisselberg plea deal, immigration poll, COVID boosters

6:28am August 18, 2022

An ex-Trump Organization executive is set to plead guilty to tax fraud. A poll examines how Americans see things at the southern border. The FDA's controversial strategy for evaluating COVID boosters.

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A migrant family is apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents and National Guard troops in Eagle Pass, Texas, near the border with Mexico on June 30, 2022.

A majority of Americans see an 'invasion' at the southern border, NPR poll finds

5:04am August 18, 2022

by Joel Rose

A new NPR/Ipsos poll shows that half of Americans say there's an "invasion" at the southern border. And that false and misleading claims about migrants are taking hold, particularly with Republicans.

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Gullah Geechee community reaches a deal with Ga. county in a fight for services

5:04am August 18, 2022

Residents of Sapelo Island reached a deal with McIntosh County, which will pay $2 million in damages and increase services on the island, where descendants of the enslaved have lived for centuries.

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Encore: Florida's python challenge does little to reduce the invasive species impact

5:04am August 18, 2022

by Greg Allen

Florida awards hunters who capture pythons from the wild, but the challenge has done little to reduce the invasive species impact on the Everglades ecosystem.(Aired on ATC on Aug. 15, 2022.)

A spotted lanternfly creeps on the ground during a baseball game in Pittsburgh in 2021.

What a pest! Spotted lanternflies are spreading in the U.S.

5:00am August 18, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

State officials are calling on residents to get involved and kill these bugs at all costs. The spotted lanternfly isn't dangerous to humans or pets but could cost the country's agricultural industry.

Author Jamil Jan Kochai and his former second-grade teacher, Susan Lung, were reunited after more than 20 years at a reading for the writer's second book, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories, in Davis, California.

It took 20 years for this author to reunite with the teacher who changed his life

6:55pm August 17, 2022

by Vanessa Romo

The writer searched for more than a decade for Susan Lung, who taught him to read and write English when he was a 7-year-old in 1999. On Saturday, she surprised him at one of his book readings.

Chinese ambassador says U.S. is provoking China with congressional visits to Taiwan

5:10pm August 17, 2022

China's ambassador to Washington says the U.S. is provoking China on the Taiwan question with congressional visits. The U.S. military says it's worried about Chinese military exercises around Taiwan.

The new law meant to fix environmental injustices is far from equitable, critics say

5:10pm August 17, 2022

by Rebecca Hersher

The White House is touting the Inflation Reduction Act as a major fix for environmental injustices. But many experts and grassroots anti-pollution groups say the bill is anything but equitable.

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Are 'failure to protect' laws failing mothers?

4:59pm August 17, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Mother Jones reporter Samantha Michaels about an investigation into "failure to protect" laws and how abuse survivors can end up serving more time than their abusers.

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CVS, Walgreens and Walmart ordered to pay $650 million for fueling opioid crisis

4:59pm August 17, 2022

by Brian Mann

A federal judge has ordered CVS, Walgreens and Walmart to pay $650 million for helping to fuel the U.S. opioid crisis by selling and dispensing huge amounts of prescription pain pills.