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With the White House press secretary job still left unfilled, maybe an AI assistant might be the answer?
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NPR's Scott Simon asks Lizzi C. Lee of the Asia Society about restrictions on big tech in the wake of allegations of espionage against Nvidia.
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The battle over the next majority leader in the U.S. Senate reflects the turnout by younger and independent voters in the midterm elections.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with legal scholar and Georgetown professor Stephen Vladeck about Texas Attorney General-elect Nathan Johnson, a Democrat, and what that could mean for federal litigation.
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ExxonMobil eyes a return to Venezuela as Trump continues to promise a historic oil deals – but what's the reality on the ground, 10 months after President Nicolas Maduro's departure?
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The Trump administration wants to sell some federal public lands to states, local governments and tribes, a plan that's once again drawing swift bi-partisan opposition.
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SpaceX conducted a major test of its Starship rocket Friday night. It deployed several satellites for the Starlink constellation but its booster was crashed into the Gulf of Mexico.
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NPR's Scott Simon and sports writer Howard Bryant discuss the NFL regular season's halfway point and the expansion of college football's playoff format.
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M. John Harrison has become the first science fiction author to win the prestigious Booker Prize, for "The End of Everything," in a milestone for the genre.
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A new book tells the story of the 1940 killing of Elbert Williams, an NAACP leader, in Brownsville, Tenn. His killers were never prosecuted, setting the stage for decades of racial violence.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Hayley Atwell, who stars as Beatrice in a new production of William Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" on Broadway.