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Could bringing back 19th-century wool swimsuits help reduce microplastics?
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With concern mounting over microplastics and the search for sustainable options, the woollen swimsuits of the past could make a comeback.
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PBS News Hour | The challenges new British PM Keir Starmer faces | Season 2024 | PBS
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The challenges Keir Starmer faces as the new U.K. prime minister
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NOVA | Ice Age Footprints | Season 49 | Episode 9 | PBS
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Ancient footprints provide new evidence of humans and extinct giant beasts of the Ice Age.
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Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution | PBS
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The surprising and overlooked history of disco: its origins, its fall and its legacy.
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The challenges Keir Starmer faces as the new U.K. prime minister
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After winning a huge majority in Britain’s general election, Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he’ll start working immediately on rebuilding the country. He promised a big reset to calmer waters after 14 sometimes turbulent years of Conservative government. The Conservatives are looking...
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Ballot drop boxes legal again in Wisconsin after state Supreme Court ruling
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A Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling could impact the 2024 presidential election. In a 4-3 decision, the liberal majority reversed a near-total ban on the use of ballot drop boxes. Restoring this method, which was used slightly more by Biden voters than Trump voters in the 2020 election, could have...
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What Boeing's potential fraud plea deal could mean for the aviation industry
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The U.S. government is waiting to see if Boeing accepts its deal to plead guilty to criminal fraud in connection with two 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people. Amna Nawaz spoke with Zipporah Kuria, whose father was killed in the 2019 crash, and discussed what the deal could...
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Brooks and Atkins Stohr on Biden's vow to stay in the race for the White House
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New York Times columnist David Brooks and Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including President Biden's vow to stay in the race for the White House and the rise of right-wing populism around the world.
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Jobs report exceeds expectations but unemployment rise signals cooling labor market
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The U.S. Economy added more jobs than expected last month, the 42nd consecutive month of job growth. But unemployment inched up to 4.1 percent and there were other signs of a cooling labor market. For a deeper look at what this means for the economy, Amna Nawaz spoke with Roben Farzad of Full Disclosure.
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Here are the first tasks new U.K. leader Keir Starmer must tackle as prime minister
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New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer doesn’t get to take a breather. After a draining six-week election campaign, the center-left politician must get straight to work assembling his government, tackling a mountain of domestic problems and putting his stamp on the U.K.’s relations with the...
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Vatican excommunicates former ambassador to the U.S., declaring him guilty of schism
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The Vatican on Friday excommunicated its former ambassador to Washington after finding him guilty of schism, an inevitable outcome for Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano. The conservative had became one of Pope Francis' most ardent critics and a symbol of the polarized Catholic Church in the U.S. and beyond.
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U.S. troops leaving Niger bases this weekend and in August after coup, commander says
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The U.S. will remove all its forces and equipment from a small base in Niger this weekend and fewer than 500 remaining troops will leave a critical drone base in the West African country in August, ahead of a Sept. 15 deadline set in an agreement with the new ruling junta.
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News Wrap: Beryl weakens to tropical storm as it cuts across Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula
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In our news wrap Friday, Hurricane Beryl weakened to a Tropical Storm as it cut across Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, the Kansas Supreme Court reaffirmed the state's abortion protections, Donald Trump's lawyers asked a judge to pause the classified documents case against him in Florida and...
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Suspect in custody after deadly Fourth of July attack in Southern California beach city
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Two people were killed and three others injured in an attack during a neighborhood Fourth of July gathering in Huntington Beach, California, police said Friday.
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Germany fears a far-right victory in France could harm the two countries' close relations
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz and many Germans fear if the nationalist French party is able to form a government, it would no longer support the close relationship with Germany that was carefully built over decades since the end of World War II.
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Reformist Pezeshkian elected president of Iran in runoff vote, defeating hard-liner Jalili
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Pezeshkian's win still sees Iran at a delicate moment, with tensions high in the Mideast over the Israel-Hamas war, Iran's advancing nuclear program, and a looming election in the United States that could put any chance of a detente between Tehran and Washington at risk.
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Hamas clears path for possible cease-fire after dropping key demand of Israel, officials say
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Hamas has given its initial approval of a U.S.-backed proposal for a phased cease-fire deal in Gaza, dropping a key demand that Israel commit up front to a complete end to the war, a Hamas official and an Egyptian official said Saturday.
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That 22-minute interview, paired with a weekend campaign in battleground Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, was part of Biden's rigorous efforts to course correct from his debate performance last week.
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