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'Road of the future' wirelessly charges electric vehicles
A jury in Arizona indicted Trump allies in a so-called 'fake electors' scheme and the Arizona House voted to repeal the 1864 abortion ban. Reporter Jeremy Duda joins us to discuss the big developments. And, a road in Detroit can charge electric vehicles as they park or drive on it. Justine Johnson at Michigan's Office of Future Mobility and Electrification joins us. Then, when parents see their children struggling with mental health, they often want to help. Richard Weissbourd at Harvard's Graduate School of Education explains how they can.
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Shipbuilders harness the wind to clean up global shipping
Bloomberg's Emily Birnbaum explains the FTC's decision to ban employers from using noncompete clauses to prevent employees from going to work for rival companies. Then, some companies are using wind power as a cleaner alternative for moving cargo. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd profiles a company in Costa Rica building a massive wooden schooner from scratch. And, scientists have restored the Voyager 1 space probe and are making sense of its signals from interstellar space. NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reports.
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Cleaning up the aviation industry with electric planes
Protests against the war in Gaza have been surging on college campuses around the country. Professor Katherine S. Cho of Loyola University joins us. Then, commercial airlines are one of the fastest-growing sources of pollution on the planet. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd and Chris Bentley report on how the industry is trying to solve that problem with sustainable aviation fuels. And, Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli's new book "The Everything War" explores how Amazon grew to be worth more than $1 trillion.
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Battery-powered rigs could clean up the trucking industry
The Supreme Court weighs whether punishing homeless people for sleeping outside amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. Slate's Mark Joseph Stern joins us. And, big-rig trucks spew almost a quarter of the climate pollution from the U.S. transportation sector. Battery-powered alternatives could be a climate solution, Here & Now's Chris Bentley reports. Then, how much do you need to save to retire? Jill Schlesinger, host of "Jill On Money" and CBS business analyst, breaks down how to figure it out.
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How cities are addressing record-high homelessness
Pro-Palestinian demonstrations are growing around the U.S. Hatem Abudayyeh of the Chicago-based U.S. Palestinian Community Network joins us. Then, the number of people experiencing homelessness reached a record high in 2023. We speak with local officials from Burlington, Vermont, and Bakersfield, California, working to end the crisis. And, video game creator Jordan Mechner talks about his new graphic novel, "Replay," which interweaves his personal history with the story of how his family escaped the Nazis.
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Trump's alleged 'hush money' scheme, explained
Russia launched airstrikes on the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, killing 18 people. The Washington Post's Siobhan O'Grady shares the latest. Then, Georgetown law professor Mary McCord explains Trump's criminal trial in New York. And, author Lissa Soep talks about her new book, "Other People's Words," where she reflects on how the voices of people who have died continue to speak through their loved ones and her.
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April 20, 2024
How could you possibly not ask Hatem Abudayyeh if Hamas bares responsibility for the destruction and deaths in Gaza after he accused Israel of genocide? Also how about a more critical analysis of the Hamas generated death toll that you take as gospel. This was an extremely poor and one sided interview.
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