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  • Ghassan's, a quick service Mediterranean restaurant in Greensboro. Manager say the restaurant has lost $20,000 in revenue since the Legislature passed HB2 and events have been canceled in Greensboro.
    Six Months Into HB2, Small Business Owners Feel Economic Impact of Law
    It's lunchtime at Ghassan's, a quick service Mediterranean restaurant in Greensboro. Meat hits the grill, fries drop into hot oil and ice collects in...
  • Computer monitors show financial data. More data being created and stored necessitates the use of new unit measurements.
    The world generates so much data that new unit measurements were created to keep up
    The mass of the Earth can now be measured as 6 ronnagrams rather than 6,000 yottagrams. An electron's mass can now be said to be about 1 rontogram rather than 0.001 yoctograms.
  • The top names for newborns in the U.S. last year were Noah and Emma, followed by Liam and Olivia. Third on the list were Mason and Sophia.
    We're In The Age Of Noah And Emma: Most Popular Baby Names Of 2014
    New arrivals in the top 10 include James and Charlotte, the Social Security Administration says.
  • Palehound's Ellen Kempner and Jay Som's Melina Duterte perform as Bachelor.
    Bob Boilen
    The All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk host shares his favorite albums and songs of 2021.
  • Doja Cat.
    LaTesha Harris
    NPR Music's editorial assistant shares her favorite albums and songs of 2021.
  • Kei Nishikori of Japan reacts after defeating Novak Djokovic of Serbia to reach the finals of the 2014 U.S. Open.
    Japan's Nishikori Beats Djokovic, Making History; Federer Falls To Cilic
    Kei Nishikori put a buzz into the U.S. Open crowd in New York and put himself into the history books, becoming the first Asian man to reach a Grand Slam tennis final.
  • Announcing The Winner Of The 2020 Tiny Desk Contest
    This year's Tiny Desk Contest was truly like no other. Our winner stood out from the over 6,000 entries with a song about slowing down and enjoying life that captivated our judges.
  • Taxing The Wealthy: A Historian's Perspective
    If the tax cut for wealthiest Americans is allowed to expire, those households making over $250,000 would see their income tax rate rise from 33 percent to 36 percent and those making upwards of $375,000 would go from a 35 percent rate to 39.6 percent. But does it make sense for the tax rate for someone making six figures to be the same as for multimillionaires?
  • Tamara Keith
    Tamara Keith
    Tamara Keith has been a White House correspondent for NPR since 2014 and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast, the top political news podcast in America. Keith has chronicled the Trump administration from day one, putting this unorthodox presidency in context for NPR listeners, from early morning tweets to executive orders and investigations. She covered the final two years of the Obama presidency, and during the 2016 presidential campaign she was assigned to cover Hillary Clinton. In 2018, Keith was elected to serve on the board of the White House Correspondents' Association.
  • Archaeology students found dad jokes from Ancient Rome
    Dad jokes aren't just a thing of the present: NPR's Scott Simon has the details on the "Liber Patavinus" - a book of humor for Ancient Rome.
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