Canada's Ambitious Immigration Experiment, Explained
Anti-immigration sentiment has been rising on the right in many countries around the world, including the US, UK, France and Italy–even as these nations are grappling with declining birth rates and ag...
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Team Favorite: Banks Vowed To Help Black Homebuyers. What Happened?
NOTE: This episode originally aired in December 2022.---In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, some of the biggest mortgage lenders in the US promised to extend billions in new loans to Black ...
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Here Comes El Nino Again, And It's Packing A Punch
We’re on the cusp of a natural – but significant – shift from a cooling weather phase known as La Niña to its considerable opposite–El Niño. This change will bring warming trends globally, and many un...
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States Tell Cities: Yes, You’ve Got to Build Housing
America’s affordable housing shortage has been getting worse for decades. Now, some states are trying to ease this crisis by enacting what's been called a “builder's remedy.” These are rules that over...
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Yet Another AI Blind Spot: Biased Images
As pressure mounts on lawmakers to regulate artificial intelligence, another problem area of the technology is emerging: AI-generated images. Early research shows these images can be biased and perpet...
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Donald Trump Faces His First Federal Charges
Donald Trump enters a Miami courtroom today to hear federal criminal charges related to his handling of classified documents that he took with him when he left the White House. The former president al...
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South Korea Is Over Being Called An 'Emerging Market'
South Korea’s stock market is one of the largest in Asia. The nation is home to huge conglomerates including Samsung and Hyundai. And yet Korea is still listed as an emerging market — not a developed ...
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