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Congress has opened an investigation into Bard College's ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It comes after former Bard President Leon Botstein's name appeared extensively in the Epstein files and an investigation detailing his relationship with the late sex offender.
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Astronomer Dr. Valerie Rapson joins us to discuss recent space news and answer your questions. Ray Graf hosts.
New York Public Media
The state’s pension fund has outperformed its peers, but challengers say its overseer could do more with it.
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Environmental groups look back at the New York state legislature session that ended earlier this month to rate bills that benefit clean water and air, protect lands and the climate.
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The bill would prevent retailers from using data about individual shoppers to charge them more for an item than other shoppers would be charged.
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A journey commemorating the Underground Railroad is passing through Rochester this week. Along the way, the participants are hearing the personal stories of today's freedom seekers.
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The Trump administration wants to jumpstart student loan repayment, with federal student loan debt approaching $2 trillion.
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The court ruled that the law used to prosecute a marijuana user violated his Second Amendment right to bear arms and is unconstitutionally vague.
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In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join the racial justice movement of his generation. He arrived in Seattle during the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, known as CHOP. Less than a week later, he was shot and killed there. The case remains unsolved.
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MIT researchers think they've worked out exactly how Russia's Burevestnik nuclear-powered missile flies. "It's almost certainly a terrible idea," one analyst said. "But it's not an impossible idea."