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Tuesday, May 20

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Tariffs are starting to show up in car prices

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Higher tariffs are not working out so well for automakers. Subaru is raising prices, while GM is reportedly freezing shipments to China. Meanwhile, trade talks between the U.S. and Japan — home to Toyota, Honda and others — look to be…

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How a highway in Tulsa displaced and dispossessed Black residents

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In yesterday's podcast, we brought you the history of how a white mob devastated Tulsa's Greenwood District during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Afterward, Black residents rebuilt and flourished, but what would come next would largely…

A huge battery maker powers up in Hong Kong

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From the BBC World Service: Chinese EV battery maker CATL, which supplies batteries for Tesla and Toyota, has just gone public on Hong Kong's stock exchange, raising more than $4.5 billion. That makes it the biggest listing in the world…

Monday, May 19

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What it's like repaying student loans at 70

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As part of our "Buy Now, Pay Later" series — produced in partnership with Next Avenue, a nonprofit news platform for older adults produced by Twin Cities PBS — we'll hear firsthand from 70-year-old Loreli Taylor, a Social Security…

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How Black prosperity was built up and torn down in Tulsa

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Today, to start a three-part series examining America's persistent racial wealth gap, we head to Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, in 1921, a violent white mob destroyed the thriving Greenwood neighborhood — then known as America's "Black Wall…

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The European Union and the U.K. are set to announce trade deals

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From the BBC World Service: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to unveil the results of a reset in post-Brexit relations with the EU on defense, trade and fishing rights. We'll hear more. Then, Canada is home to 2 million…

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