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Attorney General Barr moves to deny bond hearings for some asylum seekers

Hosted by Barbara Bogaev Apr. 17, 2019

President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr. Credit: Wikimedia.org

Attorney General William Barr has unilaterally moved to keep some asylum seekers in jail indefinitely while their claims are processed.

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Some asylum seekers may be forced to wait in jail without a bond hearing

Attorney General William Barr has unilaterally moved to keep some asylum seekers in jail indefinitely while their claims are processed.

7 min

William Barr has served as Attorney General before. What his record tells us about his handling of the Mueller report

Attorney General William Barr was sworn in about two months ago. Barr served as Attorney General before, under President George H. W. Bush. In that stint as A.G., he oversaw...

6 min

Chinese researchers have created a new kind of monkey, with human brain genes

Gene editing experiments raise ethical questions, and gene editing experiments with primates are even more controversial. For instance, what if we make monkeys too similar...

9 min

Being brave is being vulnerable, says Brene Brown

Vulnerability is hard to talk about. Things like, getting hurt, failing, being rejected, admitting you made a mistake are not exactly top of the to-do list.

16 min

Hernando Colón’s lost library catalog has been rediscovered

A massive library catalog filled with summaries of thousands of books from more than 500 years ago, many of which no longer exist, has just surfaced in Copenhagen, Denmark.

12 min

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Host:

Barbara Bogaev

Producers:

Sarah Sweeney, Michell Eloy, Yael Even Or, Alexandra Sif Tryggvadottir, Caitlin Plummer, Rosalie Atkinson, Adriana Cargill, Rebecca Mooney, Amy Ta

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