Thursday, August 22nd, 2019
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More red ink is being predicted by congressional budget forecasters - nearly a trillion dollars this year alone. What does the growing deficit tell us about the economy's health? The detention of migrant families and children has been one of the defining and most controversial policies of the Trump administration. Now a new rule would end time limits on detentions. Is this a shift toward holding migrant families indefinitely? And NPR gains exclusive access to a lab in New York where researchers are zapping sperm. What would lead them to do that in the name of science?
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