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  • - NPR's Dan Charles reports that transportation officials today said Valujet is a safe airline. Charles looks at the history of Valujet and reports on its successes and failures.
  • In a report filed for the BBC, Richard Galpin reports thousands of refugees are being evacuated from the island of Borneo in Indonesia to get them away from ethnic warfare.
  • NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports on continued protests in Serbia amid reports that authorities are violently cracking down on ethnic groups in outlying cities.
  • Some Ohio Valley farmers are working around the aftereffects of the government shutdown. Along with Farm Service Agency offices being reopened to farmers…
  • A new report from Uber, covering 2017 and 2018, says the claims range from unwanted touching and kissing to rape. Also, 19 people were killed in physical assaults during or soon after an Uber ride.
  • Robert Siegel talks with Sarah Spencer, one of the authors of a recent report for the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain. A report encourages a new understanding of the word "British," one which includes both whites and ethnic minorities. When Robert asks about practical ways in which this new inclusiveness might be encouraged, Spencer recommends changes in how British history is taught, as well as employment policies that guarantee equality of opportunity in the workplace. Spencer also discusses the mixed reactions in Britain to the report.
  • A pre-filed bill for Kentucky’s legislative session would clarify state law on reporting child abuse, dependency and neglect. The state lawmaker who filed…
  • Exposure to chemicals is listed as a potential driver of chronic disease in children in a new MAHA report, but critics say RJK Jr. has backpedaled on pledges to reduce pesticides used in agriculture.
  • Kentucky is one of several states where the Center for Disease Control is reporting salmonella cases related to chickens and ducks. The center says most of the cases are connected to backyard poultry owners.
  • Foreign correspondent for "Newsday," ROY GUTMAN. He and his photographer were the first western journalists to report on genocide in a Serb-run concentration camp. Shortly after the story was published the camp was closed and the Red Cross let in. Their reporting led to public outrage, and official condemnation by the United Nations. GUTTMAN won a Pulitzer Prize for this reporting. The dispatches have now been collected in a new book, "A Witness to Genocide: The 1993 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Dispatches on the 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Bosnia." (Macmillan Publishing). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE
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