Biden Death Row Clemency, Long COVID Research, Lebanon Antiquities Damaged
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🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:56.5 | President Biden is using his presidential authority to commute the sentences of dozens of men on federal death row. |
| 1:03.7 | With just a few weeks left in office, what's behind the president's decision? |
| 1:08.0 | I'm Asma Khalid, and this is up first from NPR news. |
| 1:15.1 | For those living with long COVID, it can come with extreme fatigue, brain fog, and heart problems. |
| 1:22.3 | Millions of Americans can't keep waiting and keeping their lives on pause or even dying, |
| 1:26.6 | you know, with this condition. |
| 1:28.0 | Will new investment in research bring patients suffering with these symptoms any closer to reliable |
| 1:33.3 | treatments? |
| 1:34.3 | And a number of cultural heritage sites in Lebanon were damaged during the war between Israel |
| 1:39.5 | and Hezbollah. |
| 1:40.5 | Will they be rebuilt? |
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