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Other grocers already accepting online SNAP payments include Aldi, Food Lion and Walmart.

It suggests Joel Greenberg could testify in the Justice Department's investigation into Gaetz.

Before the wide-ranging band plays its four-song set, the audience sings "Happy Birthday" to mandolinist Chris Thile.

Performing three songs from Before We Forgot How To Dream, Irish singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson makes the most of a single voice and an acoustic guitar.

at the FBI's forensic lab. She talks with outspoken whistleblower Frederick Whitehurst. He says that other agents contaminated and misplaced evidence... sometimes in such high profile cases as the Oklahoma City bombing. Whitehurst says his own lab reports were changed by superiors to make the lab look good and to help prosecutors. The FBI denies the charges. The agency now has to respond to the Justice Department, following a year-long investigation.

Writer Kirby Malone reflects on the life and films of the late Rainer Werner Fassbinde. Fassbinder made 43 movies in his short life. A retrospective of his films moves from the Museum of Modern Art to Washington DC's National Gallery of Art this weekend. In another flurry of activity, 4 books are being written about the German filmmaker... and a cd is about to be released containing the haunting music of Fassbinder's premier composer, Peer Rabe. Malone thinks that Fassbinder was a walking contradiction. His films about cruelty are often a sad reflection on a man whose life was dedicated to films about man's inhumanity to man, but found that he was cruel to others as well.

The country's Ministry of Culture and Tourism says it is creating a blacklist of banned songs containing "illegal content" that it deems "subversive" at karaoke establishments starting Oct. 1.

A tanker ship carrying 500,000 barrels of oil has broken in two and sunk off the Atlantic coast of Spain. The Prestige ruptured last week, and has already spilled more than 70,000 barrels into the water. The beaches of Galicia in northwest Spain are already coated in oil. And now environmentalists are calling the sunken oil containers a "time bomb," just waiting to release millions of gallons more. Robert Siegel talks with Elizabeth Nash, a correspondent for the British paper The Independent, who is in Coruna, Spain.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on the latest about a common ingredient found in cold and diet medications. The Food and Drug Administration said it would seek to remove PPA from all products now on the market, due to an elevated risk of stroke among young women who take the drugs. The products affected include various cold remedies marketed under the brand names Contac, Dimetapp, Alka-Seltzer and others. The diet pill Dexatrim is also affected. The industry group representing over-the-counter drugs declined immediate comment. (2:30)View a list of the drugs with PPA.

Banning Eyre reviews the new CD Post Scriptum by young Portuguese singer Cristina Branco, who specializes in a traditional form of music called "fado." The word "fado" means "fate" and fado songs are typically expressions of yearning, lost love, separation and angst. Branco did not grow up in the poor neighborhoods of Lisbon, which is home to fado music; she happened to discover the style as a teen-ager 10 years ago, and is now one of the singers helping to bring about a fado revival. Cristina Branco's CD is Post Scriptum, on Harmonia Mundi USA. For more info contact: www.harmoniamundi.com

WUSF wants to amplify your voices and give you an outlet to share your thoughts on the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict.

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Netflix and Hulu each released documentaries last week on how the 2017 Fyre Festival went so wrong. If you've watched either documentary, Morning Edition would like to hear from you.

They say the leaks are producing about three gallons of water a minute, but are contained.

The 76,887 new coronavirus cases brought the state's seven-day daily average to 56,759.

The ship headed to New York from Taiwan encountered a storm near the Azores on Jan. 15. Among the goods that went overboard were two cookbooks. Their release has been delayed for several months.

The fires and drought conditions in the state prompted a firework ban for the July 4 holiday. But an exception was made Tuesday night in Denver, where a giant crowd gathered to watch fireworks, and applauded the efforts of those fighting to contain the fires.

Scientists have finally deciphered the chromosome that determines maleness in humans. There's no gene to explain why men insist on changing the TV channel all the time, but other secrets of the Y chromosome are revealed in new two studies. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

While July 4 celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence, WHYY's Brad Linder reports on the new National Constitution Center museum in Philadelphia that lets visitors explore the U.S. Constitution. See some photos from the center, and explore more about the U.S. Constitution.

So far this year, the West Nile virus has been found in insects and animals in 39 state. In 20 of those states, people have become ill. Five deaths have been confirmed. CDC officials are warning Americans to take precautions and avoid being bitten by mosquitoes. They advise the most effective insect repellants contain DEET. And, as NPR's Vicky Que reports, health officials now say that DEET repellants are safe for children older than two months of age.

National Geographic researchers say they've found the only known copy of the Gospel of Judas, which has been lost for 1,700 years. Instead of portraying him as the greatest traitor of all time, this Gospel describes Judas as one of Jesus' closest friends.

Test pilot Scott Crossfield, a legend in the tight-knit community of fliers, has died. The 84-year-old pilot's death has been confirmed after air-traffic control lost contact with his plane early Wednesday. Robert Siegel talks with Ken Hyde, President of the Wright Experience.

A Russian mini-submarine is trapped on the Pacific Ocean floor after being snagged on a fishing net. Seven crewmembers are aboard. The U.S. Navy is sending an unmanned vehicle in an attempt to rescue the Russians.

The "thumbs up" maven discusses the films he tends to watch over and over, from The Searchers to Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Many of those favorites are included in Ebert's new book, The Great Movies II.