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What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend watching, reading and listening

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Joan Shelley's new song, and an HBO reality show that sets up single parents.

U.S. lawmakers are using the Ukraine crisis to push for domestic energy production

The U.S. oil and gas industry and its backers are seizing on the war in Ukraine to promote domestic energy production. Opponents say it makes more sense to ramp up renewable energy.

Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby says the U.S. is bolstering allied positions in countries near Ukraine, as Russia masses troops near its Ukrainian border.

Biden shifts some 3,000 U.S. troops closer to Ukraine

Some of the troops are being moved from Germany to Romania; others will be deployed from Fort Bragg to bolster positions in Europe.

President Joe Biden delivers a speech on voting rights at the National Constitution Center, on July 13, 2021, in Philadelphia.

Biden pushed to speak out more as US democracy concerns grow

President Joe Biden only rarely talks about last January's violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and the conspiratorial lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

A chemical plant near Lake Charles, La., burns after sustaining damage from Hurricane Laura in August 2020. A new analysis finds about one third of hazardous chemical facilities in the United States are at risk from climate-driven extreme weather.

Climate change threatens nearly one third of U.S. hazardous chemical facilities

The facilities are located in every state, and are threatened by floods, hurricanes and wildfires that can cause dangerous leaks and explosions, according to a federal watchdog.

The Fort Meade, S.D. VA hospital, built in 1956, is among the facilities that would close under the VA restructuring plan. It would be replaced by a new hospital approximately 30 miles away in Rapid City.

The VA wants to close and replace older hospitals. But there's opposition in some communities

The sweeping makeover of the VA's health care system would affect dozens of hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and other facilities.

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., questions Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson during her confirmation hearing on March 22.

Hawley's attacks on Ketanji Brown Jackson fuel a surge in online conspiracy chatter

The far-right internet began to obsess about Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson only after a series of tweets from Sen. Josh Hawley echoed themes used by conspiracy theorists.

The University of North Carolina is the first school to organize group licensing deals for its players.

UNC Becomes The First School To Organize Group Endorsement Deals For Its Players

As college athletes nationwide rush to ink individual sponsorship deals under a new NCAA policy, North Carolina is the first to say it will license players in groups alongside school trademarks.

Advocates rally outside the Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021, in Columbus, Ohio. Justices have struck down three versions of Republican-drawn state legislative maps for being unconstitutional.

With 6 weeks until Ohio's primary, many voting districts still haven't been decided

The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected legislative maps three times. With weeks to go until the primary, voters don't know who their candidates are and candidates don't know where their districts are.

Nashville, Tenn., kindergarten teacher Amber Updegrove leads her class in a lesson this month. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Education announced an investigation into Tennessee's requirement that schools allow families to opt out of mask mandates.

Education Dept. Announces Civil Rights Investigations Into 5 States' Mask Mandate Bans

The department sent letters to state leaders in Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah, warning that mask mandate bans could violate federal protections for students with disabilities.

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