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FILE - A worker wears a mask while preparing desserts at the Universal City Walk Friday, May 14, 2021, in Universal City, Calif. Workplace regulators are poised on Thursday, Dec. 16 to extend California’s coronavirus pandemic regulations into next year with some revisions that business groups say could worsen the labor shortage.

New California rules end distinction for vaccinated workers

California workplace regulators extended the state's coronavirus pandemic regulations into next year with revisions that businesses say could worsen the labor shortage.

People gather at the memorial for the dead and wounded outside of Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich., on Friday. A 15-year-old has been charged as an adult with murder and terrorism.

Michigan shooting suspect is among thousands of U.S. minors charged as adults yearly

Prosecutors charged the 15-year-old accused of killing four students and injuring others at a Michigan High School as an adult. Thousands of children are tried or incarcerated as adults each year.

"We're tracking it. We're following it as closely as we can. It's just a little too soon right now to know where it's going to go or what if anything can be done about that," a U.S. Space Command spokesman told reporters.

What Goes Up Must Come Down — Including A Giant Chinese Rocket Plunging Toward Earth

U.S. Space Command says the exact entry point into Earth's atmosphere cannot be pinpointed until hours before its reentry, which is expected sometime around Saturday.

In Dua Lipa's ever-expanding world, 'there's no time limit and there's no what-ifs'

The pop star is returning to stages two years after releasing an acclaimed second album, Future Nostalgia, and being forced like everyone else to hunker down for the long chill.

EXTRA LIFE: A SHORT HISTORY OF LIVING LONGER

Stream or tune in Wednesdays, May 12 - June 2, 2021 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV + Mondays, May 17 - June 7 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2

Reporter Chloe Veltman reacts to hearing her digital voice double, "Chloney," for the first time, with Speech Morphing chief linguist Mark Seligman.

Send in the clones: Using artificial intelligence to digitally replicate human voices

Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, it's never been easier or more affordable to make a perfect facsimile of a human voice: a celebrity, a world leader or even a public-radio reporter.

Sharon McKeeman, the founder of Let Them Breathe, speaks to parents who kept children home from school to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates in schools. Balboa Park in San Diego, Calif. Oct 18, 2021.

Parents protest California COVID vaccine mandate for kids

Many parents at the rally Monday had pulled their children out of school to attend the rally.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla., is just one part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency — the federal agency in charge of the U.S. government's sprawling weather and climate prediction work. NPR has learned that David Legates, a scientist who has spent much of his career questioning climate science, has been hired by the Trump administration for a top position at NOAA.

Longtime Climate Science Denier Hired At NOAA

David Legates, a professor whose research has been supported by fossil fuel companies, has been hired for a top position at the federal agency that oversees weather and climate forecasting.

Saturn, right with Jupiter in the night sky over Burnsville, N.C., during December's great conjunction.

Saturn Will Soon Put On Its Best Show Of The Year. Here's Where And How To See It

Wipe the dust off your binoculars and extract the family telescope from the back of the closet: Saturn is about to put on its best and brightest show of the year — an act Jupiter will soon follow.

Climate Report Co-Author: 'The Pile Of Evidence Is Now Enormous'

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Kim Cobb, one of the lead authors of the U.N.'s new landmark climate report, about the urgency of acting to lower emissions and how oceans are impacted by climate change.

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