Peter O'Dowd

These venues receive public funding in the form of tax credits, and they're making big decisions about what can be seen.

Before we get to that story, though, Peter O'Dowd has this conversation with a country star who defies convention and whose personal journey became an international phenomenon.

Orville Peck is still a mystery.

In some ways, he is the archetype of country music.

The new report says the US targeted that school, acting recklessly and not just out of negligence.

Negar Mortazavi with the Center for International Policy told Peter O'Dowd more about the findings.

So let's remember, this is the opening of the war, one of the first attacks on the first target list.

This is even before the Iranians start retaliating or shooting back, so we're not talking about heat of the war, fog of war, anything.

But harnessing the power of LSD for clinical psychology, that's a work in progress.

Elaine Chen is a reporter for Stat, which covers health and medicine.

She tells Peter O'Dowd drug companies are getting closer to putting LSD treatments on the market.

Yeah, it seems like we're getting pretty close.

And so in total, for most humans, you have about an hour.

But first, I recently got back from a reporting trip to Alaska with Peter O'Dowd.

We were in Juneau, covering glacial floods and landslides.

These are big problems in Alaska and in many places around the world because of climate change.

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But today, we wanted to share with you a trip that we took into the wild.

Peter O'Dowd gets us started.

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At the current price, that'd be over half a million bucks for fuel.

Green tells Peter O'Dowd they sometimes get cheaper diesel from the nearby Native American reservation, but he says higher costs are definitely having an impact.

Well, we're strained in our budget.

In the state of Washington, education is not fully funded, even though that's the paramount duty of the state.

Dawn Hurdle is director of the Board of Elections for Alamance County, North Carolina, next to Greensboro.

She told Peter O'Dowd they're ready to start mailing ballots.

We plan on mailing out over 500 currently civilian ballots, and we have close to 70 military and overseas ballots.

We email those ballots out.

Joseph Winters is a reporter with the environmental news site Grist.

He told Peter O'Dowd what kids are learning.

So there are a few different ways that materials targeted at children show up in classrooms from the plastics industry.

Some of them are alterations to learning materials like textbook chapters that are about the, quote, advantages of plastic bags.

Chris Mays is a Democrat and she's running for re-election this year.

She told Peter O'Dowd the public backlash is part anxiety over AI and part discontent with surveillance.

Look, I, you know, I absolutely do think that our law enforcement in Arizona is by and large using the technology lawfully and it has been used to solve crimes.

And that's, what's so hard about this issue is that we don't, we don't want to lose the, what's good about these kinds of cameras, but Americans have fundamental rights and especially fourth amendment rights.

Postal Service could, quote, derail the upcoming midterm election by rushing out untested technology as part of President Trump's push to restrict mail-in voting.

The disclosure comes from a nonprofit representing an anonymous federal government official.

Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal sent a letter to the Postmaster General that referenced that whistleblower report, and earlier today he told Peter O'Dowd more about it.

So this whistleblower has significant concerns about this online portal the Postal Service would use for states to submit a list of absentee voters ahead of the midterm elections.

Quinn Adams is a lead partner in the investigation.

She's with BU's Center for Climate and Health, and she told Peter O'Dowd, heat-related deaths are chronically undercounted.

People who record these deaths, either doctors or coroners, tend to record the death based on what they see right in front of them.

So somebody might die because of a heart attack or an underlying heart condition, when in reality they died sooner because of an extreme heat event.

He also ruled prosecutors cannot use Muhammad's confessions in their death penalty case against him.

That's because those statements were made under duress, after Muhammad was waterboarded some 183 times and subjected to what the judge called the CIA's psychological conditioning and severe coercion.

New York Times reporter Carol Rosenberg has been following the case for decades, and she told Peter O'Dowd about the latest developments.

Before the five defendants in the case were ever brought to Guantanamo in 2006, the CIA had them in their secret prisons.