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  • Starting on Tuesday, a $7,500 tax credit will shrink or disappear for some vehicles, but popular models like the Chevy Bolt, F-150 Lightning and Tesla Model Y are still eligible for the full amount.
  • The end of the workweek always brings with it a lot of music, but for whatever reason today is particularly jam-packed, with releases from Carly Rae Jepsen, Lil Nas X, David Bowie and many others.
  • The Food and Drug Administration is cautioning the company that it is violating the law by marketing its vaping products as a safer alternative to cigarettes.
  • The U.S. Senate's Continuing Resolution to reopen the federal government contains a provision that would restrict the sale of hemp-derived products that have flourished nationwide.
  • A state law prohibits plant-based products like soy deli strips from packing descriptors like "roast beef style" or "meaty." The ACLU and others are suing.
  • Winans has spent her long career expanding what gospel can sound like and where it can go. To pull off her first release in nearly a decade, she adapted once again — by letting go of the wheel.
  • A ramshackle rock 'n' roll band from the Catskills, The Felice Brothers whip up an infectious mix of rock, country and folk, live in Newport, R.I.
  • From Azerbaijan to the Netherlands, with a detour in the U.S. — it's the career path of pianist Amina Figarova. With her touring sextet of Dutch players, she made a U.S. tour stop in Newport, R.I.
  • Look for Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova to reach for unexpected source material when they play live in Newport, R.I.
  • Hear Perkins fill in for last-minute Newport cancellation Justin Townes Earle, live in Newport, R.I.
  • A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including a United Nations Canadian peacekeeper held hostage in Bosnia and Bosnian Serb soldier; IRA political leader Gerry Adams talking about the uture of Ireland; the implosion of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Okalhoma ity; Joni Lesick, whose friend died in the Oklahoma City bombing; and Senator ete Domenici (R-NM) and Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD) on the passage of the Budget esolution.
  • Host Liane Hansen speaks with career journalist Bill Moyers bout the new 8-part PBS series, "The Language of Life with Bill Moyers." The rogram is currently being broadcast by PBS on Friday nights through July 28th. t is a celebration of the rise of interest in public poetry throughout the nited States, focusing on the eighteen poets who took part in the Geraldine R. odge Poetry Festival in New Jersey. (Also available is the companion book, A ESTIVAL OF POETS, published by Doubleday.)
  • A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including including Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R) and Sen. Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D) on the marriage penalty bill; Sen. Trent Lott on his friend, the late senator, Paul Coverdell, who died from a brain hemorrhage; presidential candidates Vice President Al Gore, Gov. George W. Bush, Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader; and President Bill Clinton on the Mideast peace talks at Camp David.
  • From member station WXXI in Rochester, New York Brenda Tremblay reports on a new biography about Martha Matilda Harper, one of the most successful and innovative female entrepreneurs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is credited with inventing the concept of the Franchise. (3:09) Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream : How One Woman Changed the Face of Modern Business (Writing American Women by Jane R. Plitt is published by Syracuse Univ Pr (Trade); ISBN: 08156
  • Host Bob Edwards speaks with Senators-elect Mark Pryor (D-AR) and John Sununu (R-NH). They talk about the upcoming legislative session, why their campaigns were successful, how difficult the next session may be for compromise, possible war on Iraq, and the GOP election victory.
  • Democratic incumbent Tom Johnson claims a narrow victory in the South Dakota Senate race. Because of a computer glitch, the vote wasn't tallied until late this morning. The vote was close enough that Republican challenger John R. Thune may ask for a recount. NPR's Ken Barcus reports.
  • A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry and House Speaker Newt ingrich on the budget; White House aide Carolyn Hueber and Sen. Lauch Faircloth R-N.C.) on Whitewater; astronomer Geoffrey Marcy on the discovery of new lanets; former Rep. Barbara Jordan (D-Texas); and the late, great ool player Minnesota Fats.
  • Linda speaks with Bill Paxon (R-NY), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, which has produced and paid for new ads that urge voters to prevent Democrats from controlling both the White House and Congress. The ads are being interpreted as an implicit acknowledgement by the GOP that Bob Dole may lose the presidential election. Paxon says that this interpretation of the ad is wrong, and that the GOP still has confidence that Dole can win the election.
  • New census figures show the number of Hispanics as very close to the number of blacks in the United States. Depending on how the figures are tallied, the number of Hispanics may be seen as having surpassed the number of blacks. Host Robert Siegel talks with John R. Logan about the numbers and the implications of the changing proportion of minority groups in America. Logan is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mumford Center, State University of New York, Albany.
  • Big oil, big buildings, big hair — the TV series Dallas made its glittering debut 30 years ago this month. Neither its namesake city nor TV has been the same since. Longtime Dallas TV critic Ed Bark discusses the show, the city and "Who Shot J.R.?"
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