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The new global gold rush
gpb.org > news...One of those buyers was Julia Grugen, 20, a finance major at Temple University.... ...Julia Grugan, 20, a senior at Temple University recently made one of her first major investments: A 10 gram gold bar. / Julia Grugan....
Omar Apollo taught himself how to sing from YouTube. Now he's up ...
gpb.org > news...But the clouds parted on a recent weekend, and the sun shone down on the Hollywood Hills, as if only to allow musician Omar Apollo to sit atop a... ...Omar Apollo is committed to "starting from zero" in music, and in life. / Grace Widyatmadja/NPR.... ...The 25-year-old is sitting on a large wooden bench, overlooking the San Fernando Valley.... ...Growing up in Hobart, Indiana, Apollo says he'd be outside from morning to midnight, skateboarding, meeting up with cousins or friends....
Clunky title aside, "Cunk on Earth" is a mockumentary with cult ...
gpb.org > news...Ill-informed TV correspondent Philomena Cunk (Diane Morgan) travels around the world in Cunk on Earth. / Netflix.... ...Diane Morgan stars in the new five-part Netflix mockumentary series Cunk on Earth, but viewers in the U.S. might not recognize her -- unless they... ...correspondent and interviewer is less Kenneth Clark or James Burke, and more Borat or Jiminy Glick.... ...Ten years ago, Black Mirror co-creator Charlie Brooker wrote and hosted a British comedy series, Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe....
What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend viewing
gpb.org > news...A guide to your weekend viewing. Pedro Pascal plays Joel Miller in The Last of Us. / HBO Max.... ...This week, we checked in with Punxsutawney Phil, revisited childhood friendships, and were inspired by new YA books about identity and overcoming...
Instant runoffs voting bill introduced in Georgia House
gpb.org > news...Georgia Rep. Joseph Gullett. State Rep.... ...Joseph Gullett, R-Dallas, introduced a bill into the Georgia House this week that would allow Georgia cities to experiment with instant runoff voting... ...Scott Turner, executive director of Eternal Vigilance Action, a Georgia group that supports instant runoffs, said the municipal opt-in would provide... ...Runoffs have drawn a number of critics in Georgia in recent years, including Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, whose department oversees elections...
Mexico's president says he won't seek an unconstitutional second term
gpb.org > news...MEXICO CITY -- In Mexico, there has been a lot of handwringing over the undemocratic tendencies of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.... ...He rammed through reforms to the electoral commission that Human Rights Watch said would "eliminate many of the safeguards intended to preserve the... ...And the president of El Salvador has announced he will defy constitutional term limits and run again for president next year.... ...Authoritarianism has already taken hold in Venezuela and Nicaragua....
Chinese balloon punctures Blinken's plans, leaving U.S.-China ties ...
gpb.org > news...President Biden stands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit meeting, Nov. 14, 2022, in Bali, Indonesia... ...-China relations, as Secretary of State Antony Blinken was preparing to make the first trip to China by a secretary of state in more than four years... ...Susan Shirk, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, and author of the book Overreach: How China Derailed its Peaceful Rise, says... ...Sun, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center think tank....
Georgia may be best for business. But this 30-year-old policy is why ...
gpb.org > news...GPB's Ellen Eldridge reports on the Family and Medical Leave Act, 30 years after its passing.... ...Georgia is often touted as "best for business," but some policy experts say the state is one of the worst for workers.... ...Avenel Joseph, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's vice president of policy, said that when the FMLA passed, it was groundbreaking.... ..., childcare providers and food truck owners, said Georgia director for Small Business Majority Rachel Shanklin....
In bluegrass, as in life, Molly Tuttle would rather be a "Crooked Tree"
gpb.org > news...Molly Tuttle is right at home at The Station Inn in Nashville, Tenn. / Joseph Ross for NPR.... ...In bluegrass, as in life, Molly Tuttle would rather be a "Crooked Tree'.... ...Francisco Bay Area, attracted in part by a progressive bluegrass movement driven by genre-straddlers such as David Grisman, Tony Rice and Grateful... ...Molly Tuttle went from Northern California to Boston and the Berklee College of Music, where she studied in the American Roots Music Program....
Georgia Today: Georgians agree on spending budget surplus, India ...
gpb.org > news...Peter Biello: Welcome to the Georgia Today podcast from GPB News. Today is Friday, February 3rd. I'm Peter Biello.... ...On the Friday Feb. 3 edition of Georgia Today: Georgians agree on the spending of the budget surplus, India gives a boost to local farmers, and some... ...New this year to the event is the Vintage Kitchens Museum in South Georgia's Ben Hill County. For GPB News, I'm Benjamin Payne.... ...Benjamin Payne: What began in the 1980s as a free day of admission to museums in Savannah is Chatham County has since expanded across the Peach State...