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When the tribe closed some the roads to Glacier National Park, businesses worried for their future. But it worked, and with one of the nation's highest COVID-19 vaccination rates, they've reopened.

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For years after the Great Recession, employers were reluctant to boost wages. Now a tight labor market is giving workers the leverage they need to demand a larger slice of the nation's economic pie.

Republicans and Democrats are heading in totally different directions, highlighted by Georgia's primaries for governor. And the progressive vs. establishment fight fizzled on the Democratic side.

New cases of COVID-19 in Ohio shot up Thursday to more than 1,500; hundreds of thousands of Ohio voters who have been looking for their absentee ballots to arrive in the mail will be waiting another week; Kent State University says another 110 students have been ordered to quarantine in a dorm because of possible exposure to the coronavirus.

The focus on the court could help energize conservatives in key states. Progressives are fired up, too — immediately after Saturday's announcement, Democrats tied Barrett to a fight for health care.

Annye Anderson, the stepsister of Robert Johnson, whose life became a founding myth of American music, has written a memoir about the real life behind the legend.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with McKay Coppins of The Atlantic about what he says could be the most extensive disinformation campaign in U.S. history — one intended to reelect President Trump.

Across the U.S., convention centers and empty fields were transformed into emergency field hospitals at a cost to federal taxpayers of more than $660 million. Most haven't treated a single patient.

With Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination still up for debate, activists are planning for potential battles in state legislatures if the court eventually weakens national abortion rights.