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The inaugural poet read works from Joy Harjo and Naomi Shihab Nye, along with one of his own.

Wisconsin's stay-at-home order lifted this week, and many people flooded to bars with no social distancing mitigation in place.

It is not normal to show up and protest carrying weapons, O'Connell said.

The newest set of guidelines streamline the numerous sets of food safety recommendations already available.

In New Bedford, fishing and warehouse work continues amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The former Suffolk County Sheriff had qualms with the Justice Department’s motion to drop charges against the former national security advisor, who pled guilty to lying to the FBI in 2017.

The Guardian's Margaret Sullivan discusses global press freedom ratings at their lowest in a quarter century.Michael Curry of the Mass League of Community Health Centers talks the mifepristone manufacturers petitioning SCOTUS to restore full access to the medication, and the millions of Americans dropping from Obamacare in the wake of subsidy expirations.Brandon Terry, author of "Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement" discusses his work — a warning that we romanticize the battles of that era at our peril.Clementina Chéry of the Louis D. Brown Pease Institute zooms in ahead of the 30th annual Mothers Day Walk for Peace on May 10.

Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey co-hosts with Jim and Margery today. With guests: Michael Patrick MacDonald, the author of "All Souls: Memoir of a Family From Southie."Live Music Friday with local Americana, folk and rock singer-songwriter Jesse Ahern.Michael Fanone is a former DC Metropolitan police officer who was injured in the J-6 attack on the Capitol. He joins us. And on this May Day, Chrissy Lynch, head of the AFL-CIO of Massachusetts, talks about working class politics.

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Food policy expert Corby Kummer on Boston's love for foie gras ... and the simultaneous rise of 'recession meals' that destigmatize home cooking on a budget.Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem discusses her latest reporting on the White House Correspondents Dinner shooting and new State Department rules that would deny visas to those who fear returning home.Conductor Keith Lockhart discusses the Boston Pops spring season.And for our final Long Run series, we talk about porta-potty sustainability with Rachel Binstock of Wasted*.

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