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Education reporter at WBEZ in Chicago
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Becky Vevea
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Chicago Teachers Strike Enters Second Week Some 26,000 teachers are reportedly close to coming back to work in Chicago. Negotiations are on hold today, for the Jewish New Year, but word is that the strike may soon end with the fine details still to be hammered out. Becky Vevea covers education for public radio station WBEZ .
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Chicago Teachers Strike Enters Second Week Some 26,000 teachers are reportedly close to coming back to work in Chicago. Negotiations are on hold today, for the Jewish New Year, but word is that the strike may soon end with the fine details still to be hammered out. Becky Vevea covers education for public radio station WBEZ .
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Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.
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Who's to blame for the opioid crisis? Some of the lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are now going after Big Pharma. It’s all about the deadly epidemic of opioid use. Are the drug companies to blame? What about the users? Later, on today’s Talking Point: making sense of Britain’s upset election.