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Colorado Springs’ School District 11 meets to discuss utilization plan, and Representative Mike Coffman faces an ethics hearing.

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Federal Judge In Michigan Temporarily Halts Deportation Of Iraqis Who Fear Torture
June 22, 2017 | NPR · The Iraqi nationals were rounded up in the Detroit area in recent weeks by immigration authorities. They all had final deportation orders as well as criminal convictions, and many are Christians.
 

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U.N. Says World’s Population Will Reach 9.8 Billion By 2050
June 22, 2017 | NPR · The population growth is being driven by high birth rates in developing nations as well as higher life expectancy worldwide.
 

Georgia Inmates Come To Aid Of Unconscious Guard
June 22, 2017 | NPR · The Polk County Sheriff said he will recommend the inmates’ sentences be reduced after they called 911 when the deputy guarding them collapsed.
 

Arts & Life

Cinema Guild
Documentary Scours Our Noisy Globe ‘In Search Of Silence’
June 22, 2017 | NPR · Director Patrick Shen features plenty of talking heads opining about our essential need for quiet and solitude, but this film works best when he captures moments of pristine, meditative stillness.
 

Focus Features
A Wounded Union Soldier In A House Of Southern Women: ‘The Beguiled’
June 22, 2017 | NPR · Sofia Coppola’s lush visual aesthetic infuses this study in sublimated lust with just enough sly, Southern-Gothic bodice-ripping to intrigue and satisfy.
 

Lionsgate
‘The Big Sick’ Is A Tonic For What Ails You
June 22, 2017 | NPR · Critic Andrew Lapin praises the “unique, understated comic irony” of this largely autobiographical rom-com about a couple whose young relationship gets tested by matters cultural — and medical.
 

Music

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Algiers Unpacks Its Kaleidscopically Dense ‘The Underside of Power’ Track By Track
June 23, 2017 | NPR · Algiers, now spread across three cities, have made a dense piece of work with The Underside of Power. Considering the record’s sprawling scope, we asked them help us understand it.
 

WXPN
Jade Jackson On World Cafe
June 22, 2017 | WXPN-FM · Since releasing her debut in May, the singer-songwriter has begun to turn heads with a fresh take on the Bakersfield sound and a knack for honest lyrics. Hear an interview and live performance.
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Songs We Love: Kali Uchis, ‘Tyrant (Feat. Jorja Smith)’
June 22, 2017 | NPR · Light and airy in its sweetness, the song blooms into fluffy, ebullient tufts of cotton candy — only to soon melt in the hot June sun and dry into a hardened candy shell.
 

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