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It's 2021, the Fat Acceptance Movement has moved far beyond its original fight for more inclusive policies.

The average weight of Ameircans has increased in the last two decades. And anti-fat bias has increased too: by nearly 40 percent according to a Harvard study.

So where does the movement go from here?

We discuss all that and more.

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NPR is celebrating its 50th anniversary, so we're spending some time thinking about what the next 50 years have in store.

Journalists at NPR headquarters and at member stations are grappling with a lot of questions: why public radio sounds the way it does, questions about objectivity and who it serves, and questions about the best ways to deliver information to audiences, wherever they are.

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President Joe Biden delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress this week, during which he outlined his plan for an aggressive expansion of social spending.

Three men in Georgia were indicted on federal hate crime charges related to the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was shot while he was on a jog in February 2020.

Meanwhile, the daily death toll in India from COVID-19 continues to set records. The country also surpassed another daily record caseload this week as international aid began pouring into the country.

We get to these headlines and more during the weekly News Roundup.

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Video games are good. Movies are good. But can video game movies be good?

We talked about it for the latest edition of 1A Movie Club.

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Millions of Americans are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19. And as summer approaches, the behavior of many will change drastically. The CDC has released new guidelines for fully vaccinated adults, but what do they mean?

We break down the latest recommendations and answer your COVID-19 questions.

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Many of us are afraid we might miss something important, but what do you do when it feels like something important is happening all the time?

How do we slow the doomscroll?

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How do food and plants help us make sense of the world?

Musician Michelle Zauner talks about her latest project, — a memoir, Crying In H Mart — that tells the story of her mother's death. In it, Zauner writes about using the food they made to remember her mom.

And Beronda L. Montgomery, a biochemistry professor at Michigan State University, has a lot to say about how plants experience the world in her new book Lessons from Plants.

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Former police officer Derek Chauvin, accused of killing George Floyd by kneeling on his neck, was found guilty on three counts, including murder and manslaughter, this week.

President Biden announced that in its first 100 days of his term, the Biden administration and health officials have provided 200 million shots of COVID-19 vaccines to Americans.

Meanwhile, India has become the world's new pandemic epicenter. Daily cases of COVID-19 in India have exploded since early March. India now accounts for one in three new cases of COVID-19 across the world.

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Allegations against EDM star Bassnectar, or Lorin Ashton, have left fans to grapple with those accusations.

Debates like these have surfaced more and more since the #MeToo movement since it took off in 2017.

We talk about Bassnectar's alleged victims and the community he built with 1A producer, Avery J.C. Kleinman.

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Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd's neck, was found guilty of murder on two counts of murder and one count of manslaughter on Tuesday afternoon.

It's a historic verdict, but what does it mean for the future of policing and police accountability in the U.S?

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