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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was campaigning in Colorado Friday where he continued to make baseless claims against migrants living in the Denver suburb of Aurora. He also spoke about Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and her 2020 campaign for president. In all fairness, I'm not a fan of Sleepy Joe.
But Sleepy Jill got 14 million votes. She got none. She never made it to the great state of Iowa. She quit. Out of 22 people, she quit. She had nothing going. Trump's visit to Colorado was the first time either major presidential candidate has campaigned there this year.
Stellantis, which is the automaker behind brands including Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge and Ram, is laying off 1,100 employees just outside Detroit starting later today. NPR's Andrea Hsu reports the layoffs represent only part of the company's troubles in the U.S. The layoffs in Warren, Michigan, come as Stellantis ends production of the Ram 1500 Classic truck, which has been discontinued.
The cuts were first announced in August, around the same time the company said it was delaying plans to reopen an idle plant in Belvedere, Illinois, a key promise made in contract negotiations last year. The United Auto Workers Union has threatened to strike over the delay, blaming Stellantis for what it calls gross mismanagement.
The automaker says a strike would be illegal, maintaining that market volatility and a slow adoption of EVs led to a shift in plans. As Stellantis grapples with declining sales, the company says it will be implementing layoffs across its footprint.
Andrea Hsu, NPR News. A new study suggests the best way to teach kids how to spot misinformation online is not to shield them from it, but rather to expose them to it at a young age. NPR's Maria Godoy has more. Researchers wanted to find ways to teach kids how to be more careful about evaluating the information they encounter online, starting at an early age.
So they designed a set of experiments involving 122 kids ages 4 to 7 that aimed to test their skepticism. The kids were shown a series of digital learning materials, some of which contained errors that were easy to detect.
UC Berkeley researcher Evan Ortizio led the study. We found that when we gave children experience encountering misinformation, two really cool things happened. One, they became more careful to fact check new claims as they arose. And two, they were less likely to fall for new misinformation.
Ortizio says the findings suggest that exposing young kids to misinformation in a carefully controlled environment could be a more effective way to teach media literacy. Maria Godoy, NPR News. The Biden administration announced Friday the creation of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary along California's Central Coast. The Chumash tribe has pushed for the designation for 10 years.
The sanctuary comprises 4,543 square miles of coastal waters. It's the third largest marine sanctuary in the country. This is NPR News. Support for NPR and the following message come from Bowlin Branch. Experience your best sleep in the softest organic cotton sheets. For a limited time, get 20% off and free shipping on your first set of sheets at bowlinbranch.com with code NPR. Exclusions apply. See site for details.
