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How asylum-seeking migrants got stuck living at O’Hare · Apple News Today

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  [INTRO MUSIC BEGINS]
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  Mark Garrison, Narrating: Good morning! It's Monday, February 26th.
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  I'm Mark Garrison in for Shumita Basu.
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  This is Apple News Today.
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  On today's show, how the Alabama IVF ruling forced a family
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  to leave the state to continue treatment,
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  the people who came to the U.S. for a better life
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  and got trapped at O'Hare Airport,
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  and an unusual way managers are trying to get more workers
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  back into offices.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  But first, let's take a quick look at some major stories in the news.
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  The Biden administration says negotiators have an understanding
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  on the broad points of a potential temporary ceasefire deal in Gaza
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  that would include the release of hostages held by Hamas.
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  But the specifics aren't public.
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  The death toll in Gaza is close to 30,000 people.
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  Representatives from the U.S., Israel, Qatar, and Egypt
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  are expected to continue talks to iron out technical details.
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  But Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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  says Israel is still preparing a large-scale assault on Rafah.
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  1.5 million Palestinian civilians are sheltering there.
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  Netanyahu told "CBS" that a ceasefire deal
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  may only delay an operation.
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  [START CBS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Benjamin Netanyahu: We're not going to give it up if we have a deal,
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  it will be delayed somewhat, but it will happen.
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  If we don't have a deal we'll do it anyway.
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  It has to be done because total victory is our goal
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  and total victory is within reach, not months away, weeks away,
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  once we begin the operation.
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  [END CBS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: To U.S. politics, where former president Donald Trump
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  beat Nikki Haley in South Carolina's Republican primary
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  by a wide margin over the weekend.
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  [START ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  [CROWD CHEERS]
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  Donald Trump: That is really something.
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  This was a little sooner than we anticipated.
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  [CROWD CHEERS, APPLAUSE]
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  [END ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: Haley said she'll stay in the race through Super Tuesday on March 5th.
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  [START ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  [CROWD CHEERS]
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  Nikki Haley: I said earlier this week that no matter what happens
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  in South Carolina that I would continue to run for president.
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  [CROWD CHEERS]
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  [END ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: Tomorrow, Democrats and Republicans
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  head to the polls in Michigan's primary.
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  Also, Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel
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  is stepping down.
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  Trump had criticized her management of the party.
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  He endorsed a group of new leaders,
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  including his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump.
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  In Washington, lawmakers are on the verge
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  of a partial government shutdown again.
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  They have just a few days to strike a deal or else services
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  including food stamps, housing assistance, and more
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  could be affected.
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  [AMBIENT MUSIC FADES IN]
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  President Biden is bringing Congressional leaders
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  from both parties
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  to the White House tomorrow to talk about the looming shutdown
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  and funding for Ukraine.
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  Fertility doctors across America are frustrated
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  with the recent Alabama Supreme Court decision that frozen embryos
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  have the legal rights of children.
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  They're worried about the impact on patients.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  Several fertility clinics in the state are pausing services
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  while they look at the new legal risks for patients and clinics.
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  An Alabama Fertility, which performed around 700 rounds of IVF last year,
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  they're pausing new treatments because of the ruling.
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  [START MSNBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Dr. Mamie McLean: We're incredibly worried that IVF as it stands will not continue in Alabama.
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  [END MSNBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: That's Dr. Mamie McLean from the clinic on "MSNBC."
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  She says patients are worried.
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  [START MSNBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  McLean: They feel like they've been left alone by the state of Alabama,
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  we have patients who plan for months in the lead up to both IVF
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  and a frozen embryo transfer.
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  So, these treatments are not… They've been ongoing for quite a while.
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  And so, the decision to cancel a patient's treatment
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  is devastating news for them.
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  [END MSNBC ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: Gabrielle Goidel talked to "CNN" about trying to get pregnant
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  in the middle of all of this.
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  The court's ruling came just days before
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  she was scheduled to have her eggs retrieved.
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  [START CNN ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Gabrielle Goidel: I'm probably 15 shots in and my body is bruised and hurt,
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  it's not been great physically. I don't feel the greatest.
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  I've already been so poked and prodded with the IVF process.
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  And now I feel like there's somebody else who's coming into my personal life
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  and it's very invasive.
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  [END CNN ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: Goidel and her husband frantically called other IVF providers.
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  They found one that could take her, but it was in Texas.
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  So she'll continue IVF there, but that adds additional travel costs
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  to the already expensive process.
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  She told "CNN," the ruling makes a difficult ordeal even worse.
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  Goidel had three miscarriages, and the family has already spent
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  tens of thousands of dollars on IVF.
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  [START CNN ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Goidel: All we want is to just have the American dream and have a family,
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  [PENSIVE MUSIC FADES IN]
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  and I never thought that this would be something
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  that would be conceived as immoral.
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  [END CNN ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: Now to a story about families coming to the U.S for a better life
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  who got stuck in limbo, living at Chicago's O'Hare airport.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  Texas Republican governor Greg Abbott says that he's sent more than 30,000 migrants
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  to Chicago since 2022.
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  The state has been sending tens of thousands of people
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  who cross the southern border to cities led by Democrats
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  to protest U.S. immigration policies.
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  Elly Fishman: And that meant that migrants started arriving in the city
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  without a place to live,
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  and some of them got stuck at O'Hare Airport.
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  Garrison, Narrating: Elly Fishman writes in "Rolling Stone" about these families.
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  She spent the holiday season reporting from O'Hare,
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  at one of its busiest times.
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  It was meant to be only a temporary shelter for migrants,
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  where people could wait for better housing.
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  But the large number of new arrivals meant many people spent a lot of time
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  living at the airport.
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  Fishman profiled a woman called Angi.
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  [START ROLLING STONE ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Fishman: She had five young children, between the ages of two and eight,
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  and they were living in a place in the airport
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  that is not set up to house families.
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  [END ROLLING STONE ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: They were trying to escape poverty and instability in Venezuela.
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  It took her family months to make the dangerous journey north,
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  through the jungle and desert.
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  After arriving, Angi accepted the offer of a flight to Illinois.
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  She’d never been on a plane before.
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  And she’d heard Chicago was welcoming to immigrants.
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  But the reality was, she had no place to stay.
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  So she wound up in a vast field of makeshift beds at O’Hare,
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  with hundreds of other migrants.
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  One volunteer told Fishman, the conditions are “not humane.”
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  [START ROLLING STONE ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Fishman: It is a transient place by nature.
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  No showers, no real private spaces
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  to reflect or even just take a moment for yourself.
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  And I just was so struck by what it would mean to try and move
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  through your day with five kids in a place like that.
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  You know, the sink that you use for five seconds to wash your hands
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  on the way to your gate, for Angie is not only a sink,
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  it's a laundry basin, it's a shower.
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  [END ROLLING STONE ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: Angi’s asylum case is one of two million pending in the U.S.
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  Angi and her family eventually found a motel to move into.
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  Many other people camped out at O’Hare have also been able to move
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  to other accommodations.
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  But resources in Chicago are still stretched.
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  [START ROLLING STONE ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Fishman: It's a massive crisis, and trying to figure out
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  how to support these families and these individual people
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  [CALMING MUSIC FADES IN]
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  has been a contentious and heated topic in the city.
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  [END ROLLING STONE ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Garrison, Narrating: It's Monday, and that might mean you're heading back to the office.
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  Or not, if you work from home.
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  Or, maybe you work from home, but you get the sense that your boss
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  would really rather have you in the office more often?
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  That kind of push and pull has been going on between companies
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  and employees ever since the pandemic lockdowns ended.
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  Some companies take a hard line:
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  basically, come to the office or you're fired.
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  Others have a softer approach, which includes making the workplace
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  more appealing.
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  Offering free food, nice coffee, better gyms, laundry services.
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  "The Wall Street Journal" looks at how a few companies
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  are trying something different: changing the smell.
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  Some managers are adding perfume to the air, with scent diffusers,
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  or even pumping it directly into the ventilation system.
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  It's taking a page out of spas and luxury hotels,
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  which have been using custom scents to set the mood for a while.
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  One commercial real-estate company told "The Journal" how it tested
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  multiple blends to pick a custom scent.
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  What the bosses settled on was a little different
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  than what hotels go for, since they're aiming
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  for a purely relaxing vibe.
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  The office mix was designed to be more uplifting,
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  which management decided, smells like a mix of jasmine,
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  sandalwood, and pine.
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  This is very different than the usual conversations
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  about office smells, which are often negative.
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  There's the colleague who wears way too much cologne,
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  or the one who reheats fish in the communal kitchen.
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  [OUTRO MUSIC FADES IN]
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  It's not clear that offices adding a signature scent
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  will get more employees coming in, but it does sound like an improvement.
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  You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app.
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  And if you're already listening in the News app right now,
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  we've got a Narrated Article coming up next
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  and it's the Apple News pick for Story of the Month.
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  Every month, our editors are selecting a News+ article
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  that they don't want you to miss.
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  This one, from "The Atlantic," is about Scot Peterson.
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  He was the armed sheriff's deputy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
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  in Parkland, Florida in 2018.
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  17 people were killed in a mass shooting.
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  Peterson was heavily criticized for not confronting the gunman.
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  "The Atlantic" goes beyond his story to look at the major gaps
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  in law enforcement training in America, when it comes to mass shootings.
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  If you're listening in the Podcasts app, you can follow Apple News+ Narrated
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  to find that story.
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  And I'll be back with the news tomorrow.
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