jeffrey: coming soon in the stephen king universe, several new film and tv adaptations of his work. he darker side in western maine, i'm jeffrey brown for the pbs news hour. amna: online we have more from stephen king, including what he watches and reads when he's not writing. that's on our youtube channel. our student reporting labs' podcast called "on our minds" has a new season focused on the election and the youth vote. two new student hosts, nico fischer and poojasai kona, along with student reporters from around the country talk with conservatives and liberals, experts and candidates, about the political issues that matter most to young people. >> this election year is wild. >> and its drawing us apart. >> the election is affecting all of us, even those of us who are too young to vote. >> on this special season of on our minds -- >> student reporters are asking -- >> what does it mean to be an american? >> does my vote matter? >> what is real or fake? >> we are having conversations with everyone. >> conservatives. >> liberals. >> experts. >> candidates. >> as americans, we need

my name is jeffrey king. i was a long time journalist and foreign correspondent in china. i wrote a book called the perfect police state and i was an advisor to the us congress, to the house of representatives on sanctions and chinese politics. from what i have seen around the world in china and elsewhere. i am deeply concerned that we do not know how to manage a yet. we do not know what's coming in. we do not know how to rein in this technology and put it to the good use of our democracy. china has been leading in bringing technology under state control and in fact, using it as an instrument for state power, whether it is for internal control and censorship, and grip on society, or whether it is their global ambition to have digital infrastructure around the world. and to work with other countries. for example, i think about the effort and confidence it is, of course, the vision that is at direct odds with that of democratic societies in 2017 china is national strategy for artificial intelligence. and this is a public document set out the explicit goal of dominating globa

rick jeffreys and janelle king.ing for honesty, transparency, and victory. they are fighting. >> donald trump last weekend in atlanta name checking three members of georgia state board of elections. all republicans, and all of whom have questioned the results of the 2020 election. just yesterday, three months before the next presidential election, in a 3-2 vote, those three pit bulls that donald trump talked about approved a rule that threatened to up end how elections are certified in georgia. and this is really important. the new rule empowers county election board members to conduct a quote reasonable inquiry end quote into whether election results are complete and accurate before they officially certify them. however, the new rule doesn't define what a reasonable inquiry entails which means officials in georgia's 159 counties can decide for themselves, each of them, what they consider reasonable. and there in lies the problem. democratic elections attorney mark elias called this new rule another powerful tool in

king invited jeffrey brown to his maine home to talk about his latest book of short stories and the longrt of our arts and culture series. >> in his new collection stephen king writes of the unsettling and otherworldly raising its head in this one. he calls it, "you like it darker," and he clearly does. >> darker means spooky and scary and let's exercise our unpleasant emotions for a while. i think people like the idea of opening the door and saying -- i want it darker. do you? ok. we are in agreement. let's go into the woods together. >> millions of readers have taken the dark walked with king but we had our late -- a later one with the 76-year-old. >> i feel like if i was a car, i would trade. i love maine. i love the country. i'm not much of a city kid. i love the people. and i think they are stand ins for people everywhere. i want to write about regular people, ordinary people in the best way i know how. >> even in their dark moments? >> i'm interested in what happens when regular people are suddenly confronted with something that is totally out of their wheelhouse. i think that lite

or doctor is richard tirrell and jeffrey causey were two scientists who helped interpret voyager's pictures. well, at least for this agreement, we it the of alison king in the yankee. and i say these these kings here are a pretty good fit to. the same theory that's been advanced to explain the brains in the airframe which basically involves a gravitational by a person shepherding satellites and this might be taken as an indication that this division contains some such small shepherding movements that is an embedded movement of a sort. it would probably have to be pretty small. we'd be able to see it because these braids, these kinks are so close together and small, meaning maybe a mile in diameter. so voyager one had found rings and the cassini once thought to be a gap. voyager two was finding more. before we had the idea of the cassini division being division, and then we saw it close up and we saw it's really a bunch of rings bracketed by two divisions, smaller divisions. now we're looking at each one of these divisions and they're not even divisions. they've got rings inside them and. those rings have complicated structure. when asked for their fi