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Oct 09, 2025
NPR Music's Stephen Thompson reports on a handful of newcomers to the pop charts.
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Oct 09, 2025
The newest Nobel literature laureate is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter who has been called "a master of the apocalypse."
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Oct 09, 2025
On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Brené Brown talks about trying to find the face of God in everyone she sees.
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Oct 09, 2025
Voters in three Colorado counties will decide in November whether to form a special tax district to fund childcare, which is becoming less affordable for families in the state.
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Oct 09, 2025
Pope Leo XIV released a major teaching document on Thursday about poverty. It's Leo's first major document since his election in May.
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Oct 09, 2025
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Jennifer Lopez, star of the movie musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, about her performance and how it makes her think about her own legacy.
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Oct 09, 2025
Would you pay $60 a pound for butter? Shoppers are spending big bucks for premium butter.
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Oct 09, 2025
A ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war could formally take effect today, and Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners could start going home as soon as this weekend.
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Oct 09, 2025
In a human body, cells are constantly making life-or-death decisions. If they make the wrong choice, the result can be cancer. It may be possible to treat diseases by influencing this behavior.
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Oct 09, 2025
Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them.
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Oct 08, 2025
President Trump announced that an agreement has been reached to end the war in Gaza — hours after his Secretary of State handed him a note during a White House event. He may travel to Egypt soon.
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Oct 08, 2025
One city that saw a surge of federal resources to crack down on crime is Albuquerque. The city is now taking a novel approach to dealing with crime without the use of federal resources.
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Oct 08, 2025
The struggling German auto industry turns to making weapons as the government spends billions on defense.
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Oct 08, 2025
NPR visits villages along the Lebanese-Syrian border where Israel has continued demolitions and attacks despite a ceasefire last year.
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Oct 08, 2025
In Italy, a super volcano outside of Naples is stirring in a way it hasn't for centuries. And hundreds of thousands of people live right by it.
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Oct 08, 2025
Jim Comey has pleaded not guilty on two felony charges and plans to argue he was improperly targeted by President Trump.
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Oct 08, 2025
Military Troops from Texas have started to arrive outside of Chicago as part of the Trump Administration's battle with Chicago over immigration enforcement.
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Oct 08, 2025
When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.
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Oct 08, 2025
When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame solar and wind power for the blackout. A new expert panel report finds the outage stemmed from high voltage.
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Oct 08, 2025
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Qassem Ali, an American citizen from Gaza. He left Gaza after war broke out two years ago.
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Oct 08, 2025
A Hindu nationalist group celebrates its centenary amid a remarkable trajectory: Once banned for its association with Gandhi's killer, a former follower now leads India.
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Oct 08, 2025
Today, federal and local law enforcement officials announced that they arrested a man for igniting the Palisades fire. It killed a dozen people and destroyed thousands of structures in January.
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Oct 08, 2025
Canadians who are usually drawn to New Orleans' French culture are staying away this year. Louisiana's lieutenant governor says that's because they're upset with President Trump.
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Oct 08, 2025
The White House is floating the possibility that some furloughed federal workers could be denied back pay once the government reopens. Some workers and experts say the law requires they get paid.
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Oct 08, 2025
Alysia Abbott's memoir about growing up in 1970s San Francisco with her gay, single father, has been adapted into a film directed by Andrew Durham and produced by Sofia Coppola.
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Oct 08, 2025
Ashleigh Brilliant has died. He was known for thousands of one-liners — witty statements or epigrams that he licensed and marketed as "pot-shots." He was 91.
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Oct 08, 2025
Many North Korean defectors in South Korea use a secret network of brokers to stay connected to those back home. But recently, South Korea investigated some of those brokers for espionage.
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Oct 08, 2025
Minutes before an important job interview, Oliver Muensterer realized he'd forgotten his dress shirt. A hotel employee offered a kind and unexpected solution — the literal shirt off his back.
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Oct 08, 2025
Nabarun Dasgupta, a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant for his work to understand the U.S. overdose crisis and help reduce deaths.
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Oct 08, 2025
A cartographer, a composer, a neurobiologist, and a novelist are among the recipients of this year's "Genius Grants." Each Fellow will receive a no-strings attached award of $800,000.
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Oct 07, 2025
Planned Parenthood in Wisconsin has stopped performing abortions even though they're legal in that state because of a new rule that stops Medicaid funding for clinics that provide abortion.
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Oct 07, 2025
After being lost in a Soviet vault for decades, the first feature film made in Idaho, in 1919, is now returning to screens. It includes significant depictions of Nez Perce tribal members.
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Oct 07, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical today about Colorado's ban on conversion therapy for minors. About half the states have such laws.
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Oct 07, 2025
More college students are using AI chatbots to help them with their studies. But data recently released by an AI company shows they're aren't the only ones using the technology.
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Oct 07, 2025
Now that the CDC has finally issued final guidelines for the updated COVID-19 vaccines, at least some of the confusion on eligibility should clear up.
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Oct 07, 2025
A shortage of air traffic controllers led to delays last night at airports serving New York, Los Angeles and Denver. It's one of several ways the government shutdown could impact commercial aviation.
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Oct 07, 2025
Israelis are paying heavy costs for the longest war in their history: a mental health crisis, trauma, unprecedented division during wartime, animosity abroad and apathy for Palestinian suffering.
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Oct 07, 2025
A huge threat to migrating birds is colliding with a building. Now birding groups are banding together with government agencies and others to form one united front to tackle the problem.
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Oct 07, 2025
Patients who want a deeper discount on obesity meds than compounding pharmacies can offer are turning to the gray market, where they buy the raw active ingredient from China and prepare it themselves.
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Oct 07, 2025
Some protestant churches in Texas are quietly embracing a new mission: providing ESL instruction to immigrants. Baptist churches in Plano, Waco and Austin say they're seeing rising enrollment.
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Oct 07, 2025
Attorney General Pam Bondi faced questions about her leadership of the Justice Department at a Senate hearing.
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Oct 07, 2025
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Illinois Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker about President Trump's efforts to deploy the national guard in Chicago.
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Oct 07, 2025
Increasing numbers of Americans rely on volunteer-run food pantries. But many of the volunteers are elderly. There's a shortage of young volunteers who can manage the physical work involved.
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Oct 07, 2025
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Mayci Neeley of Hulu's The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives about how her traumatic college days have shaped her relationship with her religion.
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Oct 06, 2025
Patricia Routledge, known for playing Hyacinth Bucket on the 1990s British television show Keeping Up Appearances, has died at age 96.
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Oct 06, 2025
In a memo obtained by NPR, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lays out details on the proposed deployment of Illinois National Guard to Chicago.
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Oct 06, 2025
John Yoo helped developed the legal framework for the post-9/11 wars in the George W. Bush Justice Department. He argues Trump trying to invoke war powers too extraordinary to be used against crime.
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Oct 06, 2025
The latest French government lasted just 18 hours as France's third prime minister in a year resigned. The two premiers before him were brought down in no confidence votes. He didn't get that far.
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Oct 06, 2025
The Picon Punch, a strong cocktail brought to Nevada by Basque immigrants, is having a big year. It just became the state's official drink, and a Nevada distiller is now making its main ingredient.
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Oct 06, 2025
A global drop in demand for wine has led to a grape glut, and many U.S. vineyards are letting their grapes rot rather than harvesting them. Growers say it's one of the worst wine years in decades.
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Oct 06, 2025
In her new memoir, author and journalist Beth Macy returns to her hometown of Urbana, Ill., to learn how it changed from a stable working- and middle-class community to a town struggling with poverty.
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Oct 06, 2025
Bari Weiss quit The New York Times to launch The Free Press. Now, she's joining CBS News as its top editor.
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Oct 06, 2025
Most of us have a venue we love — a theater or concert space — where we really feel at home. But what do you do if that place goes through radical changes?
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Oct 06, 2025
A hundred years ago, Maryland's first state forester challenged residents to find the state's biggest tree. Now the contest is back. Scott Detrow speaks with Joli McCathran of the Big Tree Program.
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Oct 06, 2025
Larry Ellison has a lower profile than other tech billionaires, but his influence over media is about to be immense. His family's empire could soon own CBS, Paramount, CNN and TikTok.
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Oct 06, 2025
A U.S. delegation is in Egypt to push President Trump's peace plan. Israeli and Hamas officials are there.
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Oct 06, 2025
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with actor and musician Fred Armisen about the reason and production behind his new sound effect album, 100 Sound Effects.
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Oct 06, 2025
On Sunday a federal judge blocked the Trump Administration from deploying national guard troops to Oregon. Oregon's governor, Tina Kotek speaks to NPR's Juana Summers about the next steps.
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Oct 06, 2025
The decades-old radical troupe Bread and Puppet, famed for its protest art including giant puppets, is touring again — mixing circus, politics and bread in a sharply polarized moment.
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Oct 05, 2025
The Pentagon seeks to deploy the National Guard to more cities to quell what the president sees as lawlessness and riots.
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Oct 05, 2025
President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will be part of the talks after Hamas and Israel agreed to move forward with the first stage of the U.S. plan.
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Oct 05, 2025
NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with UNICEF spokesperson James Elder in Gaza about what a potential peace deal could mean for humanitarian needs on the ground.
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Oct 05, 2025
Pope Leo XIV convened a conference dedicated to deepening the environmental advocacy of the Catholic Church, with a little help from Arnold Schwarzenegger. Claire Giangravé with Religion News Service reports from Italy
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Oct 05, 2025
NPR's Bob Mondello and Marc Rivers join host Andrew Limbong to talk about Paul Thomas Anderson's new film and other films that reflect the politics and tensions of our time.
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Oct 05, 2025
Dr. Tsion Firew, an emergency physician in Kigali, recalls the terrifying early days of Rwanda's Marburg outbreak and how she helped launch a response that changed its course.
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Oct 05, 2025
Welsh artist Cate Le Bon has been reluctant to write about love in the past but embraces the heartache and challenges of breakup on her new album Michelangelo Dying.
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Oct 04, 2025
Federal workers across the United States are feeling the impact of the government shutdown. This comes after months of turmoil for federal workers as agencies have slashed their workforces as part of the Trump administration's large-scale government job cuts.
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Oct 04, 2025
Israelis and Palestinians share cautious reactions to President Trump's plan to end the war, as talks move forward and airstrikes continue.
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Oct 04, 2025
The president's bold statement surprised allies and raised new questions about whether U.S. policy toward the war is changing.
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Oct 04, 2025
J.J. Johnson, creator of the television series Jane, reflects on working with Jane Goodall and inspiring young viewers to care for the planet.
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Oct 04, 2025
J.J. Johnson, creator of the television series Jane, reflects on working with Jane Goodall and inspiring young viewers to care for the planet.
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Oct 04, 2025
Saudi Arabia is working to reshape its global cultural image, but controversies over several acts in its comedy festival tied to the country's human rights record are underscoring the tension between the government's Vision 2030 ambitions and how the kingdom is perceived abroad.
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Oct 04, 2025
Thousands of travelers arrive at Muir Woods to find locked gates and few answers as the shutdown ripples through America's national parks.
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Oct 04, 2025
For more than 150 years, Lisdoonvarna's festival has helped people find connection the old-fashioned way.
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Oct 04, 2025
Mando Rayo reports on taco culture across Texas. In his podcast with member station KUT, he tells the stories of the people behind the food and how tacos reflect history, identity, and political divides.
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Oct 03, 2025
Peace in eastern Congo remains elusive, despite a U.S.-brokered deal that President Trump calls historic.
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Oct 03, 2025
An economist explains the impact the H-1B visa program has had on the U.S. economy and native-born workers. And what the new hundred thousand dollar fee could mean for the future of the program.
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Oct 03, 2025
Protests calling for an end to Israel's offensive against Hamas brought hundreds thousands of people onto the streets in Italy, according to the labor union which helped organize them.
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Oct 03, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron struggles to govern as France faces protests, political deadlock, and a rising far right.
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Oct 03, 2025
Combs had been convicted in July on two counts of transportation for prostitution. During his sentencing hearing he spoke at length for the first time in the trial, addressing the judge at length.
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Oct 03, 2025
Some federal workers closely following President Trump's threats of mass layoffs and funding cuts in the shutdown say it's nothing new. He's been doing those same things since January.
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Oct 03, 2025
Hosts of NPR's science podcast discuss new findings about long-distance fly migration, an unexpected impact of emissions in the Amazon, and fish noises.
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Oct 03, 2025
For the first time, the Church of England has named a woman as its top leader. Sarah Mullally is the new Archbishop of Canterbury, leading 85 million Anglicans around the world.
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Oct 03, 2025
The Palestinian militant group said it would release all the hostages after President Trump set a deadline of Sunday evening to sign up to his plan
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Oct 03, 2025
The Palestinian militant group said it would release all the hostages after President Trump set a deadline of Sunday evening to sign up to his plan
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Oct 03, 2025
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with actor Daniel Day-Lewis and director Ronan Day-Lewis — father and son — about their new movie, Anemone.
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Oct 03, 2025
As daylight diminishes people can feel their mood dimming. Experts say starting light therapy in the fall can help fend off winter depression.
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Oct 03, 2025
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with David Butler, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who started a fundraiser for the family of the man who killed church members in Michigan.
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Oct 03, 2025
The pop singer's 12th album focuses on her love life and grievances beyond the spotlight.
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Oct 03, 2025
The government has been shutdown for three days. What could come next?
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Oct 03, 2025
Many in Memphis acknowledge that crime in the city is a real problem. And while President Trump's federal intervention might not be their ideal way to handle it, they're hoping it can provide some much-needed relief.
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Oct 03, 2025
With the launch of Sora 2, OpenAI has opened a new chapter in addictive, and some worry dangerous, AI video content.
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Oct 02, 2025
On the eve of the WNBA Finals, the league is embroiled in drama after star Napheesa Collier, backed by coaches and players, criticized league officials over issues like player pay and poor refereeing.
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Oct 02, 2025
Voters in critical swing areas of Georgia are preparing to weather the consequences of a federal shutdown and question which party is responsible.
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Oct 02, 2025
On Wednesday, Italian art police in Parma seized 21 artworks purportedly by Salvador Dalí on suspicion they were forgeries. Host Ailsa Chang speaks with art fraud investigator and expert Colette Loll.
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Oct 02, 2025
The Bruce Springsteen Archives at Monmouth University in New Jersey just wrapped up a six-day symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the album that vaulted him to stardom.
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Oct 02, 2025
People get a lot wrong when it comes to paying for vacation, travel experts say, and that can cost serious cash. Here's how to plan a trip that's safe, adventurous and under budget.
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Oct 02, 2025
A car-ramming and knife attack has killed two people at a synagogue in northern England. Police are calling it terrorism, amid a spike in antisemitism, days before the Oct. 7th anniversary.
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Oct 02, 2025
Unexpecting tourists arrived to Philadelphia to find entrances closed. Behind the scenes, park employees fear that layoff threats mean they might not have jobs to go back to when the shutdown ends.
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Oct 02, 2025
Crowd scenes have been challenging to create in a seamless fashion using AI, as the recent controversy over a Will Smith concert video shows. But the technology is improving fast, and there are serious implications for how these "fake" crowds might be coopted by entertainers, politicians and others at a time when success is often equated with popularity.
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