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Jan 16, 2026
New York City's nurses strike could go on for weeks. Nurses are seeking better pay and protection from violence on the job, among other things. The hospital systems say the price is too high.
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Jan 16, 2026
Minneapolis residents are resisting as federal immigration agents surge into their city, creating what some locals describe as an atmosphere of fear and siege on the streets.
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Jan 16, 2026
The Trump administration is looking to expand efforts to strip naturalized Americans of their citizenship. An immigration attorney weighs in.
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Jan 16, 2026
A section of an iconic California highway has reopened after three years. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Rhea Withrow, who lives in a town that was isolated during the closure
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Jan 16, 2026
Social media users, in 2026, are reliving 2016 nostalgia online. We answer the questions swirling around why and what this means.
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Jan 16, 2026
The experimental composer Morton Feldman would have turned 100 years old this week. To celebrate, more than a dozen pianists played two marathon, six-hour-long concerts of his work in Los Angeles.
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Jan 16, 2026
On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Comedian Tig Notaro talks about admiring the way her friend handled death.
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Jan 16, 2026
Are we in an AI bubble? Economists share the warning signs they watch for before the bubble bursts.
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Jan 16, 2026
Immigration is shaping up as a key issue in the race for Minnesota's open U.S. Senate seat, with Democratic candidates trying to navigate how they respond to a surge in federal agents in their state.
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Jan 16, 2026
This winter, California is seeing the largest outbreak of mushroom poisonings in at least the past three decades. In a typical year, there are five; this year, there have been 35.
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Jan 15, 2026
Palestinians say they're suffering as they wait for progress in next phase of U.S.-backed ceasefire.
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Jan 15, 2026
A recent change puts some long-recommended childhood vaccines in a new category called "shared clinical decision-making." The ramifications of this seemingly wonky change could be far-reaching.
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Jan 15, 2026
Less than a day after the Trump administration slashed funding for addiction and mental health programs nationwide, the money was restored. Here's how this whiplash played out in Alabama.
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Jan 15, 2026
Uganda votes amid an internet blackout and heavy military deployment as President Yoweri Museveni seeks a seventh term, extending his four-decade grip on power
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Jan 15, 2026
A 17-year-old in California who got curious about the impact of AI on typical teen jobs. She embarked on an ambitious economic research project and shared her findings with us.
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Jan 15, 2026
As unrest continues in Minnesota, President Trump is threatening to cut money for sanctuary cities. That's a broad term that covers a battle between cities, states and the federal government.
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Jan 15, 2026
The Justice Department is investigating Congress members after they were in a video telling members of the military they can reject illegal orders. Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., is one of them.
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Jan 15, 2026
The Trump administration is pausing immigrant visa processing for nationals of 75 countries. Julia Gelatt of the Migration Policy Institute breaks down what the changes to immigration policy means.
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Jan 15, 2026
The Justice Department is once again at the center of the news, with investigations of federal lawmakers, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, and resignations by career prosecutors in Minnesota.
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Jan 15, 2026
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Tudor historian Owen Emmerson about his theory that the face in a famous portrait of Anne Boleyn is actually that of her daughter, Elizabeth I.
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Jan 15, 2026
Problems with the plumbing system on board America's newest aircraft carrier are getting worse. Issues with the toilets on the USS Ford continue even as it continues its deployment to the Caribbean.
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Jan 15, 2026
Overall enrollment is up slightly at colleges and universities, driven by gains at community colleges and public four-year programs.
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Jan 15, 2026
Federal prosecutors have charged more than two dozen people in an alleged point shaving scheme in college basketball. Prosecutors say that conspirators bribed players to change the outcomes of games.
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Jan 15, 2026
Tensions remain high in Minneapolis. President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell ongoing protests there against federal officers carrying out his immigration crackdown.
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Jan 14, 2026
Sweeping cuts to mental health and addiction programs worth more than $2 billion are being reversed. After a political backlash from Republicans and Democrats, the grant money will be restored.
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Jan 14, 2026
The four members of NASA's Crew-11 mission are heading home from the International Space Station. Their journey is ending a month early due to an astronaut with a "serious medical condition."
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Jan 14, 2026
There's renewed focus on the oil industry since the U.S. seized Venezuela's president. The benefits for Texas, which has many oil companies and the most refining capacity in the U.S., could be mixed.
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Jan 14, 2026
The Trump administration has cut nearly 2 billion dollars in funding for programs that serve people with mental illness and substance abuse issues. Providers say the cuts are devastating.
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Jan 14, 2026
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with law professor David Cole of Georgetown University about the accountability of federal officers, after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Macklin Good in Minnesota.
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Jan 14, 2026
President Trump is dismantling the global system the U.S. built in the 20th century. Foreign policy experts say he wants a world that looks more like the 19th century.
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Jan 14, 2026
Lifting weights isn't the only way to build strength and muscle. Experts say bodyweight exercises can go a long way and are a great way to get started if you don't feel like going to the gym.
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Jan 14, 2026
In 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin, a student from a Black high school in Montgomery, Ala., refused to move from her bus seat. The forgotten civil rights activist died this week.
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Jan 14, 2026
NPR price-checks 114 items at a Walmart in Georgia to see how costs have changed in a year.
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Jan 14, 2026
People from Florida to Washington want a piece of Frank the Liberty Tree, a huge oak between 250 and 300 years old that was struck by lightning years ago and now must come down.
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Jan 14, 2026
Immigration agents are threatening protesters with arrest while protesters are making noise and trying to prevent immigration arrests. The legality of the actions of both sides appears to be in flux.
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Jan 14, 2026
Brandon Jay and his wife, Gwendolyn Sanford, created Altadena Musicians to help those who may have lost their beloved musical instruments in last year's LA wildfires.
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Jan 14, 2026
The FBI searched the home of a Washington Post journalist who the DOJ says was receiving classified information from a Pentagon contractor.
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Jan 14, 2026
Every January, pharmaceutical companies increase the prices of hundreds of drugs. This year there's a disconnect between the deals with the Trump administration on some drug prices versus others.
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Jan 14, 2026
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Jason Rezaian, who was imprisoned in Iran when he was the Tehran correspondent for The Washington Post, about the country's current wave of protest.
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Jan 14, 2026
Iranians are using Starlink to get online during the government's near-total internet shutdown.
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Jan 14, 2026
Artist Antonio Alcala gets the stamp of approval for his new USPS postage stamp.
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Jan 14, 2026
Georgetown University is moving Let Freedom Ring, its annual event celebrating the life of Martin Luther King Jr., to the historical Howard Theatre in order to save money, the university said.
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Jan 13, 2026
Leaders from Denmark and Greenland will meet with top U.S. officials in Washington on Wednesday to try to find a way out of a crisis caused by President Trump repeated demands to annex Greenland.
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Jan 13, 2026
Federal prosecutors in Minnesota have resigned after the DOJ pushed for an investigation into the widow of Renee Good, after Good was fatally shot last week by an ICE agent.
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Jan 13, 2026
President Trump calls on Iranians to keep protesting, but the regime is cracking down hard and the death toll is rising.
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Jan 13, 2026
NPR Music's search for the next great undiscovered artist to play a Tiny Desk concert kicks off today. Host and series producer Bobby Carter shares what the judges are looking for in entries.
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Jan 13, 2026
President Trump has been trying to bully the Federal Reserve into cutting interest rates. It's a gambit that could lead to more inflation.
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Jan 13, 2026
New eateries are popping up in Gaza after months of famine, but it's pricey and many people still rely on aid to survive.
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Jan 13, 2026
Every year, the MIT Technology Review publishes a list of 10 breakthroughs poised to take off in the coming year. Amy Nordrum, executive editor of operations there, talks through this year's entries.
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Jan 13, 2026
As immigration enforcement actions have ramped up in Minnesota, people of faith have been at the forefront of the response to ICE detentions and the killing of Renee Macklin Good by a federal agent.
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Jan 13, 2026
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Science correspondent Richard Stone about recent developments in the search for Leonardo da Vinci's DNA.
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Jan 13, 2026
Wyoming lawmakers are in the front of a national trend of cutting or eliminating property taxes. But they face a challenge from activists seeking to save money for police, firefighters and libraries.
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Jan 13, 2026
Ten years after China ended its one-child policy, fertility rates have not bounced back. NPR speaks with journalist Cindy Yu about what this means.
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Jan 13, 2026
NPR's Juana Summers talks to author Rosie Storey about an exploration of love, loss, and lies in the new novel Dandelion is Dead.
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Jan 13, 2026
Inflation didn't get worse in December. But it didn't get better. Prices were up 2.7% a year ago. A drop in gasoline prices was more than offset by rising grocery and electricity bills.
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Jan 13, 2026
A new study analyzed the sleep patterns of jellyfish and sea anemones and found they share some sleep traits with humans. The research could provide insight into the origins and function of sleep.
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Jan 13, 2026
NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks to former National Security Adviser John Bolton about the protests in Iran.
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Jan 12, 2026
A black bear made a home for itself underneath a Los Angeles man's home weeks ago. He called in expert bear-evictors to solve the problem.
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Jan 12, 2026
Nearly 15,000 New York City nurses are on strike demanding things like higher wages and more security in hospitals. The head of the of the New York State Nurses Association talks about the next steps.
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Jan 12, 2026
A snapshot of ICE actions around Minneapolis Monday, and the various ways the community is responding.
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Jan 12, 2026
The fallout from the US attack on Venezuela and the focus on oil interests have largely eclipsed urgent concerns about the country's entrenched human rights abuses and democratic erosion.
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Jan 12, 2026
When he was 6 years old, Thomas Sinclair wandered away from his family's campsite on Lake Superior and got lost. At dawn he heard a voice that has shaped his life ever since.
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Jan 12, 2026
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell usually tries to avoid getting dragged into a fight with the Trump administration. But now that the DOJ has launched a probe of the central bank, he's on offense.
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Jan 12, 2026
Iran's government is cracking down hard on massive street protests. The number of demonstrators killed is believed to be soaring. Meanwhile, President Trump keeps suggesting the U.S. may get involved.
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Jan 12, 2026
President Trump doubles down on Iran threats as protests become deadlier, but also offers talks.
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Jan 12, 2026
Poet Amanda Gorman wrote a poem for Renee Good, who was killed by an ICE officer this week. Gorman reads her poem and speaks on its meaning.
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Jan 12, 2026
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and Giffords Executive Director Emma Brown about their efforts to stop gun violence.
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Jan 12, 2026
President Trump is ushering in yet another iteration of GOP foreign policy with his latest moves.
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Jan 11, 2026
Bob Weir, who helped build the Grateful Dead from the Haight-Ashbury scene into a cultural institution, has died at 78.
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Jan 11, 2026
As Iran's protests enter a third week, the country's president blames foreign powers for the unrest, and warns it will retaliate if the US intervenes militarily.
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Jan 11, 2026
NPR's Life Kit has tips on how to build your village.
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Jan 11, 2026
Three months after Trump's Gaza plan, Palestinians say the war is still not over and no international force has arrived.
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Jan 11, 2026
The Supreme Court hears two cases this week on state bans for trans athletes playing on women's and girls' sports teams. Kate Sosin, who covers LGBTQ issues for the non-profit newsroom The 19th, has been following these cases closely.
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Jan 11, 2026
NPR's Linda Holmes and Sarah Handel discuss why they are hooked on documentaries and some of the best ones you may not yet have seen.
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Jan 11, 2026
Stephen Miller is largely credited with channeling President Trump's desires and making his vision for the United States real. Ashley Parker, a staff writer for The Atlantic, explains Miller's power within the administration.
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Jan 11, 2026
Andrew Bracken, a journalist at KPBS, on how how his experiences as a parent with technology led to a new podcast.
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Jan 11, 2026
Initial joy among Venezuela's diaspora in Chile has given way to caution, as questions grow over what Maduro's capture means for the country — and for those who fled it.
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Jan 10, 2026
Europe is increasingly alarmed by Trump's talk of annexing Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory in the EU and NATO, especially after the U.S. incursion in Venezuela last weekend.
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Jan 10, 2026
Martin Makary, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, on the push against ultra processed foods and added sugar, and what that could mean for school lunches and food labels, and says the administration's hierarchy of vaccines is meant to encourage childhood vaccine uptake.
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Jan 10, 2026
Eyder Peralta, NPR international correspondent, on racing to the Venezuela border after the U.S. captured Nicolás Maduro, and the obstacles keeping journalists from getting into the country.
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Jan 10, 2026
250 years after Thomas Paine published 'Common Sense', what can we learn from the revolutionary work today?
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Jan 10, 2026
Orlando Higginbottom, the electronic music artist who performs as TEED, on the sounds and influences behind his new album, 'Always With Me'.
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Jan 10, 2026
In 1955, Ruth Ellis was hanged for killing her abusive partner. Her case became one of the catalysts for abolishing the death penalty in the UK, and 70 years later her family is seeking a posthumous pardon.
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Jan 10, 2026
After the death of legendary DJ Art Laboe, his beloved oldies radio show has found a new host in Angel "Baby" Rodriguez, who's continuing Laboe's tradition of love dedications and connections across California.
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Jan 09, 2026
NPR's Short Wave talks about elephants' sniffing abilities, the remarkable migration of painted lady butterflies and a surprising discovery about the early universe.
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Jan 09, 2026
Gus Van Sant's police thriller Dead Man's Wire is a true-crime dramatization of a 1977 hostage incident in Indianapolis.
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Jan 09, 2026
After deadly floods hit Central Texas in July, families whose daughters died at a sleepaway camp are keeping their legacies alive. We speak to two parents who helped create the Heaven's 27 Foundation.
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Jan 09, 2026
Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is expected to argue that his leadership role shields him from prosecution in the U.S.
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Jan 09, 2026
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Jamie Israel, a therapist and one of more than 20 million people seeing drastically increased health insurance costs after the non-renewal of federal ACA subsidies.
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Jan 09, 2026
The NFL playoffs get underway this weekend. For the first time in a long time, there is no heavyweight favorite expected to win it all. The wide open field is sure to provide plenty of excitement.
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Jan 09, 2026
A new NPR/Ipsos poll released Friday finds Americans still want the U.S. to be a moral leader in the world — but far fewer think it actually is.
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Jan 09, 2026
Hunger in the U.S. doesn't look like third-world famine. But the physical impacts on health -- and the psychological scars -- can last a lifetime.
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Jan 09, 2026
Venezuelan journalist and author Paula Ramon in Caracas offers a reading list for anyone wishing to gain a better understanding of Venezuela at this moment.
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Jan 09, 2026
We get an overview of the two newsworthy shootings that happened involving an ICE agent in Minneapolis and a border patrol officer Portland this week.
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Jan 09, 2026
NPR's Juana Summers speaks to Naaja Nathanielsen, a government minister in Greenland, about President Trump's latest threats to buy or acquire the territory, and how Greenlanders are responding.
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Jan 09, 2026
On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't ask. Heavyweight podcast host Jonathan Goldstein tackles the question of whether people can really change.
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Jan 09, 2026
Snow and cold weather in Europe stranded thousands of air travelers from around the world.
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Jan 09, 2026
Singer-songwriter Mon Rovîa's debut album, "Bloodline," chronicles his life from Liberia to Tennessee. His unique sound has been described as "Afro-Appalachian."
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Jan 09, 2026
Six months ago catastrophic floods ravaged the Texas's Hill Country, leaving more than 130 people dead and billions of dollars in damages. Since, families of some of the victims are suing vacation camps and state legislation passed disaster prevention laws. We provide an update on where things stand.
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