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Apr 22, 2024
This is the story of the encounter between a leading Mexican presidential candidate and masked gunmen at a roadblock. What does this encounter say about the state of security in Mexico?
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Apr 22, 2024
This is the story of the encounter between a leading Mexican presidential candidate and masked gunmen at a roadblock. What does this encounter say about the state of security in Mexico?
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Apr 22, 2024
Pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University said today they would not take down their tent encampment.
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Apr 22, 2024
Officials with the World Anti-Doping Agency are scrambling to contain an Olympic doping scandal involving Chinese swimmers. Critics say the organization's credibility is in question.
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Apr 22, 2024
The U.S. is increasingly concerned about the impact of Chinese overcapacity on manufacturing and the impact that will have on American businesses and workers.
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Apr 22, 2024
Legendary Yankees radio announcer John Sterling is retiring. He was honored at a game over the weekend.
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Apr 22, 2024
Tennessee Volkswagen workers voted yes to join the UAW union. It was a historic moment could be the turning point for more unionization in the South.
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Apr 22, 2024
A historical marker on Maryland's Eastern Shore contains errors about the story of Harriet Tubman, who grew up nearby. Some locals want to fix it, but others think it's fine how it is.
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Apr 22, 2024
Another huge patch of seaweed from the Sargasso Sea is floating towards Caribbean and South Florida beaches. Scientists are trying to predict where and when it will reach the shore.
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Apr 22, 2024
More than 180,000 historical markers dot the U.S. in a fractured and confused telling of America — where offensive lies live with impunity, history is distorted and errors are both strange and funny.
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Apr 22, 2024
With a win at the Chevron Championship this weekend, Nelly Korda joined a small list of professional golfers who have won five straight LPGA Tour events.
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Apr 22, 2024
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Dan Horwitz, former prosecutor of white collar crimes in the Manhattan DA's office, about the unprecedented hush money case against Donald Trump.
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Apr 22, 2024
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Rabbi Yuda Drizin, director of Chabad at Columbia University, about the wave of protests on campus over Israel's war in Gaza.
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Apr 22, 2024
The Utah high school where Footloose was filmed invited Kevin Bacon to visit for their prom on the 40th anniversary of the film's release.
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Apr 22, 2024
Former President Donald Trump's hush money trial began today in New York. Outside the courtroom, Trump complained about the proceedings.
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Apr 22, 2024
On Monday, Israel saw the first high-level resignation stemming from the deadly Oct. 7 attack by Hamas. The head of military intelligence announced he would step down.
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Apr 22, 2024
The new Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama, is designed to get visitors closer to the experiences of enslaved people in America.
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Apr 22, 2024
Lower courts ruled it's "cruel and unusual" to fine or jail people on public land if no shelter is available. An Oregon city says that's hamstrung efforts to keep public spaces safe and open to all.
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Apr 22, 2024
The economy is a top voting issue for many Americans. Four "American Indicators," people reflecting different sectors of the economy in different parts of the country, talk about their politics.
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Apr 21, 2024
Montgomery, Ala., has a new monument park where visitors are confronted with the history of enslaved people in America.
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Apr 21, 2024
NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with author Alicia D. Williams about her latest book, Mid-Air. Written in verse, it's the story of a 13-year-old boy coming to terms with the loss of his best friend.
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Apr 21, 2024
Most corners of the country harbor old or erroneous markers of some kind. An NPR investigation examines the proliferation of Confederate markers and a century-long effort to recast the Civil War.
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Apr 21, 2024
NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with Suzanne Maloney of the Brookings Institution about relations between Iran and Israel.
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Apr 21, 2024
Do you know how to swim well enough to save your life? NPR's Life Kit lays out the five basic water safety and swimming skills that can help prevent drowning.
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Apr 21, 2024
The U.S. lags behind when it comes to high-speed rail, but a visit from Japan's prime minister has reignited interest in Texas. NPR's Andrew Limbong talks to Amber Gaudet of the Dallas Morning News.
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Apr 20, 2024
NPR's Andrew Limbong talks to Irish writer Caoilinn Hughes, whose new novel explores the bonds of sisterhood and the ways those bonds can be tested.
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Apr 20, 2024
NPR's Andrew Limbong talks to Amy Cooter of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies about how realistic an idea of a second civil war is.
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Apr 20, 2024
The climate crisis is undeniable and overwhelming. People have lots of questions about how they can help the planet in their daily lives. The Anti-Dread Climate Podcast, from KCRW, has the answers.
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Apr 20, 2024
A look at some of the news and controversies surrounding several uses of generative AI in the movie industry this week, including a trailer for a nonexistent James Bond film starring Margot Robbie.
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Apr 20, 2024
After months of GOP-led delays, the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
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Apr 20, 2024
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal discusses on NPR's All Things Considered how further U.S. aid would make a difference on the front lines, and the state of the war in general.
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Apr 19, 2024
China's feared state security ministry has been more public and more powerful in its quest to suppress internal dissent and monitor foreign activity.
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Apr 19, 2024
Under the glare of the lights in New York's Time Square, a Nigerian chess master makes his bid to break the world record for the longest continuous chess game to raise money for children back home.
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Apr 19, 2024
Joan Nathan has spent her life exploring Jewish culture through recipes. Now in her 80s, her new book is her most personal work yet — excavating her own culinary history.
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Apr 19, 2024
Juleus Ghunta is a published children's author and award-winning poet. But growing up in rural Jamaica, he could barely read. When he was about 12, a young teacher-in-training arrived at his school.
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Apr 19, 2024
As Trump's high-profile hush money case moves forward, the court is also grappling with an issue that has become a regular and concerning feature of Trump's many trials — how to keep jurors safe.
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Apr 19, 2024
A economic research study shows that oncologists' prescribing habits change after they've been visited by pharmaceutical sales reps — and it also shows the changes do not extend patients' lives.
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Apr 19, 2024
Nearly a billion people start going to the polls in India Friday, as the worlds largest democracy starts its mammoth election.
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Apr 19, 2024
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Congressman Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., about the foreign aid package that the House is finally considering after massive efforts from Speaker Mike Johnson.
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Apr 19, 2024
In the middle of a worldwide tour that has grossed more than one billion dollars, Taylor Swift has released her 11th album. It's called The Tortured Poets Department.
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Apr 19, 2024
Taylor Swift's new album "The Tortured Poets Department" is out today. But there's more to Swift than just her music. NPR's All Things Considered examines her cultural impact.
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Apr 19, 2024
Marines are famously meticulous about their uniforms. But for more than a year, they haven't always been able to wear the ones they're supposed to.
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Apr 19, 2024
Arch-foes Israel and Iran are firing missiles at each other. But the unprecedented attacks on each other's territory appear — for now — not to have sparked an all-out war.
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Apr 19, 2024
After getting pushed out of late night by cancellation of his TBS show, O'Brien has been freed to fully entertain people exactly how he wants. His new special for Max, Conan O'Brien Must Go, is out.
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Apr 19, 2024
The modern study of the starvation was sparked by the liberation of concentration camp survivors. U.S. and British soldiers rushed to feed them — and yet they sometimes perished.
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Apr 19, 2024
Stereophonic, a new play on Broadway with music by Arcade Fire's Will Butler, tracks the volatile creation of a rock and roll album over the course of a year in the 1970s.
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Apr 18, 2024
H-Pop refers to the music and poetry of Hindu nationalism in India. And critics are warning of what they say is H-Pop's destructive power ahead of Indian elections expected this spring.
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Apr 18, 2024
A baseball player who was part of the Atlanta Braves in 1980 is one day short of qualifying for MLB retirement. Now, there's a petition to get him on the roster for that last day.
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Apr 18, 2024
Shares of the company behind Truth Social — under stock ticker DJT — have had quite a volatile ride since their debut last month. Here's a look at what's been going on.
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Apr 18, 2024
Employees staged sit-ins at Google's offices this week demanding the company stop selling its technology to the Israeli government. Google then fired more than two dozen of these workers.
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Apr 18, 2024
A gently poetic coming-of-age story, We Grown Now chronicles an adolescent friendship in Chicago's Cabrini Green housing project in the early 1990s.
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Apr 18, 2024
Military justice is undergoing its biggest overhaul in a generation, as the services grapple with sexual assault. Victims say they have a long way to go.
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Apr 18, 2024
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Emily Kwong and Rachel Carlson of Short Wave about newly unearthed Pompeiian frescoes, how dark energy may be changing, and the largest known marine reptile.
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Apr 18, 2024
The U.S. administration has reinstated sanctions on Venezuela's oil and gas sector, accusing President Nicolás Maduro of failing to commit to free and fair elections.
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Apr 18, 2024
Thirty years ago, two copper gilded Bhairav masks were stolen from a temple in Nepal. The mask's owners thought they were gone for good - but they ended up in two American museums.
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Apr 18, 2024
In his new memoir, Salman Rushdie writes about the young man who leapt from the audience and stabbed and almost killed him in August of 2022. He also describes his love for his wife, Eliza.
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Apr 18, 2024
Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal tells NPR that it's crucial for Congress to pass a $60 billion aid package to successfully defend itself against Russia.
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Apr 18, 2024
Opposition to abortion helped Donald Trump win the presidential election in 2016. Now that the same position could be a political liability, will Trump's position evolve again?
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Apr 18, 2024
Recovery teams are exhuming bodies from mass graves at Gaza's Al Shifa hospital more than two weeks after an Israeli raid there.
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Apr 18, 2024
As local elected officials continue to face pressure to pass resolutions calling for an end to the fighting in Gaza, some aren't sure how or whether to take a stand at all.
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Apr 17, 2024
The Senate has rejected both articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, swiftly ending the trial triggered by the House's narrow vote to impeach in February.
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Apr 17, 2024
The only non-binary member of Oklahoma's legislature looks at a year since they were censured by their colleagues - and the aftermath of the death of an Oklahoma student amid bullying by classmates.
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Apr 17, 2024
Last week President Biden traveled to Madison, Wisconsin to announce new student loan relief for some borrowers. But some Madison students may still may need more motivation to support him.
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Apr 17, 2024
All Things Considered co-host Mary Louise Kelly talks with South Carolina Gamecocks' coach Dawn Staley about the state of women's basketball and her growing legacy as the new "standard" for coaching.
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Apr 17, 2024
An international team found a creative solution to help keep Ukraine's lights on amidst Russian attacks. That same solution could help everyone from the military to commercial pilots.
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Apr 17, 2024
Providers at a Phoenix reproductive health clinic worry about they and their patients' futures after Arizona's supreme court ruled that an 1864 law banning nearly all abortions now stands.
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Apr 17, 2024
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Salman Rushdie about his new book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.
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Apr 17, 2024
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with reporter Rob Schmitz about Israel's response to Iran's unprecedented attack last weekend.
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Apr 17, 2024
The president of Columbia University is set to testify about how she responded to antisemitic incidents on her campus.
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Apr 17, 2024
Sea urchins have been dying in the Caribbean from a parasite that is now also killing them in the sea of Oman.
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Apr 17, 2024
Newly discovered damage to part of the dam holding back America's second-largest reservoir has people who rely on the Colorado River worried about their ability to get the water they need.
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Apr 16, 2024
Senators quizzed IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel about the just-finished tax-filing season and what's ahead for the government's tax collector.
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Apr 16, 2024
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Jemele Hill, contributing writer for The Atlantic, about the 36 new players who were drafted into the WNBA and the future of the sport.
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Apr 16, 2024
Volunteers are restoring the Manzanar War Reloctation Center's baseball field. In the fall, Japanese-American baseball players play where many of their families were held during World War II.
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Apr 16, 2024
Arizona's ban on abortions has affected political races. Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Kari Lake is figuring out how to balance her opposition to abortion rights without embracing a near-total ban.
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Apr 16, 2024
More than 10 thousand older adults turn 65 every day. There's growing efforts to make sure they stay in their homes and out of hospitals and nursing homes as they age.
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Apr 16, 2024
Electronic warfare connected to the conflict in Gaza is interfering with the global positioning system in a large part of the region.
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Apr 16, 2024
A church rents apartments for asylum seekers, who pay the church back after an initial buffer period.
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Apr 16, 2024
The newest version of the popular board game Catan will make players wrestle with a society-wide problem: How do you build, develop and expand without overly polluting the world?
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Apr 16, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided, with conservatives expressing various degrees of skepticism about the statute used to prosecute more than 350 of the Jan. 6th rioters who invaded the capitol.
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Apr 16, 2024
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to journalist David Sanger about his new book, New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, And America's Struggle To Defend The West.
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Apr 16, 2024
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with actor Hoa Xuande about the new HBO show 'The Sympathizer' — a rare piece of Hollywood entertainment that tells the story of the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese perspective.
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Apr 16, 2024
Nafij Ahmed and Josh Bard ran the Boston Marathon on Monday. Nafij is visually impaired and Josh was his guide for the run. We ran a story about the lead up to the run. This is what happened since.
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Apr 16, 2024
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Karim Sadjadpour, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about what this escalation tells us about Iran's strategy.
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Apr 16, 2024
Demolition is underway on the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore. Crews are using fire to weaken the massive structure so it can be removed as quickly as possible.
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Apr 16, 2024
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Adam Moss, author of The Work of Art: How Something Comes From Nothing.
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Apr 16, 2024
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Adam Moss, author of The Work of Art: How Something Comes From Nothing.
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Apr 16, 2024
Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie said he would vote to oust Mike Johnson as House speaker if it came to the floor. He told Johnson in a closed-door meeting that he should resign.
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Apr 16, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson announced a path forward on aid to Ukraine and Israel after months of delay because of GOP divisions. Iran's attack on Israel increased pressure on Congress to act.
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Apr 16, 2024
Every year, the Library of Congress names 25 "audio treasures" to be preserved permanently. This year's selections range from ABBA and Green Day to World War I-era jazz pioneer James Reese Europe.
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Apr 15, 2024
A survivor of the then-unprecedented school shooting in Colorado struggled for years to understand her own response to trauma and now helps others learn to feel safe.
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Apr 15, 2024
We visit an orchard where researchers are breeding Chestnut trees they hope will one day fight off a fungus that's been killing the iconic American tree for more than a century.
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Apr 15, 2024
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Omar Encarnacion about former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro being banned from running for office for eight years due to efforts to overturn Brazil's 2022 election.
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Apr 15, 2024
How quickly are EV chargers getting built? That's a critical question as the auto industry tries to pull off a switch toward battery-powered cars.
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Apr 15, 2024
While Israel and the U.S. trumpet their success at shooting down Iran's drone and missile barrage, neighboring Jordan has been coy about the role it played in downing projectiles.
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Apr 15, 2024
A year of war has had a devastating impact on Sudan. The country is suffering the worlds largest displacement crisis and in the grips of a humanitarian disaster, with no sign of a resolution in sight.
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Apr 15, 2024
Jury selection began Monday in the criminal trial against former President Donald Trump for hush money payments made ahead of the 2016 election.
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Apr 15, 2024
Alvin Bragg is the first person to bring criminal charges against a former president and the first African American elected Manhattan District Attorney. Bragg faces challenges beyond any one big case.
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Apr 15, 2024
The Welsh soccer club famously owned by North American actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have earned another promotion. Next year Wrexham AFC will play in the third division of English football.
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Apr 15, 2024
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Rodney Carmichael from NPR Music about the legacy of Rico Wade, a foundational producer of Atlanta Hip-Hop.
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