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Oct 21, 2024
Vice President Harris has spent the past two Sundays in Black churches, a time-honored election season tradition for Democrats.
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Oct 21, 2024
Sydney Devore-Bowman and Andy Bowman met at a race two years ago. She encouraged him to try the Detroit half-marathon, and now they're married and have both won the full marathon.
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Oct 21, 2024
Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson was hours away from his execution last week when a judge halted the attempt. Roberson is set to testify before a state legislative committee on Monday.
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Oct 21, 2024
Thousands of migrant workers - many of them African - have been left stranded in Lebanon - unable to afford the trip home, or worse, abandoned by their employers with no permission to leave.
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Oct 21, 2024
In one Paris bar, predicting the outcome of the U.S. presidential election is a long tradition. For over a century, a straw poll taken there has been pretty accurate at predicting the winner.
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Oct 21, 2024
Indian officials were in the U.S. earlier in October for talks about an alleged plot to target an American activist. He talks about how having a target on his back has changed his life.
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Oct 21, 2024
Millions of Americans have already voted, and the presidential candidates are ramping up travel even more this week. We get up to date on the state of the race and the week ahead.
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Oct 21, 2024
Donald Trump often focuses on Venezuelans when he warns about criminal immigrants coming to the U.S. It's a narrative that has surprisingly taken root even in some Venezuelan-American communities, and it offers a window into one reason support for mass deportations seems to be rising among some Latinos.
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Oct 21, 2024
Medicaid can now pay for medical and mental health care delivered on the sidewalk. This will transform how care for unhoused people can be given in the states that take advantage of the policy change.
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Oct 21, 2024
Tribal communities often face obstacles to casting a ballot, including a lack of polling locations and unreliable mail service. In Nevada, Native voters can now cast a ballot online.
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Oct 21, 2024
The Biden Administration has proposed a rule to require private health insurance to cover over-the-counter birth control pills, spermicide, condoms and plan B.
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Oct 21, 2024
Israeli forces killed the Hamas leader in Gaza last week and they've been pressing their offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon too. Israel is also poised to strike Iran.
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Oct 21, 2024
A new Biden administration rule meant to raise the wages of teachers in the federal Head Start preschool program could force local programs to scale back if Congress doesn't agree to increase funding.
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Oct 21, 2024
With 16 electoral votes at stake and the presidential race decided by thin margins and contentious down-ballot races, North Carolina has become a major focal point for the Harris and Trump campaigns.
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Oct 21, 2024
The United Nations effort to achieve "harmony" with the natural world kicks off in Colombia this week. Recent reports show there's a lot of work to do to achieve that goal.
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Oct 20, 2024
A former US intelligence official has confirmed with NPR that highly classified US intelligence documents that appeared on a pro-Iranian site are authentic. The documents describe preparations by Israel in advance of a possible strike on Iran.
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Oct 20, 2024
Five years after the tumultuous protests in Chile demanding social and economic equality, what's left of the revolutionary spirit and desire for change?
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Oct 20, 2024
NPR"s Life Kit has tips on how to find the perfect last minute Halloween costume.
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Oct 20, 2024
Haitian immigrants have started families in Tijuana, learned Spanish, opened up businesses and are looking forward to a different version of the "American dream."
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Oct 20, 2024
Actor and filmmaker Mark Duplass plays a game of Wild Card with NPR's Rachel Martin
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Oct 20, 2024
Dr. Sarah Sallon planted a 1,000-year-old seed that could soon could bare extinct fruit.
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Oct 19, 2024
The British band Coldplay tops the Billboard 200 this week with its latest album.
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Oct 19, 2024
Many victims of Hurricane Helene have become vital volunteers in the ongoing relief efforts in Western North Carolina.
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Oct 19, 2024
For the first time in about 30 years, a Japanese theater that uses human-sized puppets is performing across the country.
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Oct 19, 2024
Moldova Chooses President and Decides on EU Path as Kremlin Meddles in Both Votes
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Oct 18, 2024
NPR's Short Wave tells about an ambitious plan to protect monarch butterflies from climate change, new research about a massive ocean migration, and seven new frog species found in Madagascar.
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Oct 18, 2024
Game 4 of the WNBA Finals Friday night may mark the end of a historic season for the league, with records broken in TV ratings and attendance.
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Oct 18, 2024
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with country music icon Reba McEntire about her new NBC sitcom Happy's Place, about a woman who inherits her father's restaurant with a half sister she's never met.
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Oct 18, 2024
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Bryan Stevenson, the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, about the death penalty cases that have come under scrutiny this year.
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Oct 18, 2024
NPR returns to 12 swing voters who disapproved of both Joe Biden and Donald Trump back in May to find out where they've landed with Kamala Harris as the nominee and the election just weeks away.
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Oct 18, 2024
An immigration proposal on Arizona ballots this fall is raising worries across the political spectrum.
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Oct 18, 2024
Emo music has largely flown under the radar, but with a new exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame focusing on one of its founding labels, it's time for another look.
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Oct 18, 2024
The presidential campaigns are projecting confidence in Michigan. But the fact that candidates from both major parties are in the state on the same day shows how close the race is in this key state.
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Oct 18, 2024
NPR's Brittany Luse, host of It's Been a Minute, talks with Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue. Her new album Tension II is a follow-up to last year's Tension.
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Oct 18, 2024
Public health officials are hoping to reach the more than half a million Gaza children who received their first dose a few weeks back. But a shifting battlefield is making everything more challenging.
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Oct 18, 2024
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Antoine Renard, the World Food Programme Country director for Gaza, about how people in north Gaza are starving and aid shipments reached their lowest level in September.
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Oct 18, 2024
An referendum to legalize abortion in Missouri is gaining supporters in part as a reaction to the states current strict ban.
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Oct 18, 2024
NASA has just launched a mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa. A NASA scientist answers kid's questions about the mission and its goals.
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Oct 18, 2024
To mark the 150th anniversary of the maverick American composer's birth, pianist Jeremy Denk releases an Ives tribute album that educates, delights and confounds.
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Oct 18, 2024
The weight-loss drugs are linked with reduced rates of excess drinking and opioid overdoses, suggesting they may tamp down substance use cravings too.
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Oct 18, 2024
Some election locations in Arizona are shutting their doors in the face of security threats — but others are expanding their footprint.
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Oct 17, 2024
Two years ago, scientists surveyed the floor of Lake Michigan looking for shipwrecks. They found something mysterious and unexpected — a cluster of sinkholes on the lakebed.
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Oct 17, 2024
Iowa now has a six-week abortion ban. Some Iowa college students say schools aren't doing enough to ensure access to emergency contraceptives and birth control. So they're taking it on themselves.
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Oct 17, 2024
Many homes were damaged or destroyed in North Carolina during Hurricane Helene and many more remain at risk from future storms. That's in part because state lawmakers have rejected or delayed efforts to modernize building codes.
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Oct 17, 2024
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Daniel Byman, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, about the assassination of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and what it means for the war in Gaza.
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Oct 17, 2024
To have a shot at the White House, Democrats need to win one of Nebraska's five Electoral College votes. Here's how they're trying to do that.
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Oct 17, 2024
Marianna Kiyanovska lives in Ukraine, but she's reading her poetry at more than a dozen U.S. universities in
October. Her latest poetry collection is called The Voices of Babyn Yar.
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Oct 17, 2024
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Stephen Richer, the Republican Maricopa County Recorder, about his office's intense preparations to secure early voting in the swing state of Arizona.
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Oct 17, 2024
Former President Donald Trump faced some tough questioning from Latino voters Wednesday night. He largely sidestepped those questions in his answers and instead stuck to his broader campaign themes.
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Oct 17, 2024
Vision impairment is a common problem in large parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America. It has a serious effect on economies. One solution: providing eye glasses. But it turns out that can be tricky.
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Oct 17, 2024
More than 1,300 clergy sex abuse survivors and the Archdiocese of LA have reached a settlement worth nearly $900 million. The church says no donations to parishes or schools will be go to the payouts.
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Oct 17, 2024
A textile company in Southern China has reset the Guinness World Record for the largest pair of jeans. The pants are over 250 feet long.
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Oct 17, 2024
Israel's military says its troops have killed Yahya Sinwar, an architect of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. His death is being seen as a possible chance to end the war he started just over a year ago.
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Oct 17, 2024
In western North Carolina, tubing, rafting and kayaking shops are assessing whether the rivers will be safe enough to open by next Summer following the devastating damage from the remnants of Hurricane Helene.
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Oct 16, 2024
Payne, who came to fame as a teen in the massively popular British boy band One Direction, died in Buenos Aires after falling from his hotel balcony, according to reporting by the Associated Press.
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Oct 16, 2024
In New York, a young group of community organizers recently pulled together a week-long celebration of Mexican restaurants. They stress it's about the workers as much as the food.
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Oct 16, 2024
There's a misconception that New York City has no authentic Mexican food. But its first ever Mexican Restaurant Week, organized by an arts collective called Migo Events for Hispanic Heritage Month, raises visibility for the wide range of flavors and cuisines that unite the Mexican-American diaspora.
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Oct 16, 2024
On this week's "My Unsung Hero" from Hidden Brain: Samantha Hodge-Williams was terrified as she lay in the operating room. Then the anesthesiologist offered a surprising source of calm.
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Oct 16, 2024
NPR's Scott Detrow continues his interview with journalist Bob Woodward about his book War, which details how the Biden administration has navigated Russia's war with Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war.
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Oct 16, 2024
NPR's Scott Detrow continues his interview with journalist Bob Woodward about his book War, which details how the Biden administration has navigated Russia's war with Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war.
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Oct 16, 2024
Six people have been arrested in connection with an international criminal network selling fake bottles of high-end French wine.
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Oct 16, 2024
Both major presidential candidates are reimagining swaths of land in the Southwest, much of it federally owned and maintained, as an opportunity to build more housing. Could this work on arid land?
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Oct 16, 2024
An obituary posted on Facebook mentions Robert Adolph Boehm's habit of wearing unconventional hats, his possibly dangerous hobbies and his "last unintelligible and likely unnecessary curse."
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Oct 16, 2024
A single father was sentenced to prison after his then 12-year-old daughter was caught with drawings critical of Russia's war in Ukraine at her local school. He has been freed after nearly two years.
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Oct 16, 2024
According to official statistics, the average price of fresh vegetables in China rose nearly 20% in August. A visit to the crops in China's northeast helps explain the price spike.
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Oct 16, 2024
Actor Gael Garcia Bernal draws a question from the Wild Card deck and talks about feeling at home in the theater.
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Oct 16, 2024
In 2023, the Federal Bureau of Prisons shut down a troubled unit at the prison in Illinois. The former warden is now the director of the federal center that does specialized training of prison staff.
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Oct 16, 2024
Some one million people in Lebanon have been displaced from their homes. Many of them have crossed the border into Syria -- fleeing one war-torn country for another.
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Oct 16, 2024
The former president took questions on immigration, the economy and abortion in the hour-long town hall in front of a friendly crowd of women in suburban Atlanta.
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Oct 16, 2024
A new trove of letters and oral histories is shining a light on the successes and challenges of jailhouse lawyers: people in prison who help themselves and others navigate the legal system.
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Oct 15, 2024
NPR's Juana Summers talks with with Dr. Sandro Galea, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, about the mental health consequences of devastating hurricanes like Helene and Milton.
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Oct 15, 2024
There's a lot of anxiety about climate change shrinking Lake Powell, but it also means whitewater rapids upstream have re-emerged. Thrillseekers can now run them for the first time since the 1960s.
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Oct 15, 2024
For the 30th anniversary of Dookie, Green Day is offering de-mastered singles: each individually crafted for the most mediocre sound quality at best.
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Oct 15, 2024
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with actor Al Pacino about his career and biggest roles.
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Oct 15, 2024
The National Ballet of Ukraine is on its first-ever tour of the U.S. since the country's independence from the USSR in 1991. Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. calls the tour a "symbol of resiliency."
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Oct 15, 2024
In remarks focused on unity and patriotism, Kamala Harris will speak alongside prominent Republicans Wednesday as her campaign and its allies focus on winning over disaffected Republican voters.
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Oct 15, 2024
As Kamala Harris heads back to Pennsylvania Wednesday, her campaign and its allies are focusing on Republican voters there.
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Oct 15, 2024
Research shows 62% of Latinos believe abortion should be mostly legal. That's a big jump from 20 years ago.
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Oct 15, 2024
Video game company Konami once led the industry with creative and original titles. The development of several remakes and new games has fans excited that they might be back on track.
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Oct 15, 2024
A Georgia judge has ruled that local election officials must certify results -- as early in-person voting begins in the swing state.
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Oct 15, 2024
Border security is seen as a strength for Republicans, but along Arizona's southern border, many mayors are backing the Democrat in the state's race for U.S. Senate, as well as Vice President Harris.
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Oct 15, 2024
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with legendary journalist Bob Woodward, whose new book War -- like so many of his books about the American presidency over the last half century - is generating headlines.
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Oct 14, 2024
The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded Monday to a trio of U.S.-based researchers, for their study of the institutional roots of wealth and poverty among nations.
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Oct 14, 2024
A USDA program kills wild animals at the request of private livestock owners. NPR obtained exclusive documents to show how its employees manage wildlife.
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Oct 14, 2024
Pollsters try to create an accurate model of the electorate. But that model can change abruptly, like when Vice President Harris became the Democratic nominee.
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Oct 14, 2024
The Republican candidate for superintendent of schools in North Carolina calls schools "indoctrination centers" and has a shot at a victory.
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Oct 14, 2024
Kenyan runner Ruth Chepngetich smashed the women's marathon world record yesterday in Chicago by nearly two minutes.
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Oct 14, 2024
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Carrie Lowry Schuttepelz about her new book The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native In America.
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Oct 14, 2024
Arizona could go either way this presidential year -- that's what makes it a swing state. But it could also go either way on down the state's ballot, right to a question on abortion rights.
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Oct 14, 2024
A non profit has trained more than 160,000 veterans as poll workers, in the face of growing threats and skepticism about the security of elections.
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Oct 14, 2024
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with actor Al Pacino about his new memoir, "Sonny Boy."
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Oct 14, 2024
In Washington, D.C., residents celebrated Indigenous People's Day by birdwatching on Roosevelt Island. Centuries before the island became a memorial to the president, it was home to Native Americans.
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