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Dec 05, 2024
Rising from the sand on Miami Beach are what appear to be the sails of a buried Spanish galleon. It's a piece created by Tlingit/Unangax artist Nicholas Galanin.
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Dec 05, 2024
At the Robopalooza festival in the California desert, engineers are stress-testing space robots, which they say could someday build the infrastructure needed to settle the moon and beyond.
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Dec 05, 2024
Hundreds of sea turtles are stranding on Cape Cod this week. We visit the facility that is nursing them back to health.
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Dec 05, 2024
The Justice Department finds Memphis police regularly violate the civil rights of citizens, engaging in unconstitutional tactics like excessive use of force and discriminating against Black residents.
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Dec 05, 2024
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with David Sarni, a retired NYPD detective and adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, about the hunt for the gunman who killed the UnitedHealthcare CEO.
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Dec 05, 2024
Syrians in Aleppo are cautiously optimistic as rebel groups take over Assad-regime held areas of their country.
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Dec 05, 2024
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are making their case for government efficiency to members of Congress.
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Dec 05, 2024
NPR has rounded up more than 350 of our favorite books this year. Today, we're focusing on biographies and memoirs.
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Dec 05, 2024
A new study projects just how bad things could get for biodiversity if global warming speeds up. NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports that under the most extreme warming scenarios, about one in three species could be threatened with extinction by the end of the century.
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Dec 05, 2024
Starting Sept. 1, drug users in Oregon began facing new criminal penalties for possession, ending the state's experiment with drug decriminalization. What does that change look like on the ground?
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Dec 05, 2024
Backlash against massive solar energy farms drove strong rural turnout in Nevada may have helped flip the presidential vote there to Republican for the first time since 2004. But it's not a given Trump will derail President Biden's plans for more Nevada solar.
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Dec 04, 2024
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with celebrity stylist Law Roach, the man behind some of the most memorable red carpet looks in recent years, about his new book How to Build a Fashion Icon.
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Dec 04, 2024
On this week's "My Unsung Hero" from Hidden Brain, A few years ago, when Clarice was 14, she experienced a mental health crisis and was sent to a psychiatric facility. Heroes stepped in.
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Dec 04, 2024
The number of people burdened by high housing costs has hit another record high. Both renters and homeowners are struggling as prices have spiked in recent years.
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Dec 04, 2024
Lawmakers have been raising the alarm about Chinese hackers breaching U.S. telecom companies. National security officials are working to understand the scope of the spying campaign.
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Dec 04, 2024
In the 1970s, doctors sterilized Dolores Madrigal without her knowledge. She became the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit by Mexican-American women who said they were coerced into having their tubes tied.
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Dec 04, 2024
Many religious congregations are ramping up their efforts to assist as many refugees as possible before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20.
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Dec 04, 2024
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks orca researcher Deborah Giles about behavior she witnessed recently: whales wearing salmon as hats.
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Dec 04, 2024
Ira Glass sits down with Rachel Martin to answer a Wild Card question. He talks about the difference between the Ira you hear on air and who he is in real life.
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Dec 04, 2024
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with New Yorker writer Jane Mayer about her latest article on Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth.
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Dec 04, 2024
Every time a presidential transition takes place, a familiar phrase crops up: "the U.S. has one president at a time." But Trump is already declaring foreign policy plans that differ from Biden's.
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Dec 04, 2024
The language-learning company Babbel has released its list of the most mispronounced words and names of 2024, including semaglutide, Phryge and Barry Keoghan.
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Dec 04, 2024
The CEO of United Healthcare was shot and killed in what New York City officials are calling a brazen and targeted attack. The company has the largest share of the nation's health insurance market.
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Dec 04, 2024
Gi-Wook Shin, director of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about democracy in South Korea following the president's brief declaration of martial law.
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Dec 04, 2024
France's government has been toppled by a no-confidence vote in parliament, for the first time sine 1962. Prime Minister Michel Barnier served the shortest time in the post in France's modern history.
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Dec 04, 2024
A new Boston University study of 77 deceased male ice hockey players found that their chances of developing the degenerative brain disease known as CTE increased with each year they played the sport.
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Dec 03, 2024
Israel's military has imposed a curfew and created a no-go zone where villagers are prohibited from going home to villages across southern Lebanon. NPR speaks to residents inside.
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Dec 03, 2024
A study from researchers in Finland shows that people can take more than two months off from the gym and quickly regain their strength when they get back to it. Scientists cite muscle memory.
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Dec 03, 2024
Hollywood set an all time record over the Thanksgiving holidays. But does that actually mean anything? Movie critic Bob Mondello says it's wise to take the numbers with a grain of salt.
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Dec 03, 2024
On the first trip of his Presidency to Africa, President Biden went to the National Slavery museum to remember the hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans taken from Angola to the U.S.
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Dec 03, 2024
United CEO Scott Kirby is the latest airline executive to speak out about what they want to see from Trump. Kirby is focused on air traffic control staffing but there are other issues as well.
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Dec 03, 2024
The gene-editing technique known as CRISPR is promising to revolutionize medicine. Some researchers are trying to help make it available for people with very rare genetic disorders.
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Dec 03, 2024
As China's economy plateaus and social inequality widens, perceptions that people's lives can only improve in China are fading.
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Dec 03, 2024
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Sara Kassim, a freelance reporter in Aleppo about the situation on the ground after opposition forces have captured large swaths of land in the area.
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Dec 03, 2024
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Mercury Prize-winning singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka, about his latest album, "Small Changes," and his musical influences.
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Dec 03, 2024
Nearly all toys sold in the U.S. are imported -- mostly from China. Toys were largely spared from tariffs during Trump's first term. But toymakers and their customers may not be so lucky next year.
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Dec 03, 2024
For almost two years, countries have been trying to negotiate a United Nations treaty to rein in plastic pollution. The talks were supposed to end with an agreement, but that didn't happen.
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Dec 02, 2024
A small record label is reissuing what it calls the first country record. The music was first released in 1891 on a wax cylinder. And the singer on the album was a Black man from New Orleans.
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Dec 02, 2024
The focal point of the case is 2009 law enacted by Congress that gives the Food and Drug Administration a mandate to curb the availability of nicotine products for minors.
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Dec 02, 2024
Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday, a day when charities ask us to take a break from holiday shopping and give to worthy causes. But picking a charity that aligns with your values comes with questions.
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Dec 02, 2024
Yet again, TikTok may be up for sale. During Trump's first term, resistance from China and company executives complicated any potential acquisition. But that may change in Trump's next term.
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Dec 02, 2024
In Syria, where government forces and rebel fighters have essentially been locked in a stalemate for over a decade, an unexpected opposition — a Turkish-backed group — has taken over.
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Dec 02, 2024
A white ex-police detective from Kansas City accused of sexually assaulting Black women and girls was found dead Monday — the same day his federal trial was set to begin in Topeka.
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Dec 02, 2024
Political uncertainty has gripped the former Soviet republic of Georgia. The Georgian government - after years of trying to join the European Union — decided to suspend that effort.
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Dec 02, 2024
After reaching record level highs in January, olive oil prices in Spain are now dropping, causing worry among olive oil producers.
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Dec 02, 2024
The Venezuelan governments crackdown on opposition politicians has led to the imprisonment of the mayor of the country's second largest city.
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Dec 02, 2024
NPR's Ari Shapiro examines the substance behind and implications of President Joe Biden's pardon of his son Hunter. He did so with just weeks left in his presidency after repeatedly promising not to.
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Dec 02, 2024
Skateboarding has seen a huge surge in popularity in the last decade, influencing everything from fashion to music and even appearing at the Olympics. Now, a new initiative wants to put skating at the leading edge of another topic: mental health.
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Dec 02, 2024
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Kelly Richmond Pope, a professor of forensic accounting at DePaul University in Chicago, about how to protect yourself from online fraud while holiday shopping.
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Dec 02, 2024
North Carolina's Fraser fir is a popular Christmas tree, but it's under threat from disease and scientists are racing to try to save it.
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Dec 02, 2024
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Andrew Weissmann, a top lawyer at the FBI from 2011-2013, about President-elect Trump's plan to replace FBI director Christopher Wray with an ally, Kash Patel.
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Dec 02, 2024
Fifty years ago this year the Oscar Mayer Bologna commercial first appeared on TV. We speak to an advertising professor about the staying power of this ad.
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Dec 02, 2024
In the first week of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, residents from northern towns in Israel are trying to restart their lives.
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Dec 02, 2024
Nearly all new cars now come with automatic emergency braking and other safety features. Researchers say these systems are saving lives, but there's still debate about how to make them better.
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Dec 02, 2024
Syrian rebels have swept through parts of the country at lightning pace, taking control of the the second-largest city, Aleppo. But who are they and what are their aims?
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Dec 01, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has announced his nominee for FBI director. Here's what you need to know about Kash Patel.
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Dec 01, 2024
Gaza has been hit by a wave of intense and deadly airstrikes as the region struggles to get enough food. This comes as a former defense minister claims Israel is pursuing a policy of ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
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Dec 01, 2024
Rebels take control of parts of Syria in a sweeping advance. While some celebrate the demise of a brutal regime in these areas, many in this country of many religions and sects fear what a rebel takeover means for them.
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Nov 30, 2024
NPR's Adrian Ma speaks with Lina Khatib of Chatam House, about the significance of rebel groups entering the city of Aleppo, Syria, in a conflict that many believed had reached a stalemate.
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Nov 30, 2024
Many people rely on chosen families when facing rejection from families of origin. NPR's Life Kit talks with Daniel Blevins, the founder of the group Stand In Pride, about cultivating a chosen family.
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Nov 29, 2024
Australian children will be banned from using some of the world's biggest social media sites under strict new laws passed by the country's parliament.
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Nov 29, 2024
Alice Brock, whose restaurant in western Massachusetts inspired Arlo Guthrie's Thanksgiving song, died last week at the age of 83.
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Nov 29, 2024
Archaeologists working in Kenya found the footprints of two distinct human ancestors preserved in the fossilized mud of an ancient lake — walking side by side.
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Nov 29, 2024
The ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon requires Hezbollah fighters to move North, away from the border with Israel. Lebanon's government is responsible for ensuring it happens.
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Nov 29, 2024
Two years after mass protests, women are still demonstrating against Iran's mandatory hijab law and clerical rule. Iran's government is saying the activists are in need of psychiatric help.
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Nov 29, 2024
With China's economy on the ropes and President-elect Donald Trump promising steep tariffs on imports, participants in a trade fair in Shanghai face uncertainty.
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Nov 29, 2024
Comedian D.J. Demers is hard-of-hearing. He's appeared on Conan, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and America's Got Talent. He recently dropped his fourth comedy special and he's about to tour the U.S. Demers gets a lot of his material from his experiences living with a disability but doesn't let it define his act.
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Nov 29, 2024
British lawmakers have agreed on plans to make assisted deaths legal in parts of the country, in a historic vote on a highly polarizing proposal.
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Nov 29, 2024
In this story from the archives that first ran on All Things Considered in 1971, an elderly woman from Ohio reflects on Thanksgiving memories from her childhood.
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Nov 29, 2024
Noah Bookbinder of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington tells NPR's Ari Shapiro that President elect Trump is set to enter office with several major conflicts of interest.
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Nov 29, 2024
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Tom Fletcher, the UN's top humanitarian and emergency relief official, about his first-hand look at what's been called "the world's worst humanitarian crisis" in Sudan.
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Nov 29, 2024
On Friday, people in France had a glimpse inside Notre Dame Cathedral for the first time since the fire nearly six years ago.
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Nov 29, 2024
The six-month season saw an above-average number of storms. Scientists say climate change is leading to more powerful and deadly hurricanes that can affect inland communities far from the coasts.
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Nov 28, 2024
About 300 Americans a year give a kidney to a complete stranger. Research says these people have a larger amygdala -- perhaps making them feel others' pain more than the average person.
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Nov 28, 2024
NPR's Juana Summers talks with rapper Shaboozey about his new album and his musical journey that started in Virginia with a Nigerian immigrant father who loved country music.
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Nov 28, 2024
Irish voters weigh in ahead of Friday's election. While the economy is booming, voters say they're not feeling the benefits - with the cost of living and housing crisis at the top of their minds.
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Nov 28, 2024
President-elect Trump has promised to "unleash" U.S. oil and gas production. Many Republicans embrace an "all of the above" energy philosophy that nods to both fossil fuels and renewable energy.
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Nov 28, 2024
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Emily Kwong and Jessica Yung of Short Wave about ancient evidence of hot water on Mars, indigenous people's cultivation of hazelnuts, and an inauspicious fish sighting.
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Nov 28, 2024
In the Philippines, the Vice President gave a kill order in the event of her death. Her target: President Ferdinand Marcos. Sara Duterte is now under investigation after announcing this.
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Nov 28, 2024
Russian strikes continue to destroy Ukraine's power grid, prompting nation-wide power cuts while temperatures drop. Workers at a damaged plant try to restore its operation before the winter freeze.
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Nov 28, 2024
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Mercury Prize-winning singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka, about his latest album, Small Changes, and his musical influences.
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Nov 28, 2024
Long before the new movie Wicked made a sympathetic character of the Wicked Witch of the West, she was played by actress Margaret Hamilton in the classic film, The Wizard of Oz.
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Nov 28, 2024
British lawmakers on Friday will be given the chance to vote on plans to permit people with terminal illnesses the legal right to end their own life. The law's language has divided parliament.
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Nov 28, 2024
We bring you a selective guide to the would be blockbusters, awards contenders, and entertainments Hollywood's bring out before year's end.
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Nov 28, 2024
Drugs used for weight loss like Wegovy and Zepbound could be covered by Medicare or Medicaid under a new proposal from the Biden administration.
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Nov 28, 2024
In Washington state this past election, voters upheld one of the most ambitious climate laws in the U.S., rejecting a voter initiative to repeal it. Climate activists hope this could be a blueprint.
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Nov 28, 2024
People in Gaza have had to contest with Israeli airstrikes, hunger, armed gangs of looters and — now — a rainy winter without shelter.
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Nov 27, 2024
The family of Bishop T.D. Jakes are sharing updates on his recovery after the pastor suffered through an apparent medical incident on the stage of his Dallas megachurch on Sunday.
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Nov 27, 2024
President-elect Trump wants to roll back spending that Congress has already approved. But a 1974 law may stand in his way.
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Nov 27, 2024
Sophia Park has become the youngest person to pass the California bar exam at 17 years, 8 months old. She beats the record set by her brother Peter Park in 2023.
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