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Dec 17, 2025
The photographer, film producer and activist was killed alongside her husband, director and actor Rob Reiner on Sunday.
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Dec 17, 2025
A Chinese man who filmed alleged detention camps in China faces possible deportation to Uganda under the Trump administration.
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Dec 17, 2025
Although the U.S. birth rate is on the decline, the number of women having babies in one age group has increased. Those new mothers are 40 and older.
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Dec 17, 2025
European Union leaders meet in Brussels on Thursday to decide on using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine's war effort.
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Dec 17, 2025
President Trump says he's imposing a ban on all sanctioned oil tankers leaving Venezuela. Venezuela's government is calling this an 'outrageous threat' intended to rob the country of its oil wealth.
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Dec 17, 2025
NPR has been following the story of three octogenarian Austrian nuns who broke out of a nursing home and back into their old convent. Now, they're hoping for a deal with the Vatican so they can stay.
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Dec 17, 2025
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Brett Smiley, mayor of Providence, R.I., about the investigation into the shooting at Brown University.
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Dec 17, 2025
A devotion to reading brings one elderly woman in Indiana to her local library. That's true for one young child, too. They've formed an unlikely friendship and visit the library together each week.
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Dec 17, 2025
Democratic lawmakers confronted Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr at a hearing Wednesday, arguing that he was attempting to intimidate reporters and networks.
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Dec 17, 2025
The U.S. is pushing for the Gaza ceasefire to move into its next phase, but serious challenges lie ahead.
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Dec 17, 2025
A new NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll finds Americans deeply pessimistic about their economic outlook, with more than six in 10 saying the economy is not working for them personally.
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Dec 17, 2025
Congress is taking some action on the ACA. Here's where things stand for the people who rely on Obamacare health insurance.
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Dec 17, 2025
Washington state is reeling from recent flooding, more could be coming. Now, blizzards in the mountains are adding to the chaos.
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Dec 17, 2025
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Bloomberg's Consumer Reporter Redd Brown, who wrote about the changing sentiments toward the lunch bowl industry.
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Dec 17, 2025
Ben Fritz, a Wall Street Journal entertainment reporter, on whether movie theaters can survive if Netflix ends up acquiring Warner Brothers.
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Dec 17, 2025
Jeremy Carrasco makes videos under the handle @showtoolsai on TikTok, advocating for AI video literacy and pointing out tells you can look for to see if the videos on your feed are AI generated.
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Dec 17, 2025
The year-end speech will address his accomplishments so far and look ahead to next year
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Dec 17, 2025
For restaurants, going viral is appetizing. But at what cost?
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Dec 17, 2025
The etymology of mistletoe — a plant with small, oval evergreen leaves and waxy white berries — may strike some as repugnant.
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Dec 16, 2025
Millions of immigrants in the U.S. who have applied for asylum are now in legal limbo after President Trump paused decisions on all asylum cases. Even some Republican lawmakers now are pushing back.
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Dec 16, 2025
Drag Story Hour, where drag performers read to kids, has weathered attacks and threats over the years. In Denver, a volunteer "parasol patrol" provides security to families attending Drag Story Hour.
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Dec 16, 2025
Scientist Julie Jung set out on a hike along the Great Salt Lake to find nematodes. She ended up discovering a new species.
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Dec 16, 2025
Nick Reiner remains in police custody as prosecutors are expected to announce charges related to the death of his parents, Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner.
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Dec 16, 2025
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Francisco Monaldi, the director of the Latin American Energy Program at the Baker Institute at Rice University about the U.S.'s long interest in Venezuela's oil industry.
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Dec 16, 2025
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Rob Kilfoyle, president of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, about evolving safety standards on college campuses.
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Dec 16, 2025
Honoring their fathers, the sons of the Allman Brothers band members go on tour during the Holiday season as the Allman Betts Family Revival.
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Dec 16, 2025
Throughout the year, Vanity Fair writer Chris Whipple interviewed some of the people closest to President Trump. We speak with Whipple about his talks with White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles.
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Dec 16, 2025
Doctors in England say they'll go on strike Wednesday. Their five-day action coincides with a spike in flu cases. The government says crowded hospitals are preparing for a "worst case scenario."
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Dec 16, 2025
Some of the first responders and medical workers who helped when the Abundant Life Christian School shooting took place in Madison, Wisc., are still dealing with difficult feelings one year later.
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Dec 16, 2025
The person who opened fire in a classroom at Brown University killed two young students. Communities are mourning Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and Ella Cook as the hunt for their killer continues.
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Dec 16, 2025
This year's Arctic Report Card from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finds that the northernmost part of the Earth is warming faster than the global average, leading to melting glaciers, shifting fish populations, and rivers running orange.
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Dec 16, 2025
Hiring cooled this fall, according to delayed figures released by the Labor Department Tuesday. Employers added 64,000 jobs in November as the unemployment rate rose to 4.6%.
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Dec 16, 2025
School districts from Utah to Ohio to Alabama are spending thousands of dollars on these tools, despite research showing the technology is far from reliable.
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Dec 16, 2025
Automotive crash test dummies are born in Ohio, brought to "life" near Detroit, and then sent around the world to make cars safer.
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Dec 15, 2025
An attack targeting a Hanukkah beach party halfway around the world casts a heavy shadow as Jews in Israel celebrate the holiday for the first time in years without a full-scale war or pandemic.
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Dec 15, 2025
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced by a national security court in Hong Kong. He was found guilty of publishing seditious articles and colluding with foreign forces.
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Dec 15, 2025
Hollywood's Rob Reiner made a virtue of virtuosity, directing such diverse hits as When Harry Met Sally, Stand By Me, A Few Good Men, This is Spinal Tap, and Misery.
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Dec 15, 2025
Despite the Trump administration's recent $12 billion bailout, a turbulent year is prompting some farmers to question their reliance on government assistance and programs.
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Dec 15, 2025
It's every teenager's dilemma: How do you blend in but stay different enough to still stand out? Two Colorado middle schoolers share their secret to what they call "strategic nonconformity."
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Dec 15, 2025
Gunmen killed at least 15 people in a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday. At least 42 people have been hospitalized.
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Dec 15, 2025
The upheaval to the federal workforce in 2025 drove tens of thousands of federal employees to leave their jobs. One former employee of the Veterans Health Administration reflects on the year.
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Dec 15, 2025
Officials continue to investigate the fatal shootings of two students at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. We'll have an update on the search for a suspect.
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Dec 15, 2025
As a nervous teenage cashier on her first day during the Christmas rush, Stephanie froze at the register — until a customer gently told her, "It's alright. Take your time."
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Dec 15, 2025
The son of Hollywood director Rob and Michelle Reiner has been arrested on suspicion of murder related to their deaths.
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Dec 15, 2025
Washington, D.C., set a world record of most couples kissing underneath the mistletoe. Exactly 1,435 couples turned up to smooch for five seconds under the festive greenery on Saturday.
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Dec 15, 2025
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Deborah Lipstadt who served as Special Envoy for monitoring antisemitism in the Biden administration about the attack on the Jewish community celebrating Chanukah.
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Dec 15, 2025
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with the comedian Aparna Nancherla about her first full-length comedy special, Hopeful Potato, and the anxiety and depression that once kept her off stage.
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Dec 15, 2025
The tune crooned by Bing Crosby is still one of the most popular Christmas songs of all time. It's endured as a favorite — despite a complicated and controversial history.
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Dec 15, 2025
Some of the nation's largest restaurants boast of decades-long survival through economic downturns, stiffer competition, and changing American palates. And we still love them anyway. Why?
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Dec 14, 2025
Alex Bores, a New York State Assembly member who sponsored an AI regulation bill, responds to President Trump's executive order aimed at blocking state oversight of artificial intelligence.
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Dec 14, 2025
A Pakistani brewery founded in the 19th century is exporting beer again for the first time in decades, despite alcohol being illegal for the country's Muslim majority.
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Dec 14, 2025
NPR's Linda Holmes and Barrie Hardymon talk about why whodunits feel so cozy, what makes a great mystery work, and why the genre is having a moment again on screen.
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Dec 14, 2025
Jess Clark, host of Louisville Public Media's podcast 'Dig', examines how alleged abuse by school staff went unaddressed for nearly 18 years in Louisville.
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Dec 14, 2025
Nate Amos, the songwriter behind This Is Lorelei, talks about revisiting old songs, reshaping them, and what it means to hear his past work with new ears.
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Dec 14, 2025
Ukraine's president continues ceasefire talks in Berlin with Trump envoys and European leaders, pressing for concrete security guarantees so Russia won't invade Ukraine again in the future.
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Dec 14, 2025
Phil Mercer, a journalist in Sydney, reports on the deadly shooting at a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach and what authorities are saying about the attack.
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Dec 14, 2025
Journalist Paul C. Kelly Campos of Ocean State Media on the continuing investigation into Saturday's shooting at Brown University that left two people dead and at least nine more wounded.
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Dec 13, 2025
Mayor Brett Smiley of Providence, Rhode Island says two people are dead and multiple people hurt after a shooting at Brown University.
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Dec 13, 2025
Fred Upton, a former Republican congressman from Michigan, discusses the Senate's failed health care votes and the political fallout of rising insurance premiums.
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Dec 13, 2025
Joanna Robinson, a cultural critic at The Ringer, examines what made this year's most talked about flops so bad.
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Dec 13, 2025
There are more federal tax cuts in the works for people who adopt children. Birth mothers say they also want financial support so they don't have to place their infants up for adoption.
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Dec 13, 2025
NPR's Chris Arnold and Leah Rosenbaum of The War Horse discuss an NPR investigation into companies charging disabled veterans thousands of dollars for help the Department of Veterans Affairs says should be free and what the response from Congress has been.
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Dec 13, 2025
John Ryan, KUOW environment reporter, describes how a series of powerful storms overwhelmed Washington's rivers and communities.
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Dec 13, 2025
Step aboard the Samba Train, where music, history, and resistance roll together through the streets of Rio.
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Dec 13, 2025
A U.S. citizen in Texas lost his voter registration after a federal screening system wrongly labeled him a noncitizen.
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Dec 13, 2025
Ana Corina Sosa, daughter of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, reflects on her mother's escape from Venezuela and the stakes for the future.
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Dec 12, 2025
This is the first Hanukkah that Murray Horwitz will not be joined by the late Susan Stamberg on NPR's holiday special Hanukkah Lights. We talk with him about their 35 years of making the show.
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Dec 12, 2025
After 14 years as a U.S. diplomat, one officer talks about being laid off in the State Department's sweeping cuts, losing both career and professional identity.
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Dec 12, 2025
As Europe and Ukraine offer counterproposals to the White House's Kremlin-friendly plan to end Russia's war on Ukraine, Ukraine's president explores holding wartime elections on ceding territory.
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Dec 12, 2025
Nineteen of 95,000 photos for the Jeffrey Epstein files were released by a House committee Friday. What do they tell us and when will more information be available?
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Dec 12, 2025
Tens of thousands of Washingtonians remain under evacuation advisories after successive storms swelled rivers in the Western part of the state. It's not clear yet what damage the region sustained.
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Dec 12, 2025
Pop critic Ann Powers shares a handful the albums on NPR Music's list of the best of the year, including the one album that nearly the entire team agreed on.
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Dec 12, 2025
Savory, sour and earthy tasting honey could be the new normal thanks to a new ingredient. Spotted lanternfly poop. The insects spread along the east coast across could usher in new ways to use honey.
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Dec 12, 2025
In a daring nighttime martime operation, U.S. veterans whisked Venezuela's María Corina Machado out of the country to claim her Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
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Dec 12, 2025
One year after the ousting of the Assad regime, some of the first Syrian revolutionaries return to their homes and try to start their lives again. But new divisions and old animosities still fester.
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Dec 12, 2025
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to Dr. Jonathan Slotkin about the new data released by Waymo about accidents and their self-driving cars.
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Dec 12, 2025
President Trump has been racing to rack up peace deals — but keeping them intact is proving far more difficult.
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Dec 12, 2025
The Oreo-sized baby turtle represents a turning point in Rockalina's recovery: Spending time with her own kind.
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Dec 11, 2025
The state Senate in Indiana defeated a plan to redraw the voting map, in a way that could have flipped two House seats. This was despite months of pressure from President Trump.
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Dec 11, 2025
Democrats are feeling optimistic about their chances to retake the House of Representatives next year, but they also face challenges in their efforts to push back on President Trump.
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Dec 11, 2025
Each year, UNESCO recognizes culturally significant practices, traditions and customs. 2025's list includes weaving, handmade paper craftsmanship, yurt making, a genre of Cuban music and yodeling.
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Dec 11, 2025
A retired nurse knew that many families in her community struggle to afford diapers, so she picked a volunteer job where she could really help.
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Dec 11, 2025
Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.
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Dec 11, 2025
The Trump administration indefinitely suspended the processing of immigration requests for Afghans, potentially setting back tens of thousands of Afghans seeking asylum or other paths to citizenship.
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Dec 11, 2025
After the hurricane in Jamaica, the government had a pot of money to help rebuild. A Catastrophe Bonds payout. We explain how it works and why Cat Bond popularity is on the rise as a response to climate change.
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Dec 11, 2025
The Trump administration claims 2 million non-citizens departed the U.S. this year, mostly "voluntarily." We examine its pressure tactics, including ICE raids and arrests at green card appointments.
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Dec 11, 2025
After more than a year in hiding, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado surfaces in Oslo, as the U.S. seizes an oil tanker near Venezuela.
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Dec 11, 2025
On this week's episode of Sources & Methods, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to correspondents Greg Myre and Eleanor Beardsley about the future of the U.S. alliance with Europe under President Trump.
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Dec 11, 2025
Two years after residents voted to reintroduce wolves in Colorado, ranchers there say too many of their cows are being killed. The state is now hiring people on horseback to help.
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Dec 11, 2025
On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Actor Jamie Lee Curtis talks about accepting the realities of growing older.
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Dec 11, 2025
The city of Los Angeles is no longer fueled by coal -- how did they make that happen, and what can other cities learn from experience?
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Dec 11, 2025
Before its fall from grace, the Chinese-American dish chop suey was a holiday tradition for families who don't celebrate Christmas, even being immortalized in songs and film.
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Dec 11, 2025
A severe winter storm makes landfall in Gaza, drenching families and makeshift tents as aid groups say Israel's impeding shelter supplies.
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Dec 11, 2025
Whether it's letting campaign funds be spent on security, stepping up safety at capitols or paying for home security, states are augmenting ways to protect lawmakers after high-profile assassinations.
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Dec 11, 2025
Whether you're looking to get a better interest rate on your credit card or settle a medical bill, there are ways to negotiate what you owe. Life Kit host Marielle Segarra explains how to do it.
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Dec 11, 2025
The Senate failed to advance two separate partisan bills to address health care costs for people who buy plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplace.
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Dec 11, 2025
While many modern plants use colorful flowers to attract pollinators, ancient palm-like plants called cycads lure them by heating up and glowing in the infrared.
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Dec 11, 2025
The song, which came out in 1994 and first hit the top 10 in 2017, has now led the chart for the last seven holiday seasons.
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Dec 10, 2025
María Corina Machado's daughter accepted her mother's Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, vowing the embattled Venezuelan opposition leader "will never give up" on a free Venezuela.
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Dec 10, 2025
As Republicans and Democrats gear up for next year's midterm elections, new polling shows they're losing ground with a powerful and growing bloc of the electorate: young voters.
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