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Oct 23, 2024
Turkey's interior minister says an attack on the premises of the Turkish state-run aerospace and defense company TUSAS left a number of people dead or injured.
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Oct 23, 2024
Boeing reported a staggering loss of $6 billion dollars in the third quarter. The disappointing earnings report comes the same day as striking machinists are voting on a new contract offer.
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Oct 23, 2024
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Harris are taking on vastly different approaches to their campaigns as Election Day nears. And, California could determine who controls the House.
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Oct 23, 2024
Their wages have always been low. With rising inflation and falling prices paid by Western companies for clothing, they're protesting for better pay — and hoping the new government will spur change.
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Oct 23, 2024
On the campaign trail, former President Donald Trump has threatened to jail reporters who won't give up the sources of leaks and to strip networks of their broadcast licenses for fact-checking him.
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Oct 23, 2024
The U.S. Department of Transportation penalty against American Airlines comes after "numerous serious violations of the laws protecting airline passengers with disabilities" over a four-year period.
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Oct 23, 2024
Striking machinists at Boeing vote Wednesday on a new contract offer. Even before the strike, the company was grappling with production and quality control problems that led to billions in losses.
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Oct 23, 2024
Vice President Harris is banking on the support of young voters. But new polling shows potential roadblocks for Harris in replicating the historically high youth support President Biden received in 2020.
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Oct 23, 2024
Malcolm Campbell remembers Don Lawson, the high school civics teacher who helped him understand the true value of education.
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Oct 23, 2024
With seven states up for grabs, here are the likely scenarios that would put either candidate in the White House.
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Oct 23, 2024
A new Biden administration effort to raise Head Start teacher wages could force the federally funded preschool program to serve fewer children.
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Oct 23, 2024
Braddock, Pennsylvania lost most of its population over the past almost 100 years, due largely to U.S. Steel's decline. Here's how some locals feel about the company's potential sale to the Japanese.
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Oct 23, 2024
Canada's deputy prime minister said she believes Justin Trudeau has the support of a majority of Liberals in Parliament as some prepare to confront him Wednesday in the hopes of convincing him to step down.
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Oct 23, 2024
Egypt has been fighting malaria for nearly 100 years. WHO declares a country malaria-free when the disease has not been present for at least three consecutive years before the designation.
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Oct 23, 2024
Denny's says it's closing 150 of its lowest-performing restaurants in an effort to turn around the brand's flagging sales. About half of the closures will happen this year and the rest in 2025.
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Oct 22, 2024
As the campaign entered its final two weeks, former President Trump held a roundtable with Latino men in Florida, Vice President Harris sat for two interviews and early voting kicked off in Wisconsin.
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Oct 22, 2024
A federal judge has ordered Rudy Giuliani to turn over his New York City apartment and various other assets to two Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against him.
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Oct 22, 2024
E. coli food poisoning linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers has sickened at least 49 people in 10 states, including one person who died, federal health officials said.
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Oct 22, 2024
The Israeli military said that one of its airstrikes earlier this month killed Hashem Safieddine. There was no immediate confirmation from the militant group about the fate of top official.
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Oct 22, 2024
More than a fifth of Lebanon's population is now displaced, mostly fleeing from the country's south as Israel carries out airstrikes against the Iran-backed group Hezbollah there. With so many people out of their homes, they're taking refuge anywhere they can, including in one of Beirut's most popular nightclubs. Our reporter in Lebanon introduces us to some of the displaced.
For more coverage of all sides of this conflict, go to npr.org/mideastupdates.
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Oct 22, 2024
The magazine said the two parties agreed to part ways, though an investigation found no inaccuracies or bias in Nuzzi's reporting. Meanwhile, Nuzzi and her ex-fiancé are blaming each other in court.
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Oct 22, 2024
New reports from Physicians for Human Rights and Doctors Without Borders document a "massive influx" of sexual violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. What can be done to stop it?
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Oct 22, 2024
Five people, including three teenagers, are dead after a Monday morning shooting in a home in Fall City, Wash. A 15-year-old male was taken into custody.
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Oct 22, 2024
A video making lurid and false claims about the Democratic presidential candidate was spread by pro-Trump accounts. Intelligence officials say Russia was behind the video.
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Oct 22, 2024
A video making lurid and false claims about the Democratic presidential candidate was spread by pro-Trump accounts. Intelligence officials say Russia was behind the video.
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Oct 22, 2024
Honda said there are no reports of injuries or deaths related to the issue. It is the second major call this month at Honda, after 1.7 million vehicles were found to have potential steering issues.
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Oct 22, 2024
New Yorker writer Susan Glasser says Trump is highly transactional, so billionaires may be betting on access and a seat at the table if he's re-elected. It's what some of them got in his first term.
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Oct 22, 2024
A new poll from the American Psychological Association shows 7 out of 10 adults say the future of the Nation is a significant source of stress in their lives. And the results cross party lines.
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Oct 22, 2024
Several men who made bombshell allegations against Jeffries were male models who described a dynamic in which money and potentially legitimate jobs were used as leverage to exploit them.
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Oct 22, 2024
Lee Hsien Yang, the brother of Singapore's former prime minister, said he is a "political refugee" after the U.K. government granted him asylum from what he described as persecution at home.
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Oct 22, 2024
As results roll in on election night, Pennsylvania's may take a while longer. Here's why that is. And, the ACLU challenges Louisiana's Ten Commandments law saying it harms children.
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Oct 22, 2024
An NPR investigation has found that since 2022, Trump has repeatedly threatened to investigate, prosecute, jail or otherwise punish his political opponents, rivals and even private citizens.
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Oct 22, 2024
Some clinics will now check your breast scan for arterial calcification, which can be a sign of heart disease risk. But questions remain about the approach.
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Oct 22, 2024
Lt. Cmdr. Lyndsay "Miley" Evans and Lt. Serena "Dug" Wileman were both 31 and from California, and recently served nine months on a tour in Yemen.
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Oct 22, 2024
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Pennsylvania's top elections official, Al Schmidt, about how the commonwealth is preparing for the Election Day vote count.
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Oct 22, 2024
The Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, which helps members get affordable mortgages, says its 3.7 million members must vote or risk losing membership — and the financial benefits.
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Oct 22, 2024
Ukraine is suffering from more than a Russian invasion. Births have plummeted. But many families with help from the government and doctors are trying to buck the trend and have a child in wartime.
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Oct 22, 2024
As Samantha Hodge-Williams waited on the operating table for emergency surgery, she felt alone and scared. Then the anesthesiologist appeared.
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Oct 22, 2024
Peru's former President Alejandro Toledo was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison in a case involving construction giant Odebrecht that became synonymous with corruption in Latin America.
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Oct 22, 2024
Marcelo Pérez continued to work as a peace activist despite threats. Advocates say he did not receive the government protection he needed.
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Oct 22, 2024
The family of Jayland Walker, a Black man who was fatally shot by eight police officers, will receive a $4.8 million settlement from the city of Akron, the mayor's office said.
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Oct 22, 2024
Tropical Storm Oscar was heading toward the Bahamas late Monday after dumping heavy rain across eastern Cuba. A tropical storm warning was in effect for the central and southeastern Bahamas.
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Oct 21, 2024
With two weeks to go until voting closes on Election Day, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Harris made two separate but equally important pitches to Republicans on the campaign trail Monday.
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Oct 21, 2024
Moldova voted in favor of adding a path to the European Union to its constitution, and gave the incumbent president the most votes in elections Sunday, but neither result was the win leaders wanted.
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Oct 21, 2024
Bomb threats are causing disruptions, diversions and delays for scores of flights on multiple Indian airlines. Indian authorities said they were looking to increase punishments for perpetrators.
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Oct 21, 2024
Record-breaking TV ratings helped the WNBA secure a more lucrative media rights deal this year. Now, the players' union has opted out of its contract, a move aimed at better salaries and benefits.
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Oct 21, 2024
The former Soviet republic of Moldova narrowly passed a referendum to pursue membership in the European Union. That puts it at odds with Russia, which is accused of meddling in the election. Our correspondent in Moscow tells us what the vote could mean.
And we go to the bar in Paris that for over a century has held a U.S. presidential straw poll that is usually accurate.
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Oct 21, 2024
In Michigan and North Carolina, two Republican legal challenges to the legitimacy of ballots cast by U.S. citizens living abroad, including U.S. military members, hit setbacks Monday.
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Oct 21, 2024
A Michigan state judge has dismissed a Republican lawsuit that challenged the swing state's long-standing process for voting by U.S. citizens living abroad, including military members.
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Oct 21, 2024
Michele Morrow has a track record of falsehoods - for example, saying Islam is a cult and that the plus in LGTBTQ stands for pedophilia.
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Oct 21, 2024
Michele Morrow has a track record of falsehoods - for example, saying Islam is a cult and that the plus in LGTBTQ stands for pedophilia.
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Oct 21, 2024
What you need to know about the races, issues and decisions being made in your community.
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Oct 21, 2024
Both liberal and conservative lawyers have judge-shopped, but in recent years, some conservative-leaning groups have been laser focused on bringing their challenges in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Oct 21, 2024
Houston officials say the helicopter was flying from Ellington Airport when it crashed into a radio tower.
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Oct 21, 2024
Houston officials say the helicopter was flying from Ellington Airport when it crashed into a radio tower.
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Oct 21, 2024
The court left in place a 90-year old landmark decision that declared that presidents cannot fire members of a multi-member independent agency, except in cases of bad behavior.
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Oct 21, 2024
Israel's military carried out airstrikes overnight on targets in Lebanon that the military says belong to Al-Qard Al-Hassan, a financial institution that undergirds the militant group Hezbollah.
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Oct 21, 2024
"I kept on guessing and just taking risks," says farmer Stephen Nzioka of Kenya. A weekly text message has been a game changer as he copes with a changing climate.
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Oct 21, 2024
Why Pennsylvania is being closely watched this election. And, Israeli strikes on Lebanon hit branches of a Hezbollah-run financial institution.
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Oct 21, 2024
The reclusive U.S.-based Islamic cleric who inspired a global social movement while facing accusations he masterminded a failed 2016 coup in his native Turkey was in his eighties.
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Oct 21, 2024
Sen. Lidia Thorpe was escorted out of a parliamentary reception for the royal couple after shouting that British colonizers have taken Indigenous land and bones.
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Oct 21, 2024
Health insurers would be required to cover all recommended over-the-counter contraception products, such as birth control and condoms, without a prescription and at no cost, for those with insurance.
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Oct 21, 2024
You can't eliminate stress, but you can manage it better and sometimes even make it a force for good. That means reframing how you think about it.
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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 21, 2024
Hawaii's native tree snails, known as the "jewels of the forest," are rapidly disappearing. Some of the most imperiled only live in human care now, safeguarded 24 hours days.
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Oct 21, 2024
It's very unlikely — but theoretically possible — that the presidential election ends with an Electoral College tie. If it did come to pass, here's how the next president would be determined.
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Oct 21, 2024
Vice President Harris and former president Donald Trump are in a tight race in Pennsylvania. The state could go either way and it's why both candidates are working so hard to appeal to voters.
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Oct 21, 2024
Sergeant Joshua Abate says that he's not a rioter or an insurrectionist. Those closest to the active-duty Marine call him "a good guy." But he was part of the mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6th, 2021. On the eve of a new presidential election, what does his case tell us, as the nation still grapples with the legacy of that day? As they look into the military's reckoning with extremism in the ranks, NPR's Tom Bowman and Lauren Hodges examine Abate's main line of defense: Don't focus on what he did; focus on his promising career as a Marine, instead. Embedded's new two-part series "A Good Guy" drops Thursday, October 24. To listen to this series sponsor-free and support NPR, sign up for Embedded in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
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Oct 21, 2024
The Kremlin will be able to talk to major players like India and China about expanding trade and bypassing Western sanctions.
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Oct 21, 2024
Georgia authorities say they are investigating the collapse of a dock gangway that killed seven people on an island where crowds gathered for a celebration by the island's community of Black slave descendants.
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Oct 21, 2024
Parliamentary elections were postponed several times amid disputes over the election law and procedures.
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Oct 21, 2024
Tropical Storm Oscar brought heavy rains and winds to Cuba, an island already beleaguered by a massive power outage, late Sunday after brushing the Bahamas.
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Oct 21, 2024
Two games in the series went to overtime.
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Oct 20, 2024
The digital library's website was defaced earlier this month with a message boasting its theft of Internet Archive users' sensitive records. The nonprofit said it's working to bolster security.
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Oct 20, 2024
Israel's military said it was targeting a Hezbollah financial unit that's used to pay operatives and buy arms. The nonprofit provides financial services and is also used by ordinary Lebanese.
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Oct 20, 2024
Trump supporter Elon Musk says the daily prize money is meant to "support the Constitution," but an election law expert calls it "clearly illegal."
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Oct 20, 2024
Millions of ballots are tabulated at the Maricopa County Tabulation Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Inside and out, the building is a fortress.
It's the legacy of the 2020 election when armed protestors gathered outside the building on election night. After Arizona was called for Joe Biden there were months of allegations about voter fraud.
At a time when election results are routinely challenged, candidates cry foul and protesters threaten violence...what does it take to run an election?
For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
Email us at considerthis@npr.org.
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Oct 20, 2024
Israeli strikes on multiple homes in the northern Gaza Strip overnight and into Sunday left at least 87 people dead or missing, the territory's Health Ministry said.
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Oct 20, 2024
Kamala Harris has said former President Trump is "cruel" for how he talked about the family of a Georgia mother who died after waiting for treatment for complications from an abortion pill
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Oct 20, 2024
In recent years, Catholic bishops have spent millions on campaigns to defeat abortion rights at the ballot box. This year, they're taking a dramatically different approach.
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Oct 20, 2024
In recent years, Catholic bishops have spent millions on campaigns to defeat abortion rights measures at the ballot box. This year, they're taking a dramatically different approach.
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Oct 20, 2024
Trump was campaigning Saturday in Latrobe, Penn., where Palmer was born in 1929 and learned to golf from his father, who suffered from polio and was head pro and greenskeeper at the local country club.
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Oct 20, 2024
Former President Donald Trump circuitously referenced golfer Arnold Palmer's genitalia but more directly insulted Vice President Harris at a winding rally in Latrobe, Pa., Saturday.
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Oct 20, 2024
Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial experiment that was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died.
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Oct 20, 2024
In three swing states, GOP groups are suing to challenge the ballots cast by U.S. citizens living abroad, including military members. Many voting experts say these cases are likely to go nowhere.
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Oct 20, 2024
Inductees this year also included A Tribe Called Quest and Dave Matthews Band, and posthumous recognition for Jimmy Buffett, MC5, Alexis Korner, John Mayall, Norman Whitfield and Big Mama Thornton.
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Oct 19, 2024
Authorities said part of a ferry dock collapsed on Georgia's Sapelo Island, where crowds had gathered for a fall celebration by the island's tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants.
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Oct 19, 2024
The U.S. is investigating an unauthorized release of classified documents that assess Israel's plans to attack Iran, three U.S. officials told The Associated Press.
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Oct 19, 2024
The auction for Shohei Ohtani's iconic 50/50 baseball is almost over. But three men are still fighting in court over who will get the proceeds.
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Oct 19, 2024
The latest proposal includes a 35% general wage increase over four years — bringing it closer to the union's original ask for 40%. Boeing previously offered a 25% raise over the life of the contract.
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Oct 19, 2024
The recall includes various certain frozen waffles sold in Walmart, Target, Publix and other stores. Some waffles for brands like Kodiak Cakes, Simple Truth and Food Hold have also been recalled.
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Oct 19, 2024
Cuba's power grid has ground to a halt for a second time in as many days, leaving 10 million on the island without power and the Caribbean island in a growing sense of crisis.
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Oct 19, 2024
Cuba's power grid has ground to a halt for a second time in as many days, leaving 10 million on the island without power and the Caribbean island in a growing sense of crisis.
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Oct 19, 2024
Israel said a drone targeted the prime minister's house; there were no casualties. Hezbollah said it carried out rocket attacks on Israel, while Israel launched airstrikes on Beirut's suburbs.
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Oct 19, 2024
Israel said a drone targeted the prime minister's house; there were no casualties. Hezbollah said it carried out rocket attacks on Israel, while Israel launched airstrikes on Beirut's suburbs.
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Oct 19, 2024
The Israeli government said a drone targeted the prime minister's house, though there were no casualties, as Iran's supreme leader vowed Hamas would continue its fight.
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Oct 19, 2024
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, no stranger to controversy, has ignited another with a hat. NPR's Scott Simon explains.
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Oct 19, 2024
A look back on the life and politics of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a key player for the last several years in the Israel-Gaza conflict.
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Oct 19, 2024
The future of Hamas and the war in Gaza now that the organization's leader is dead.
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Oct 19, 2024
Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told NPR that election officials across the U.S. have made big improvements to bolster both physical and cyber security.
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