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Biden administration approves California plans to ban sale of gas-only vehicles
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Biden administration approves California plans to ban sale of gas-only vehicles

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Biden administration approves California plans to ban sale of gas-only vehicles The Biden administration has approved California's plan to require new vehicles sold in the state by 2035 to have zero-emissions. A MARTÍNEZ, BYLINE: The Biden administration has approved California's plan to require all new cars, trucks and SUVs sold in the state in 2035 to be zero-emission vehicles. LAURA …

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Amazon faces multiple pickets as union targets holiday shopping rush
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Amazon faces multiple pickets as union targets holiday shopping rush

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Amazon faces multiple pickets as union targets holiday shopping rush toggle caption Damian Dovarganes/AP Amazon faced a coordinated picket effort as drivers and warehouse workers at multiple locations around the U.S. on Thursday pressed the retail giant to recognize their unions. The union had said workers would strike at seven locations in major delivery hubs: around the cities of New …

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'They don't live where we live': How communities hear each other in a divided country
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'They don't live where we live': How communities hear each other in a divided country

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'They don't live where we live': How communities hear each other in a divided country Jackie Lay Alba Lopez remembers inviting the secretary of the company she works for to a birthday party. When Lopez said, "They don't live where we live," she tapped into a sentiment we heard a lot: We know our own communities but we don't often …

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Trump's promise to end CBP One app worries migrants waiting in Mexico
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Trump's promise to end CBP One app worries migrants waiting in Mexico

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Trump's promise to end CBP One app worries migrants waiting in Mexico toggle caption Paul Ratje for NPR CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — David Melgar and his wife stand at the top of the Paso del Norte International Bridge. toggle caption Paul Ratje for NPR Since January 2023, the CBP One app has provided nearly 900,000 people with appointments to show …

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Calling all students! NPR's Student Podcast Challenge returns for 2025
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Calling all students! NPR's Student Podcast Challenge returns for 2025

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NPR's Student Podcast Challenge returns for 2025 Mar Hernandez for NPR It all started with a small idea back in 2018, when NPR's education team wanted to know what was really going on in the minds of young people. So we created the Student Podcast Challenge, an opportunity for students all around the country to record their stories and share …

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This weightlifting gym helps older people build more than just strength
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This weightlifting gym helps older people build more than just strength

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This weightlifting gym helps older people build more than just strength toggle caption Kyna Uwaeme for NPR BALTIMORE — On a recent weekday morning, weightlifter Mona Noyes walks up to a platform and positions herself to deadlift, with the help of a trainer. toggle caption Kyna Uwaeme for NPR And that's how Noyes ended up at Fivex3 Training, a strength …

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Dozens of prisoners allege a culture of violence by guards at federal facility in Virginia
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Dozens of prisoners allege a culture of violence by guards at federal facility in Virginia

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Dozens of prisoners allege a culture of violence by guards at federal facility in Virginia Valerie Chiang for the Marshall Project Marcos Santiago heard the clatter of metal chains outside cell 201 next door. toggle caption toggle caption In a motion to dismiss Santiago's lawsuit, federal lawyers representing prison staff wrote that "each of the Defendants deny the Amended Complaint's …

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Snuggle up for story time with 10 new picture books from 2024
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Snuggle up for story time with 10 new picture books from 2024

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Snuggle up for story time with 10 new picture books from 2024 NPR As any designated bedtime book reader knows: novelty is key. — Minh Lê, author of Drawn Together and Built to Last Sponsor Message Purchase BookBarrio Rising by María Dolores Águila, illustrated by Magdalena Mora close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase helps support NPR programming. — Juanita …

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10 young adult novels you don't have to be young to enjoy
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10 young adult novels you don't have to be young to enjoy

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10 young adult novels you don't have to be young to enjoy NPR In this collection of YA titles recommended by NPR book critics and staff, you'll find romance, historical fiction, poetry, fantasy and more. — Betsy Bird, collection development manager, Evanston Public Library Purchase BookBlack Girl You Are Atlas by Renée Watson, illustrated by Ekua Holmes close overlay Buy …

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10 book ideas for budding bookworms
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10 book ideas for budding bookworms

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10 book ideas for budding bookworms NPR In fifth grade, I once got grounded for reading after midnight. — Betsy Bird, collection development manager, Evanston Public Library Purchase BookFlying Through Water by Mamle Wolo close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase helps support NPR programming. — Betsy Bird, collection development manager, Evanston Public Library Purchase BookMagnolia Wu Unfolds It All …

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'Cancer ghosting' can be more painful than treatment, survivors say
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'Cancer ghosting' can be more painful than treatment, survivors say

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'Cancer ghosting' can be more painful than treatment, survivors say toggle caption Zack Wittman for NPR Chelsey Gomez grew up fiercely independent. toggle caption Gomez family "I think that's one of the things with cancer ghosting – a lot of times you don't get an explanation from people. An inability to face feelings Nearly every patient has a story of …

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Trains, tracks, and tradition: Lionel celebrates 125 years of Christmas fun
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Trains, tracks, and tradition: Lionel celebrates 125 years of Christmas fun

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Trains, tracks, and tradition: Lionel celebrates 125 years of Christmas fun toggle caption Sara Messinger for NPR As kids for generations have done, Landon Tennant looks longingly at a streamlined Lionel Santa Fe engine as it chugs around a tiny display with houses, mountains and bridges at TrainLand, a hobby shop on Long Island, New York. toggle caption Sara Messinger …

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A transplanted pig kidney offers a grandmother hope for life without dialysis
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A transplanted pig kidney offers a grandmother hope for life without dialysis

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A transplanted pig kidney offers a grandmother hope for life without dialysis toggle caption Joe Carrotta for NYU Langone Health NEW YORK – Towana Looney can hardly contain her anticipation as she waits to get wheeled to an operating room at the NYU Langone Health hospital in New York City for an historic procedure. "It's going to change my life," …

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Senior adviser Jason Miller shares plans for Trump's first day in office
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Senior adviser Jason Miller shares plans for Trump's first day in office

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Senior adviser Jason Miller shares plans for Trump's first day in office STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Day by day, we're pursuing a question - how radical will a new Trump administration be? JASON MILLER: We're going to put the Trump policies back in place. So if you liked what we had during the first four years of the Trump administration, you're …

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Police in Wisconsin identify 15-year-old female student as school shooter
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Police in Wisconsin identify 15-year-old female student as school shooter

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Police in Wisconsin identify 15-year-old female student as school shooter In Madison, Wisconsin, authorities are trying to understand why a teenage student opened fire at their Christian school, killing a teacher and a fellow student. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: An all-too-familiar ritual took place at a church outside of Madison, Wisconsin, last night - a vigil for the victims and the …

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Canada's finance minister resigns. Prime Minister Trudeau has a political crisis
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Canada's finance minister resigns. Prime Minister Trudeau has a political crisis

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Canada's finance minister resigns. Prime Minister Trudeau has a political crisis STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: What is going on with democracies? And now Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces a crisis. As you say, Chrystia Freeland, the deputy prime minister, the finance minister, she was the original Justin Trudeau liberal before he was prime minister. And we learned from her resignation …

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Russian general in charge of chemical and biological warfare is killed in Moscow
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Russian general in charge of chemical and biological warfare is killed in Moscow

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Russian general in charge of chemical and biological warfare is killed in Moscow MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: A top Russian lieutenant general is dead, targeted in an assassination in Moscow. The general was in charge of chemical and biological warfare in Russia's war on Ukraine, and sources in Ukraine's security service have confirmed to NPR that it was behind the assassination. …

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Palestinians learn about atrocities Syria's Assad carried out against his own people
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Palestinians learn about atrocities Syria's Assad carried out against his own people

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Palestinians learn about atrocities Syria's Assad carried out against his own people As horrific details emerge from Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's jails, many question the man who once claimed to champion their cause. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Palestinians are confronting painful new information about a man many had viewed as a defender of their rights, the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. …

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House and Senate Republicans debate which priorities to move on first
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House and Senate Republicans debate which priorities to move on first

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House and Senate Republicans debate which priorities to move on first Senate and House GOP leaders plan a wide-ranging policy agenda but have a short window to act; and passing bills using rules to get around a filibuster requires near unanimity. NPR congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh reports that House and Senate Republicans are debating what to do first. DEIRDRE WALSH, …

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Songs That Move You: 'Amigo' by Roberto Carlos
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Songs That Move You: 'Amigo' by Roberto Carlos

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Songs That Move You: 'Amigo' by Roberto Carlos Alt.Latino brings us a new installment to their series "Songs That Move You." It's part of a series called Songs That Move You from NPR's radio show and podcast, Alt.Latino, hosted by Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras. FELIX CONTRERAS, BYLINE: The story behind the song this week is about what happens when …

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Mars (yes, the planet) has its own Grand Canyon
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Mars (yes, the planet) has its own Grand Canyon

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Mars has its own Grand Canyon Research is revealing similarities between Earth's Grand Canyon and ones on the red planet. RAE SOLOMON, BYLINE: Maybe it's the intriguing red color, but us earthlings have always been drawn to the planet Mars. That doesn't sound much like today's Mars, all cold and ice-capped with a surface mostly devoid of liquid water. SOLOMON: …

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Luigi Mangione is indicted on murder charges for killing healthcare CEO
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Luigi Mangione is indicted on murder charges for killing healthcare CEO

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Luigi Mangione is indicted on murder charges for killing healthcare CEO AILSA CHANG, HOST: A New York grand jury has indicted the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Luigi Mangione faces murder charges for allegedly gunning down Thompson in a targeted attack on a Manhattan street. MAX: So prosecutors say that Mangione took a bus to New York …

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Talking with the first person to receive a new kind of pig kidney transplant
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Talking with the first person to receive a new kind of pig kidney transplant

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Talking with the first person to receive a new kind of pig kidney transplant NPR visits first person to get a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney two weeks after undergoing the historic procedure. ROB STEIN, BYLINE: It's been two weeks since I spent the day inside an OR at NYU Langone Health in New York City, watching surgeons …

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Christmas and Sadness
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Christmas and Sadness

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Christmas and Sadness More and more congregations are trying to be sensitive to those who are grieving during the holidays. As NPR religion correspondent Jason DeRose reports, more churches are making room for those emotions at Christmas. JASON DEROSE, BYLINE: St. Augustine By-The-Sea Episcopal Church is holding its Blue Christmas service. DEROSE: It's not just at this service that St. …

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