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HIV is spiking in new hot spots. Here's what's being done to control it
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HIV is spiking in new hot spots. Here's what's being done to control it

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HIV is spiking in new hot spots. "We used to call hidden and growing, but now they are saying it's fast and furious," says Dr. Loyd Norella, who manages the HIV program at the Pilipinas Shell Foundation — the foundation arm of the energy and petroleum company Shell Philippines, part of Shell Global. In the Philippines: 'I didn't want that …

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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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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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Employers lobby to keep health care prices transparent in hopes of containing costs
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Employers lobby to keep health care prices transparent in hopes of containing costs

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Employers lobby to keep health care prices transparent in hopes of containing costs toggle caption Zach Gibson/Getty Images It seems simple: Require hospitals and insurers to post their negotiated prices for most health care services and — bingo — competition follows, yielding lower costs for consumers. Employers are using transparency data to try to slow growth of their health care …

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How will Australia's under-16 social media ban work? We asked the law's enforcer
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How will Australia's under-16 social media ban work? We asked the law's enforcer

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How will Australia's under-16 social media ban work? We asked the law's enforcer toggle caption Provided by the Australian eSafety Commission Australia passed one of the strictest internet crackdowns in the world last month, banning children under 16 from being on social media or opening new accounts. Sponsor Message Research that's examined the link between social media use and teens' …

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Who can say it's healthy? The FDA has a new definition for food labels
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Who can say it's healthy? The FDA has a new definition for food labels

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Who can say it's healthy? The FDA has a new definition for food labels toggle caption Hispanolistic/Getty Images At a time when more than half of the American diet comes from processed, packaged foods, the Food and Drug Administration has new rules aimed at helping people make healthy choices in the grocery store. Food companies can voluntarily use a "healthy" …

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How the Assads used a civil war to turn Syria into a narco state
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How the Assads used a civil war to turn Syria into a narco state

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How the Assads used a civil war to turn Syria into a narco state toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR DAMASCUS, Syria — A luxury villa dominates a hilltop overlooking the countryside just 15 miles outside the capital, Damascus. toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR As the use of Captagon increased, Syria's neighbors sought to stop it. toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR David McCloskey, a …

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Georgia court blocks Fulton DA Willis from Trump election interference case
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Georgia court blocks Fulton DA Willis from Trump election interference case

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Georgia court blocks Fulton DA Willis from Trump election interference case toggle caption Alex Slitz/Pool/Getty Images ATLANTA — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her office cannot continue prosecuting the Georgia election interference case involving President-elect Donald Trump, the Georgia Court of Appeals has ruled. "While this is the rare case in which DA Willis and her office must …

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Energy chief Granholm warns against 'unfettered exports' of liquefied natural gas
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Energy chief Granholm warns against 'unfettered exports' of liquefied natural gas

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Energy chief Granholm warns against 'unfettered exports' of liquefied natural gas toggle caption Rafiq Maqbool/AP WASHINGTON — The United States should proceed cautiously as officials consider new natural gas export terminals, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Tuesday, warning the incoming Trump administration that "unfettered exports" of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, could drive up domestic prices and increase planet-warming greenhouse …

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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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How much power would RFK Jr. have at HHS? A former health secretary weighs in
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How much power would RFK Jr. have at HHS? A former health secretary weighs in

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How much power would RFK Jr. have at HHS? A former health secretary weighs in toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is on Capitol Hill this week, trying to convince senators that they should greenlight him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, ahead of expected confirmation hearings. In contrast, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden said …

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Scientists know our bodies are full of microplastics. What are they doing to us?
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Scientists know our bodies are full of microplastics. What are they doing to us?

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Scientists know our bodies are full of microplastics. "It seemed like nobody wanted to touch it," says Leslie, a microplastics researcher in the Netherlands whose team was the first to detect these particles in the human bloodstream several years ago. Sponsor Message Scientists can isolate microplastics, pull them out of human tissue and take pictures, but seeing where they are …

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Bird flu update: California declares emergency and U.S. sees 1st severe human case
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Bird flu update: California declares emergency and U.S. sees 1st severe human case

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Bird flu update: California declares emergency and U.S. sees 1st severe human case toggle caption National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/AP California Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in response to the ongoing spread of bird flu among dairy cattle. Genetic sequencing indicates the H5N1 virus responsible for the illness belongs to a genetic lineage that's …

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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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Carlos Watson gets nearly 10 years in prison in case about failed startup Ozy Media
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Carlos Watson gets nearly 10 years in prison in case about failed startup Ozy Media

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Carlos Watson gets nearly 10 years in prison in case about failed startup Ozy Media toggle caption Stefan Jeremiah/AP/FR171756 AP Editor's note: Carlos Watson served as a corporate director of NPR, but stepped down in 2021 amid allegations of wrongdoing. NEW YORK — Former talk show host Carlos Watson was sentenced Monday to nearly 10 years in prison in a …

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Syrian families scour hospitals and morgues for loved ones lost under Assad's rule
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Syrian families scour hospitals and morgues for loved ones lost under Assad's rule

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Syrian families scour hospitals and morgues for loved ones lost under Assad's rule toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR Warning: This article contains descriptions of torture. toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR Searching for Americans Mouaz Moustafa, the founder of the human rights and aid organization Syrian Emergency Task Force, is on a mission to look for Americans. toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR In the …

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U.S. to pay $116M settlement over rampant sexual abuse at Calif. women's prison
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U.S. to pay $116M settlement over rampant sexual abuse at Calif. women's prison

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U.S. to pay $116M settlement over rampant sexual abuse at Calif. women's prison toggle caption Jeff Chiu/AP NEW YORK — The U.S. government will pay nearly $116 million to resolve lawsuits brought by more than 100 women who say they were abused or mistreated at a now-shuttered federal prison in California that was known as the "rape club" because of …

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In last-ditch effort, Democrats push to get Julie Su confirmed as Labor Secretary
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In last-ditch effort, Democrats push to get Julie Su confirmed as Labor Secretary

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In last-ditch effort, Democrats push to get Julie Su confirmed as Labor Secretary toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images North America President Biden joined workers' advocates at the U.S. Labor Department this week to designate a new national monument in honor of FDR's long-serving labor secretary, Frances Perkins, who famously established the minimum wage, the 40-hour work week, a ban on …

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FBI warns Americans to keep their text messages secure: What to know
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FBI warns Americans to keep their text messages secure: What to know

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FBI warns Americans to keep their text messages secure: What to know toggle caption Damien Meyer/AFP via Getty Images It's not often that a piece of FBI advice triggers a Snopes fact check. The U.S. believes hackers affiliated with China's government, dubbed Salt Typhoon, are waging a "broad and significant cyber-espionage campaign" to infiltrate commercial telecoms and steal users' data …

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Billie Eilish thought she'd always have a soft voice. Singing lessons changed that
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Billie Eilish thought she'd always have a soft voice. Singing lessons changed that

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Billie Eilish thought she'd always have a soft voice. Singing lessons changed that toggle caption Arturo Holmes/Getty Images When Billie Eilish first hit the music scene as a teenager, she captivated audiences with her soft, whispery voice. On having a teen audience as Billie's older brother Finneas: I'm four years older, so I would say that I didn't have much …

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At the Florida Senior Games, pickleball is the crown jewel. Here's why
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At the Florida Senior Games, pickleball is the crown jewel. Here's why

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At the Florida Senior Games, pickleball is the crown jewel. Here's why toggle caption Zack Wittman for NPR WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. — At the Wiregrass Ranch Sports Campus on a recent Tuesday morning, dozens of pickleball players gathered around tournament director Aaron Del Mar. Sponsor Message "It's like they're going back to their younger days when they did this with …

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Taking vitamin D is unlikely to prevent falls or fractures. Here's what it does
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Taking vitamin D is unlikely to prevent falls or fractures. Here's what it does

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Taking vitamin D is unlikely to prevent falls or fractures. Vitamin D and calcium supplements offer no "net benefit" for the prevention of falls or fractures in older adults, according to a draft recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a panel of experts who reviewed all of the existing scientific evidence on the supplements. "This doesn't mean that …

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Here's what we know about the deadly school shooting in Wisconsin
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Here's what we know about the deadly school shooting in Wisconsin

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Here's what we know about the deadly school shooting in Wisconsin toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images A teacher and a teenage student were killed in a school shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wis., in an attack Monday that also injured six more people. Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes told reporters that at 10:57 a.m. local time, …

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'Fake electors' from 2020 are casting 2024 votes for Trump while facing felony charges
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'Fake electors' from 2020 are casting 2024 votes for Trump while facing felony charges

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'Fake electors' from 2020 are casting 2024 votes for Trump while facing felony charges toggle caption Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Some supporters of President-elect Donald Trump are set to cast their states' Electoral College votes Tuesday while still dealing with felony charges stemming from the last presidential race. Eight of this year's designated Republican presidential electors in Michigan and …

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