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Jul 04, 2025
At least 13 people are dead after a "catastrophic" storm and flooding in Texas.
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Jul 04, 2025
The Trump administration is withholding $715 million for adult funding nationwide. This has left programs that serve over a million students a year scrambling for answers.
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Jul 04, 2025
Medicaid programs go by so many different names across the country that advocates and experts warn people may not know they're losing their coverage until it's too late.
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Jul 04, 2025
On America's 249th birthday, we look at the different definitions of America by revisiting NPR's American Anthem series.
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Jul 04, 2025
Department of Justice programs that support and protect crime survivors are being targeted for funding cancellation by the Trump administration.
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Jul 04, 2025
During summer heat, some turn to "super cooling" their homes by turning the thermostat way down in the morning, and raising it during electricity peak hours, to be energy efficient. But does it work?
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Jul 04, 2025
Hydroelectricity makes up about a third of renewable energy in the U.S. Plant operators say they have far more federal hurdles to overcome than wind or solar energy companies.
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Jul 04, 2025
The 4th of July traditional hotdog eating contest got us thinking about why food and the holiday are so intertwined. Some experts have gone deep on the subject of competitive eating.
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Jul 04, 2025
With sweeping ICE arrests taking place, some Black residents worry the color of their skin could make them susceptible, and they're taking steps to prevent negative encounters.
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Jul 04, 2025
An inside look at the infighting of a Brooklyn co-op where members are debating whether to ban Israeli goods because of the war in Gaza.
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Jul 04, 2025
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with chef Roy Choi about his new cookbook, The Choi of Cooking: Flavor-Packed, Rule-Breaking Recipes for a Delicious Life.
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Jul 04, 2025
A provision in President Trump's mega spending bill defunds Planned Parenthood. The organization says 200 clinics may close. Most are in states where abortion is legal.
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Jul 04, 2025
The movie thriller 40 ACRES is set in a world of famine, violence and lots of guns. The film also provides "food" for thought.
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Jul 04, 2025
President Trump is signing the "One Big Beautiful Bill" to implement his policy agenda on Independence Day, as he was hoping for.
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Jul 03, 2025
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with McKay Coppins, who recently profiled Russell Vought in the Atlantic. Vought is a key player in the Trump administration's push to remake the federal government.
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Jul 03, 2025
Fans in Liverpool and beyond are heartbroken at the tragic death of 28-year-old star player Diogo Joga, who was killed in a car crash in Spain
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Jul 03, 2025
More than 180 airports in rural areas across the U.S. benefit from federal funding that guarantees commercial air service. That program might lose half its funding due to Trump administration cuts.
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Jul 03, 2025
The Trump administration restored the names of nine bases named after confederate general. Advocates say it dishonors a bi-partisan attempt to turn the page on the military's segregationist past.
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Jul 03, 2025
President Trump's CIA Director John Ratcliffe tasked CIA analysts with reviewing the agency's 2016 conclusions about election interference.
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Jul 03, 2025
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases in the fall that test state laws banning transgender women and girls from participating in sports at publicly funded institution.
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Jul 03, 2025
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases in the fall that test state laws banning transgender women and girls from participating in sports at publicly funded institutions.
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Jul 03, 2025
More than 70 writers wrote an open letter outlining their issues with the use of A.I. in the literary world. Their main demand is for publishing houses to never release books created by machines.
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Jul 03, 2025
The Pentagon is halting the delivery of some U.S. weapons to Ukraine that are crucial in its battle against Russia. This comes at a time when Russia has stepped up its attacks against Ukraine.
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Jul 03, 2025
The House of Representatives has passed the One Big Beautiful Bill. The package extends existing temporary tax cuts, makes cuts to Medicaid and adds spending on border security and defense.
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Jul 03, 2025
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Ken Martin, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, about how the Big Beautiful Bill Act will figure into democratic messaging in the midterms.
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Jul 03, 2025
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Honoree Fanonne Jeffers about her new book Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings.
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Jul 03, 2025
Who is being detained and deported, and how do the numbers square with the Trump administration's priorities on criminals? We put Trump's deportation and detention numbers in context.
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Jul 03, 2025
Ever wake up from a nap feeling extra groggy? Naps can be beneficial for your mental and physical health - but there's a few things you need to know. NPR's Life Kit has tips for the optimal nap.
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Jul 03, 2025
A federal jury acquitted Combs of his most serious charges — racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking — but found him guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
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Jul 03, 2025
A ruling by London's High Court cited the domestic intelligence agency's failure to explain why representatives had repeatedly misled U.K. courts about an informant accused of violence against women.
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Jul 02, 2025
NPR's Ari Shapiro and longtime newscaster Jack Speer chat about his early years covering business for the network, his retirement, and what he'll miss about covering the daily news.
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Jul 02, 2025
Renowned social psychologist James Maas was on a mission to get Americans to take sleep more seriously. The longtime Cornell professor credited with coining the term "power nap" died last week at 86.
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Jul 02, 2025
Antonina Khyzhniak, who appeared in stock footage included in a White House Instagram video for the Trump administration's tax bill, responded with a humorous video — and a serious message.
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Jul 02, 2025
Senate Majority Leader John Thune is a key ally of President Trump's, helping get his domestic policy bill passed by the Senate. It is a dramatic reversal from their days as virtual political enemies.
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Jul 02, 2025
NPR's Juana Summers talks with New York Rep. Mike Lawler, a republican, about the Senate's tax and spending bill - and whether he thinks the House has enough votes to send it to the president's desk.
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Jul 02, 2025
A fan at a Green Day concert was invited onstage to play along with the band — only to start playing someone else's music.
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Jul 02, 2025
A law from 1849 does not ban abortion in Wisconsin. That's what the state Supreme Court decided Wednesday.
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Jul 02, 2025
As Dalai Lama turns 90, he says he will not be the last spiritual leader of Tibet's Buddhists — there will be a successor.
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Jul 02, 2025
A look at a rural clinic in Kentucky shows how it could get harder for states to provide health care for people on Medicaid — and how other clinics could be affected — if Congress imposes cuts.
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Jul 02, 2025
President Trump's sweeping budget bill just passed the Senate. It would cut trillions in taxes. It also would make the biggest cuts to the social safety net in decades - to things like food aid.
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Jul 02, 2025
California lawmakers passed legislation this week changing the state's landmark environmental law in an effort to lower barriers to affordable housing. We unpack the changes and their implications.
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Jul 02, 2025
An NPR journalist in Gaza describes his experience seeking food from a site run by private American contractors, facing Israeli military fire, crowds fighting for rations, and masked thieves.
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Jul 02, 2025
Wildlife trafficking is one of the world's biggest illegal trades, and the U.S. creates much of the demand for pet primates. Now there's a proposed ban on privately owning and breeding these animals.
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Jul 01, 2025
Much of Europe, including France, is dealing with a brutal heatwave. Some people are better prepared than others in a country where most people do not have air conditioning.
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Jul 01, 2025
The budget bill passed by the Senate would roll back renewable energy incentives. That could short-circuit a manufacturing boom and increase electricity costs while making it harder to curb pollution.
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Jul 01, 2025
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled so far from Earth that the relative position of the stars is beginning to shift — a fact that could help future spacecraft navigate the galaxy on their own.
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Jul 01, 2025
The Trump administration has invoked antisemitism as a reason to cut university funds, ban travelers and deport student activists. But some from the Jewish community say these steps miss the mark in fostering safety and fighting antisemitism.
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Jul 01, 2025
Drowning is the number one cause of death for children ages 1-4 in the United States. NPR's Life Kit has water safety tips to keep young swimmers safe this summer.
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Jul 01, 2025
Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart has died at the age of 90, following a heart attack last month. The Pentecostal preacher had an audience of millions before a sex scandal in the late 1980s.
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Jul 01, 2025
Ahead of the July 4 holiday, a new poll from NPR/PBS News/Marist sheds light on how people are feeling about the state of democracy, the political parties and the job President Trump is doing.
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Jul 01, 2025
New research shows that certain bacteria in the microbiome soak up "forever chemicals," or PFAS. The findings raise the possibility that probiotics could help remove some PFAS from our bodies.
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Jul 01, 2025
This week, a disabled young woman moved out of a hospital to her own apartment. The Trump Administration celebrated its role in this. Even though it's ending the federal program that made it possible.
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Jul 01, 2025
When a disabled young woman moved out of a hospital to her own apartment, the Trump administration celebrated — even though it's ending the federal program that made it possible.
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Jul 01, 2025
President Trump toured a deportation facility in the middle of the Florida Everglades as the Senate passed the megabill.
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Jul 01, 2025
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Michael Ricci, who's worked with multiple congressional Republicans and is now a professor at Georgetown University, about the bill's prospects in the House.
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Jul 01, 2025
Under the Great Plains, there's an aquifer powering the region's agriculture system. But it's running out of water, prompting farmers in middle America to consider more environmentally friendly crops.
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Jul 01, 2025
Thimerosal has been a target of groups that question vaccine safety. What vaccines still contain the mercury compound, and what would happen if the recommendations against its use become official?
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Jul 01, 2025
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Tamara Yajia about her memoir, Cry for Me, Argentina: My Life as a Failed Child Star and growing up with her unconventional family in the U.S. and Argentina.
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Jun 30, 2025
The jury considering the charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation for prostitution against the music mogul Sean Combs began its deliberations.
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Jun 30, 2025
Authorities in Idaho are trying to learn more about the man they say started a fire, then ambushed and shot three responding firefighters, killing two. The suspect is dead and his motive is unknown.
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Jun 30, 2025
Work requirements for Medicaid are proposed as a way to cut costs in the big budget bill. Studies find they achieve cost savings by kicking off legitimate beneficiaries because of a paperwork burden.
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Jun 30, 2025
A punk duo is under investigation in the U.K. and banned from performing in the U.S., after its singer led anti-Israeli military chants during a BBC live broadcast of the Glastonbury arts festival.
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Jun 30, 2025
NPR'S Andrew Limbong and Anamaria Sayer review the latest album from Karol G, Tropicoqueta.
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Jun 30, 2025
After a meal some people experience high spikes in blood sugar followed by a crashing low. The dips can cause fatigue, moodiness and lead to overeating. Learning how to manage your blood sugar can help.
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Jun 30, 2025
With decisions from executive power to deportation authority, the conservative supermajority of the Supreme Court sided with President Trump most of the time.
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Jun 30, 2025
The court closed its latest term on Friday, but it will still be working on a steady stream of emergency appeals in the coming weeks and months.
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Jun 30, 2025
It may have come as a shock to the political world, but something about Zohran Mamdani's message resonated with Democratic voters for New York City Mayor.
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Jun 30, 2025
The Senate is holding amendment votes on the GOP tax and spending bill ahead of as self-imposed July 4 deadline for getting the bill to President Trump's desk.
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Jun 30, 2025
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sarah Jane Tribble, chief rural correspondent for KFF Health News, about how the Reconciliation Bill's cuts to Medicaid could impact rural hospitals.
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Jun 30, 2025
The Trump administration has issued a notice of violation accusing Harvard University of "deliberate indifference" toward Jewish and Israeli students.
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Jun 30, 2025
Canada scrapped a digital services tax that would have hit U.S. tech companies such as Google and Amazon after President Trump halted trade talks and threatened higher tariffs on Canadian imports.
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Jun 30, 2025
People who can no longer move or speak may soon have a new option: an implanted device that links their brain to a computer.
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Jun 30, 2025
Andrew Roth survived the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. Jack Moran helped liberate the camp while serving in the U.S. Army. Decades after liberation, the two met and shared their stories.
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Jun 30, 2025
As a college freshman, Karen de Boer was sometimes inconsiderate to her hallmate, Pam. So when Karen missed the bus to her choir performance, she was surprised — and moved — when Pam came to her rescue.
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Jun 29, 2025
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Tyler Kepner of the New York Times about the life and legacy of baseball writer Scott Miller.
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Jun 29, 2025
We discuss President Trump and Kim Jong Un's past negotiations and the difficulties of reporting on North Korea.
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Jun 29, 2025
During World War II, the United States arrested hundreds of Japanese, German and Italian immigrants and deported them to America where they lived in camps.
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Jun 29, 2025
A 1983 routine cleaning at Boerne High School in Texas yielded a rare and precious find: a thick, ornate Bible wrapped in cloth and written in low German. Now it will soon be seen online.
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Jun 29, 2025
The romance genre continues to grow rapidly, as readers flock to fantasy and dark romance love stories.
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Jun 29, 2025
Fans of fireworks may get a little less bang for their buck this Independence Day. Most fireworks are made in China, which means they're now facing an import tax of at least 30%.
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Jun 29, 2025
The race to create more powerful artificial intelligence applications has also created a huge demand in China for high quality training data.
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Jun 29, 2025
Senate Republican leaders are still negotiating details of their massive tax and spending bill and moving toward a final vote sometime on Monday.
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Jun 28, 2025
NPR's Anastasia Tsioulcas discusses the closing arguments in the sex trafficking and racketeering trial of hip hop mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs.
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Jun 28, 2025
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Bloomberg News Supreme Court reporter Greg Stohr about what we've learned about the makeup and direction of the court from this term's rulings.
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Jun 28, 2025
Former Minnesota Speaker of the House Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark are memorialized in a funeral in Minneapolis. They were assassinated in their home June 14 in an attack that shocked the nation.
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Jun 28, 2025
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Caryn Rose about the surprises and treasures in the new Bruce Springsteen box set release this week.
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Jun 28, 2025
KPBS's podcast Port of Entry about the borderlands between Tijuana and San Diego explores the complexities of "life on the line."
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Jun 28, 2025
NPR's Andrew Limbong leads a conversation about what constitutes a great premise for a movie - and why a good one sticks with you, even if the film doesn't.
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Jun 28, 2025
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Cristina Costantini, director of the new documentary, "Sally," about the life of astronaut Sally Ride.
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Jun 27, 2025
The Orthodox Christian tradition is strong in the tiny village of Kwethluk, Alaska. It recently welcomed clergy and pilgrims from around the world to canonize a local midwife and healer as a saint.
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Jun 27, 2025
A growing number of people who take SSRIs are saying they've suffered difficult withdrawal symptoms from long-term use, including dysphoria and sexual dysfunction.
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Jun 27, 2025
NPR's science podcast Short Wave shares how taking a nap can deliver a eureka moment, a new picture of a planet right after it was born, and how wildfires can affect water quality - after the fires stop burning.
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Jun 27, 2025
In the Bay Area, a number of drag artists have started incorporating climate action into their performances. They say the art form is a natural vehicle for the message, given its roots in activism.
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Jun 27, 2025
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to take steps aimed at implementing its ban on birthright citizenship. It has also made it far more difficult to challenge executive orders.
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Jun 27, 2025
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to take steps aimed at implementing its ban on birthright citizenship. It has also made it far more difficult to challenge executive orders.
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Jun 27, 2025
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Stanford law professor Jeffrey Fisher about the Supreme Court ruling that parents have the right to remove their kids from class when books with LGBTQ themes are used.
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Jun 27, 2025
Slain Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark will be buried Saturday as the public still grapples with the aftermath of the shocking political assassination a couple weeks ago.
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Jun 27, 2025
It usually happens to your computer right in the middle of something important: The dreaded Microsoft Windows blue error screen. Now Microsoft is retiring the blue screen of death for a new color.
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Jun 27, 2025
EDM mega-star Steve Aoki continues to break genre boundaries with his new album HiROQUEST 3: Paragon.
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Jun 27, 2025
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have signed what President Trump is calling a peace deal. But the text leaves lots of questions in a complicated war in a mineral rich region of Africa.
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