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When will air quality improve? A lot is riding on the wind

Millions of Americans are under air quality alerts as wildfires burn in Canada. Experts say the weather pattern could change by early next week, and stress the need to take precautions until then.

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Seismic stations detected explosion at Ukrainian dam around the time it collapsed

A Norwegian organization says that two seismic networks it oversees saw an explosion at the war-torn Kakhovka dam in Ukraine around the time it failed.

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Wade Goodwyn, longtime NPR correspondent, dies at age 63

Wade Goodwyn had one of public radio's most recognizable voices, but it was his rich writing and keen observations that made him a listener favorite over decades at NPR.

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Pat Robertson, televangelist and a leader of the religious right, dies at 93

Pat Robertson founded the Christian Broadcasting Network. He also hosted The 700 Club and drew controversy for comments that were often seen as anti-gay and racially insensitive.

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His baby gene editing shocked ethicists. Now he's in the lab again

He Jiankui, who shocked the world in 2018 by announcing the creation of the first gene-edited babies, tells NPR he's now working on a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

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Puerto Rico lost its only elephant — and cracked open a well of emotions

Mundi the African elephant was the pride of Puerto Rico's only zoo. But her fate became entangled in the island's recent struggles with natural disasters and a debilitating debt crisis.

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'Los Angeles Times' to lay off 13% of newsroom

The L.A. Times is the latest in a string of media outlets to cut staff, citing economic headwinds. Leaders say 74 journalists will lose their jobs.

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A haze is blanketing major swaths of the East Coast because of the Canadian wildfires

Some of the worst air quality was recorded in the Great Lakes region and in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and the Washington, D.C., metro area.

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'LGBTQ+ American's aren't safe': Human Rights group declares national state of emergency

An 'unprecedented and dangerous' spike in anti-LGBTQ+ laws across the US has prompted the Human Rights Campaign to issue its first-ever state of emergency. More than 75 bills have been signed into law already, it says

Daily Mirror

To keep immigrants from fleeing, Florida GOP focus on immigration law loopholes

Republican lawmakers in Florida are scrambling to convince established immigrant workers who already have jobs to stay, while making it inhospitable for newly arrived migrants.

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The far right's growing influence and 4 other takeaways from NPR's ERIC investigation

Why are Republicans abandoning one of the best tools the government has to catch voter fraud? That question is the focus of a new NPR investigation. Here are five takeaways from the report.

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Hank Azaria: ‘I didn’t want to cave to so-called PC pressure’

The star who played Apu in ‘The Simpsons’ talks to Tom Murray about the controversial ‘sexual shenanigans’ in the new HBO show, and seeing both sides of the outrage about his voice portrayal of the famous Indian cartoon character

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The new Spider-Man film shows that representation is a winning strategy

The early box office figures for the new Spider-Man film — and the demographic data of moviegoers — paint a vivid picture.

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Video shows how a storekeeper defeated Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in jiu-jitsu

The last person Jeff Ibrahim expected to face in the gold medal round of a jiu-jitsu competition in California was tech entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg.

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Federal Indian boarding schools still exist, but what's inside may be surprising

The schools were tools of the U.S. government's attempts to erase tribal culture. But the few that remain have become places Native families want their children to attend.

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Here are the major Supreme Court decisions we're still waiting for this term

The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to issue opinions in 27 cases that it heard this term, and has about four weeks left to release them. Here are the major cases NPR is watching.

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New U.S. immigration rules send asylum requests soaring in Mexico

One of the new U.S. rules says you can't request asylum unless you've already been denied in another country. Mexico is getting more applications than ever, and crowded shelters have turn people away.

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5 questions answered about the unresponsive plane that flew over D.C.

Air traffic control lost contact with the Cessna just 15 minutes after takeoff, the NTSB tells NPR. The wayward business jet set off military and defense alarms in the national capital area.

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Remembering David Gilkey: His NPR buddies share stories about their favorite pictures

It is the 7th anniversary of the death of NPR photographer David GIlkey, who was killed by a grenade attack while on assignment in Afghanistan. His colleagues talk about his life and work.

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'This is a fight we have to win for the North of England'

Business leaders from across the country have backed Greater Manchester's bid for a new underground station at Piccadilly

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‘Cold-war mentality’: Chinese defence minister Li Shangfu takes aim at US in first speech

China’s new defence minister has used his first major speech to take aim at the US for intensifying an arms race in Asia, but warned that a war between the world’s two superpowers would be an “unbearable disaster”.

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Military F-16s intercepted a business jet, shocking D.C. residents with a sonic boom

At supersonic speeds, F-16 jets chased down an unresponsive pilot who flew a civilian plane over the nation's capital and crashed in southwest Virginia. The FAA and NTSB are investigating.

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A decade on, Edward Snowden remains in Russia, though U.S. laws have changed

A decade ago, we were still exploring the technological wonders of cellphones and other electronic devices. Few were thinking about how they could be used to monitor us. Then came Edward Snowden.

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China and U.S. defense chiefs compete for influence in the Asia Pacific

China's new defense minister made his first international appearance on Sunday at an annual defense summit, where he delivered a speech full of thinly veiled digs at the U.S.

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How the far right tore apart one of the best tools to fight voter fraud

A right-wing campaign has targeted a once-obscure voting partnership called ERIC. Eight Republican states have now pulled out, giving the election denial movement a big win — and a blueprint for 2024.

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