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A Texas Lottery display promoting support for Texas education and veterans stands inside Lucky Rudy's in Rosenberg, Texas, on May 5, 2025.

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  • National

Texas Lottery faces scrutiny amid jackpot controversies and leadership shakeup

The lottery recently banned online couriers, but some state legislators are considering more regulation.

May 12, 2025
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By:
  • Lucio Vasquez
Lindsey Williamson learned about efficient heat pump water heaters on a home improvement television show. However, "My main problem was finding somebody locally who could actually install what I was looking for," Williamson says.

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  • Climate

Need help switching appliances from gas to electric? A 'coach' can help

Government incentives for climate-friendly upgrades are confusing to navigate, and it can be hard to find businesses that sell them. So a new industry is emerging to help: the decarbonization coach.

May 12, 2025
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By:
  • Jeff Brady
Chinese customers stroll past a clothing shop at Taikoo Li Sanlitun in Beijing.

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  • Asia

Chinese consumers are spending less amid trade war and economic headwinds

Chinese consumers have less and less confidence to splurge, which spells trouble for government efforts to jump-start consumer spending to offset deflation and mitigate the trade war with the U.S.

May 10, 2025
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By:
  • Anthony Kuhn
*chicago bears voice* <em>DA POPE</em>

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  • National

Chicago celebrates cultural victory with native son, Pope Leo XIV

The likelihood that the newly elected pope has consumed a Chicago style hot dog is not zero. And that means something.

May 09, 2025
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By:
  • Mia Venkat,
  • Manuela López Restrepo,
  • and 2 more
The musician Cassie was the first to bring a civil lawsuit against Sean "Diddy" Combs in November 2023 — and may have opened the doors for the federal investigation that landed Combs in custody.

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  • Music

How a post #MeToo law opened the floodgates for allegations against Sean 'Diddy' Combs

The New York Adult Survivors Act gave alleged victims of sexual violence a one-year window to file civil claims, even after the statute of limitations had lapsed. It's a law that may have opened the doors for the federal investigation that landed Sean Combs in custody.

May 09, 2025
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By:
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Aruni Kashyap is the author of "The Way You Want to be Loved".

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  • News

Desires clash with society's expectations in Aruni Kashyap's new short fiction

In his new collection of short stories, UGA creative writing program director Aruni Kashyap comes back time and time again to the tension between individual desires and society’s limits.

May 09, 2025
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By:
  • Peter Biello
Microsoft co-founder and Chair of the Gates Foundation Bill Gates attends a session during the Philanthropy Asia Summit in Singapore on Monday.

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  • Business

Here's why Bill Gates is giving away most of his remaining fortune to his charity

After decades of philanthropy following the success of Microsoft, Bill Gates is winding down his namesake charity. What's he going to do next?

May 09, 2025
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By:
  • Ari Shapiro,
  • Alejandra Marquez Janse,
  • and 1 more
Boxes containing signatures supporting a proposed ballot measure to scale back Arkansas' abortion ban are delivered to the state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., on July 5, 2024. Arkansas lawmakers this year passed new restrictions on citizen-led ballot measures.

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  • Elections

GOP-led states are passing new restrictions for voters to get issues on the ballot

Two dozen states allow citizens to propose ballot measures. But Republican lawmakers in many of those states are now adding hurdles to those efforts, saying they want to combat fraud.

May 08, 2025
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
The International Space Station serves as an orbiting scientific laboratory where astronauts conduct experiments. The Trump administration has proposed cutting its budget by roughly $500 million and reducing research at the outpost.

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  • Science

Economists warn Trump's research cuts could have dire consequences for GDP

President Trump has proposed slashing federal scientific funding. Economists say the long-term consequences could be dire.

May 08, 2025
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel
Professional photographer Emily Scher told NPR she came across tens of thousands of glittering <em>Velella velella</em> on a stretch of sand between Zuma and Broad beaches in Malibu, Calif.

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  • Animals

Glittering blue creatures are washing up on California beaches. Here's why

Hundreds of thousands of Velella velella, more commonly known as by-the-wind-sailors, are drifting onto the coastline. Beachcombers say they look like "blue diamonds strewn across the beach."

May 08, 2025
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Mikal Mahdi was executed by a firing squad of three South Carolina Department of Corrections employees on April 11. He is seen here in 2023 at the Broad River Correctional Facility in Columbia, S.C.

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  • Investigations

A firing squad tried to shoot a prisoner in the heart. They missed, autopsy indicates

The autopsy notes two bullet wounds even though there were three shooters, and a forensic expert says the misfires likely caused "excruciating conscious pain and suffering."

May 08, 2025
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By:
  • Chiara Eisner
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy speaks at an event unveiling a new U.S. air traffic control system at the Department of Transportation on Thursday in Washington, D.C.

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  • National

Trump administration unveils a plan to modernize the air traffic control system

The transportation secretary announced a far-reaching plan to drastically overhaul the current technology used by thousands of controllers responsible for guiding planes in and out of airports.

May 08, 2025
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Scott Neuman
An unidentified cnidarian that resembles a Venus flytrap from the family Hormathiidae, sits at 1874 meters water depth. A new study finds that the vast majority of the deep sea floor remains undocumented.

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  • Science

Humans still haven't seen 99.999% of the deep seafloor

Human eyes have only seen a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the areas of the world that are covered by deep water. Scientists want to change how they explore these regions.

May 08, 2025
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Hallow app founder Alex Jones.

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  • Religion

His Catholic prayer app is one of the most popular in the world. What's his take on the conclave?

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with the CEO of Hallow, a Catholic prayer app, about the next pope.

May 08, 2025
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By:
  • Scott Detrow,
  • Erika Ryan,
  • and 2 more
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks to the press at the Georgia State Capitol after signing a religious freedom bill into law on Friday, April 4.

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  • Politics

Georgia's Brian Kemp becomes latest swing state governor to decline a run for Senate

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says he is passing on running for the senate in next year's midterm elections, a blow to Republicans who spent months courting him to challenge Democratic incumbent.

May 08, 2025
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