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Candace Byrdsong Williams has been a manager, a director, and a "global head" of diversity for large and small employers, mostly in the tech industry, since 2007. She was laid off last August and she has seen companies abruptly take down job postings for anything diversity-related.

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  • Business

Corporate America's retreat from DEI has eliminated thousands of jobs

"I just didn't think it would take this long," one veteran head of diversity, who's been job-hunting since last summer, tells NPR.

May 27, 2025
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  • Maria Aspan
A European Space Agency antenna located at Cebreros, near Avila, Spain, will transmit the waltz into space.

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  • Space

The European Space Agency will beam the famous 'Blue Danube' waltz into space

A performance of the masterpiece will be transmitted into space on Saturday. The waltz has been associated with space travel since its inclusion in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

May 27, 2025
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  • Rebecca Hersher
The flag of Japan (right) hangs outside the New York Stock Exchange on May 5, 2008, in honor of Ryozo Kato, the ambassador of Japan to the United States at the time, ringing the opening bell.

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  • Opinion

Why Japan sees President Trump's tariffs as a 'national crisis'

Although largely paused, President Trump's tariffs present a major threat to Japan's already flagging economy.

May 27, 2025
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  • Robert Ward
Hells Canyon, the deepest river gorge in the United States, was carved just about 2.1 million years ago — making it much younger than the Grand Canyon.

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  • Science

Hells Canyon, the deepest gorge in the U.S., is surprisingly young

Hells Canyon is the deepest river canyon in the United States. Now scientists have solved the mystery of when it formed.

May 27, 2025
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Marcel Ophuls believed subjectivity was key to filmmaking and saw documentaries as an antidote to the news. He's pictured above on May 5, 1987.

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  • Obituaries

Marcel Ophuls, who chronicled 20th century conflict and atrocities, dies at 97

"There's a relationship between attention span and morality," Ophuls said. The filmmaker commanded his audience's attention in four-plus-hour documentaries like The Sorrow and The Pity and Hôtel Terminus.

May 27, 2025
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  • Howie Movshovitz
Sahana Kargi tries on the crown she received after competing in the Miss Utah Volunteer pageant in Salt Lake City on Nov. 14, 2024.

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  • Arts & Life

A look at Indian American life highlights communities across the U.S.

Photographer Kavya Krishna documented Indian American communities across the United States, highlighting the shared threads and regional differences.

May 27, 2025
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  • Kavya Krishna and
  • Emily Bogle
Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh swims near the Edgartown Harbor Light on Thursday in Edgartown, Mass.

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  • Environment

Swimmer circumnavigates Martha's Vineyard ahead of 'Jaws' 50th anniversary

Lewis Pugh wants to change public perceptions and encourage protections for sharks — which he said the film maligned as "villains, as cold-blooded killers."

May 27, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Troopers with Louisiana State Police escort Orleans Parish Prison escapee Lenton Vanburen to a waiting vehicle late Monday, May 26, 2025, at Louisiana State Police Headquarters after he was captured in Baton Rouge, La.

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  • National

3 more escapees from a New Orleans jail are caught, leaving 2 at large, officials say

Three more of the 10 inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail earlier this month were re-arrested Monday in two different states after more than a week on the lam, authorities said.

May 27, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A large emergency service presence is pictured in Liverpool, England, on Monday, after a car collided with pedestrians during a parade.

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  • Europe

27 hospitalized, including 4 children, after car plows into Liverpool FC parade

A 53-year-old man is in police custody. He is from the Liverpool area and is believed to be the driver, police said.

May 26, 2025
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  • Vanessa Romo
The J. Edgar Hoover building's FBI seal pictured in March in Washington, D.C. Dan Bongino, deputy director of the FBI, announced the bureau's renewed efforts around three cases on Monday.

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  • Law

FBI reexamining Dobbs opinion leak, D.C. pipe bombs and White House cocaine cases

Dan Bongino, the deputy director of the FBI, says the bureau is refocusing on cases that pointed to "potential public corruption."

May 26, 2025
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Britain's King Charles III is greeted by an honor guard after arriving at Macdonald-Cartier International Airport in Ottawa, Canada, on Monday.

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  • Politics

Canada welcomes King Charles against a backdrop of tensions with Trump

The king's visit is being seen in Canada as an opportunity for the nation to bolster its sovereignty amid threats by President Trump to turn the United States' northern neighbor into the 51st state.

May 26, 2025
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  • Jackie Northam
President Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., on Sunday.

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  • Politics

Trump calls Putin 'absolutely crazy' following Russia's latest barrage on Ukraine

Trump's remarks were a rare rebuke of the Russian president and followed a storm of drone and missile attacks on Ukrainian cities on Sunday evening.

May 26, 2025
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  • Jackie Northam
Sean Combs, seen here in Los Angeles in 2019, is on trial in New York, facing federal criminal charges including sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.

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  • Music

Why the Sean Combs trial is about more than 'Diddy vs. Cassie'

The relationship between Combs and his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, has been the focus of the prosecution's case so far, but the charges he faces are bigger and broader.

May 26, 2025
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Jonnie Moeller-Reed is the wellness officer at the Marietta Police Department in suburban Atlanta. In her role, she oversees programs that build resiliency and help cops who struggle with stress, burnout and trauma.

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  • National

5 years after anti-police protests, initiatives for officer mental health have traction

Efforts to improve officers' mental health have grown over the past five years. They were sparked in part by the death of George Floyd, which prompted a wave of anti- police protests.

May 26, 2025
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  • Katja Ridderbusch
A U.S. District Court judge in the Eastern District of Texas has twice ordered a stay of the medical debt rule, which was supposed to take effect on March 15. It is now delayed to start on July 28.

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  • National

The CFPB wanted medical debt to be left off credit reports. That's changed under Trump

Under the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule barring medical debt from appearing on credit reports. Now, the agency is siding with the credit industry groups suing to have the rule vacated.

May 26, 2025
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  • Vanessa Romo
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