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Fans light up their coves at Brandi Carlile's Mothership Weekend music festival in Miramar Beach, Fla.

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Inspired by the pandemic, a Florida beachside music festival tries something new

The concert promoters who ran popular music cruises are now trying the music vacation concept on land, promising no lines and a different kind of music fest experience for both artists and fans.

August 24, 2024
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  • Debbie Elliott
Pro-Palestine protesters march ahead of the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 18, 2024 in Chicago.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Chicago's protests show democracy's shifts since 1968

The past and present merge for NPR's Scott Simon, who attended the Democratic National Convention in Chicago as a teen in 1968 and now as a senior citizen.

August 24, 2024
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  • Scott Simon
Chantemekki Fortson, mother of slain Roger Fortson, a U.S. Air Force senior airman, holds a photo of her son during a news conference with attorney Ben Crump on June 3, 2024, in Atlanta.

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The ex-Florida deputy who killed Roger Fortson has been charged with manslaughter

Eddie Duran, a former deputy with the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, shot Fortson, 23, multiple times on May 3 in response to a disturbance call at Fortson's apartment. Duran was fired on May 31.

August 24, 2024
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Protestors, led by Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, marched along Highway 89 in Cameron on Aug. 2, 2024 to protest uranium hauling through the reservation. The highway was part of the route taken by trucks from the Pinyon Plain Mine near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon three days earlier when they began uranium ore transportation through a large swath of the nation.

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  • News

Navajo, Arizona attorney general question safety of newly reopened uranium mine

The reopening of a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon has the Navajo Nation, and now Arizona's attorney general, questioning its safety.

August 24, 2024
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  • Ryan Heinsius
The “Voting by Mail” exhibition at the National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., tracks the long history of mail-in voting in the United States with a selection of historical ballot envelopes, election mailers and photographs.

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  • Elections

A new mail-voting exhibition is a reminder that its use dates back to the Civil War

A new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum is a reminder that voting by mail with absentee ballots in the U.S. goes back more than 160 years before the COVID-19 pandemic.

August 24, 2024
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  • Hansi Lo Wang
Police and ambulances near the scene where people were killed and injured in an attack at a festival in Solingen, western Germany, the German dpa news agency reported, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024.

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  • Europe

Police search for attacker who killed 3 with a knife at a festival in Germany

A large-scale search was underway Saturday in the German city of Solingen after three people were killed and at least eight people wounded, five of them seriously, in a knife attack at a festival.

August 24, 2024
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Emmitt Martin III, a former Memphis Police Department officer, second from left, accused of killing Tyre Nichols, walks into federal court on Friday in Memphis, Tenn.

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  • National

A 2nd ex-Memphis officer pleads guilty in Tyre Nichols' death

Emmitt Martin is the second former officer to plead guilty in the killing that sparked outrage and renewed calls for police reform. Three former officers still face trial in federal court next month.

August 24, 2024
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Teamsters Canada Rail Conference members picket outside the CPKC headquarters in Calgary, Alta., on Friday.

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  • Latin America

Arbitration hearing between Canadian railroads and union ends with no decision

A workers union threatened a strike at one of Canada’s two major railroads. A government-ordered arbitration hearing ended without a decision. Trains are expected to keep moving through Monday.

August 24, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
The Justice Department says RealPage’s algorithmic pricing software allows landlords nationwide to set rents above market rate and deprives renters of the benefits of competition. The Texas-based company has denied the allegations.

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  • National

DOJ accuses real estate software company of helping landlords collude to raise rents

The lawsuit says RealPage’s algorithmic pricing software lets landlords effectively collude and set rents above market rate. The Texas-based company has denied the allegations.

August 23, 2024
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  • Jennifer Ludden
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he's suspending his independent presidential campaign, during remarks in Phoenix Friday.

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  • Elections

Robert F. Kennedy suspends his independent presidential campaign and backs Trump

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is suspending his independent campaign. He is seeking to remove his name from ballots in battleground states, and is asking supporters to back Republican nominee Donald Trump.

August 23, 2024
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  • Stephen Fowler
Family members attend the funeral of Abraham Munder, 79, in Nir Oz, Israel, on Aug. 22. He was taken hostage from Israel in a Hamas-led attack last Oct. 7 and his body was one of six recovered by Israeli forces from Gaza this week.

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  • World

Hostages are laid to rest in Israel as a new round of cease-fire talks is expected

Families held funerals for six hostages whose bodies were recovered from Gaza. Many in Israel think the next round of cease-fire talks may be the last chance to bring home hostages who remain alive.

August 23, 2024
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  • Kat Lonsdorf
José Coronado as Julio Arenas in <em>Close Your Eyes.</em>

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  • Movie Reviews

Quietly transcendent 'Close Your Eyes' may be among the best films you see all year

Over the past 50 years or so, Spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice has directed just four features. His latest, about a filmmaker who revisits a past project, has the pull of a well-crafted detective story.

August 23, 2024
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  • Justin Chang
Planned Parenthood hosted a mobile health clinic that provides vasectomies and medication abortion, at an "Into Action!" event in Chicago on Monday.

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  • Politics

From vasectomies to abortion pills, Planned Parenthood sets up mobile clinic near DNC

Just a few miles from the site of the Democratic National Convention, a mobile health clinic opened its doors for patients seeking reproductive health care including vasectomies and abortion pills.

August 23, 2024
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  • Sarah McCammon
The Meta logo at a trade fair in France earlier this year. The social media firm says it has disrupted more accounts tied to Iranian hackers who are targeting the U.S. presidential election.

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  • Technology

Meta takes down more accounts tied to Iranian hackers targeting the U.S. election

The company says the hackers posed as tech support to target people affiliated with President Biden and Donald Trump, in the latest evidence of Iran’s attempts to influence the 2024 election.

August 23, 2024
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  • Shannon Bond
Vice President Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, arrives onstage to speak on the fourth and last day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Thursday.

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  • Politics

5 takeaways from Kamala Harris’ historic acceptance speech

Harris isn't someone known for delivering big speeches, and the public’s views of her are still forming. She got the nomination, after all, without running in a primary.

August 23, 2024
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