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Hunter Biden, President Biden's son, departs from the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building on Monday in Wilmington, Del., after jurors began deliberations in his trial on felony gun charges.

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  • Law

Hunter Biden found guilty on all counts

This was the first of two cases against Hunter Biden brought by a Justice Department special counsel. Biden also faces tax charges in a separate prosecution scheduled to go to trial in September.

June 12, 2024
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  • Ryan Lucas
GPB News NPR

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  • News

When a romance ends, can a friendship grow? NPR listeners weigh in

Listeners explain why they decided to remain friends with their exes, keep a friendly distance — or leave them behind.

June 12, 2024
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  • Malaka Gharib

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  • Book Reviews

'Horror Movie' questions the motivation behind evil acts

Paul Tremblay's latest tale is dark, surprisingly violent, and incredibly multilayered — a superb addition to his already impressive oeuvre showing he can deliver for fans and also push the envelope.

June 12, 2024
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  • Gabino Iglesias
Catastrophic flash floods killed dozens of people in eastern Kentucky in July 2022. Here, homes in Jackson, Ky., are flooded with water.

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  • Climate

Climate change is deadly. Exactly how deadly?

Multiple federal and state government agencies count the number of deaths from extreme floods, wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes. They don't always agree on which deaths should be counted.

June 12, 2024
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  • Rebecca Hersher and
  • Alejandra Borunda
A new study looks at the roles that African and European genetic ancestries can play in Black Americans' risk for some brain disorders.

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  • Science

African ancestry genes may be linked to Black Americans' risk for some brain disorders

A new genomic analysis hints at why African Americans face a higher risk of Alzheimer’s and stroke, but a lower risk of Parkinson’s.

June 12, 2024
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  • Jon Hamilton
 A woman in the window of a women-only metro car in Mexico City in October 2023.

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  • World

Despite women-only cars, Mexico City's metro still has a gender violence crisis

Nine out of 10 women who’ve ridden Mexico City’s public metro system claim to have been victims of sexual harassment despite cars that are reserved only for women and children.

June 12, 2024
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  • Sara Messinger and
  • Ana María Islas
In this May 2024 image provided by Garry Kozak, remains of what experts believe to be is a 10-seat Jet Commander aircraft that disappeared in 1971 rest on the floor of Lake Champlain off Juniper Island, Vt.

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  • National

A jet missing since 1971 has been found at the bottom of Vermont's Lake Champlain

The corporate jet disappeared shortly after departing the Burlington airport for Providence, R.I., on Jan. 27, 1971. At least 17 searches since then had turned up nothing.

June 12, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Ella Seaver shares her thoughts on high school graduation with other survivors of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting before a rally against gun violence on Friday, June 7, 2024, in Newtown, Conn.

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Sandy Hook survivors to graduate with mixed emotions without 20 of their classmates

About 60 of the 330 kids graduating from Newtown High School will also be carrying the emotional burden of knowing that many of their former classmates won't get to walk across the stage with them.

June 12, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
 A slipper orchid clonal hybrid known as Paphiopedilum Saint Albans "Dark Red" from the Smithsonian Gardens Orchid Collection

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  • Arts & Life

Darkly romantic goth gardens are having a moment in the sun — here's how to grow one

Gardens are blooming across the country, and while you’ll likely see plenty of roses and brightly-colored zinnias on porches and patios this summer, one much-hyped trend is very, very dark.

June 11, 2024
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  • Neda Ulaby

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  • Education

Pandemic aid for schools is ending soon. Many after-school programs may go with it

Once the federal money expires, one Tulsa organization estimates its after-school program offerings will shrink from 450 to just 75. That's unless they can find outside funding.

June 11, 2024
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  • Beth Wallis
Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Sunday in Las Vegas.

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  • Politics

Trump could — and wants to — shake up U.S. foreign policy even more in a second term

Promising to revaluate NATO and reshape global trade, former President Donald Trump is crafting foreign policy that picks up where he left off after his first term and takes things to the next level.

June 11, 2024
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  • Franco Ordoñez
People wait in line to vote in Georgia's 2022 primary election in Atlanta.

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  • Elections

1 in 10 eligible U.S. voters say they can’t easily show proof of their citizenship

An estimated 21.3 million adult U.S. citizens don't have or can't easily access documents proving their citizenship. The findings raise concerns about requiring proof when registering eligible voters.

June 11, 2024
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  • Hansi Lo Wang
Pima County Medical Examiner Greg Hess at his office in Tucson, Ariz. Hess and another Arizona-based medical examiner are rethinking how to catalog and count heat-related deaths, a major step toward understanding the growing impacts of heat.

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  • Climate

Here's why an Arizona medical examiner is working to track heat-related deaths

No one across the U.S. is consistently tracking climate-fueled deaths. One medical examiner has a new protocol on heat-deaths.

June 11, 2024
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  • Alejandra Borunda
Nurses Lisa Stambolis and Ashley Gresh of the Neighborhood Nursing team talk with Percy Jones. Members of the nursing team visit his apartment building weekly, and Jones credits them with easing his worries about recovering from a hernia surgery when he couldn't get a timely appointment with his doctor.

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  • Health

In Baltimore, nurses go door-to-door to bring primary care to the whole neighborhood

A cadre of Johns Hopkins nurses are adapting a model for primary care that's been successful in Costa Rica. They will visit every household in a Baltimore community to assess health care and social needs at least once a year.

June 11, 2024
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  • Leslie Walker and
  • Dan Gorenstein
GPB News NPR

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  • Science

From the physics of g-force to weightlessness: How it feels to launch into space

We kickoff our series Space Camp with a look at space launches. What does hurtling into space feel like? What physics are involved? And what's the "junk" in Earth's orbit?

June 11, 2024
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