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Ammer Qaddumi was arrested at a Pro-Palestinian protest at UT-Austin on April 24, 2024.

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  • National

Some student protesters aren't deterred by the prospect of punishment

Some students face criminal charges, suspensions and even expulsions for participating in pro-Palestinian protests and encampments. Their reason? A "just cause."

May 08, 2024
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Arthur Hughes plays the title character in Hulu's four-part series, <em>Shardlake</em>.

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  • TV Reviews

Beautifully acted 'Shardlake' brings 500-year-old Tudor intrigue into the present day

A London barrister in Henry VIII's England finds himself investigating a murder in a monastery. Hulu's new four-part series, based on C.J. Sansom's 2003 novel, feels strikingly contemporary.

May 08, 2024
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  • John Powers
Yajaíra Peñaloza (left) and Marian Araujo pose with their children while waiting for their ride at the Casa Alitas shelter in Tucson, Ariz., on March 26.

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  • National

Migrants claiming asylum can be allowed into the U.S. Here's how it works

Asylum rules in the U.S. paired with millions of cases backing up immigration courts are causing a major headache for the country.

May 08, 2024
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep and
  • Ally Schweitzer
Esther Nesbitt lost two of her children to drug overdoses, and her grandchildren are among more than 320,000 who lost parents in the overdose epidemic.

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  • Children's Health

In a decade of drug overdoses, more than 320,000 American children lost a parent

New research documents how many children lost a parent to an opioid or other overdose in the period from 2011 to 2021. Bereaved children face elevated risks to their physical and emotional health.

May 08, 2024
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By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis listens during the final arguments in her disqualification hearing on March 1 in Atlanta. She was allowed to remain on the case if a special prosecutor she hired resigned.

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  • Elections

Georgia appeals court will review decision on Trump case DA, bringing another delay

The Georgia Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments after former President Trump appealed a decision allowing Fulton County DA Fani Willis to stay on the criminal case involving him and others.

May 08, 2024
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  • Sam Gringlas
Virginia Rep. Jennifer Wexton used text-to-speech technology to advocate for her bill on the House floor Monday, following her diagnosis with the rare brain condition known as progressive supranuclear palsy.

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  • Politics

A lawmaker with a brain disease used voice assist to back her bill on the House floor

Rep. Jennifer Wexton of Virginia was diagnosed last year with rare disease that makes it hard to speak. She still advocated for a bill renaming a post office in her district – and the House passed it.

May 08, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
The Taliban has a history of supporting the use of stoning as a punishment for "moral crimes" — reiterated in a statement this year by their supreme leader. Above: In 2015, Afghan Solidarity members gather in Kabul to protest Taliban militants who stoned an Afghan woman to death in the Taliban-controlled area outside Firozkoh, the capital of central Ghor province. She was accused of adultery.

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  • Global Health

Taliban affirms that stoning will be punishment for adulterers — especially women

In a recording, the group's leader declared: "We will flog the women ... we will stone them to death in public [for crimes]." What does Islamic law say on the matter? And have stonings taken place?

May 08, 2024
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  • Ruchi Kumar
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike east of Rafah, Gaza Strip, this past Monday.

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  • Politics

U.S. paused bomb shipment to Israel to signal concerns over Rafah, official says

The shipment was supposed to be 1,800 2,000-pound bombs and 1,700 500-pound bombs, according to an official, with the U.S. concern being how the explosives could be used in a dense urban setting.

May 08, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Panera Bread said that it's discontinuing its Charged Sips drinks that were tied to at least two wrongful death lawsuits due to their high caffeine content.

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  • Business

Panera says it will stop serving 'Charged Sips' drinks at center of lawsuits

Panera Bread said it's discontinuing its Charged Sips drinks that were tied to at least two wrongful death lawsuits due to their high caffeine content.

May 08, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Rosbely Sira Linarez holds her infant son on April 24 in the north Denver encampment where they've been living with other South and Central American immigrants who arrived in Colorado in the last year.

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  • Law

Migrant arrivals stretched Denver's budget. Now, the city is scaling back aid

In the last two years, Denver has seen more than 40,000 migrants arrive, many on buses chartered by Texas' governor.

May 08, 2024
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  • Kevin J. Beaty
Álvaro Enciso places crosses at sites where migrants are known to have died in the borderland, this cross represents the death of Nolberto Torres-Zayas just east of Arivaca, Arizona on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. Torres-Zayas died of hyperthermia in 2009, not far from a Humane Borders water cache that had been vandalized and drained.

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  • National

Is it easy for migrants to enter the U.S.? We went to the border to find out

Morning Edition spoke to migrants hoping to enter the U.S. and the border agents tasked with keeping them out.

May 08, 2024
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  • Steve Inskeep and
  • Ally Schweitzer
People protest outside the House chamber after legislation passed that would allow some teachers to be armed in schools during a legislative session Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn.

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  • Politics

After calls for gun safety, Tennessee votes to arm teachers

Despite calls for gun safety legislation after the Covenant School shooting, Tennessee passed a measure allowing teachers to carry firearms in schools.

May 07, 2024
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By:
  • Blaise Gainey
A federal judge, appointed by Donald Trump when he was president, has delayed the start of the Mar-a-Lago classified documents trial.

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  • Law

Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago classified documents case is delayed indefinitely by judge

The classified documents trial had been scheduled to begin May 20. But months of delays had slowed the case as prosecutors pushed for the trial to begin before the November presidential election

May 07, 2024
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By:
  • Russell Lewis
President Biden arrives to speak at the annual Days of Remembrance ceremony at the U.S. Capitol on May 7.

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  • Politics

Biden decries surge of antisemitism since the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel

President Biden spoke out against harassment of Jewish students on college campuses, part of what he called a "ferocious surge of antisemitism" seen since Oct. 7.

May 07, 2024
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
Judge Juan Merchan presides over proceedings on Tuesday as Stormy Daniels, far right, answers questions on direct examination by assistant district attorney Susan Hoffinger in Manhattan criminal court as former President Donald Trump and defense attorney Todd Blanche look on.

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  • Politics

Adult film star Stormy Daniels testifies against Trump in New York trial

Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, has spent the last several years in legal battles with former President Trump. She has taken the stand to testify against him in a criminal trial.

May 07, 2024
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  • Ximena Bustillo
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