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Police recovery crews work near the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge after it was struck by the container ship Dali in Baltimore. Eight members of a construction crew repairing potholes were on the bridge when the structure fell into the Patapsco River at around 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday.

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  • Investigations

'We got workers in the water': Audio reveals new details of Baltimore bridge rescue

Radio calls exchanged between first responders when the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed show a coordinated response. But distress calls are not optimized for alerting construction crews.

March 30, 2024
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By:
  • Chiara Eisner and
  • Nick McMillan
What's the best way to revitalize a language? In the Lakota Nation, that's very much up for debate.

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  • Race

In Lakota Nation, people are asking: Who does a language belong to?

Many Lakota people agree: It's imperative to revitalize the Lakota language. But how exactly to do that is a matter of broader debate. Should Lakota be codified and standardized to make learning it easier? Or should the language stay as it always has been, defined by many different ways of writing and speaking? We explore this complex, multi-generational fight that's been unfolding in the Lakota Nation, from Standing Rock to Pine Ridge.

March 28, 2024
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By:
  • Christina Cala,
  • Xavier Lopez,
  • and 8 more
Attorney John Eastman faced disciplinary charges from the California State Bar for his role in Donald Trump's legal effort to remain in power after losing the 2020 presidential election.

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  • Investigations

California judge recommends disbarment of pro-Trump attorney John Eastman

A California judge found that attorney John Eastman committed "exceptionally serious ethical violations" in his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and recommended disbarment.

March 27, 2024
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach
Members of the Texas National Guard placing barber wire on a fence at the border between Mexico and the US.

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  • National

House appropriations bill would increase border enforcement capacity

The budget approved by the Republican-led House includes over $9.5 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

March 22, 2024
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By:
  • Jasmine Garsd
Alexis Ratcliff attends her 18th birthday party at the hospital in Winston-Salem, N.C. She is a quadriplegic who uses a ventilator and has lived at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist since she was 13.

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  • Investigations

A hospital is suing to move a quadriplegic 18-year-old to a nursing home. She says no

The young North Carolina woman has refused to go to a nursing home in another state. While she wants to leave the hospital, she asks to live in her own home, close to family and her school.

February 22, 2024
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By:
  • Joseph Shapiro
A registered scavenger, who mainly collects plastic waste to sell, walking in a landfill in Indonesia.

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  • Climate

Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf

Recycling "does not solve the solid waste problem," the head of a plastics trade group said in 1989, around the time the industry was launching its recycling campaign.

February 16, 2024
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By:
  • Michael Copley
The FBI's headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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  • Law

New DOJ watchdog report details FBI officials' misconduct with foreign prostitutes

It paints a picture of FBI employees who repeatedly engaged in activities that violated Justice Department and FBI policies, and exposed them to possible extortion and blackmail.

February 09, 2024
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By:
  • Ryan Lucas
Former Marine Jason Miles stands in front of his home in Clinton, Miss. He lost a sales job during the pandemic and had to take a mortgage forbearance.

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  • National

Lawmakers move to help veterans at risk of losing their homes

Senators are introducing a bill to help thousands of veterans who, through no fault of their own, were left facing foreclosure when a VA COVID-assistance program ended abruptly.

February 02, 2024
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By:
  • Chris Arnold and
  • Quil Lawrence
<strong>Left:</strong> A photo provided by Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wife. <strong>Right: </strong>Alabama's lethal injection chamber at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., seen in 2002.

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  • National

Alabama executes man by nitrogen gas for the first time in the U.S.

Kenneth Smith, 58, died at 8:25 p.m. Thursday, after a slew of last-minute appeals to several courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, failed.

January 26, 2024
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By:
  • Chiara Eisner,
  • Barrie Hardymon,
  • and 1 more
Former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in September 2022. At the rally, Trump invited the president and founder of the nonprofit Patriot Freedom Project to give a speech. The group's close ties to Trump have prompted scrutiny from lawmakers.

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  • Investigations

Lawmakers call for IRS scrutiny of Trump-backed nonprofit that aids Jan. 6 rioters

A nonprofit that supports defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection is facing scrutiny over its political activity. "The IRS should investigate this case immediately," said one congressman.

January 17, 2024
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach
The Alabama Department of Corrections plans to execute Kenneth Smith on Jan. 25 using nitrogen gas. It will be the first time the gas has been used as an execution method in the U.S.

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  • Investigations

Kenneth Smith could be the first person executed with nitrogen gas. He spoke with NPR

Smith rarely speaks with reporters about surviving a lethal injection execution in 2022. But he talked with NPR about Alabama's plans to try again, this time with a new method: nitrogen gas.

January 17, 2024
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By:
  • Chiara Eisner
Donald Trump launched his latest presidential campaign with a rally in Waco, Texas. At the beginning of the rally, Trump played a song featuring the J6 Prison Choir, made up of defendants in jail on charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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  • Investigations

The Trump campaign embraces Jan. 6 rioters with money and pardon promises

Three years after supporters of Donald Trump violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the future of the criminal cases against the rioters may hinge on the presidential election.

January 04, 2024
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach and
  • Noah Caldwell
The Georgia State Capitol was among several state legislatures evacuated Wednesday following bomb threats.

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  • Politics

Several state capitols evacuated after bomb threats

The development comes just days before the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

January 03, 2024
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By:
  • NPR Washington Desk
Autopsies are not required for federal prison deaths that are classified as natural. NPR found cases where medical neglect, poor prison conditions and a lack of resources contributed to these deaths. But families were given little information.

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  • Investigations

There is little scrutiny of 'natural' deaths behind bars

Autopsies are not required for federal prison deaths that are classified as natural. NPR found cases where medical neglect, poor prison conditions and a lack of resources contributed to these deaths.

January 02, 2024
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By:
  • Tirzah Christopher
Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., speaks during a hearing of a Senate Armed Services Committee subcommittee. A combat veteran, Kelly called on the U.S. Marines to explain why wounded troops weren't told the truth about a friendly fire incident in Iraq in 2004.

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  • Investigations

Senator wants Marines to explain why wounded troops weren't told the truth

Three people died and nearly a dozen were injured in a deadly accident that the military initially lied about, then buried

December 23, 2023
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  • Tom Bowman and
  • Graham Smith
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