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A Fighter from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah carries out a training exercise in Aaramta village in the Jezzine District, southern Lebanon, on Sunday.

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  • Middle East

As tensions mount with Israel, Hezbollah stages a massive show of force in Lebanon

A massive military display by Hezbollah on Sunday was the largest in at least a decade for the Iranian-backed militia, and comes at a moment of heightened tension with Israel.

May 22, 2023
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  • Ruth Sherlock and
  • Jawad Rizkallah
The Supreme Court and its conservative majority "has been using unsigned and unexplained orders to a degree and in ways which really have no precedent in the court's history," professor Steve Vladek says.

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  • Law

The Supreme Court and 'The Shadow Docket'

A relative rarity until the Trump administration, in just four years, his Trump Justice Department asked the court for emergency relief an astounding 41 times.

May 22, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
An event goer holds a pamphlet for U.S. entrepreneur and 2024 presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy during the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Victory Conference at the Horizon Events Center in Clive, Iowa, on April 22, 2023.

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  • Elections

Who is Vivek Ramaswamy, the 37-year-old entrepreneur and GOP presidential hopeful?

He spoke to The NPR Politics Podcast about his political identity as a nationalist and expanding Donald Trump's "America First" message to a new audience.

May 19, 2023
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By:
  • Susan Davis and
  • Asma Khalid
Romance writer Kennedy Ryan made history in 2019 as the first Black author to win one of the most prestigious romance fiction prizes — the RITA Award in the <a href="https://www.rwa.org/Online/Awards/RITA/2019_RITA_Winners.aspx">Best Contemporary Romance: Long</a> category, for <em>Long Shot</em>.

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  • Book News & Features

Kennedy Ryan's romances are coming for your heartstrings

The author's high-emotional-stakes romances are about to reach a wider audience, with a five-book deal and an upcoming TV adaptation. Ryan says her "happily ever after" has been "hard-won."

May 19, 2023
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Amelia Tulim teaches first grade in a remote village in Alaska, and Ed Sotelo serves as Tulim's mentor. His goal: to support a new teacher, and make her more likely to stay.

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  • Education

Being a new teacher is hard. Having a good mentor can help

In isolated, rural school districts, hiring teachers is only half the battle – keeping them is hard too. One Alaska program has a research-backed approach to helping teachers stick with it.

May 19, 2023
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By:
  • Cory Turner
TikTok creator Taryn Delanie Smith plays Denise, a character who's helping the internet cope with grief and abstract questions about the afterlife.

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  • Arts & Life

Heaven has a bathrobe-clad receptionist named Denise. She's helping TikTok grieve

Taryn Smith, a 26-year-old TikToker, was in the shower when she had a funny thought: What if she died in a chicken suit? What happened next represents the way we use social media to mourn.

May 19, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson
On a conference call last week, Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company's ongoing dispute with Gov. Ron DeSantis raised questions about Disney's continued investment in Florida.

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  • National

Disney cancels plans for $1 billion Florida campus

Disney says it's not moving ahead with a planned office park in Orlando because of "new leadership and changing business conditions." Its dispute with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appears to be a factor.

May 19, 2023
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By:
  • Greg Allen

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  • Asia

Australian envoy suggests 'smelling salts' for worries over Biden's Quad cancellation

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Australian Ambassador to the U.S. Kevin Rudd about President Biden deciding not to meet with leaders of Australia, India and Japan because of U.S. debt ceiling negotiations.

May 18, 2023
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  • Destinee Adams
GPB  NPR

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  • Business

Montana's governor signs a measure banning TikTok in his state

Montana has become the first state to completely ban TikTok. Gov. Greg Gianforte has said he is concerned about people's user data being compromised by the Chinese government.

May 18, 2023
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By:
  • A Martínez and
  • Bobby Allyn
Andy Cohen, the face of Bravo, says being a dad is his biggest challenge yet. "Everything has changed. My axis has changed. My priorities have changed. The way I live my life every day has changed," he said.

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  • Pop Culture

Andy Cohen created a reality show empire but being a dad is his biggest challenge yet

Talk show host and The Real Housewives creator Andy Cohen's fifth book, The Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up, describes how becoming a dad has completely changed his life.

May 18, 2023
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By:
  • Leila Fadel
GPB  NPR

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  • National

Wave of criticism follows San Francisco DA's decision in Walgreens shooting

Backlash after San Francisco's DA decided not to file charges against a Walgreens security guard, who shot and killed a suspected shoplifter. (Story aired on All Things Considered on May 17, 2023.)

May 18, 2023
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By:
  • Marisa Lagos
GPB  NPR

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  • National

Republicans in several states push for limits on gender-affirming care for adults

A Florida bill would allow only physicians to provide such care, and it would prohibit public dollars from covering costs. State health insurance plans and Medicaid can't provide coverage.

May 17, 2023
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By:
  • Regan McCarthy

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  • Health

Lifesaving or stigmatizing? Parents wrestle with obesity treatment options for kids

New weight-loss medications and bariatric surgery have the potential to spare children health and social problems. But some parents think they're sending kids the wrong message about their bodies.

May 17, 2023
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
The EU plans to tax certain imports based on the amount of carbon dioxide companies emit making them.

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  • Climate

How a European law might get companies around the world to cut climate pollution

The European Union will tax certain imports based on the amount of carbon dioxide companies emit making them. Experts say the move could lead other major economies to do the same.

May 17, 2023
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By:
  • Michael Copley
An election representative shows a ballot depicting a vote for Kemal Kilicdaroglu at a polling station in Ankara, Turkey, on Sunday.

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  • Europe

What Turkey's presidential election could mean for the U.S. and Europe

Turkey's presidential election is headed to a runoff on May 28. The outcome, in this key NATO nation, has implications for the West. President Biden has said he hopes "whoever wins wins."

May 16, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
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