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GHSA Flag Football

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  • Sports

GHSA football and flag football championships are underway!

The Georgia High School Sports Association and GPB are excited to showcase the best in high school athletics as boys tackle football and girls flag football championships get underway in Atlanta on Thursday.

December 08, 2022
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By:
  • Leah Fleming
Fifteen-year-olds from a DCXI soccer team practice together in Washington, D.C., in November. Club co-founder and coach Pierre Hedji says some of their team members pay and some don't. "If you can afford to pay the whole thing, pay the whole thing. That way we can afford to help the next kid that can't pay anything at all."

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  • Arts & Life

Club soccer puts the sport out of reach for many kids

Playing competitive youth soccer can cost families a small fortune, excluding kids who might excel at the sport. There are efforts around the country to get more kids in the game.

December 08, 2022
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
GPB  NPR

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  • Health

Surges in flu, RSV and COVID threaten the holidays

Dr. Preeti Malani of the University of Michigan speaks to NPR about the surge of seasonal respiratory viruses, COVID and flu during the holidays.

December 08, 2022
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  • GPB Newsroom
Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Dr. Rahul Gupta, shown at an event in August 2022, says the new opioid overdose tracking system could save "tens of thousands of additional lives."

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  • National

The White House unveils a new system to track and better prevent opioid overdoses

The Biden administration will use data from EMS first responders to track overdoses. The focus will be on improving response to a public health crisis that kills more than 100,000 Americans annually.

December 08, 2022
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  • Brian Mann
President Biden delivers remarks during a reception to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, with Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff at the White House on Sept. 30.

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  • Politics

Second gentleman Emhoff says antisemitism has become an epidemic

The second gentlemen, Doug Emhoff, gathered a group of Jewish leaders at the White House to discuss the surge in anti-Jewish comments involving prominent people.

December 07, 2022
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
Jonathan chills on the lawn of Plantation House, the residence of the governor of St. Helena, in October 2017. The world's oldest tortoise is celebrating what is believed to be his 190th birthday this year.

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  • Animals

Jonathan, the world's oldest tortoise, marks his 190th with fanfare and salad cake

While Jonathan's exact birthday is unknown, it's estimated he was born in 1832 — before the first photograph of a person and the first postage stamp. He's getting lots of well-wishes on St. Helena.

December 07, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Deforestation is a major threat to the survival of orangutan. Here a baby sumatran orangutan plays around in a tree as they train at Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme's rehabilitation center in Indonesia.

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  • Environment

A UN biodiversity convention aims to slow humanity's 'war with nature'

Delegates from nearly 200 countries are gathering in Canada to try to fix humanity's relationship with nature. The convention comes during an emerging extinction crisis.

December 07, 2022
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By:
  • Nathan Rott
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Hilton Anatole on Aug. 06 in Dallas, Texas.

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  • National

Former President Donald Trump's company is found guilty of criminal tax fraud

Trump and his company have repeatedly faced criminal investigations but this case marks the first time his company has been charged, tried, and convicted on criminal charges.

December 07, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Bernstein,
  • Ilya Marritz,
  • and 1 more
GPB  NPR

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  • Elections

Raphael Warnock beats Herschel Walker to end the last Senate race of 2022

Georgia's runoff election captured national attention but with votes being tallied in the last U.S. Senate race of 2022 is finally over.

December 07, 2022
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
GPB  NPR

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  • Asia

How China's COVID policy rollbacks will affect the country and the world

With Chinese leaders expected to further loosen the country's notoriously strict COVID policies, how could a rise in cases affect Chinese citizens and the global economy?

December 07, 2022
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  • GPB Newsroom
GPB  NPR

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  • Science

8 cups of water a day could be too much

The guidance dates back to 1945 and actually said we were all supposed to consume 64 ounces of water a day from many sources, including our food, but it's often mis-interpreted as 8 cups of water.

December 07, 2022
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  • GPB Newsroom
Are the justices of the U.S Supreme Court ready to overturn the power of state courts to oversee congressional elections in the states?

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  • Law

Supreme Court to hear controversial election-law case

The "independent state legislature theory" could give state legislatures independent power to put in place all manner of election rules, without any available review by state courts.

December 07, 2022
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
GPB  NPR

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  • Health

Limited nursing home beds force hospitals to keep patients longer

The lack of nursing home beds means that U.S. hospitals are caring for patients who don't need to be hospitalized but have nowhere else to go.

December 07, 2022
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By:
  • Nina Keck
GPB  NPR

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  • Business

Sweeping tech layoffs are hitting immigrant workers hard

Layoffs have been sweeping the tech industry in recent weeks. Those job cuts weigh heavily on immigrant workers in the U.S. on H1-B visas.

December 07, 2022
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By:
  • Stacey Vanek Smith
A Dec. 07, 2019, aerial view of the coastline of Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu.

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  • World

The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has been knocked offline for more than a month

The prime minister says about 70 percent of services have been restored, but officials have not commented on a cause or whether ransom was paid. Nor did they respond to NPR's requests for comment.

December 07, 2022
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By:
  • Jenna McLaughlin
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