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News Articles: Morning Edition

Western wildfires burning in 2018, like the River Fire in Lakeport, Calif., sent plumes of smoke to the Central U.S. where it helped seed more destructive thunderstorms.

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  • Climate

Western wildfires are making far away storms more dangerous

Scientists are finding that Western wildfires can have far-reaching impacts. If they're burning while Central U.S. thunderstorms are forming, the rain and hail can be dramatically more destructive.

October 21, 2022
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  • Lauren Sommer
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  • Business

Use these tips to unlock and embrace the power to schmooze

Professional networking, whether in person or online, is tough for a lot of people. NPR's Life Kit has tips to embrace the power to schmooze. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Oct. 15, 2022.)

October 21, 2022
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  • Andee Tagle
Prime Minister Liz Truss walks out of No.10 Downing St. to announce her resignation on Thursday in London.

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  • Europe

British Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after weeks of criticism and turmoil

Truss' announcement follows weeks of criticism from her opponents and members of her own Conservative Party, and the resignation of two of her top Cabinet picks.

October 20, 2022
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By:
  • Willem Marx
A view of Nordenskiold glacier melting and collapsing in the ocean in September 2021 in  Svalbard, a northern Norwegian archipelago.

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  • Climate

Scientists are using microphones to measure how fast glaciers are melting

Scientists are analyzing sounds from glaciers to predict exactly how quickly ice is melting and what that could mean for the rise in sea level.

October 20, 2022
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By:
  • Kurt Gardinier
GPB  NPR

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  • Europe

British Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns

The announcement Thursday comes just six weeks after Truss succeeded Boris Johnson, and amid weeks of criticism from opponents and members of her own party.

October 20, 2022
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  • A Martínez and
  • Frank Langfitt
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  • Music Interviews

Singer and songwriter iLe's third album, 'Nacarile,' finds a world deeply in flux

The Puerto Rican artist returns with a new album, her first since protests galvanized San Juan and beyond in 2019.

October 20, 2022
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By:
  • Leila Fadel and
  • Lilly Quiroz
Eric Perkins says the kitchen is what sold him on the two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment in Norfolk, Va., that he found through a shared housing program.

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  • National

Roommate wanted: Homeless people are pairing up as a way around the housing crisis

Given record high rents and low vacancy rates, housing providers are offering to match people up as roommates to get them off the streets. But it can be a tough sell for both renters and landlords.

October 20, 2022
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  • Jennifer Ludden
Republican state officials in Louisiana are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on which voters should be categorized as Black when testing whether a map of election districts dilutes the political power of Black voters.

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  • Elections

Who counts as Black in voting maps? Some GOP state officials want that narrowed

Republican officials in Louisiana are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to set a narrower definition of "Black" for redistricting that excludes some Black people and could minimize their voting power.

October 20, 2022
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  • Hansi Lo Wang
GPB  NPR

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  • Health

How an on-call addiction specialist at a Massachusetts hospital saved a life

Salem Hospital has addiction specialist on call, and that came in handy when a patient got help after coming in for a different problem. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on Oct. 5, 2022.)

October 20, 2022
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  • Martha Bebinger
Voters fill out their ballots at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds in Bozeman, Mont., on Nov. 3, 2020.

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  • Elections

Late changes to election laws mean Montana voters were sent inaccurate information

A pamphlet sent to voters includes information based on laws passed last year by Republicans. But a district court judge struck down the laws late last month.

October 20, 2022
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  • Shaylee Ragar

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  • Education

Borrowers who were cut out of student loan relief describe 'a gut punch'

Hundreds of thousands of borrowers spent just over a month thinking they qualified for student loan cancellation. Now they don't.

October 19, 2022
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  • Cory Turner
Lina Abu Akleh sits near photographs of her late aunt, journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, at their family home in east Jerusalem in July.

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  • Middle East

The family of slain Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh demands justice

It's been over five months since Abu Akleh was killed on the job, most likely by Israeli forces. Her niece tells Morning Edition about her aunt's legacy and her family's campaign for accountability.

October 19, 2022
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  • Leila Fadel
Dallas Theater Center on Oct. 4, 2022. The play "Trouble in Mind" is about racism in a white theater company in the 1950s.

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  • Arts & Life

Without more federal money, what will regional theaters do?

Subscriptions and ticket sales are down, but theater is needed more than ever. What theaters are doing to survive.

October 19, 2022
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  • Sonari Glinton
Wei Kang Ding and Judy Zhu outside of a candidate debate hosted by high school students on Sept. 28. in Johns Creek, Ga. Ding and Zhu say they are still doing their election research.

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  • National

Suburbs delivered recent wins for Georgia Democrats. This year, they're up for grabs

Whether Democrats can hold onto the Georgia suburbs may come down to candidate quality, shifting demographics and whether voters are more discouraged by inflation or abortion restrictions.

October 18, 2022
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  • Sam Gringlas
Abraham Lincoln signed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862. He issued the formal Emancipation Proclamation the following January. Lincoln was under tremendous pressure to withdraw emancipation as a precondition for peace talks with the Confederacy.

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  • Author Interviews

Lincoln prioritized democracy over his political future. A new biography explains why

Presidential historian Jon Meacham speaks with NPR about his new biography, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. It examines Lincoln's actions as well as motivations.

October 18, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
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