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Black women at Harvard accused of plagiarism to attack DEI programs, supporter says

Four Black women at Harvard have been accused of plagiarism by right-wing activists. We examine the motivations behind the charges.

June 29, 2024
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  • Phillip Martin
The U.S. Supreme Court made it far more difficult for federal agencies to issue rules and regulations that carry out broad mandates enacted by Congress.

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  • Law

Supreme Court just made it harder for federal agencies to regulate in sweeping ruling

The decision overturned Chevron v. The Natural Resources Defense Council, a 1984 decision that was not particularly controversial when it was announced 40 years ago.

June 28, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
A homeless person walks near an elementary school in Grants Pass, Ore., on March 23.  The rural city became the unlikely face of the nation's homelessness crisis when it asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold its anti-camping laws.

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  • National

The Supreme Court says cities can punish people for sleeping in public places

The decision is a win for Western cities that wanted more powers to manage record homelessness. But advocates for the unhoused say the decision will do nothing to solve the larger problem

June 28, 2024
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  • Jennifer Ludden
Pictured from left: Saeed Jalili, Masoud Pezeshkian, Mostafa Pourmohammadi and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.

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  • Middle East

Here's what to know about Iran's presidential election

When's the election? Who's running? Here's a short primer on Iran's vote for president.

June 27, 2024
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  • Peter Kenyon
Two new studies offer a first look at how much more students learned thanks to federal pandemic aid money.

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  • Education

Congress poured billions of dollars into schools. Did it help students learn?

The short answer is yes, the money did help students make up for the learning they missed during COVID. But it didn’t get them all the way there.

June 27, 2024
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  • Cory Turner
Former U.S. Olympian Michael Phelps testified during a Congressional hearing examining Anti-Doping Measures in advance of the 2024 Summer Olympics on June 25, 2024, in Washington.

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  • Sports

Swimmer Michael Phelps says China doping scandal threatens the Olympic movement

On Capitol Hill, Michael Phelps and fellow Olympic swimming star Alison Schmitt testified about doping by elite Chinese athletes and demanded reforms to the World Anti-Doping Agency.

June 27, 2024
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  • Brian Mann
Kathleen Scarpone, left, of Kingston, N.H., and Cheryl Juaire, second from left, of Marlborough, Mass., attend a 2019 protest in front of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Scarpone, who lost her son to OxyContin addiction, and Juarie addressed three Sackler family members during a virtual U.S. Bankruptcy Court hearing in March 2022.

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  • News

Supreme Court rejects controversial Purdue Pharma bankruptcy deal

In a 5-4 decision, the justices ruled that the multibillion opioid settlement inappropriately protected the Sackler family.

June 27, 2024
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  • Brian Mann and
  • Nina Totenberg
Illustration: Burning rubber at a race. At illegal "sideshows," drivers show off their cars and skills by doing burn-outs and donuts, often shutting down public streets.

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  • National

As sideshows gain popularity, police try a range of tactics to stop them in their tracks

Illegal "sideshows," also known as "street takeovers," have spread since the pandemic. When police try to break them up, they often face defiant crowds

June 27, 2024
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  • Martin Kaste
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  • Law

Supreme Court allows White House to request removal of misinformation on social media

The court by a vote of 6-3 ruled that those challenging the government’s interaction with social media companies lacked legal standing to sue.

June 26, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Jordan Thomas
The Chang'e 6 capsule landed in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia on Tuesday.

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China has just returned the first-ever samples from the far side of the moon

The far side of the moon looks very different from the near side, and with the Chang'e 6 mission, scientists are hoping to learn why.

June 26, 2024
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
In Jonathan Merritt's new book <em>My Guncle and Me</em>, a little boy's gay uncle helps him understand that being different makes him special.

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  • Religion

Christian writer's new book reminds kids what makes them different makes them special

Christian writer Jonathan Merritt's new book My Guncle and Me tells the story of a gay uncle who helps his nephew embrace being different.

June 26, 2024
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  • Jason DeRose
A man uses an umbrella at a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump on June 9 in Las Vegas, where temperatures climbed above 100 degrees.

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  • Climate

A second Trump term could slow the shift from fossil fuels as climate threats grow

If Donald Trump is reelected, his administration probably couldn’t stop the country’s transition away from fossil fuels. But any slowdown could have big impacts on climate change.

June 25, 2024
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  • Michael Copley
Sung Ihm Son fell into a depression when her husband died. Making new friends and taking classes like dance and art at GenSpace in Los Angeles helped her feel happy again.

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  • Health

More Americans are living longer. Here’s a place that helps people thrive

A center started by Wallis Annenberg in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles is creating a sense of community for older people who aim to keep learning and growing as they age.

June 24, 2024
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  • Allison Aubrey
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in a major gun-rights case.

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  • Law

Supreme Court upholds federal ban on guns for domestic abusers

The decision was the first major gun ruling since 2022, when the high court broke sharply with the way gun laws had previously been handled by the courts.

June 24, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
Dr. Stephanie Arnold, who prefers bright-colored clothes instead of a white coat, meets with a patient who needs a pelvic exam. The family medicine clinic Arnold founded offers reproductive health care, including abortion, alongside all kinds of other care. “It’s a little bit of everything, which is very typical of family medicine,” she says.

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  • Health

Abortion is becoming more common in primary care clinics as doctors challenge stigma

More family medicine and primary care doctors are doing abortions and questioning why it’s been separated from other care for decades.

June 21, 2024
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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin and
  • Elissa Nadworny
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