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News Articles: Morning Edition

Left to right: Lourdes Pereira, 23, Matthew Holgate, 23, Alec Ferreira, 25, Shelbylyn Henry, 32, Xavier Medina, 25, and Nalani Lopez, 19. The six voters met with NPR at the Phoenix Indian Center in downtown Phoenix.

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  • Elections

In Arizona, these young Native American voters seize their political power

Young voters and Native American voters are two groups that showed up for President Biden in the 2020 election. But ahead of his 2024 match-up, it's unclear if he'll be able to keep their support.

February 01, 2024
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo and
  • Elena Moore
Jorge Rubiano outside a temporary migrant shelter where he stayed after arriving in Chicago last summer from Colombia.

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  • Health

For Chicago's new migrants, informal support groups help ease the pain and trauma

Thousands of new migrants arriving in Chicago fled difficult situations or endured dangerous journeys. Informal support groups can provide some mental health care to ease their trauma and distress.

February 01, 2024
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By:
  • Kristen Schorsch
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona has led the department through a massive FAFSA overhaul mandated by Congress about three years ago.

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  • Education

A new FAFSA setback means many college financial aid offers won't come until April

The department needs extra time to fix a mistake that could have hurt lower-income borrowers, but the delay means all students will have to wait longer for their college aid offers.

February 01, 2024
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By:
  • Cory Turner
Left: A Kool cigarettes advertisement targeting Black communities for a sponsored event, the <em>Kool Jazz Festival</em>; Right: A Kent cigarettes ad targeting Black smokers.

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  • Health

The fight over banning menthol cigarettes has a long history steeped in race

Black smokers make up menthol tobacco's largest market, and have the highest rates of lung cancer. But the fight over banning menthol is a complex and divisive issue in the Black community.

February 01, 2024
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani, attends a news conference about the Israel-Hamas war.

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  • Middle East

Qatar's prime minister warns an intolerable Gaza situation poses regional risk

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani about brokering a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war, and an exchange of hostages and prisoners.

January 31, 2024
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By:
  • Leila Fadel,
  • Mansee Khurana,
  • and 2 more
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  • National

South Carolina has the next primary. Its electorate often splits across racial lines

NPR's A Martinez speaks with former South Carolina state Sens. Joel Lourie and Vincent Sheheen about the upcoming presidential primary.

January 30, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Amit Soussana (r), who was held hostage by Hamas and released hugs a friend near her house where she was kidnapped during the Oct. 7 attack on the kibbutz, on Jan. 29, 2024, in Kfar Aza, Israel. Many of the towns and kibbutzim attacked on that day remain completely evacuated, with their residents having relocated to other parts of Israel.

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  • Religion

Rabbis offer pastoral care for those traumatized by Oct. 7 Hamas attack

The Oct. 7 attacks on Israel displaced tens of thousands of Israelis from their kibbutzim near Gaza. Since then, rabbis have been crisscrossing the country offering trauma-informed care to victims.

January 30, 2024
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By:
  • Jason DeRose
Brian d'Arcy James and Kelli O'Hara star in a new Broadway adaptation of the 1962 film<em> Days of Wine and Roses.</em>

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  • Theater

'Days of Wine and Roses,' a film about love and addiction, is now a spirited musical

The classic 1962 movie tells the story of a relationship buckling under the weight of addiction. The new Broadway adaptation stars Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James.

January 29, 2024
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By:
  • Jeff Lunden
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks to soldiers on a visit to the northern Gaza Strip on Dec. 25, 2023. Netanyahu says the militant group Hamas must be destroyed in the current war in Gaza, though some critics say that goal is unrealistic.

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  • Middle East

The long and bitter relationship between Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas

Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas have a tortured relationship dating back to the 1990s. Yet at various times, the hardline policies of one have boosted the other.

January 26, 2024
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By:
  • Greg Myre
Health officials at Sarasota County Mosquito Management Services study specimens of anopheles mosquitoes that cause malaria, in Sarasota, Fla. on June 30, 2023. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert after five cases of malaria were confirmed, the first locally acquired cases of the disease in the United States in 20 years.

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  • National

New gene-editing tools may help wipe out mosquito-borne diseases

Scientists say gene-editing technology may eradicate a mosquito in the U.S. that spreads dengue and other diseases. Concerns remain about the possible environmental impact of bioengineered mosquitoes.

January 26, 2024
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By:
  • Greg Allen
Republican presidential candidate and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a rally on Wednesday in North Charleston, S.C.

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  • Politics

No place like home for Haley as she pins her presidential hopes on South Carolina

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's presidential campaign sees a path to competing against Donald Trump — a path that runs right through South Carolina's Feb. 24 primary.

January 25, 2024
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
A new Harvard University report finds that housing was unaffordable for a record half of renters in 2022. And a softening rental market might not help those who struggle most.

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  • National

Housing is now unaffordable for a record half of all U.S. renters, study finds

A new Harvard analysis finds people across income levels got squeezed by rent hikes during the pandemic. The market has lost millions of low-rent places, and new construction is mostly high-end.

January 25, 2024
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By:
  • Jennifer Ludden
An experimental gene therapy tested in young children with an inherited form of deafness restored some hearing for most of them.

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  • Health

Gene therapy shows promise for an inherited form of deafness

Scientists report that gene therapy restored at least some hearing and speech for five out of six children with a rare form of genetic deafness.

January 25, 2024
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By:
  • Rob Stein
Top: Dawson Crisman, Kati Yau, Jonathan Boer, Bottom: Issy Kagan, Ryan Kachnowski, Sarah McCall

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  • National

Young voters focus more on issues than candidates in 2024 presidential election

Voters under 30 tend to lean left of center overall and could make a major difference for Democratic candidates. Will they turn out in strong enough numbers to help President Biden win reelection?

January 25, 2024
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By:
  • Claire Murashima and
  • Leila Fadel
Cook County board president Toni Preckwinkle (center) announces the county's debt relief program, along with executives from several local hospitals and Allison Sesso, President & CEO of RIP Medical Debt (far left).

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  • Health

A growing wave of local governments are erasing billions in medical debts

New York City joined other localities this week in pledging to buy up and forgive residents' unpaid medical bills. The trend started in Cook County, Ill., and is spreading around the country.

January 24, 2024
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
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