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Protestors, led by Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, marched along Highway 89 in Cameron on Aug. 2, 2024 to protest uranium hauling through the reservation. The highway was part of the route taken by trucks from the Pinyon Plain Mine near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon three days earlier when they began uranium ore transportation through a large swath of the nation.

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Navajo, Arizona attorney general question safety of newly reopened uranium mine

The reopening of a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon has the Navajo Nation, and now Arizona's attorney general, questioning its safety.

August 24, 2024
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  • Ryan Heinsius
Emmitt Martin III, a former Memphis Police Department officer, second from left, accused of killing Tyre Nichols, walks into federal court on Friday in Memphis, Tenn.

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  • National

A 2nd ex-Memphis officer pleads guilty in Tyre Nichols' death

Emmitt Martin is the second former officer to plead guilty in the killing that sparked outrage and renewed calls for police reform. Three former officers still face trial in federal court next month.

August 24, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
The Justice Department says RealPage’s algorithmic pricing software allows landlords nationwide to set rents above market rate and deprives renters of the benefits of competition. The Texas-based company has denied the allegations.

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DOJ accuses real estate software company of helping landlords collude to raise rents

The lawsuit says RealPage’s algorithmic pricing software lets landlords effectively collude and set rents above market rate. The Texas-based company has denied the allegations.

August 23, 2024
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By:
  • Jennifer Ludden
Planned Parenthood hosted a mobile health clinic that provides vasectomies and medication abortion, at an "Into Action!" event in Chicago on Monday.

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  • Politics

From vasectomies to abortion pills, Planned Parenthood sets up mobile clinic near DNC

Just a few miles from the site of the Democratic National Convention, a mobile health clinic opened its doors for patients seeking reproductive health care including vasectomies and abortion pills.

August 23, 2024
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  • Sarah McCammon
Voters walk to a polling station in Tempe, Ariz., in November 2020.

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Supreme Court grants GOP bid to require citizenship proof for some Arizona voters

The U.S. Supreme Court has for now granted a Republican request to require Arizona voters to submit proof of their U.S. citizenship when using the state’s registration form.

August 23, 2024
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  • Hansi Lo Wang
“Wail on Whalers, a Portrait of Amos Haskins” by Felandus Thames, an “homage to escaped enslaved people who found autonomy in whaling,” is comprised of hairbeads strung on coated wire. The piece is part of the “Entwined” exhibition, which reimagines thousands of years of maritime history through Black and Indigenous worldviews and experiences. (Ryan Caron King/Connecticut Public)

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  • National

Indigenous and Black people tell their own stories at the Mystic Seaport Museum

Indigenous and Black people tell their own seafaring stories at Mystique Seaport Museum

August 23, 2024
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  • Diane Orson
GPB News NPR

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  • National

As cars and trucks get bigger and taller, lawmakers look to protect pedestrians

Cars and trucks have gotten bigger and taller, with deadly consequences for pedestrians. A bill being introduced today in Congress would create federal standards for hood height and visibility.

August 23, 2024
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  • Joel Rose
 From left: Kamala Harris, mystery guest, Donald Trump.

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  • National

What surprise DNC speaker did Trump once say was his VP pick? Find out in the quiz

This week was the Democratic National Convention, which went full-on Met Gala and/or Olympics. If you watched that (and the Republican counterprogramming), you'll get at least five questions right.

August 23, 2024
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  • Holly J. Morris
A customer purchases gas in June at a station in Chicago.

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  • National

Gas prices are down. We could be headed for lows not seen since 2021

Pump prices having been falling all summer, and as Labor Day approaches, they're 47 cents lower than this time last year. Some analysts see $3 gasoline in our future.

August 23, 2024
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  • Scott Neuman
U.S. Postal Service delivery vehicles are parked outside a post office in Boys Town, Neb., on Aug. 18, 2020.

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  • National

USPS proposes changes to save $3 billion per year, starting in 2025

The plan would adjust delivery times while keeping a commitment to a maximum five-day delivery for the Ground Advantage program nationwide and a maximum three-day delivery for local first-class mail.

August 23, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Vice President Harris delivers her speech to accept the party's nomination for president Thursday in Chicago at the end of the Democratic National Convention.

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Harris had one of the shortest acceptance speeches in history. Trump had the longest

Her speech, at only 38 minutes, was the 12th-shortest in modern history, while her opponent holds the records for the three longest acceptance speeches in American political history.

August 23, 2024
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  • C Mandler
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the U.S.-Mexico border on Aug. 22 south of Sierra Vista, Ariz.

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  • Elections

Trump again distances himself from Project 2025

Earlier today at the Arizona-Mexico border, former President Donald Trump defended himself against a series of attacks Democrats have lobbed at him during the Democratic National Convention.

August 22, 2024
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  • Ben Giles
GPB News NPR

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  • National

Gabby Giffords among gun violence survivors who spoke at the DNC

August 22, 2024
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A Georgia couple filed a lawsuit against Emory University Hospital Midtown after they claimed hospital staff misplaced part of the husband's skull following his emergency brain surgery. The outside of the hospital is shown in this Google Maps image.

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Atlanta hospital is accused of losing part of patient's skull following brain surgery

Fernando Cluster underwent emergency surgery in September 2022 at Emory University Hospital Midtown to relieve bleeding in his brain, which required part of his skull to be removed.

August 22, 2024
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Lori Hefner-Vargo, Carmen Bell, Fadia Halma and Lori McFarland from Pennsylvania's Lehigh County wore white and made sashes as a sign of respect for Vice President Harris.

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  • Elections

Why Democratic women are wearing white at the DNC

Women are wearing white to honor of the suffragists who fought to earn women the right to vote more than 100 years ago. Word spread through online chats as convention-goers packed their bags.

August 22, 2024
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  • Tamara Keith
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