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A parvovirus B19 infection can cause a facial rash in children, which is why the disease caused by the virus is sometimes called "slapped-cheek disease."

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  • Science

What to know about the 'slapped cheek' virus uptick in the U.S.

Most healthy people have either no symptoms or flu-like symptoms from a parvovirus B19 infection, but it can lead to serious complications for certain groups of people.

August 17, 2024
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  • Juliana Kim
A photograph of <em>Hillbilly Elegy </em>by JD Vance.

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'Hillbilly Elegy' is back in the spotlight. These Appalachians write a different tale

NPR spoke with Appalachian fiction and nonfiction writers about this moment and how they are building a tapestry of what they know as home.

August 17, 2024
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  • Clayton Kincade
Safety advocates have long touted the potential of technology that lets vehicles communicate wirelessly. Now the Transportation Department is releasing a new plan that aims to speed up the rollout.

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  • National

U.S. presses the ‘reset button' on technology that lets cars talk to each other

Safety advocates have long touted the potential of technology that lets vehicles communicate wirelessly. Now the Transportation Department is releasing a new plan that aims to speed up the rollout.

August 17, 2024
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  • Joel Rose
A memorial to Michael Brown is displayed on Canfield Drive in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 7.

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10 years later, Michael Brown’s mom asks a global panel to look into her son's death

Brown’s mother Lezley McSpadden filed a claim against the U.S. with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in 2023, alleging that the government deprived her son’s right to life. A hearing on the matter was held last month

August 17, 2024
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  • Kristin Wright
The<strong> </strong>U.S. Supreme Court refused to partially limit two lower-court orders that had previously blocked the Biden administration’s new rules barring sex discrimination in schools that get federal aid.<br>

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  • Law

Supreme Court blocks Biden administration rules against sex discrimination in schools

The court’s action effectively bars the federal government from enforcing any portion of its new anti-discrimination rules while legal challenges are litigated in the lower courts.

August 17, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Jordan Thomas
This March 13, 2017, photo shows visitors getting ready to tour Graceland in Memphis, Tenn.

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  • National

A woman is arrested for allegedly trying to steal Elvis' Graceland property

Lisa Jeanine Findley of Missouri is is charged with trying to defraud Elvis Presley’s estate of millions of dollars and steal ownership of the iconic Graceland property in Memphis.

August 16, 2024
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  • Alana Wise
Susan Lorincz (left) listens to testimony during her trial Wednesday in Judge Robert Hodges' courtroom in Ocala, Fla., as her defense attorney Amanda Sizemore also listens.

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  • Law

Jury convicts white Florida woman in fatal shooting of her Black neighbor

Susan Lorincz, 60, was convicted of killing Ajike "A.J." Owens, 35, after the jury rejected Lorincz's claims that she fired through her door in self-defense amid a dispute over kids playing outside.

August 16, 2024
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This Dec. 24, 2019, photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows Senior Airman Roger Fortson.

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Roger Fortson's family demands charges against sheriff's deputy who killed him

In a news conference, attorneys representing the 23-year-old airman's family expressed concern that the investigation into his May shooting death is taking longer than expected.

August 16, 2024
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Sculptures representing charred chimneys rising from the smoldering rubble of burned-out buildings make up the centennial memorial of the 1908 race riot, entitled <em>Acts of Intolerance</em> by Preston Jackson, on March 22, 2023, in Springfield, Ill.

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Biden designates the site of 1908 Springfield, Ill., race riot as a national monument

In 1908, a white lynch mob of thousands terrorized a Black neighborhood in Springfield, Ill. The events were so horrific they led to the founding of the NAACP.

August 16, 2024
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  • Alana Wise and
  • Juliana Kim
A roll of police tape is left on the windshield of a Los Angeles County sheriff's vehicle. Federal prosecutors allege two former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officers took part in an elaborate extortion scheme.

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  • Law

4 ex-law enforcement officers charged in $37 million extortion scheme

Prosecutors say the ex-law enforcement and military officers took part in a wild scheme, funded by a Chinese national, to trick a man into signing away his rights in a business worth millions.

August 16, 2024
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
A TikTok sign is displayed on the company's building in Culver City, Calif., in March 2024.

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  • Business

TikTok fights for survival in latest filing as ban approaches

In the latest salvo in the fight over the hit app’s future in the U.S., lawyers for TikTok say the government’s push to ban TikTok is unconstitutional and lacks proof that TikTok is a real security risk.

August 16, 2024
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  • Bobby Allyn
A teenage girl wearing a face mask, head scarf and long black robe, listens to a math teacher at a tutoring center in Kabul. The center was established by a women's rights activist to circumvent a Taliban ban on girls attending secondary school. The activist said she has informal permission by Taliban authorities to run the center as long as teenage girls abide by a strict dress code.

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  • Global Health

Many Afghan men believe in women's rights. But they're afraid to speak out

Men rarely speak out to protest the Taliban's stripping away of the rights of girls and women. A new study finds that many believe those lost rights should be restored.

August 16, 2024
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  • Ruchi Kumar
Matthew Perry appears at the premiere of <em>Ride </em>in Los Angeles on April 28, 2015.

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  • Arts & Life

2 doctors are charged in connection to 'Friends' actor Matthew Perry’s ketamine death

Five people, including two California doctors, have been charged in connection with the 2023 death of the Friends actor, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

August 16, 2024
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., is hoping his status as the only working farmer in the Senate will help him secure a fourth term in November.

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  • Politics

Why 'the last Democrat standing' in Montana is skipping the DNC

Montana used to vote consistently purple, but now there's only one Democrat holding statewide office, three-term U.S. Senator Jon Tester. He's not exactly embracing his party this election cycle.

August 16, 2024
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  • Kirk Siegler
From left: Elon Musk, a sloth, Tom Cruise.

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  • National

Who or what did Trump call 'the greatest cutter' this week? Find out in the quiz

After the blissful news avalanches of campaign hijinks and the Olympics, we're back to the usual soup of science, retail and animals.

August 16, 2024
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