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This photo provided by David Lei shows Flaco the owl on April 28, 2023, in New York. As Flaco enters his second year in the spotlight, it can be easy to forget that his freedom is the result of a crime, one that has improbably remained unsolved for a year.

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  • Animals

A year later, Flaco the owl's escape from the Central Park Zoo remains a mystery

Flaco has become one of New York City's most beloved characters, lounging in courtyards and on fire escapes. But it can be easy to forget that his freedom is the result of an unsolved crime.

February 03, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
A lone shopper heads into a Target store on Jan. 11 in Lakewood, Colo.

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  • National

Target pulls Black History Month book that misidentified 3 civil rights icons

The magnet book mixed up W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and Carter G. Woodson. Target said it will no longer sell the book in stores or online and that it notified the publisher of the errors.

February 03, 2024
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Mark Guttridge, farmer and co-owner at Ollin Farms, feeds the chickens. The farm benefits from a county program that helps small growers get their produce to more people.

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  • Fitness & Nutrition

A big idea for small farms: How to link agriculture, nutrition and public health

In Boulder, Colo., the county is investing in sustainable farming and helping people buy local produce. It's been called "a triple win" – for customers, farmers and the economy.

February 03, 2024
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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
A car sits partially submerged on a flooded road during a rain storm in Long Beach, Calif., on Thursday.

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  • Weather

Atmospheric river expected to bring life-threatening floods to Southern California

The National Weather Service warns the storm could drop unprecedented rain over a wide area from Saturday night through early next week, with the period of most concern from Sunday into early Monday.

February 03, 2024
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  • NPR Staff
C.J. Hurst of West Covina, Calif., holds up a .44-caliber rimfire Model 66 Winchester rifle as he poses with his collection of about 600 antique guns in 1952.

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  • National

In today's gun rights cases, historians are in hot demand. Here's why

The Supreme Court has made history a central test of whether a gun control law is constitutional. That has meant a boom in demand for gun law historians, who are digging up forgotten old gun laws.

February 03, 2024
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  • Martin Kaste
Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media at a Washington hotel on Jan. 9, 2024, after attending a hearing before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals at the federal courthouse in Washington.

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  • National

A federal judge has postponed Trump's March 4 election interference trial

A judge postponed Donald Trump's trial on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election as a key legal appeal from the former president remains unresolved in the courts. A new date was not set.

February 02, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Punxsutawney Groundhog Club President Tom Dunkel and groundhog handler AJ Derume with Punxsutawney Phil, at last year's annual Groundhog Day festivities in Punxsutawney, Pa.

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  • Weather

Watch Groundhog Day 2024: Punxsutawney Phil declares an early spring

For Groundhog Day in 2024, Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow, elating a massive crowd at Gobbler's Knob.

February 02, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
Former Marine Jason Miles stands in front of his home in Clinton, Miss. He lost a sales job during the pandemic and had to take a mortgage forbearance.

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  • National

Lawmakers move to help veterans at risk of losing their homes

Senators are introducing a bill to help thousands of veterans who, through no fault of their own, were left facing foreclosure when a VA COVID-assistance program ended abruptly.

February 02, 2024
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  • Chris Arnold and
  • Quil Lawrence
Punxsutawney Phil is the most famous of the weather-predicting rodents that emerge on Groundhog Day — but in some areas, female groundhogs are the ones making the call.

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  • Animals

Phil. Chuck. Jimmy. Here's why many Groundhog Day prognosticators are male

There is a simple reason for male groundhogs to seize the Feb. 2 holiday. But the handlers of female groundhogs say their animals are more accurate than Punxsutawney Phil.

February 02, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
In this image made from video, a fire engine, firefighters and other officials are seen inside police tape on scene of a small plane crash in Clearwater, Florida, Feb. 1, 2024.

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  • National

Several die after a small plane crashes into a Florida mobile home, officials say

Authorities received emergency calls at the same time about a structure fire and an aircraft that went off radar three miles from a Florida airport. It is still unknown how many fatalities there were.

February 02, 2024
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  • Ayana Archie
A liquid dose of methadone at the clinic in Rossville, Ga. The medication is only available at designated opioid treatment centers and that won't change. But more clinicians will be able to prescribe it.

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  • Mental Health

With opioid deaths soaring, Biden administration will widen access to methadone

Bureaucratic hurdles mean just one-in-five people with opioid addiction get access to medication that could help them. The White House says new rules will help.

February 02, 2024
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  • Brian Mann
From left: Serial homepage offenders Taylor and Elon, and ... Elmo?

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  • National

What are Taylor and Elon doing *now*, and why is Elmo here? Find out in the quiz

Serial newsmakers Taylor Swift and Elon Musk made more headlines this week, but they were also joined by goats, a helicopter and a very intriguing blurry image.

February 02, 2024
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  • Holly J. Morris
Eva Stebel, water researcher, pours a water sample into a smaller glass container for experimentation as part of drinking water and PFAS research at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Center For Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response, Feb. 16, 2023, in Cincinnati.

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  • Health

The EPA is proposing that 'forever chemicals' be considered hazardous substances

A study by the U.S. Geological Survey found that the man-made chemicals are present in nearly half the country's tap water supply.

February 02, 2024
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  • Ayana Archie
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before a Senate committee in Washington on Wednesday.

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  • Politics

Tom Cotton grills Singaporean TikTok CEO: Are you a Chinese Communist?

TikTok faced scrutiny Wednesday along with other social media sites over child safety. But its Singaporean CEO was grilled over his nationality when a senator repeatedly asked whether he has CCP ties.

February 01, 2024
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  • Diba Mohtasham
Patients report that ketamine infusions can be lifesaving, with immediate improvement for severe depression. But dosage and safety measures vary widely at the hundreds of clinics that have opened.

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  • Mental Health

The ketamine economy: New mental health clinics are a 'Wild West' with few rules

Ketamine, approved as an anesthetic in 1970, is emerging as a major alternative mental health treatment. But more than 500 clinics have popped up with little regulation, and treatment varies widely.

February 01, 2024
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  • Dawn Megli
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