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News Articles: National

The Great Salt Lake this winter, before spring runoff increased its elevation

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  • Environment

Green groups sue, say farmers are drying up Great Salt Lake

Environmental groups have filed suit against the state of Utah arguing leaders aren't doing enough to prevent the state's namesake Great Salt Lake from drying up.

September 07, 2023
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  • Kirk Siegler
A barrier to deter migrants from crossing from Mexico into the U.S. floats in the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass, Texas.

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  • National

The floating border barrier in the Rio Grande must be removed, a federal judge rules

The judge gave Texas until Sept. 15 to move the barrier to shore and barred the state from placing any additional buoys or other structures in the river. Gov. Greg Abbott plans to appeal the ruling.

September 07, 2023
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  • Joel Rose
GPB News NPR

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  • Science

Understanding the joy that many find in sadness

Why are humans attracted to art that combines sadness and beauty? A brain scientist says sadness has benefits like helping elicit empathy and purging negative emotion.

September 06, 2023
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
This photo provided by the U.S. Attorneys Office for Utah and introduced as evidence in a 2019 trial shows fentanyl-laced fake oxycodone pills collected during an investigation.

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  • Health

The share of U.S. drug overdose deaths caused by fake prescription pills is growing

The share of overdose deaths involving counterfeit pills doubled between 2019 and 2021, according to the CDC. Victims were often younger, Hispanic and had misused prescription drugs in the past.

September 06, 2023
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
Carl Nassib will be dedicating himself to his philanthropic app.

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  • Sports

Carl Nassib made queer NFL history. Now he's stepping away from the game

Although he isn't the first NFL player to come out as gay, he is the first to do so while actively playing for a team.

September 06, 2023
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By:
  • Manuela López Restrepo
Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill, seen here as prosecutor Creighton Waters makes closing arguments in the Alex Murdaugh trial, is accused of improperly influencing jurors in the high-profile murder case.

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  • Law

Alex Murdaugh wants a new trial, accusing the clerk of court of jury tampering

Defense lawyers for convicted South Carolina lawyer Murdaugh say Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill violated her oath of office as well as their client's constitutional right to an impartial jury.

September 06, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
Former YouTube star Ruby Franke, pictured here in a video for her mental health counseling service ConneXions, was charged with six felony counts of child abuse.

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  • National

YouTube vlogger Ruby Franke formally charged with 6 felony counts of child abuse

Ruby Franke, the YouTube mommy blogger behind the channel 8 Passengers, was arrested last week after her 12-year-old son climbed out a window and ran to a neighbor's house asking for food and water.

September 06, 2023
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  • Emily Olson
The late Hasidic composer Ben Zion Shenker sings, wearing a yarmulke and holding a mic, at a male-only sing along known as a k<em>umzits </em>that took place in an Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn.

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  • Religion

A new website reports on the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community

A new website, Shtetl.org, aims to provide an inside view and a critical look at the insular world of ultra-Orthodox Jews.

September 06, 2023
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  • Jon Kalish
Vehicles seen departing the Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nev., on Monday.

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  • National

Burning Man attendees say learning to live with the unexpected is part of the program

Organizers had asked attendees to shelter in place on Saturday, as torrential rains turned the desert site into a mud pit. A driving ban has since been lifted, but exiting is still a trek.

September 06, 2023
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  • Emily Olson,
  • Emma Bowman,
  • and 1 more
GPB News NPR

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  • National

Alabama seniors spearhead efforts to protect Mobile Bay from toxic ash

A group of seniors in Mobile, Ala., wants coal ash from a power plant moved to a lined landfill. They worry the toxic ash could leak into Mobile Bay. (Story aired on ATC on Sept. 4, 2023.)

September 06, 2023
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  • Cori Yonge
Willis McGahee, No. 26 of the Cleveland Browns, is tended to on the field in the fourth quarter of a game against the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., on Dec. 8, 2013,

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  • Sports

Former NFL players speak out against the league's handling of disability benefits

While the lawsuit lists 10 players, attorneys representing the former players say the lawsuit represents thousands who have filed for benefits before them.

September 06, 2023
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  • Ajani Daniel
Matthew House, a day shelter for the homeless on Chicago's south side. This address was listed on 50 separate applications for emergency PPP small business loans.

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  • National

The perilous hunt for PPP fraud and the hot tip that wasn't

The public data on PPP loans contains a lot of suspicious patterns, but it can also send people on wild goose chases

September 06, 2023
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  • Martin Kaste
Kian Lutu rushed to Maui to help find his grandfather. As people followed his story on social media, they started sending him money through Venmo.

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  • National

He came to Maui to find his granddad. He wound up giving out thousands in aid money

Kian Lutu says it was his duty to volunteer in shelters and dole out donations. It's one example of how Maui's communities and families banded together after last month's wildfires.

September 06, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
Kipekee, pictured at the Brights Zoo in Limestone, Tenn., is believed to be the only one of her kind on the planet.

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  • Animals

A rare spotless giraffe gets a name to match

The public has voted and the spotless superstar born at a family-owned zoo in Tennessee has been named Kipekee.

September 06, 2023
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo and
  • Dustin Jones
A man cools off at a temporary misting station deployed by the city in the Downtown Eastside due to a heat wave, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Aug. 16, 2023.

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  • Climate

This summer was the hottest on record across the Northern Hemisphere, the U.N. says

The world's oceans were the hottest ever recorded, while Antarctica continued to set records for low amounts of sea ice, the World Meteorological Organization said.

September 06, 2023
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