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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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  • Vanessa Romo and
  • Dustin Jones

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  • Book Reviews

5 YA books for fall that give academia vibes

These new tales offer up eerie magics, mysterious buildings, tentative friendships, and a whole lot of excellent excuses for why someone's homework didn't get done.

September 06, 2023
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  • Caitlyn Paxson
Technicians at the Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant demonstrate the process for reactivating one of the facility's Soviet-era reactors.

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  • Europe

Ukraine strains to safely operate nuclear power plants while under Russian invasion

Russia has occupied the massive Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which sits roughly 50 miles from the front lines. Ukraine's other reactors are also operating in a volatile war zone.

September 06, 2023
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  • Brian Mann
Illia Vitiuk, the head of the cyber department at Ukraine's top counterintelligence agency.

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  • National Security

Meet the man leading the front-line effort in Ukraine's cyber war with Russia

Illia Vitiuk is a top Ukrainian intelligence official. For him, the war with Russia is primarily in cyberspace — and in a rare exclusive interview with NPR, he says its far from over.

September 06, 2023
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  • Jenna McLaughlin
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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  • The Associated Press
Coco Gauff, of the United States, reacts to the crowd after defeating Jelena Ostapenko, of Latvia, during the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, in New York.

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Coco Gauff, 19, and Ben Shelton, 20, reach their first U.S. Open semifinals

Coco Gauff will face No. 10 Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic on Thursday. The unseeded Ben Shelton will next meet 23-time major champion Novak Djokovic of Serbia.

September 06, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Suspended Texas AG Ken Paxton (center) sits with his legal team at the start of his impeachment trial in the Texas Statehouse. Paxton pleaded not guilty on all counts.

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  • National

Paxton impeachment trial begins in the Texas Senate

The suspended Texas AG pleaded not guilty to all charges, which include bribery, corruption, and abuse of office. Here's what happened on the first day of his trial in the TX Senate.

September 06, 2023
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  • Julián Aguilar
President Joe Biden awards the Medal of Honor to Capt. Larry Taylor, an Army pilot from the Vietnam War who risked his life to rescue a reconnaissance team that was about to be overrun by the enemy, during a ceremony Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, at the White House.

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  • National

A Vietnam veteran helicopter pilot receives the Medal of Honor for a daring rescue

Capt. Larry Taylor received the award from President Biden for flying into heavy enemy fire to save four members of a reconnaissance team from almost certain death as they were about to be overrun.

September 06, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
This National Hurricane Center graphic, produced at 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, shows the projected path and strengthening of Tropical Storm Lee as it moves across the Atlantic Ocean

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  • Weather

Tropical Storm Lee will soon be a major hurricane — with 145 mph winds or more

The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Lee is forecast to strengthen rapidly into an "extremely dangerous" major hurricane this weekend as it nears the Lesser Antilles and Caribbean.

September 06, 2023
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  • Russell Lewis
This photo provided by the Chester County Prison shows Danelo Cavalcante. Cavalcante, convicted this month of fatally stabbing his girlfriend escaped Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023 from the suburban Philadelphia prison and prosecutors say he is also wanted in his native Brazil in a separate slaying. (Chester County Prison via AP)

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  • National

2 Pennsylvania school districts cancel classes after a man escaped from prison

Danelo Cavalcante was sentenced to life in prison and has been spotted six times since escaping from the Chester County Prison in late August. Police say how he got out is still under investigation.

September 05, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio rallies in Portland, Ore., on Aug. 17, 2019.

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  • Law

Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio sentenced to 22 years for Jan. 6 riot role

Tarrio was one of six Proud Boys leaders to be charged for conspiring to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election results. Of them, he has received the longest prison sentence to date.

September 05, 2023
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  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Odette Yousef
Alabama Solicitor General Edmund LaCour (right) speaks alongside Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall after oral arguments in an Alabama congressional redistricting case outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 2022.

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  • Elections

Alabama's congressional map is struck down again for diluting Black voters' power

Alabama is once again appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court a lower court order that struck down the state's congressional map for likely violating the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black voters' power.

September 05, 2023
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  • Hansi Lo Wang
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  • Politics

The challenges that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign has been facing

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is widely seen as the most viable opponent to Donald Trump in the Republican presidential nomination race, but his campaign has been beset by challenges from the start.

September 05, 2023
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  • Ashley Lopez
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