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College students assess how safe they feel after recent shootings

In the wake of mass shootings on college campuses, students speak to their concerns about guns, and how to create a space in which they are safe.

September 01, 2023
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By:
  • Ally Schweitzer and
  • Destinee Adams
The Canadian and U.S. flags are displayed on lamp posts in the downtown area, March 22, 2023, near Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario.

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  • World

Canada issues travel advisory warning over U.S. states' LGBTQ+ laws

The country's Global Affairs department did not specify which states, but is advising Canadian travelers to check the local laws for their destination before traveling.

September 01, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Ruins of housing believed to have been used by soldiers stationed at the garrison.

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  • World

Archaeologists in Turkey have identified massive structures below a Roman-era castle

The multistory, below-ground structures in Diyarbakir — ID'ed by using ground-penetrating radar — may have sheltered some 10,000 people during wartime many centuries ago, archaeologists believe.

September 01, 2023
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By:
  • Peter Kenyon and
  • Gokce Saracoglu
An NPR review of news photographs shows that there's been a dramatic change in President Joe Biden doing ... what?

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  • National

What has Biden started doing differently? Test yourself in this week's news quiz

From Simone Biles to Joe Biden, there were backflips and small steps taken in the news this week. Were you paying attention?

September 01, 2023
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  • Holly J. Morris
Old growth Douglas fir trees stand along the Salmon river Trail on the Mt. Hood National Forest outside Zigzag, Ore.

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  • Environment

Judge: Trump-era rule change allowing the logging of old-growth forests violates laws

U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Hallman on Thursday found that the U.S. Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Forest Management Act and the Endangered Species Act.

September 01, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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  • Education

A big group of student loan borrowers are learning their debt has been forgiven

Federal student loan borrowers are expected to resume payments this fall. But more than 800,000 borrowers are finding out that their loans have suddenly been forgiven.

August 31, 2023
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  • Cory Turner
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  • Movies

From stage to screen: A concert film of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour heads to theaters

Swift's tour has bolstered economies and crashed the Ticketmaster website. AMC said it has increased its online ticket server by more than five times its normal capacity to accommodate for the demand.

August 31, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
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Novel 'The Covenant of Water' tells of a family in India haunted by a medical mystery

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with the author Abraham Verghese about his new novel The Covenant of Water in which a family in India is haunted by a medical mystery.

August 31, 2023
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  • Ari Shapiro,
  • and 1 more
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A neurology professor weighs in on the health questions surrounding Mitch McConnell

For a second time in a little over a month, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to freeze up while taking questions a press conference, raising questions about his health.

August 31, 2023
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  • Kira Wakeam,
  • Patrick Jarenwattananon,
  • and 1 more
U.S. defender Julie Ertz celebrates after scoring a goal against New Zealand during the first half of an international friendly soccer match in Commerce City, Colo., on Sept. 15, 2017. The 2-time U.S. Soccer Player of the Year has retired from soccer after a 10-year career that included back to back Women's World Cup titles and two U.S. Soccer Female Player of the Year awards.

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  • Sports

The USWNT's Julie Ertz, a back to back World Cup champion, is retiring from soccer

Ertz is the only player to win two U.S. Soccer Player of the Year awards and a U.S. Soccer Young Female Player of the Year. She has won two World Cups and is a two-time Olympian.

August 31, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Striking hotel workers rally outside the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown Hotel on Tuesday, July 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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  • Economy

Political scientists confront real world politics dealing with hotel workers strike

The American Political Science Association, or APSA, is holding its annual meeting in Los Angeles this weekend despite calls from striking hotel workers for conferences to stay away from the city.

August 31, 2023
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By:
  • Danielle Kaye
Proud Boys members including Zachary Rehl, left, Ethan Nordean, center, and Joseph Biggs, walk toward the U.S. Capitol in Washington, in support of President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021.

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  • Law

Proud Boys leaders sentenced to a combined 32 years for Jan. 6 riot

Joseph Biggs and Zachary Rehl were convicted alongside former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio and other fellow members of the group.

August 31, 2023
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
The late night heavyweights are putting their power into a new podcast, sharing this image on the Instagram page for the show.

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  • Television

Late night TV hosts team up for a new podcast amid the writers' strike

The biggest names in late night have turned their private group chat into a Spotify podcast. All the proceeds will go to support their staff during the writers' strike.

August 31, 2023
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  • Andrew Limbong
A view of the images portraying victims of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship projected onto the La Moneda Presidential Palace to mark the commemoration of the International Day of the Disappeared in Santiago, Chile, on Wednesday.

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  • Latin America

Chile will search for 1,000+ victims of forced disappearance by Pinochet dictatorship

It is the first time the Chilean government will lead the search for victims, something which victims' relatives and advocates have long carried out themselves and have sought help from the army.

August 31, 2023
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  • Carrie Kahn
A face mask sign is displayed in a window in Queens, New York City on May 11, the day the federal public health emergency for COVID ended.

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  • National

As U.S. COVID hospitalizations rise, some places are bringing mask mandates back

New COVID variants are fueling hospitalizations and prompting some schools and hospitals to reinstate mask mandates. Others are considering or ruling out the possibility, leaving it up to individuals.

August 31, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
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