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FEMA has helped develop building codes for decades, including standards that reduce the risk that houses will flood in storms and hurricanes. That work is being pulled back under the Trump Administration.

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  • Climate

Exclusive: Trump administration drops work on stronger building codes for disasters

To help homes survive more intense disasters, FEMA has been developing recommendations for stronger building codes. The Trump Administration has pulled them back.

February 20, 2025
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  • Lauren Sommer
Rakim Mayers, aka A$AP Rocky, reacts in court as the verdict is given in his felony assault trial in Los Angeles on Feb. 18. The rapper  was found not guilty of two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm.

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  • National

Rapper A$AP Rocky found not guilty of felony assault with a firearm

Jurors found Rocky, a rapper and the longtime partner of Rihanna, not guilty of firing a gun at a former friend on a Hollywood street in 2021. He could have faced up to 24 years in prison.

February 20, 2025
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Daniel Craig, who most recently played 007, marks the end of an era with the former producers of the franchise.

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  • Movies

Amazon has acquired creative control of the 'James Bond' franchise

With new producers, a new studio, and a new 007 on the way, change is expected for the next James Bond.

February 20, 2025
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
Kash Patel, Trump's pick for FBI director, arrives to testify during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Jan. 30, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

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  • Politics

Senate confirms Kash Patel, fierce critic of FBI, to head the bureau

Republicans welcomed Kash Patel's confirmation, seeing him as someone who can fix the FBI's alleged targeting of conservatives in recent years.

February 20, 2025
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  • Ryan Lucas
Washington Nationals' Jacob Young (30) argues a called third strike with umpire Malachi Moore, left, as Nationals manager Dave Martinez, right, joins in during the third inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Guardians in Cleveland on June 1, 2024.

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Everything to know about the MLB's ball-strike challenge system at spring training

This spring, MLB players can challenge ball and strike calls. The camera-based system is only an experiment for now — but it has the baseball world wondering where to draw the line with technology.

February 20, 2025
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  • Becky Sullivan
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum gives her daily morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025.

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  • Latin America

Mexico warns the US not to 'invade our sovereignty' in fight against cartels

As the US officially designates six Mexican cartels as terrorist groups, Mexico's president warns the United States against any violation of its territory.

February 20, 2025
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  • Eyder Peralta
NPR's Adrian Ma remembers his girlfriend, civil rights lawyer Kiah Duggins, who was a passenger on the American Airlines flight that collided with a military helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River.

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NPR host Adrian Ma remembers his girlfriend who died in D.C. plane crash

NPR host Adrian Ma's girlfriend, Kiah Duggins, was aboard the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River. He spoke to NPR about that night and about his late girlfriend.

February 20, 2025
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  • Mallory Yu
The Kennedy Center on Aug. 13, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

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  • Arts & Life

Kennedy Center evacuates due to bomb threat targeting Shen Yun

A spokesperson for the Kennedy Center says the threat targeted Shen Yun, a touring dance troupe that is banned in China, because it is associated with the religious group Falun Gong.

February 20, 2025
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., arrives to cast his vote at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 24.

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  • Politics

Sen. Mitch McConnell says he will not seek reelection in 2026

The Kentucky Republican has served more than 40 years in the chamber, and became one of the most consequential and divisive legislators in recent history.

February 20, 2025
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First known cookbook by a Black American woman gets new edition 160 years later

Malinda Russell's A Domestic Cookbook was first published in 1866. It contains least a hundred recipes for sweets, plus recipes for shampoo and cologne – and remedies for toothaches.

February 20, 2025
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  • Neda Ulaby
Immigrant seniors and people with disabilities call California lawmakers asking for support of a bill expanding immigrant benefits in August 2023.

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  • National

Trump aims to cut benefits for those without legal status. Most already don't qualify

A new executive order aims to prevent taxpayer money from supporting people in the U.S. without legal status and targets federal funding for cities and states that support sanctuary policies.

February 20, 2025
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  • Jasmine Garsd
Derek Copeland, who was recently fired from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, holds a USDA work shirt near his residence in Opelika, Alabama. The Air Force veteran had worked as a dog trainer for the USDA.

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  • Politics

A military vet and a scientist were securing America's food system. Trump fired them

More than 10,000 federal employees who had yet to complete their probationary periods have been fired by the Trump administration, including those who work to protect American agriculture.

February 20, 2025
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  • Andrea Hsu
Canned soup and vegetables are displayed for sale in a New York City grocery store on Feb. 11. Some food and beverages could cost more if steel and aluminum can prices rise in response to U.S. tariffs.

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  • Business

How Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum could hit you at the grocery store

U.S. tariffs could cause the prices of steel and aluminum cans to rise, an increase that may ultimately be passed on to consumers.

February 20, 2025
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  • Joe Hernandez
A copy of Donald Trump's mug shot on the cover of the <em>New York Post</em> is framed in an office just outside the Oval Office.

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  • National

A gold-framed Trump mug shot is hanging just outside the Oval Office

President Trump's mug shot is one of the first things visitors will see when approaching the Oval Office.

February 20, 2025
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  • Alana Wise
Natalie Morales at Netflix's "Dead to Me" season 3 premiere in 2022.

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  • Arts & Life

Natalie Morales knows there's no right way to be herself

Actress Natalie Morales says there were many "shoulds" in her life — pressure to do the right thing — but has recently learned that there's no right way to live.

February 20, 2025
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