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One of the activities at Moss Appreciation Week is a build-your-own-terrarium workshop.

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  • Environment

'Moss Appreciation Week': a lot of celebration for a very little plant

Moss Appreciation Week is packed with events both scientific... and also silly. Moss walks, moss talks, moss movies, crafting moss-themed Valentines, and a "gastropod derby" with snails and slugs (for whom moss is a nice moist microclimate).

February 15, 2025
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By:
  • Deena Prichep
The Department of Homeland Security released photos of migrants as they boarded planes for Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

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  • Investigations

ACLU and other advocates sue for access to migrants moved to Guantánamo Bay

The lawsuit alleges that the migrants have been "disappeared into a black box" and are unable to communicate with attorneys.

February 15, 2025
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By:
  • Sacha Pfeiffer
The TikTok app logo is shown on an iPhone on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, in Houston.

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  • Business

TikTok is back on the Apple and Google app stores

Apple and Google removed the app after the Supreme Court upheld a law prohibiting firms from doing business with TikTok as long as it is controlled by China-based ByteDance.

February 15, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
A view of the CFPB headquarters building in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 10, 2025. A judge blocked the agency from laying off more employees after it had terminated more than 100 workers this week.

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  • Business

Federal judge blocks CFPB from laying off more employees

The ruling from a federal court in Washington, D.C., is — for now — a reprieve for CFPB staff who had been bracing for mass layoffs as early as Friday.

February 15, 2025
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley and
  • Rafael Nam
Kamilla Souza getting ready to study the brain of this beached whale.

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  • Science

'Give me the head!' Neuroscientist inspires whale and dolphin research in Brazil

Time is of the essence for a Brazilian neuroscientist who wants to study whale and dolphin brains before the brains decompose in the heat.

February 15, 2025
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Jannik Sinner plays a backhand return to Alexander Zverev during the men's singles final at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne on  Jan. 26.

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  • Sports

Tennis' top-ranked Jannik Sinner gets a 3-month ban in doping case settlement

Sinner accepted the ban in a settlement with the World Anti-Doping Agency. The timing of the ban means the 23-year-old Italian won't miss any Grand Slam tournaments.

February 15, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny gestures during his trial at a Moscow courthouse on August 27, 2018.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Navalny's words of love

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny, who died a year ago Sunday in a Russian prison.

February 15, 2025
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  • Scott Simon
Hamas militants escort Israeli-American hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen on a stage before handing him over to a Red Cross team in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, on Feb. 15, 2025, as part of the sixth hostage-prisoner exchange.

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  • Middle East

Hamas releases three Israeli hostages, the 6th group freed under a ceasefire deal

In a ceremony surrounded by masked Palestinian militants and rubble from the Gaza war, Hamas on Saturday released three Israeli hostages holding U.S., Russian and Argentinian citizenships.

February 15, 2025
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By:
  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi and
  • Daniel Estrin
People celebrate outside a Seattle federal courthouse after a second federal judge paused President Trump's order against gender-affirming care for youth on Friday.

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  • Law

A 2nd U.S. judge pauses Trump's order against gender-affirming care for trans youth

A second federal judge paused President Trump's executive order halting federal support for gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 19.

February 15, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Manhattan skyline view from the 7 subway line in Jackson Height, New York City, on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025.

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  • News

Are immigrants still welcome in Mayor Eric Adams' New York City? We asked New Yorkers.

New York City's mayor has embraced a more conservative, less immigrant friendly stance. What does that mean for a city that's built it's identity on immigration?

February 15, 2025
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By:
  • Jasmine Garsd
In this Nov. 17, 1973 file photo, President Richard Nixon speaks near Orlando, Fla. to the Associated Press Managing Editors annual meeting. Nixon told the APME "I am not a crook."

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  • Politics

After Watergate, Congress curbed the presidency. Now, Trump is testing those limits

President Trump's efforts to cut federal programs and fire watchdogs are drawing attention to 1970s-era government reforms.

February 15, 2025
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
The aurora borealis, commonly called the northern lights, illuminate the sky over a horse pasture in Mercer, Maine on May 10, 2024.

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  • National

A Valentine's weekend aurora may be visible in the skies of the northern U.S.

During Valentine's Day weekend, northern parts of America, including Maine, may have a chance of seeing an aurora. But space weather scientists warn that the chances of this happening are slim.

February 15, 2025
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By:
  • Chandelis Duster
Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones in <em>Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.</em>

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  • Movie Reviews

'Bridget Jones' is back – and this time, the story is bittersweet

It is an adjustment to see Bridget Jones in a sad story on-screen. But in Mad About the Boy, Zellweger is still in touch with Bridget's tireless efforts to connect with her own sunniness, which have taken on new meaning.

February 15, 2025
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
The Department of Justice is in turmoil after career prosecutors resigned rather than drop the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

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  • Law

Fallout from Eric Adams case continues at the Justice Department

An order to dismiss the corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams has sent the Justice Department into a crisis. Several top prosecutors resigned rather than obey orders to dismiss the case.

February 14, 2025
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet on the sidelines of the 61st Munich Security Conference in Germany on Friday.

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  • World

Access to Ukraine's rare earths may help keep U.S. aid flowing

As the Trump administration publicly hammers out its plans on the Ukraine war, it's also pressing Ukraine for deals in exchange for more aid — including giving the U.S. mining rights for rare earths.

February 14, 2025
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  • Joanna Kakissis
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