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Mercury, Venus and Saturn will be visible in the predawn Friday morning sky.

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Mercury, Venus and Saturn to delight stargazers in a parade across the sky

The pre-dawn sky will feature a glowing crescent moon, joined by planets Mercury, Venus and Saturn.

April 24, 2025
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  • Alana Wise
Jessica Rodriguez Aguilar is a U.S. citizen. She told NPR during a routine immigration visit, her husband Josue (right) was detained. Lawyers are warning their clients that they are increasingly seeing clients detained at scheduled court hearings and immigration check-ins.

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Lawyers warn clients of increased arrest risk at immigration check-ins

Immigration attorneys are advising clients who have deportation orders when they show up at court dates and immigration appointments, there is an increased risk of getting detained.

April 24, 2025
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  • Jasmine Garsd

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  • Health

I quit Ozempic and embraced feeling healthy over striving for thinness

Taking the drug made one writer feel so sick she quit and focused on healthy habits instead of her body size. Turns out, 65% of people using GLP-1 drugs for weight loss quit within a year.

April 24, 2025
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  • Mara Gordon
A Ukrainian woman looks at rescuers as they try to pull her out from under the rubble of a building after a Russian military strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The strike occurred at 1 a.m., when most people were asleep. So far, nine people have been confirmed dead and more than 70 injured. The rescue operation is ongoing.

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Trump calls on Putin to 'STOP' attacks on Ukraine

Trump calls on Putin to stop attacks as Ukrainian military says Russia launched at least 215 drones and missiles at Ukraine, most aimed at the capital.

April 24, 2025
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  • Joanna Kakissis

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This terrifying horror novel proves: Nothing is old if you make it new

Nat Cassidy's wildly entertaining novel is a superb example of how to work with clichés. When the Wolf Comes Home might sound like a werewolf novel — but it's an entirely different animal.

April 24, 2025
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  • Gabino Iglesias

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Joy Harjo believes in second chances

Joy Harjo is one of the most revered poets in the United States. On this week's Wild Card with Rachel Martin, the former U.S. poet laureate talks about how writing can give you second chances.

April 24, 2025
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  • Rachel Martin
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office in February.

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Trump changes tone over tariffs on China. And, new executive actions target education

Trump is changing his tone about tariffs on China, but it is unclear if he will change any policies. And, a sweeping list of executive actions targeting higher education and K-12 schools.

April 24, 2025
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  • Brittney Melton
This image made from video shows the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court in New Orleans, Monday, April 10, 2023. Across the U.S., there have been steep declines in the number of youth in juvenile detention, but racial disparities are widening.

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Racial disparities in youth incarceration are the widest they've been in decades

The number of American children and teenagers in juvenile detention has sharply declined over the last few decades, but as overall numbers decrease, data shows Black and Native American youth are far more likely to be incarcerated than white children.

April 24, 2025
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In 2001, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates comments at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash., on the U.S. Court of Appeals decision to overturn a lower court's ruling that the software giant be broken up.

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Decades later, the Microsoft antitrust case casts a shadow over the Google trial

A nearly 30-year-old legal case looms large over the U.S. government's antitrust case against Google. A judge is hearing arguments to decide the penalties to levy against the search giant.

April 24, 2025
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Jacob Elordi plays Julius in the queer romantic drama <em>On Swift Horses. </em>

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In theaters this weekend: A 1950s romantic drama and 'The Accountant 2'

Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi and Will Poulter star in the drama On Swift Horses, while Ben Affleck reprises his role as a money-laundering expert in the action thriller The Accountant 2.

April 24, 2025
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  • Bob Mondello
"Correspondence is a leap of faith, and that is part of what makes it wonderful," says Rachel Syme, author of <em>Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence</em>. "You may never know if the person you are writing to will write you back."

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The delightfully analog art of letter-writing

Tired of texting? Send your loved ones some snail mail instead. Rachel Syme, author of "Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence," shares whimsical ways to start a letter-writing habit.

April 24, 2025
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  • Marielle Segarra and
  • Sam Yellowhorse Kesler
A person holds a sign with a photo of Kilmar Abrego Garcia at a protest in New York City.

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  • Law

After a scathing rebuke, judge grants DOJ an extension in deportation case

A federal judge gave the Trump administration another week to answer detailed questions about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whose illegal deportation has raised concerns about due process.

April 23, 2025
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  • Eric Westervelt and
  • Joel Rose
The U.S. military tests its land-based Aegis missile defense system in 2018. Such systems can track and intercept short and medium-ranged missiles but struggle against larger, more powerful intercontinental ballistic missiles of the sort used by Russia and China.

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Trump wants a Golden Dome over America. Here's what it would take

Experts are divided whether a new missile defense system for the U.S., inspired by Israel's Iron Dome, would be worth the cost.

April 23, 2025
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
An airplane flies over the container ship Alexandra at the Port Newark Container Terminal on April 18 in Newark, N.J.

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  • National

A dozen states sue the Trump administration to stop tariff policy

A dozen states have sued the Trump administration in the U.S. Court of International Trade to stop its tariff policy, challenging Trump's claim that he could arbitrarily impose tariffs based on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

April 23, 2025
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Harvey Weinstein appears in court in Manhattan on Monday, April 21.

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  • Law

Harvey Weinstein's trial is underway in Manhattan

Weinstein is facing sex crimes charges after his 2020 New York conviction was overturned last year. The #MeToo movement was catalyzed in part by the many women who came forward to accuse the disgraced producer of misconduct.

April 23, 2025
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