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Mickalene Thomas' 2015 work "Afro Goddess Looking Forward." <em>Rhinestones, acrylic, and oil on wood panel</em>

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Mickalene Thomas makes art that 'gives Black women their flowers'

Thomas' work puts Black women front and center. "We've been supportive characters for far too long," she says. "I would describe my art as radically shifting notions of beauty by reclaiming space."

December 03, 2024
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Kash Patel speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally at Thomas & Mack Center, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, in Las Vegas.

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  • Politics

J. Edgar Hoover's biographer weighs in on Trump's pick to lead the FBI

Kash Patel, Trump's pick to lead the FBI, may test internal guardrails, historian and J. Edgar Hoover biographer Beverly Gage tells Morning Edition.

December 03, 2024
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  • Michel Martin and
  • Obed Manuel
Elon Musk attends a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13. A federal judge this week ruled that Musk's $50 billion pay package from Tesla cannot be reinstated.

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  • Business

Elon Musk's more than $50 billion pay deal at Tesla was rejected again. Here is why

A judge in Delaware has for the second time struck down a compensation package for Elon Musk after a Tesla shareholder filed suit.

December 03, 2024
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  • Chandelis Duster
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova in Moscow, May 31.

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  • Europe

Putin's planes took Ukrainian kids into 'coerced' Russian adoption, a Yale report says

Russia's president and senior Kremlin officials financed and facilitated the transport of at least 314 Ukrainian children into "coerced" foster care and adoptions, a new Yale University report says.

December 03, 2024
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  • Joanna Kakissis
A man holds the South Korea flag outside the National Assembly in Seoul on December 4, 2024, after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law.

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  • World

South Korea's president says he will lift his martial law declaration

After South Korean lawmakers voted to reverse President Yoon Suk Yeol's surprise declaration of "emergency martial law," Yoon announced that he would lift the order through a Cabinet meeting.

December 03, 2024
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  • Se Eun Gong
Author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza addresses the Republican Sunshine Summit on June 29, 2018, in Kissimmee, Fla.

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  • Elections

Creator of '2000 Mules' apologizes to man falsely accused of ballot fraud in the film

Filmmaker and conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza has issued a statement saying "inaccurate information" was provided to him about ballot box surveillance videos featured in the film.

December 03, 2024
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President-elect Donald Trump speaks during an election overnight event at the West Palm Beach Convention Center in Florida on Nov. 6.

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  • Elections

Trump falls just below 50% in popular vote, but gets more than in past elections

This year's popular-vote margin is the second-closest since 1968 and still tightening. It shows just how closely divided the country is politically, and that any shift to the right is marginal.

December 03, 2024
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  • Domenico Montanaro
A teacher leads a class at a school for girls administered but the main U.N. agency for Palestinian aid, UNRWA, in Qalandia refugee camp, near Ramallah, in the West Bank, on Nov. 14. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/12/03/nx-s1-5205331/israel-palestinians-unrwa-ban-west-bank"target="_blank"   >Click here for the fully story. </a>

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  • Middle East

As Israel bans UNRWA, Palestinians stand to lose schools and clinics, not only in Gaza

Israel is severing ties with the main United Nations agency that provides aid to Palestinians. With the focus largely on Gaza, the move also threatens key services in the occupied West Bank.

December 03, 2024
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  • Scott Neuman
"Brain rot" is the term of the year for 2024, referring to concerns that endlessly scrolling through social media videos and other content can cause harm. Here, TikTok's logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen showing a TikTok home screen. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

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  • Books

Writer Thoreau warned of brain rot in 1854. Now it's the Oxford Word of 2024

The term brain rot first appeared in Henry David Thoreau's famous Walden, according to the Oxford University Press. How did he use it — and what might he have made of its modern meaning?

December 03, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
Teachers Emily Brisse, Mitchell Rutherford and Abbey Osborn have competed with smartphones for students' attention.

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  • National

Teens can't get off their phones. Here's what some schools are doing about it

Teens spend much of their days on their phones — many of them during school. Here's how schools and teachers are trying to fix that.

December 03, 2024
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  • Claire Murashima
At issue in the case before the Supreme Court Monday is the manner in which the FDA regulates e-cigarettes.

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  • Law

FDA battles vaping industry at the Supreme Court

The justices will hear arguments about the FDA's rejection of some e-cigarettes. High schoolers are at the center of the case.

December 03, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, pictured in Nantucket, Mass., on Friday. Days later Biden announced he had pardoned his son, who was awaiting sentencing in criminal cases related to tax evasion and gun charges.

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  • News

The 2024 popular vote margin is tight. And, the history of Oxford's word of the year

The 2024 popular vote margin between President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President Harris is tight. Here's what that says about America. And, the history of 'brain rot,' Oxford's word of the year.

December 03, 2024
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  • Brittney Melton
In this 2009 file photo, a FedEx driver delivers a package in the Queens section of New York.

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  • Business

'Tis the season for porch pirates. Here are some tips to help protect your items

Retailers are warning Americans to be vigilant about their packages and not let porch pirates steal the holiday spirit,

December 03, 2024
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  • Chandelis Duster
In this photo provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade press service, servicemen of the 24th Mechanized Brigade improve their tactical skills at the training field in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024.

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  • World

U.S. will send Ukraine $725 million more in arms

President Joe Biden has pledged to spend all of the military assistance funds Congress approved this year for Ukraine before the end of his administration on Jan. 20, 2025.

December 03, 2024
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  • Arts & Life

On the darkest day of her life, two unsung heroes give Clarice a moment of respite

On one of the hardest days of her life, Clarice is given a moment of respite by her two unsung heroes

December 03, 2024
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