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President Biden called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday to express concerns about Israeli strikes that killed aid workers and humanitarian conditions in Gaza.

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Biden warns Netanyahu that U.S. policy on Gaza hinges on improved conditions there

President Biden spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen were killed in Israeli strikes. He said a cease-fire is needed so aid can get in.

April 04, 2024
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  • Tamara Keith and
  • Daniel Estrin
People watch the annular eclipse of the sun at the planetarium of the University of Costa Rica (UCR) in San Jose, on October 14, 2023.

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  • Science

Where are you going to view the solar eclipse? NPR wants to know.

Tell NPR where you plan to watch the total solar eclipse on April 8.

April 04, 2024
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  • Ashley Westerman
Dead fish washed ashore in a red tide in 2018 in Sanibel, Fla.

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A professor worried no one would read an algae study. So she had it put to music

Professors and students at the University of South Florida mapped pitch, rhythm and duration to data about algae blooms and depletion of coral reefs to create an original composition.

April 04, 2024
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  • Neda Ulaby
The first Amazon Fresh grocery store in London opened in 2021. The company is replacing its "Just Walk Out" technology at U.S. stores with smart shopping carts, but leaving it in the U.K.

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  • Business

No more 'just walk out' at Amazon grocery stores. The new bet is smart shopping carts

The retailer banked big on the cashier-less tech. It's now out at Amazon Fresh stores in the U.S. But Amazon's grocery ambitions are only shapeshifting.

April 04, 2024
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  • Alina Selyukh
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott talks with the media after a cargo ship ran into and collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, 2024.

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  • National

Baltimore mayor faces racist attacks after bridge collapse

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has been the target of racist attacks following last week's Key Bridge collapse.

April 04, 2024
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  • Alana Wise
Niels Schneider and Lou de Laâge star in <em>Coup de Chance.</em>

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'Coup de Chance' is a typical Woody Allen film — with one appalling final detail

Set in France, Allen's latest film covers familiar territory, including an adulterous romance, a premeditated murder and a darkly cynical consideration of the role that luck plays in human affairs.

April 04, 2024
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  • Justin Chang
Director Steven Zaillian and cinematographer Robert Elswit make the most of the <em>Ripley</em>'s<em> </em>black and white aesthetic, presenting stunning images of Italian landscape.

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  • TV Reviews

Netflix's stylish 'Ripley' stretches the grift — and the tension — to the max

Andrew Scott stars as a grifter who's always ready to swindle, seduce or murder in a new eight-part miniseries based on 1955 novel. Ripley combines a bold narrative with visual surprises throughout.

April 04, 2024
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  • David Bianculli
A cicada sheds its nymph shell in Chevy Chase, Md., during the emergence of Brood X in May 2021.

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  • Science

Billions of cicadas will buzz this spring as two broods emerge at the same time

Billions of cicadas will emerge this spring across eastern and southern states as two broods arrive simultaneously for the first time in more than 200 years.

April 04, 2024
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  • Clare Marie Schneider
Members of the public join a walking vigil through the streets of Falmouth, England, for British aid worker James Henderson, organized by Palestine Solidarity Cornwall, April 3. Three British men working for World Central Kitchen were killed along with four colleagues when their clearly marked vehicles were targeted by Israeli military strikes.

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Why a majority of Britons want the U.K. to halt arms exports to Israel

Countries including Canada, the Netherlands and Spain say they're suspending arms sales to Israel. After an Israeli strike killed British World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza, will the U.K. too?

April 04, 2024
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  • Fatima Al-Kassab and
  • Lauren Frayer
Science writer David Baron views the beginning of a solar eclipse with friends in Western Australia in 2023. Baron says getting to see the solar corona during a total eclipse is "the most dazzling sight in the heavens."

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  • Science

The weird and wonderful sensations of viewing a total solar eclipse

'You will see a sun you've never seen before,' says science writer David Baron. He urges people to head to the 'path of totality' to see the total solar eclipse on April 8 for an experience of a lifetime.

April 04, 2024
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  • Regina G. Barber
Relatives and friends mourn the death of Saifeddin Issam Ayad Abutaha, a member of the U.S.-based aid group World Central Kitchen who was killed as Israeli strikes hit its convoy delivering food in Gaza, during his funeral in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.

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  • News

These are the World Central Kitchen aid workers killed by Israeli airstrike in Gaza

Three of those killed by an Israeli airstrike were British and the others were Australian, Palestinian, Polish and a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada.

April 04, 2024
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  • Willem Marx and
  • Rachel Treisman
Thousands of young salmon died after the truck crash, unable to reach nearby Lookingglass Creek in northeast Oregon.

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  • National

Fish out of water story ends with 77,000 young salmon in the wrong water

The Chinook got shook when their truck got cooked. Now the salmon are swimming — but in the wrong brook.

April 04, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at a press conference on Dec. 6, 2023, about DOJ's indictment of four Russian military personnel for war crimes committed against a U.S. national living in Ukraine, the first of such charges ever to be brought under the U.S. war crimes statute.

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  • Law

DOJ takes a stand against war crimes in Ukraine. In Gaza war, it's been nearly silent

The Justice Department has taken an active — and public — stand against alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine. But it's been nearly silent on possible war crimes in the Israel-Hamas war.

April 04, 2024
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  • Ryan Lucas
Amazon said on April 3, 2024, it's cutting hundreds of jobs in its cloud computing unit AWS as part of a strategic shift.

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  • Business

Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs in its cloud computing unit AWS

The AWS layoffs follow other layoffs that happened at Amazon and its subsidiaries this year, including at Prime Video, the MGM Studios unit and Twitch, the social media platform owned by Amazon.

April 04, 2024
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The Betsy Ross Bridge in Philadelphia is a continuous truss bridge like the Francis Scott Key Bridge. It also has four dolphins around it.

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  • Investigations

Concrete structures meant to protect Baltimore bridge appear unchanged for decades

Experts said if the Key Bridge had been fitted with more robust collision-prevention structures, the collapse might have been avoided. Records indicate the protections weren't significantly altered.

April 04, 2024
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  • Chiara Eisner and
  • Caitlin Thompson
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