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Body camera footage shows the moments leading up to Indianola, Miss., police officer Greg Capers shooting and wounding 11-year-old Aderrien Murry following a call the boy made to authorities for help.

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  • Law

Police release video of officer shooting boy, 11, who had called 911 for help

Officials in Mississippi made the footage available after calls from 11-year-old Aderrien Murry's mother and the family's attorney to make it public.

January 10, 2024
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin and
  • Jaclyn Diaz
A man wades through a flooded parking lot near Widgery Wharf on Wednesday in Portland, Maine.

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  • Weather

Parts of the Northeast and South are recovering after a huge, deadly winter storm

Heavy rains, flooding and destructive winds and tornadoes snarled traffic and knocked out power up and down the East Coast.

January 10, 2024
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  • Joe Hernandez
Don Scott, speaker the Virginia House of Delegates, has had a meteoric rise in the Statehouse. The Delegates unanimously voted him in as speaker on Wednesday.

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  • National

Don Scott becomes first Black speaker in Virginia Legislature's 400-year history

Del. Don Scott, a rising star among Virginia Democrats with a unique personal story, was voted in as speaker of the Virginia Statehouse.

January 10, 2024
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  • Jahd Khalil
Paul Giamatti stars as Paul Hunham in Alexander Payne's new film, <em>The Holdovers.</em>

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  • Movie Interviews

Paul Giamatti's own high school years came in handy in 'The Holdovers'

Giamatti says his latest movie, filmed at various prep schools in Massachusetts and directed by Alexander Payne, triggered memories of the time he spent as a day student at a private school.

January 10, 2024
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  • Sam Briger
U.S. Navy ships travel through the Bab al-Mandeb strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, in August.

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  • Middle East

Yemen's Houthis launch their largest Red Sea aerial attack, but no damage is reported

Drones and missiles targeted shipping in the sea, but ships from the U.S. and British navies shot down the projectiles. No damage was reported. The rebels say they aim to stop Israel's war on Hamas.

January 10, 2024
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Tuyishimire Primitiva, phlebotomist with the American Red Cross, draws whole blood from Teresa McLeland at the American Red Cross on April 12, 2023, in Louisville, Ky.

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  • Health

Red Cross declares an emergency blood shortage, as number of donors hits 20-year low

The number of people donating blood has dropped 40% over the last two decades, according to the Red Cross. Severe winter weather and illnesses could make an already bad situation even worse, it says.

January 10, 2024
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  • Diba Mohtasham
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is being singled out by House Republicans for the crisis at the southwest border, even as he works with Senate negotiators on a plan to change administration policy.

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  • Politics

House Republicans start process to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas

The House Homeland Security committee kicked off a series of hearings to take up articles of impeachment against Mayorkas. Democrats say there is no basis to remove him and it's a political move.

January 10, 2024
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  • Deirdre Walsh
Researchers from Columbia University and Rutgers University found roughly 240,000 detectable plastic fragments in a typical liter of bottled water.

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  • Science

Researchers find a massive number of plastic particles in bottled water

Researchers found roughly 240,000 detectable plastic fragments in a typical liter of bottled water. Most of them were nanoplastics — particles less than 1 micrometer in size.

January 10, 2024
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  • James Doubek
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley participates in fourth Republican Presidential Primary Debate on on December 6, 2023 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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  • Elections

Bringing birther back, Donald Trump questions Nikki Haley's right to be president

The former governor of South Carolina, Haley was born in the southern state. But as she surges in Republican polls, Trump is elevating false conspiracy theories about her citizenship on social media.

January 10, 2024
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  • Franco Ordoñez
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  • Health

'Body Electric Challenge': Start the new year off with movement breaks

The challenge invites anyone who wants to join to inject prescribed doses of movement in their lives. Follow along with the series at npr.org/bodyelectric or on the Body Electric podcast feed.

January 10, 2024
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By:
  • Leila Fadel and
  • Manoush Zomorodi

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  • Book Reviews

'The Fetishist' examines racial and sexual politics

Katherine Min's well-crafted posthumous novel is inspired by Lolita -- but with an Asian fetishist as Humbert Humbert and the objects of his objectification given voice.

January 10, 2024
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  • Kristen Martin
Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn "C.J." Davis speaks to the city council as Mayor Paul Young stands behind her at city hall on Tuesday.

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  • National

Memphis committee recommends replacing police chief, 1 year after Tyre Nichols death

A Memphis City Council committee voted to replace Chief Cerelyn "CJ" Davis a year after the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by five officers generated intense criticism of her department.

January 10, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
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  • Politics

Up First briefing: Judges skeptical of Trump immunity claim; Austin cancer surgery

Judges push back on lawyers who say Trump should be immune from prosecution for Jan. 6 charges. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized for complications from a prostate cancer procedure.

January 10, 2024
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  • Suzanne Nuyen
GPB  NPR

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  • Asia

How Taiwanese identity has evolved on the island in recent generations

What it means to be "Taiwanese" varies from one generation to the next, influenced by the island's complicated history with China. NPR talks with members of one family across generations.

January 10, 2024
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  • Ailsa Chang,
  • Emily Feng,
  • and 3 more
This photo provided by Bay County Sheriff's Office shows damage around Panama City Beach, Fla., on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, after a sprawling storm hit the South with strong thunderstorms and tornado warnings that blew roofs off homes and tossed about furniture in the Florida Panhandle.

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  • Weather

The Northeast will see heavy rain and winds as storms roll through the region

A storm packing heavy rain was sweeping through the Northeast early Wednesday, while winter weather brought tornadoes in the Midwest and South, flood threats in Florida and blizzards in the Northwest.

January 10, 2024
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