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For children, a bulky coat and a car seat can be a dangerous pairing.

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  • Children's Health

What to know about keeping children safe — and warm — in the car during the winter

A bulky winter coat underneath a car seat can pose dangers for children. Ahead of winter storms on the East Coast, here are some tips for optimal car safety.

January 03, 2024
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By:
  • Diba Mohtasham
Melissa Hoskins of Australia's women's track cycling team poses during a media day on July 17, 2012, in Brescia, Italy.

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  • Sports

An Australian cyclist has died after being hit by a car. Police arrested her husband

Two-time Olympian and world champion cyclist Melissa Hoskins was struck outside her home near the city of Adelaide. Her husband, Rohan Dennis, has been charged.

January 02, 2024
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
GPB  NPR

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  • Politics

Updated indictment adds details to bribery conspiracy charges against Sen. Menendez

The indictment says the senator connected one of his co-defendants with a member of the Qatari royal family who invested in the businessman's multimillion-dollar real estate project.

January 02, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
British actor Alex Cox, Mexican actress Blanca Guerra and Ana Ofelia Murguía (center), Mexican film director Arturo Ripstein and Mexican actress Patricia Reyes Spíndola pose as part of the 47th Cannes Film Festival in 1994. Murguía died Sunday.

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  • Obituaries

Acclaimed Mexican actor Ana Ofelia Murguía, voice of Mama Coco, dead at 90

Murguía was a lauded actor with a decades-long career in film, television and theater. She's best known in the U.S. for voicing the elderly matriarch in Coco.

January 02, 2024
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
GPB  NPR

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  • Law

A librarian was fired after refusing to ban books. She fought back

Librarians in at least three states are asking the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to intervene after they were fired for refusing to ban books.

January 02, 2024
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By:
  • Matt Bloom
Iryna Karetnykova and her partner Viktor Tyschenko were in the building when it was struck by a Russian missile in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday.

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  • Europe

Russia strikes residences in Kyiv in large missile attack on Ukraine cities

Russia launched dozens of attack drones and missiles — including its advanced Kinzhal ballistic missile — according to Ukrainian officials.

January 02, 2024
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny ,
  • Claire Harbage,
  • and 1 more
Bradley Cooper plays composer Leonard Bernstein in <em>Maestro</em>.

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  • Movie Interviews

To become the 'Maestro,' Bradley Cooper learned to live the music

In his new biopic Maestro, Cooper was determined not to imitate the legendary Leonard Bernstein. Instead, the actor worked with conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin to find his own rhythm.

January 02, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
A Japan Airlines plane is on fire on the runway of Haneda airport on Tuesday in Tokyo.

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  • Asia

Planes collide and catch fire at Japan's busy Haneda airport, killing 5

All 379 occupants of the Japan Airlines plane escaped safely after colliding with a Japan coast guard aircraft carrying earthquake relief supplies. Five coast guard crew members died.

January 02, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Autopsies are not required for federal prison deaths that are classified as natural. NPR found cases where medical neglect, poor prison conditions and a lack of resources contributed to these deaths. But families were given little information.

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  • Investigations

There is little scrutiny of 'natural' deaths behind bars

Autopsies are not required for federal prison deaths that are classified as natural. NPR found cases where medical neglect, poor prison conditions and a lack of resources contributed to these deaths.

January 02, 2024
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By:
  • Tirzah Christopher
Cruise rolled out hundreds of its robotaxis in San Francisco this year.

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  • Business

Driverless car startup Cruise's no good, terrible year

After rapidly expanding its self-driving car program, things took a disastrous turn for Cruise when one of its robotaxis struck a pedestrian.

January 02, 2024
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By:
  • Dara Kerr
GPB  NPR

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  • Elections

Maine's secretary of state tells NPR why she disqualified Trump from the ballot

Maine became the second state to rule the former president is ineligible to run because of what he did in the days leading up to, and on, Jan. 6, 2021.

January 02, 2024
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By:
  • Scott Detrow,
  • Tyler Bartlam,
  • and 1 more
GPB  NPR

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  • Law

Colorado legalized recreational pot 10 years ago. Here's how the industry has grown

Ten years ago Colorado became the first state to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use. It's sold nearly $12 billion since then, and recreational pot is legal in nearly half of states.

January 02, 2024
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  • Ben Markus - Colorado Public Radio
A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., on Oct. 12, 2022.

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  • Health

Threats to abortion access drive demand for abortion pills, analysis suggests

Requests for abortion pills from people who were not yet pregnant spiked when patients appeared to perceive threats to abortion access, new research has found.

January 02, 2024
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  • Sarah McCammon
Israeli soldiers stand on top of a tank in a staging area at the Israeli-Gaza border in southern Israel, on Monday.

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  • Middle East

Israel pulls thousands of troops from Gaza, a possible sign of scaled-back offensive

The move could clear the way for a new long-term phase of war against Hamas. Israel has come under growing international pressure to scale back fighting, which has killed nearly 22,000 Palestinians.

January 02, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Israelis protested against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system and in support of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on Monday, Sept. 11, 2023.

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  • News

Up First briefing: Israel Supreme Court ruling; South Korean opposition leader stabbed

Israel's Supreme Court rejects right-wing changes to the judiciary. South Korea's Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck during a visit to the city of Busan.

January 02, 2024
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  • Suzanne Nuyen
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