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News Articles: NPR News

A mother and her children react to the news that Hanna Katzir, who the Palestine Islamic Jihad claimed died in captivity, is among the 13 Israelis released. They are watching the news on their phone outside the Museum of Tel Aviv on Friday.

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  • Middle East

Scores of Palestinians and Israelis freed from captivity on first day of Gaza truce

As the pause in fighting appeared to hold, Hamas released 13 Israelis and 11 foreigners who were also seized in Hamas' attack on Israel last month. In exchange, Israel freed 39 Palestinian prisoners.

November 24, 2023
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  • Scott Neuman,
  • Daniel Estrin,
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Irish police officers apprehend a man after a demonstration near the scene of an attack in Dublin city center, on Thursday Nov. 23, 2023. The violence broke out following a knife attack that left a woman and two other children were injured.

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  • Europe

Ireland's prime minister condemns anti-immigrant rioters in Dublin

Violence broke out in the capital city after rumors circulated that a foreign national was responsible for a stabbing outside a Dublin school that left three children injured. Dozens were arrested.

November 24, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
A British Airways Concorde takes off from London's Heathrow Airport in 2001.

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  • History

20 years ago, the supersonic passenger jet Concorde flew for the last time

Concorde crossed the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound, cutting travel time in half compared to a conventional passenger plane. The groundbreaking jet made its final flight on Nov. 26, 2003.

November 24, 2023
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  • Jack Mitchell
Brenda Song plays Princess Akemi in<em> Blue Eye Samurai.</em>

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  • Pop Culture

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the song "Farrah Fawcett Hair" and the shows Blue Eye Samurai and Ghosts UK.

November 24, 2023
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  • Aisha Harris,
  • Walter Chaw,
  • and 1 more
This image provided by WTVQ and taken from video shows people sitting at a table at Rockcastle Middle School, an evacuation center in Mt. Vernon, Ky., on Wednesday. People were evacuated after a CSX train derailed near Livingston, a town of about 200 people in Rockcastle County. CSX says two of the 16 cars that derailed carried molten sulfur, which caught fire after the cars were breached.

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  • National

Cleanup, air monitoring underway at Kentucky train derailment site

Crews with rail operator CSX and Kentucky officials are working to remove train cars and spilled material at the site of a derailment that sparked a chemical fire and prompted home evacuations.

November 24, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Bradley Cooper plays composer Leonard Bernstein in <em>Maestro</em>.

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  • Movie Reviews

Bradley Cooper's 'Maestro' fully captures Bernstein's charisma and complexity

Cooper plays the legendary composer and Carey Mulligan is his wife, Felicia Montealegre, in a new drama that exquisitely renders Bernstein's musical brilliance and human flaws.

November 24, 2023
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  • Justin Chang
GPB  NPR

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  • Television

How comic Leslie Jones went from funniest person on campus to 'SNL' star

Jones says performing stand-up for the first time as a freshman in college felt like putting on a shirt that fit perfectly. Her memoir is Leslie F*cking Jones. Originally broadcast Sept. 21, 2023.

November 24, 2023
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  • Tonya Mosley

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  • Arts & Life

How making jewelry got me out of my creative rut

In the peak of the pandemic, unemployed with lots of free time, I took a chance and tinkered with making clay creations. I felt a sense of immense pride — coupled with the nagging desire to do better.

November 24, 2023
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  • Natalie Walters
A tumbleweed roughly the size of a car was captured on video this week and posted on X, where commenters compared it to a giant hairball, belly lint gone wild, and the critters from a 1986 sci-fi horror movie.

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  • Strange News

A car-sized tumbleweed made quite a scene on a California highway

A person shared video of "the mother of all tumbleweeds" on social media this week. That got us thinking about where tumbleweeds come from and their propensity for taking over roads and neighborhoods.

November 24, 2023
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  • Vanessa Romo
GPB  NPR

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  • Technology

How to keep an eye out for cyber scams during this holiday shopping season

It's important to keep an eye out for cyber scams during the holiday shopping season. New research suggests companies could do more to protect consumers. (Story aired on ATC on Nov. 21, 2023.)

November 24, 2023
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  • Jenna McLaughlin

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  • Business

Why are sales so hard to resist? Let's unravel this Black Friday mystery

The human brain has to really fight the lure of a discount. Companies know this and use many tricks to push our buttons. But there's a way to outsmart them.

November 24, 2023
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, left, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman arrive to the White House for a meeting in May.

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  • Technology

How OpenAI's origins explain the Sam Altman drama

The company's non-profit board and for-profit arm have long been at odds. CEO Sam Altman's week-long ouster represents the culmination of that long-simmering tension.

November 24, 2023
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
This picture taken from southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke billowing after an Israeli strike on northern Gaza on Thursday amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement.

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  • Middle East

A temporary cease-fire in Gaza appears set to begin Friday

A deal to pause the fighting in Gaza and exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners would begin Friday morning, according to the foreign ministry in Qatar.

November 23, 2023
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  • Scott Neuman and
  • Lauren Frayer
A car burns as Irish policemen stand at the scene of an attack in Dublin city centre, Thursday Nov. 23, 2023.

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  • Europe

Violent clashes break out in Dublin after knife attack

Violent clashes broke out in Dublin on Thursday evening after a 5-year-old girl was seriously injured in a knife attack earlier in the day that also saw a woman and two other children hospitalized.

November 23, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
The 2023 National Dog Show Best in Show winner is a Sealyham terrier named Stache. Ahead of this win, Stache was the No. 2-ranked Terrier and No. 12-ranked All-Breed show dog in America. He has won 49 Best in Show prizes.

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  • National

Stache the Sealyham terrier wins the National Dog Show

Stache lives in Honey Brook, Pa., not far from where he picked up today's prestigious Best in Show award. The Kennel Club of Philadelphia hosts the annual contest that's televised on Thanksgiving Day.

November 23, 2023
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  • Jackie Northam
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