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Victoria Lopez, pregnant with twins, had a one year old son when she was sentenced to prison on a drug charge. She had gotten treatment for her substance use disorder, started a job, and attended community college, but a judge said it wasn't enough.

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A novel prison program for pregnant women and their babies

Minnesota is believed to be the first state that allows some mothers to live outside of prison with their new babies.

November 21, 2023
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  • Alisa Roth
A General Motors logo is displayed outside the General Motors Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant on Jan. 27, 2020, in Hamtramck, Mich.

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  • Business

Vogt resigns as CEO of Cruise following safety concerns over self-driving vehicles

Vogt's decision to step down follows a recent recall of all 950 Cruise vehicles to update software after one of them dragged a pedestrian to the side of a San Francisco street in early October.

November 21, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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Genocide is the word hanging over the unfolding humanitarian disaster in Gaza

NPR's Leila Fadel asks David M. Crane, founding prosecutor for the U.N. special court for Sierra Leone, to define genocide in legal terms.

November 21, 2023
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United Air Lines planes line up along the busy Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey, on the eve of Thanksgiving on November 23, 2022.

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Up First briefing: holiday travel records; migrant crisis in California desert

Record-breaking Thanksgiving travel will test an already strained aviation system. A humanitarian crisis is brewing near the U.S.-Mexico border.

November 21, 2023
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  • Suzanne Nuyen
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  • Research News

2 different brain circuits influence our taste for salt, study finds

Two brain circuits help regulate salt intake: One adjusts salt cravings, the other determines whether we find salty food delicious or disgusting. (Story aired on ATC on Nov. 20, 2023.)

November 21, 2023
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  • Jon Hamilton
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A woman reported her son missing in 1995, but it took years to learn his fate

LaMont Dottin was a freshman at Queens College when he vanished in 1995. his mother flew to New York to report him missing. Because LaMont was over 18, the NYPD initially refused to take her report.

November 21, 2023
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  • GPB Newsroom
United Air Lines planes line up along the busy Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey, on the eve of Thanksgiving on November 23, 2022.

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A strained U.S. aviation system braces for a record-setting week of holiday travel

Records are likely to fall as millions of Americans take to the skies for Thanksgiving. Federal regulators say they're working to keep the system safe after a troubling report from outside experts.

November 21, 2023
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  • Joel Rose
Shoppers walk past sale signs at the Avalon shopping center in Alpharetta, Ga., during Black Friday in 2022.

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  • Business

Black Friday deals start early and seem endless. Are there actually any good deals?

Longer Black Friday sale windows give companies more chances to win potential business, but it also affords consumers the ability to shop around, experts say.

November 21, 2023
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  • Joe Hernandez
When army ants encounter obstacles, they link together to build living bridges.

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  • Animals

Army ants use collective intelligence to build bridges. Robots could learn from them

As army ants travel over uneven terrain, they link their bodies together to create bridges — a system that might give engineers insight into controlling robotic swarms.

November 21, 2023
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  • Kai McNamee
An "X" sign rests atop the company headquarters in downtown San Francisco, on July 28, 2023.

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  • Technology

Musk's X sues Media Matters over its report on ads next to hate groups' posts

Elon Musk's social media company X, formerly called Twitter, filed a lawsuit against the liberal advocacy group Media Matters for America on Monday.

November 21, 2023
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This photo provided by Diane Dircks shows a U.S. Navy plane that overshot a Marine base on Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. An official says all nine people aboard the plane have escaped injury.

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  • National Security

All 9 aboard U.S. Navy plane that overshot runway escape injury, Hawaii official says

The P-8A aircraft overshot the runway at a Marine base on Kaneohe Bay, a U.S. Marine Corps spokesperson said. He did not have further information.

November 21, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Newborn babies were evacuated from Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip and crossed into Egypt on Nov. 20, 2023.

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  • World

The Gaza war's youngest evacuees reach safety in Egypt — many without their parents

On Monday, 28 newborns were evacuated from Gaza to Egypt, after being transported from Al-Shifa Hospital. Four mothers accompanied the babies. It's not known how many of the other parents are alive.

November 21, 2023
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The president of the court reads the verdicts of a maxi-trial of hundreds of people accused of membership in Italy's 'ndrangheta organized crime syndicate.

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  • Europe

Italian tribunal sentences more than 200 in crime syndicate

An Italian tribunal convicted 207 people on charges related to their membership in an Italian crime syndicate that is one of the world's most powerful, extensive and wealthy drug-trafficking groups.

November 21, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Demonstrators hold up large cut-out letters spelling "VOTING RIGHTS" at a 2021 rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

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  • Elections

An appeals court has struck down a key path for enforcing the Voting Rights Act

Who can sue to enforce key voting protections for people of color under the Voting Rights Act could be severely limited by a lawsuit out of Arkansas, which may be headed for the U.S. Supreme Court.

November 20, 2023
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  • Hansi Lo Wang
Two turkeys, named Liberty and Bell, were "pardoned" Monday at the White House ahead of Thanksgiving. Shown here, they're at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington on Monday.

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  • Politics

The president once again pardons turkeys who did nothing wrong, but why?

It's a tradition that ironically features an American president sanctioning an event sponsored by a lobbying group, which advocates the opposite of what actually takes place at said event.

November 20, 2023
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  • Domenico Montanaro
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