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President Biden promised to create the Climate Corps during his first week in office. It's a program meant to appeal to young climate activists.

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  • Climate

Biden is unveiling the American Climate Corps, a program with echoes of the New Deal

The White House says the program will provide paid training to 20,000 Americans in its first year. It's much smaller than its New Deal predecessor, but targets a more diverse group of young people.

September 20, 2023
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  • Eric McDaniel
Smoky haze from wildfires in Canada obscures New York City's Empire State Building this year. The air in the U.S. has improved over the past 50 years, but smoke pollution from growing wildfires erodes much of that progress.

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  • Climate

How wildfire smoke is erasing years of progress toward cleaning up America's air

A new study finds that smoke from massive wildfires has eroded about a quarter of the air quality gains from the last few decades.

September 20, 2023
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By:
  • Alejandra Borunda
Senate Democrats took steps to circumvent Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala, who has been blocking hundreds of military promotions over objections to Pentagon policies around abortion.

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  • Politics

Senate bucks Tuberville's blockade to begin approving military promotions

Senate Democrats began holding votes on military promotions after a months-long blockade by Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville.

September 20, 2023
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  • Kelsey Snell
Horses are spooked by the Woolsey Fire near Paramount Ranch on Nov. 9, 2018, in Agoura Hills, Calif.

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  • Arts & Life

You've likely seen this ranch on-screen — burned by wildfire, it awaits its next act

The Woolsey wildfire devastated most of Paramount Ranch's Hollywood heritage in 2018. Human-driven climate change is demanding difficult decisions about what to preserve in the rebuilding process.

September 20, 2023
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  • Chloe Veltman
The roundhouse under construction at <a href="https://www.southernsierramiwuknation.org/wahhoga">Wahhoga Village</a> in Yosemite National Park.

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  • Arts & Life

A Northern California tribe works to protect traditions in a warming world

The Oak Fire last year threatened the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation's way of life. Now the tribe is restoring ancient heritage sites and cultural practices in collaboration with local agencies.

September 20, 2023
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  • Chloe Veltman
Fed Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C., on July 26, 2023.

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  • Economy

The Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady but hints at more action this year

The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged Wednesday, despite stubborn inflation, although it left the door open to an additional rate hike in November or December.

September 20, 2023
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  • Scott Horsley
UAW members attend a solidarity rally as the UAW strikes the Big Three automakers on Sept. 15 in Detroit. GM announced temporary layoffs on Wednesday, blaming the strikes.

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  • Business

UAW strike latest: GM sends 2,000 workers home in Kansas

General Motors had previously warned it would need to stop production at its Fairfax, Kansas, assembly plant, because it relied on parts that came from a Missouri plant that is currently on strike.

September 20, 2023
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  • Camila Domonoske
A screenshot from the premiere of <em>The Joy of Painting</em> shows the painter Bob Ross with the work, A Walk in the Woods, which is up for sale.

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  • Arts & Life

This rare Bob Ross painting could be yours — for close to $10 million

The late pop culture icon once said he painted over 30,000 works of art in his lifetime, but it's rare for an authenticated Ross piece to come on the market, let alone one with this much history.

September 20, 2023
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  • Emily Olson
Judge Pauline Newman, a 96-year-old U.S. federal appeals court judge, has been barred from hearing cases for a year after a panel said she refused to undergo medical testing over concerns she's no longer mentally fit to serve on the bench.

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  • Law

A 96-year-old federal judge was barred from hearing cases in a fight over her fitness

The unusually public and bitter fight over whether a judge should continue to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has sparked a lawsuit and turned judges against one another.

September 20, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Artists Roberto Lugo (left) and Kevin Beasley are the 2023 winners of the Heinz Awards.

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  • Art & Design

A sculptor and a ceramicist who grapple with race win 2023 Heinz Awards for the Arts

Kevin Beasley and Roberto Lugo are this year's winners of the the Heinz Awards for the Arts, a prestigious prize that comes with a $250,000 cash award.

September 20, 2023
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  • Neda Ulaby
Carl Day is a pastor at Culture Changing Christians in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood.

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  • Politics

Philly's 'pastor of the hood' Carl Day weighs in on the 2024 election

Carl Day joined NPR to weigh in on the Biden campaign in 2020. We caught up with him to hear what he's thinking heading into 2024.

September 20, 2023
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  • Kai McNamee
Protesters block a street in Yerevan, Armenia's capital, on Wednesday, after a cease-fire was announced between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.

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  • Europe

Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian separatists agree to halt fighting in disputed enclave

Separatist leaders in Nagorno-Karabakh said that after "a lack of concrete actions" by international parties, their forces had few options to ensure civilians' safety.

September 20, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Chappell and
  • Charles Maynes
Eric Simmons (left) and Demetrius Smith, who were found innocent after spending years in prison for crimes they did not commit in Maryland, testify before state lawmakers for legislation to address how the wrongly incarcerated should be compensated by the state during a hearing on Feb. 26, 2020, in Annapolis, Md.

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  • National

Maryland apologizes to man wrongly convicted of murder and agrees to pay him $340,000

Demetrius Smith will be compensated by the state of Maryland after spending years behind bars, including over a year after he had been proven innocent. He was released from prison in 2013.

September 20, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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  • Education

Federal student loan borrowers prepare to resume repaying their loans

For more than three years, no one had to pay their federal student loans. Payments are due again in October, but some borrowers are seeing their debts eliminated.

September 20, 2023
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By:
  • Michel Martin and
  • Cory Turner
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy didn't mince words when he talked about the threat of Russia's war.

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  • Politics

As the U.S. mulls more aid to Ukraine, Zelenskyy says 'we have the same values'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in New York for the U.N. General Assembly. He spoke with NPR's Steve Inskeep about why U.S. aid to Ukraine remains so important.

September 20, 2023
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  • Ally Schweitzer
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