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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at the American Bar Association annual meeting on August 7 in Denver.

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Up First Briefing: Garland testifies; interest rate update; depression-fighting habits

Attorney General Merrick Garland will appear before the House Judiciary Committee. The Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady. These seven habits help reduce depression.

September 20, 2023
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  • Suzanne Nuyen
The Consumer Product Safety Commission's new album features some of its iconic mascots on the cover and seven safety-focused tracks.

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A federal agency wants to give safety tips to young adults. So it's dropping an album

The Consumer Product Safety Commission's album addresses the most common hazards among those 13-24, through a variety of genres. It's called We're Safety Now Haven't We, and you'll want to hear it.

September 20, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
Songwriter and producer Edgar Barrera poses at the 22nd annual Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas in 2021. Barrera has earned another 13 Latin Grammy nominations in 2023.

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  • Music

Hitmaker Edgar Barrera leads the 2023 Latin Grammy nominations

The Mexican American songwriter and producer earned nearly twice as many nods as his closest competitors, which include three of his collaborators: Colombian artists Camilo, Karol G and Shakira.

September 20, 2023
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Pedestrians pass a Starbucks in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York on June 13.

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  • Business

Fed-up consumers are increasingly going after food companies for misleading claims

This week a federal judge in Manhattan allowed a case to move forward against Starbucks over claims its fruit-based drinks were lacking fruit.

September 20, 2023
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  • Joe Hernandez
This image provided by NASA shows astronaut Frank Rubio floating inside the cupola, the International Space Station's "window to the world." Rubio now holds the record for the longest U.S. spaceflight. Rubio surpassed the U.S. record of 355 days on Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, at the International Space Station. He arrived at the outpost last September with two Russians for a routine six months.

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A NASA astronaut approaches a year in space, the longest time for any American

Frank Rubio's first mission broke the record for longest U.S. spaceflight last week. The medical doctor is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and served as a Blackhawk helicopter pilot.

September 20, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
JoAnne A. Epps, acting president of Temple University, speaks during a Temple University graduation ceremony, May 11, 2023, at the Liacouras Center on Temple's campus in Philadelphia. Epps has died after collapsing at a memorial service Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 19, the university said.

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  • Education

Temple University says acting president JoAnne A. Epps has died after a collapse

Epps died after collapsing at a memorial service Tuesday afternoon, the university said. She was 72.

September 19, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
U.S. senators participate in a photo session at the U.S. Capitol on Seersucker Thursday, June 8, 2023 in Washington, DC. Senators wear seersucker clothing on Seersucker Thursday, an annual tradition that was initiated by former Senate Majority Leader Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) in 1996, to mark the National Seersucker Day. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Breaking with tradition, U.S. senators may now wear pretty much whatever suits them

NPR's A Martinez talks to men's fashion editor Derek Guy about Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer directing the chamber's sergeant-at-arms to no longer enforce the dress code of the Senate.

September 19, 2023
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FILE - Delegates hold up their ballots at the Southern Baptist Convention in New Orleans on June 13, 2023. On Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, Southern Baptist leaders ousted an Oklahoma church whose pastor defended his blackface performance at one church event and his impersonation of a Native American woman at another.

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  • Religion

Southern Baptists expel church as pastor defends blackface and Native caricatures

Matoaka Baptist Church pastor said he was impersonating Ray Charles in one incident and dressed as a Native woman during "Cowboys and Indians Night" at a church camp.

September 19, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
West Point graduating cadets are seen during commencement ceremonies at Plain Parade Field at the United States Military Academy on June 13, 2020, in West Point, N.Y.

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  • Law

Group sues West Point, seeking to ban affirmative action in admissions

The military has long maintained that the nation's security depends on having a diverse officer corps that is ready to lead an increasingly diverse fighting force.

September 19, 2023
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  • Nina Totenberg
Collage by Jackie Lay.

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  • Music

Allison Russell wants to make waves

Two years ago, Allison Russell's breakthrough album took the roots music world by storm. Now nominated for the genre's highest honor, Russell has a new goal: to open Americana up even more.

September 19, 2023
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  • Jewly Hight
United Auto Workers members attend a solidarity rally as the UAW strikes the Big Three automakers on September 15, 2023 in Detroit, Michigan.

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  • Business

UAW has a unique strike strategy. It keeps Detroit Big 3 automakers guessing

For the first time, the UAW is on strike against the Big 3 U.S. automakers at once. Workers at three plants have been called out so far, with more to follow Friday if there's no progress on a deal.

September 19, 2023
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  • Andrea Hsu
Families walk in and out of the Department of Education in Long Island City.

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  • Education

Thousands of migrant kids are starting school in NYC. Is the system prepared?

Around 20,000 migrant kids are starting school in New York this week. Some parents are concerned the systems can't handle the influx. Other parents say, it's an opportunity for schools to evolve.

September 19, 2023
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  • Jasmine Garsd
An image from a Drug Enforcement Administration affidavit shows a block of fentanyl and a "kilo press" that authorities say they found at a day care where four young children were apparently poisoned — one fatally.

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  • National

U.S. charges pair after deadly fentanyl is found on top of playmats at NYC day care

The operator of a Bronx day care and a relative are facing drug charges after a 1-year-old boy died and three other children became dangerously ill.

September 19, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
Sally Field plays a cotton mill worker in the 1979 drama <em>Norma Rae.</em>

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  • Movies

Wonder where Hollywood's strikes are headed? Movies might offer a clue

Hollywood has churned out films that depict labor organizers as communists, and labor bosses as gangsters. So it should come as no surprise that real-life negotiations with the studios are so tricky.

September 19, 2023
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  • Bob Mondello
Washington-area whitewater kayakers lay flowers on the Potomac's Little Falls rapid near the rocks that entrapped visiting kayaker Ella Mills.

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  • National

A Columbia University student has died while whitewater kayaking on the Potomac River

Ella Mills, a junior at Columbia, drowned on Sunday while kayaking with a group of two dozen members of the university's whitewater kayak club.

September 19, 2023
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  • Rolando Arrieta
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