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Newspapers with a cover picture of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by Iran's morality police, are seen in Tehran, Sept. 18, 2022.

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  • Middle East

In Iran, women's resistance defies state clampdown a year after Mahsa Amini's death

The death of a young woman in Iranian morality police custody sparked months of protests and a violent crackdown by the government. A year later, a more subdued defiance endures.

September 15, 2023
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  • Arezou Rezvani
North Korean defectors take a computer class inside Anseong Hanawon, Settlement Support Center for North Korean Refugees, in Anseong, South Korea, July 10.

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  • World

Fewer North Korean defectors reach South Korea, and questions grow about unification

Just 67 North Korean defectors arrived last year. Inter-Korean dialogue and exchange have ground to a halt. Seoul's Unification Ministry has a new, hawkish head who wants to change the agency's role.

September 15, 2023
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By:
  • Se Eun Gong
Lehman Brothers world headquarters is shown in New York on Sept. 15, 2008, the day the 158-year-old investment bank, choked by the credit crisis and falling real estate values, filed for bankruptcy.

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  • Business

How Lehman's collapse 15 years ago changed the U.S. mortgage industry

The global financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a new era of consumer protection, but the future of the housing market is uncertain.

September 15, 2023
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
Typhoon Farma, which operates a hemp farm in Montrose, Colo., planted 70 acres of the cannabis plant this year.

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  • Business

Apple picking season? In Colorado, you can pick your own hemp

A farm in Montrose, Colo., is showing off its harvest, letting the public take home their own CBD plant. It's like picking your own Christmas tree, with therapeutic side effects.

September 15, 2023
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  • Emma Bowman
It's been *a week* for Drew Barrymore and Aaron Rodgers.

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  • National

Why are the Jets 'cursed' and Barrymore (kind of) canceled? Find out in the news quiz

Plus, yet more giraffes, cute killer animals, wacky spills, labor drama and quirky IPOs. What more do you want? Blood?

September 15, 2023
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  • Holly J. Morris
Rich Snyder, who retired as the fire marshal of Sierra Madre, Calif., now works for Allied Disaster Defense, a California company that hardens homes against wildfire. One strategy is covering air vents with ember-blocking mesh.

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  • Business

Preparing homes for wildfires is big business that's only getting started

Climate change, technological leaps, panicked insurers, the shifting sense of responsibility: All are powering the still-nascent, but fast-growing industry of preparing homes for wildfires.

September 15, 2023
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
Rep. Dean Phillips, a Democrat from Minnesota, speaks on Capitol Hill in 2020. He would like to see 18-year term limits and more young people in Congress.

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  • Politics

As Congress gets older, one lawmaker makes the case for more 'generational diversity'

From Rep. Nancy Pelosi to Sens. Mitt Romney and Mitch McConnell, lawmakers' ages are a big subject of discussion and debate. One member of Congress shares ideas for increasing generational diversity.

September 15, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
A United Auto Workers member walks in the Labor Day parade in Detroit on Sept. 4, 2023. The UAW is on the verge of a historic strike unless it can clinch a deal with the Big Three automakers by a deadline on midnight.

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  • Business

Autoworkers are on the verge of a historic strike

Less than two hours before the strike deadline, United Auto Workers revealed the first wave of plants to be targeted if the union and the Big 3 automakers fail to reach a deal just before midnight.

September 14, 2023
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  • Danielle Kaye
A surfer watches higher than normal waves crash ashore in Lido Beach, N.Y. on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. Long Island beaches witnessed 8 to 10-foot waves as Hurricane Lee moved toward the New England area.

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  • Weather

Hurricane Lee will bring heavy rain to already saturated areas of New England

Winds on Cape Cod could gust as high as 50 to 60 mph, forecasters said on Thursday. The area is now under a tropical storm warning.

September 14, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
On Sept. 15, 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. This week, the city is remembering one of the darkest chapters in civil rights history.

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  • Race

Lessons from Birmingham: 60 years after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing

This city is remembering a dark chapters in U.S. civil rights history. On September 15, 1963 the Ku Klux Klan bombed a church, killing four Black girls and rocking the conscience of the nation.

September 14, 2023
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  • Debbie Elliott
Saucer-like lenticular clouds appear over Turkiye's Bursa province in the early morning hours of January 19, 2023.

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  • Science

New NASA report lays out roadmap for studying UFOs

NASA is releasing a new report from advisers on what it would take for the agency to study unidentified anomalous phenomena (also known as UFOs) scientifically.

September 14, 2023
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
President Biden's son Hunter Biden leaves after a court appearance on July 26 in Wilmington, Del.

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  • Law

Hunter Biden indicted on firearms charges

The charges come weeks after a plea deal struck between Biden and prosecutors fell apart. Attorney General Garland appointed a special counsel in the investigation into the president's son last month.

September 14, 2023
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is working to contain a revolt by hard-line members of his party that could threaten his job as speaker and a potential government shutdown.

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  • Politics

As House Republicans bicker, the government shutdown threat grows

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is working to contain a revolt by hard-line members of his party that could threaten his job as speaker and a potential government shutdown.

September 14, 2023
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By:
  • Lexie Schapitl and
  • Deirdre Walsh
Michele Norris explores the family kitchen in her new podcast, <em>Your Mama's Kitchen</em>.

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  • Food

What makes the family kitchen so special? Michele Norris digs into the details

Journalist and writer Michele Norris is exploring the significance of the family kitchen in her new podcast, Your Mama's Kitchen.

September 14, 2023
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  • Mary Louise Kelly,
  • Erika Ryan,
  • and 1 more
Visitors look upon the White House as the U.S. flag flies at half mast following a school shooting in Nashville, Tenn., last March.

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  • Elections

For young Americans, politics breaks the American dream instead of building it

Gen Z and millennial voters should dominate the electorate in coming years. A poll from the Sine Institute, exclusively obtained by NPR, shows how 18- to 34-year-old Americans feel about the future.

September 14, 2023
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  • Elena Moore
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