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Belgian ultra runner Hilde Dosogne, center, is cheered on as she crosses the finish line during her 366th consecutive marathon in Ghent, Belgium, on Dec. 31, 2024.

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  • Sports

A 55-year-old who ran a marathon every day in 2024 says the toughest part was mental

World-record chaser Hilde Dosogne is used to running extreme distances. Still, she says she underestimated the challenge. She's now hoping to make it official with a Guinness World Record.

January 05, 2025
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  • Emma Bowman
Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, when they served as vice president and secretary of state, respectively, are seen here on Dec. 8, 2016. Biden is honoring Clinton and 18 others with the Medal of Freedom.

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  • Politics

Biden awards Medal of Freedom to Hillary Clinton, Soros, Messi and 16 others

Biden will also posthumously grant the medal to former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and former Michigan Gov. George Romney.

January 05, 2025
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  • Franco Ordoñez
A motorist drives through the snow near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport on Sunday in Louisville, Ky. Local forecasts called for heavy snowfall followed by significant accumulation of freezing rain and ice.

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  • Weather

Millions face snow and ice as a major winter storm moves across the U.S.

A major winter storm is bringing ice, snow and freezing rain from the Plains to the East Coast through Tuesday.

January 05, 2025
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  • Chandelis Duster
Nathan Williams, a University of New Orleans student, lights a candle at a memorial on Bourbon Street on Friday for the victims of a deadly truck attack on New Year's Day in New Orleans.

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  • National

FBI says suspect in New Orleans attack twice visited the city to conduct surveillance

The FBI says the man who allegedly carried out the New Year's Day attack visited the city in October and November, and recorded video of the area he aimed to target using "smart glasses."

January 05, 2025
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By:
  • Robbie Griffiths
Fisherman Omerserik Ibragimov heads out to put his nets in the water of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan on Aug. 7. <a href="https://www.npr.org/series/g-s1-30988/aral-sea"target="_blank"   >Click here for the full story. </a>

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NPR photos around the world that moved us in 2024

There have been touching moments — sometimes away from the headlines, and the front lines — that have moved the world this year.

January 05, 2025
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  • NPR Staff
Social media influencers wearing white produce content during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 22, 2024.

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  • Media

How influencers are impacting journalism

NPR's Eric Deggans speaks to Summer Harlow of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas and V Spehar of UnderTheDeskNews about the role of influencers in journalism.

January 05, 2025
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President Biden greets Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as he arrives to the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol for his State of the Union address on March 7, 2024.

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  • Law

Biden made diversifying the federal bench a top priority. Here's a look at his legacy

President Biden's judicial picks have included the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, women of color to federal appeals courts and openly LGBTQ judges to serve on the federal bench.

January 05, 2025
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  • Carrie Johnson
This monkey stole a pair of glasses (top left), tried them on — and returned them for a reward of mango juice. Spectacle-stealing, juice-loving monkeys are an issue in in Vrindavan, India.

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  • Global Health

How do you keep monkeys from making mischief?

In one Indian town, monkeys will steal your glasses — and give them back if you toss them a container of mango juice. It's one more sign of the impact of urbanization on the wild.

January 05, 2025
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  • Omkar Khandekar
Traffic enters lower Manhattan after crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, Feb. 8, 2024, in New York.

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  • National

Congestion pricing begins in NYC in a high stakes test for the model's U.S. viability

Congestion pricing was introduced on Sunday morning in the center of New York City — despite a late attempt by New Jersey to stop it in court.

January 05, 2025
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  • Robbie Griffiths
Madrid, Spain. Mature man using technology for his daily routines. For example, counting the steps he takes each day.

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  • Health

Getting your steps in can reduce depression, research finds

A recent study shows getting walking more may help prevent depressive symptoms. Tracking your steps may help you stay motivated, researchers say.

January 05, 2025
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  • Ronnie Cohen
Michelle Buteau

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Michelle Buteau on the advice she's glad she ignored

On Wild Card this week, Michelle Buteau opens up advice she was smart to ignore and why getting married is the biggest risk she's ever taken.

January 05, 2025
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  • Rachel Martin
A military body bearer team carries the casket of former President Jimmy Carter into the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum to lie in repose in Atlanta, Ga.

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  • National

Former President Jimmy Carter's humanitarian legacy honored in Georgia

The first day of memorial services for former President Jimmy Carter began in his hometown of Plains, Ga., and included stops at the Georgia State Capitol and The Carter Center in Atlanta.

January 04, 2025
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  • Stephen Fowler
The National Weather Service's Winter Storm Severity Index shows areas predicted to be impacted by the storm.

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  • Weather

A storm will bring heavy snow and dangerous ice from the Plains to the East Coast

This weekend's storm is expected to impact 62 million Americans through Monday. Heavy snow, ice, rain and severe thunderstorms are being unleashed from the Plains to the East Coast.

January 04, 2025
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  • Mansee Khurana
The FBI released this image with a size chart showing the height of the alleged pipe bomber — 5 foot 7 inches.

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  • Law

Still on the hunt, the FBI shares new details about pipe bombs placed ahead of Jan. 6

Officials are still trying to identify the person who placed bombs outside of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee offices in 2021. Now they have fresh details.

January 04, 2025
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  • Carrie Johnson
A team of 100 researchers from the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford uncovered around 200 dinosaur footprints along five trackways in southeast England during a week-long excavation in June 2024.

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  • Science

Jurassic footprints are discovered on a 'dinosaur highway' in southern England

The 166-million-year-old footprint tracks, found at a quarry in southern England, mark one of the largest discoveries in decades.

January 04, 2025
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