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President Biden, seen here on Dec. 10, 2024, said he plans to issue more pardons and commutations in the final weeks of his presidency.

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Examining Biden's presidential legacy. And, north Gaza's last key hospital shut down

President Biden signed significant legislation that his backers say will leave a lasting impact. And, north Gaza's last major hospital has been shut down with no ceasefire in sight.

December 31, 2024
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  • Brittney Melton
Morgan Minick paints a sign thanking former President Jimmy Carter in his hometown after he died Sunday in Plains, Ga. President Carter lived to be 100 years old, making him the longest living U.S. president in history.

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Jimmy Carter will have funeral services in Plains, Ga., Atlanta and Washington, D.C.

Former President Jimmy Carter's state funeral services will span six days, three cities and multiple places of significance from his life.

December 31, 2024
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  • Stephen Fowler
Taylor Swift performs onstage for the opening night of The Eras Tour at State Farm Stadium on March 17, 2023, in Glendale, Ariz.

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From Taylor Swift tickets to social media bans, here are new 2025 state laws

It's almost the new year, which means states across the country will enact thousands of new laws from new tax structures to prenatal leave.

December 31, 2024
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  • Clay Masters,
  • Megan Myscofski,
  • and 2 more
BH talking to his family through the phone in the background and photos of the family in the foreground.

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Reporters' notebook: revisiting Afghan refugees starting anew in the U.S.

NPR reporters revisit Afghans who fled their home country after Taliban's takeover in the summer of 2021.

December 31, 2024
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  • Tom Bowman and
  • Lauren Hodges
On Saturday off Porkkalanniemi, Kirkkonummi, in the Gulf of Finland, oil tanker Eagle S (L), which flies under the flag of the Cook Islands, next to tugboat Ukko (R).

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  • Europe

What to know about Finland, Russia's 'shadow fleet' and a severed undersea cable

Finland says a ship affiliated with Russia's "shadow fleet" is linked to a 60-mile-long anchor drag mark on the seafloor. A power cable in the Baltic Sea was severed last week.

December 31, 2024
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  • Rebecca Rosman
The new clouded tiger-cat, <em>Leopardus pardinoides</em>, in Colombia in 2021.

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  • Science

Tiger-cats, sea squirts and beetles, oh my! Meet some species identified in 2024

From charismatic macrofauna to tiny sea squirts, here are some species formally identified by scientists in 2024.

December 31, 2024
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  • Jonathan Lambert
The town square in Plains, Ga., on Monday, the day after former President Jimmy Carter died at age 100. His hometown of 550 of is preparing to say goodbye to their most famous resident.

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In Jimmy Carter's hometown of Plains, people remember the former president

People in Plains, Ga., are remembering former President Jimmy Carter who died on Sunday at the age of 100. Carter embraced his hometown and never forgot the importance of the place.

December 30, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
October 22, 2010: former president of Ireland, Mary Robinson, background right, looks at former U.S. president, Jimmy Carter, center, while visiting a weekly protest in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. The protest was organized by groups supporting Palestinians evicted from their homes in east Jerusalem by Israeli authorities.

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  • Politics

Photos: Former President Carter redefined post-presidency role

The Nobel Peace Prize winner devoted himself to improving the health of people around the world, promoting democracy and resolving global conflicts.

December 30, 2024
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  • Nicole Werbeck and
  • Giulia Heyward
A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal by Donald Trump following a 2023 jury decision that Trump sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll. Carroll, right, leaves after the first day of her civil trial against the former President at Manhattan Federal Court on April 25, 2023 in New York City.

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  • Law

Court rejects Trump appeal in E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse and defamation case

Trump contended the trial court judge erred in several rulings — including decisions to allow the testimony of two women who alleged that Trump sexually assaulted them in the past.

December 30, 2024
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  • Russell Lewis
President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd while walking with his wife Rosalynn and their daughter Amy along Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House following his inauguration, Jan. 20, 1977, in Washington.

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Jimmy Carter was 'a very unusual kind of politician,' biographer says

In the wake of Jimmy Carter's death, biographer Kai Bird, author of 'The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter' discusses the late president's successes and failures.

December 30, 2024
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  • Steve Inskeep and
  • Destinee Adams
Turkeys at a farm as California declares state of emergency to prevent new public health crisis on Bird flu in Pescadero, California, in December.

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  • Science

Bird flu Q&A: What to know to help protect yourself and your pets

Each week some revelation about bird flu seems to flutter through the news cycle. Here's what the latest research is saying about how it is spreading and how to keep yourself and your pets safe.

December 30, 2024
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  • Will Stone
Clockwise from upper left: Nomads from the Peul tribe give blood samples to be tested for sleeping sickness. In 2024, Chad got rid of one form of the disease. Brazil and Timor Leste eliminated lymphatic filariasis, the disfiguring parasite that causes a condition known as elephantiasis. A doctor sees children during a leprosy screening campaign; Jordan eliminated the disease this year. An elderly farmer woman receives an eye exam for trachoma in Vietnam — which along with India and Pakistan — eradicated th…

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  • Global Health

9 countries said goodbye to a devastating disease in 2024

Nine countries eliminated a disease in 2024. Here's how Pakistan pulled it off — fulfilling a young boy's dream of eliminating blindness caused by bacterial infections.

December 30, 2024
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  • Gabrielle Emanuel
A QAnon sign at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Many of the rioters who attacked the Capitol later told investigators they were motivated in part by the online conspiracy theory.

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  • Politics

Four years after the Capitol riot, why QAnon hasn't gone away

Some of the people who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 believed in the QAnon conspiracy theory. In the aftermath, social media platforms ramped up efforts to push QAnon content off their sites. Four years later, the QAnon movement has morphed into something else.

December 30, 2024
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  • Jude Joffe-Block
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter holds up a copy of his book <em>Faith: A Journey For All</em> at a book signing event at Barnes & Noble bookstore on March 26, 2018.

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  • Books

10 essential books about Jimmy Carter

Throughout his lifetime, Jimmy Carter took on many titles: 39th President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize winner, philanthropist, humanitarian, artist – and writer.

December 30, 2024
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  • Teresa Xie
Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat (back to camera) and Israeli Premier Menachem embrace each other, on Sept. 17, 1978, after signing a peace agreement in the White House with US President Jimmy Carter.

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  • World

Egyptian and Israeli leaders send condolences for Carter, who brokered their peace treaty

One of the crowning foreign policy achievements of Carter's single term as U.S. president was brokering a series of agreements that later came to be called the Camp David accords in 1978.

December 30, 2024
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  • Emily Feng
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