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A white-browed sparrow weaver inspects a roost under construction, after just receiving some grass brought by another member of its group.

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  • Research News

When birds build nests, they're also building a culture

Nest-building isn’t just instinct. Birds can learn from others, letting groups within one species develop their own distinctive nest-building traditions.

August 30, 2024
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
GPB News NPR

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  • Pop Culture

'Very demure, very mindful' trademark issue is 'handled,' TikTok influencer says

While Jools Lebron was captivating millions of people with her "very demure, very mindful" TikTok videos, at least two people submitted applications to trademark her catchphrases.

August 30, 2024
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  • Elizabeth Blair
 Mosquitoes kill more people than any other creature in the world.  So the key is — try not to get bitten.

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  • Your Health

Mosquito-borne illnesses are rising: Here's how to protect yourself

Mosquitos love heat. And as summers get warmer, mosquito-borne illnesses are rising, in the U.S., Europe, and South and Central America. Here are some tips to protect yourself.

August 30, 2024
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  • Maria Godoy
This photo released by the Norwegian Police shows the Viking ship replica, called Naddodd, moored at the quay in Måløy, Norway, on Wednesday, after it capsized earlier this week off Norway's coast.

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  • World

An American researcher drowns after a Viking replica ship sinks off Norway's coast

A Viking replica ship capsized several days into its journey from the Faroe Islands to Norway. Five crew members survived, but researcher Karla Dana, 29, drowned. She was the lone American on board.

August 30, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at Enmarket Arena in Savannah on Aug. 29, 2024.

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  • Politics

Harris campaigns in Savannah at first rally since Democratic National Convention

The rally marked the first time in over 30 years that a presidential candidate campaigned in Savannah.

August 30, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Erica Lacerda de Souza, son Henrique and husband Bruce Lee de Souza, relax in their new home in Guaianazes, São Paulo. The family lost their home when the pandemic took away their livelihoods. They moved in about two months ago after being homeless, then getting a tiny transitional residence/

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  • Global Health

Whatever happened to ... the family who lost it all? Spoiler alert: It's a happy ending

With no work, home, car or food due to the pandemic, the couple in Sao Paolo, Brazil, struggled to survive. Then they got a tiny house. How are they doing today?

August 30, 2024
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  • Jill Langlois
A splitscreen image of Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.

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  • Politics

Taxpayer dollars at work: Building more EV chargers, preventing veteran homelessness, protecting motorcyclists

For the week ending Aug. 30, the senators worked on securing funding to build more EV chargers in Georgia, deliver funding to help nonprofit organizations secure housing for veterans, prevent homelessness, and protect Georgia motorcyclists on the road.

August 30, 2024
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  • Ambria Burton
Georgia Department of Corrections Director Tyrone Oliver testified at two Senate committees in August about the impact that understaffing, aging facilities, and a more dangerous inmate population is having on a rash of violent incidents at state prisons. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder

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  • Politics

Georgia prisons chief tells state lawmakers drones are smuggling deadly contraband into prisons

The Georgia Department of Corrections continues to struggle with an onslaught of drones that are being used to deliver contraband, such as drugs, cell phones, and potentially even the firearm used by an inmate of Smith State Prison to kill a food service worker in June.

August 30, 2024
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  • Stanley Dunlap
GPB News NPR

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  • News

Key moments from Harris' extended TV interview. And, Trump voices support for IVF

Vice President Harris gave her first interview since entering the presidential race. Here's what she had to say. And, former President Donald Trump voices support for reproductive rights.

August 30, 2024
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  • Brittney Melton
Vice President Harris is pictured during an interview with CNN's Dana Bash in Savannah, Ga., on Thursday — her first in-depth, on-the-record conversation with a journalist since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.

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  • Elections

6 takeaways from Harris' interview on CNN

Vice President Harris gave her first interview since jumping into the presidential race just a little over a month ago. Here's what we learned.

August 30, 2024
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  • Domenico Montanaro
A squat lobster in the genus Sternostylus, thought to be a newly identified species, was photographed along the Nazca Ridge off the coast of Chile.

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  • Science

A newly mapped underwater mountain could be home to 20 new species

Researchers who led the 28-day expedition along the nearly 2-mile tall seamount hope the discoveries made will inform future policies safeguarding the understudied, high-seas region.

August 30, 2024
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  • Emma Bowman
A voter entering a polling place in Mountain Brooks, Ala., on Super Tuesday on March 5, 2024. Alabama is one of several states where GOP officials are launching fresh efforts to purge their voter rolls of noncitizens, even though there's little evidence noncitizens vote in significant numbers.

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  • Politics

The GOP is making false claims about noncitizens voting. It’s affecting real voters

As the election nears, false rhetoric about noncitizen voting is having a real impact as some GOP officials are scrutinizing voter rolls and questioning some voters’ registrations.

August 30, 2024
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  • Jude Joffe-Block
Range fires blackened hundreds of thousands of acres in eastern Oregon in a matter of hours in July.

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  • National

These Oregon ranchers say the losses from summer range fires will be huge

More than a million acres of rangeland have burned in Oregon this summer. At times the wildfires barely made headlines, but ranchers say the economic fallout will be huge.

August 30, 2024
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By:
  • Kirk Siegler
Zakia Khudadadi from the Paralympic Refugee Team, bottom, celebrates her bronze medal in Para Taekwondo during the Paralympic Games in Paris, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024.

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  • Sports

Taekwondo athlete Zakia Khudadadi wins the Paralympic refugee team its first medal

The Afghan para-athlete makes history for the refugee team that represents the 120 million people globally who have been displaced.

August 30, 2024
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  • Ayana Archie
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris are interviewed by CNN’s Dana Bash at Kim’s Cafe in Savannah, Georgia, on August 29, 2024. This is the first time Harris has sat with a journalist for an in-depth, on-the-record conversation since President Joe Biden ended his presidential bid in July. (Will Lanzoni/CNN)

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  • Elections

Harris explains policy shifts and her 'day one' in 1st sit-down interview as nominee

Vice President Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will be pressed for the first time about their policy promises to the American people.

August 30, 2024
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  • Asma Khalid
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