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In this photo illustration, a Ticketmaster website is shown on a computer screen on Nov. 18, 2022, in Miami.

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  • Business

Ticketmaster hack may affect more than 500 million customers

A group of hackers claimed this week to have stolen 1.3 terabytes of Ticketmaster user data, including names, addresses and credit card information.

June 01, 2024
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
Dollar General is attracting new customers, as inflation-weary shoppers hunt for bargains. Many of the discount chain's core customers are checking out with fewer items in their baskets.

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  • Business

Discounting is back in fashion, as Americans get tired of paying more

Consumer spending rose only slightly in April, as shoppers pushed back against rising prices.

June 01, 2024
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By:
  • Scott Horsley
Elena Poniatowska poses for a portrait in her home in Mexico City on May 28, 2024.

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  • Latin America

A trailblazing feminist says Mexico’s ‘triumph’ of a first female president is no surprise

What does the prospect of Mexico's first woman president and feminism in the country mean for Elena Poniatowska?

June 01, 2024
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  • Jan Johnson and
  • Eyder Peralta
The chemistry between Janine (Quinta Brunson) and Gregory (Tyler James Williams) has simmered for three long seasons on <em>Abbott Elementary.</em>

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  • Pop Culture

Will they? Won't they? And ... why do we care?

Janine and Gregory. Jim and Pam. Sydney and Carmy? Critic Aisha Harris, a self-described will-they-won't-they grinch, explores our obsession with simmering sexual tension ... even when there is none.

June 01, 2024
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By:
  • Aisha Harris
President  Biden delivers remarks on former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in his hush-money trial before speaking on the Middle East at the White House on Friday.

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  • Middle East

President Biden unveils and endorses details of a new Israeli cease-fire proposal

President Biden gave remarks on the Middle East at the White House on Friday. He said it is time for the war in Gaza to end and discussed a "road map" to a cease-fire agreement.

May 31, 2024
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  • Asma Khalid
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  • Obituaries

Marian Robinson, mother of Michelle Obama, dies at 86

Robinson was a widow and lifelong Chicago resident when she moved to the White House in 2009 to help care for granddaughters Malia and Sasha.

May 31, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Trump Media shares were volatile a day after the former president -- and majority shareholder of the company -- became a convicted felon.

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  • Business

'Buy DJT' is a new rallying cry for Trump supporters

Shares of Trump Media, the company behind Truth Social, were volatile a day after his historic conviction. It's an early test of how committed his supporters will actually be in owning the shares.

May 31, 2024
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  • Rafael Nam
Honoré Prentice (in yellow shirt and glasses), who lives in Canada, met three of his birth siblings, who live in the U.S., in person on Dec. 13, 2021. The brothers were all born in Haiti.

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  • Global Health

When an adoptee reunites with birth siblings abroad: 'There's no instruction manual'

Reuniting with birth siblings after an international adoption is a challenging — and emotionally charged — mission. Here are stories from four families.

May 31, 2024
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By:
  • Kamala Thiagarajan
Chantemekki Fortson, mother of Roger Fortson, a U.S. Air Force senior airman, holds a photo of her son.

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  • National

The Florida deputy who shot U.S. airman Roger Fortson has been fired

On Friday, the Okaloosa County, Fla., Sheriff’s Department said that Deputy Eddie Duran was fired following the completion of an administrative internal affairs investigation amid Fortson’s death.

May 31, 2024
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Asa Jennings as Peter Watson in <em>The Swan.</em>

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  • Pop Culture

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Wes Anderson’s Roald Dahl adaptations; the songs “Meter Run” and “Worth It” and Gasoline Rainbow.

May 31, 2024
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  • Glen Weldon,
  • Stephen Thompson,
  • and 2 more
 Viggo Mortensen plays Holger Olsen in <em>The Dead Don't Hurt.</em>

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  • Movie Reviews

'The Dead Don’t Hurt' is a tender love story and a subversive Western

You can’t immediately tell whether this film is trying to be an old-fashioned Western or a revisionist one. It was written and directed by Viggo Mortensen, who stars alongside Vicky Krieps.

May 31, 2024
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By:
  • Justin Chang
Former President Donald Trump spoke to reporters and supporters Friday at the Trump Tower in Manhattan.

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  • Politics

Here's what comes after Trump's conviction

Former President Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsified business records — and he faces sentencing in July.

May 31, 2024
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
The sun has gone through a rotation, and the active region that triggered a huge amount of aurora activity is once again pointing toward Earth — but not directly at it.

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  • Space

Are auroras coming back?

The same solar region that brought an outburst of night-time beauty in early May is coming back around. But things have changed, a space weather expert tells NPR.

May 31, 2024
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Voters cast ballots in Georgia's primary election at a polling location on May 21, 2024 in Atlanta. Many officials and researchers worry that audio deepfakes of politicians could be used to sway elections this year.

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  • Technology

It’s quick and easy to clone famous politicians’ voices, despite safeguards

Most of the tools tested by researchers at the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate could be used to successfully clone a wide range of voices belonging to European and American politicians.

May 31, 2024
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By:
  • Huo Jingnan
A farmworker was infected with bird flu from a dairy cow, the third human case in the recent outbreak.

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  • Health

A 3rd human case of bird flu detected, this one with respiratory symptoms

The patient got infected from exposure to dairy cows. Health officials say risk to the general public remains low.

May 31, 2024
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  • Carmel Wroth
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