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Older people in Los Angeles' Chinatown neighborhood shade themselves from the sun. Exposure to heat can change the way people's genes work, potentially leading to long-term health impacts. Climate change is making heat waves more intense and last longer in many parts of the U.S.

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  • Climate

Heat can age you as much as smoking, a new study finds

Exposure to heat can alter the way your DNA works, according to a new study. The effects could lead to long-term health outcomes.

March 19, 2025
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  • Alejandra Borunda
Clotilde Poujade practices French pronunciations with students at École Pointe-au-Chien, a new public French immersion school in Terrebonne Parish, La.

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  • Education

Louisiana has a long history with French. This immersion school aims to keep it alive

Most Louisianans no longer speak French, but a growing number of schools are now immersing kids in it. At École Pointe-au-Chien, the focus is on teaching local French dialects first.

March 19, 2025
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By:
  • Aubri Juhasz
In this picture, taken from Israel's southern border with the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers patrol a street in northern Gaza on Wednesday. The Israeli military says it's launched a new ground offensive in Gaza, a day after Israel broke a ceasefire with a punishing series of airstrikes that killed more than 400 people.

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  • Middle East

Israel has launched a new ground invasion into Gaza after breaking ceasefire

Israel's military launched a new ground offensive in Gaza, sending troops into areas they retreated from during a two-month ceasefire. This comes a day after airstrikes killed more than 400 people.

March 19, 2025
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'Everyday, ordinary' things drive Nobel Prize-winning author's new novel 'Theft'

Following his multi-generational, statement-making novel Afterlives, Abdulrazak Gurnah's new book Theft is a quieter, more intimate look at friendship and power.

March 19, 2025
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  • Andrew Limbong
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a  joint press conference with the Finnish president at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki on Wednesday. Ukraine's President Zelensky and First Lady Zelenska are on an official visit to Finland.

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  • World

Zelenskyy and Trump speak after Trump's call with Putin

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke for about an hour with President Trump on Wednesday, following Trump's call on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

March 19, 2025
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  • Nick Spicer and
  • Eleanor Beardsley
The Trump administration has put journalists at government-funded broadcasters, including Prague-based Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFERL), on leave on March 15 as it froze funding to them.

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  • Media

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty sues Trump administration over canceled contract

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a government-backed overseas broadcaster, sued the Trump administration in an attempt to get it to release funds appropriated by Congress.

March 19, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
Honduran musician and politician Aurelio Martínez, photographed in London in 2011.

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  • Obituaries

Aurelio Martínez, ambassador of Garifuna music, has died

The Honduran musician, one of the most recognized proponents of a Caribbean culture dating to the 17th century, died Monday in an airplane crash.

March 19, 2025
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  • Felix Contreras
Dr. Kurt Papenfus in 2020. He is the CEO of Keefe Memorial Hospital in Cheyenne Wells, Colo.

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  • Health

5 ways the pandemic changed us for good, for bad and forever

This month marks five years since the pandemic began, and here are 5 things that changed permanently.

March 19, 2025
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  • John Daley
The Copper induction stove has a battery under the oven, so the appliance can plug into a regular household outlet.

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  • Climate

Switching from gas to electric? Here are 3 appliances that are easy to install

Changing from gas to climate-friendly electric appliances often involves expensive retrofits. A growing list of companies offer stoves, heat pumps and water heaters that make it easier and cheaper.

March 19, 2025
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  • Jeff Brady
In this handout image provided by NASA, support teams work on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov onboard on March 18, 2025, off the coast of Florida.

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  • National

How astronauts adjust when back on Earth after being in space

Astronauts face several risks during spaceflight, including exposure to radiation.

March 19, 2025
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  • Chandelis Duster
Former U.S. Agency for International Development employees terminated after the Trump administration effectively dismantled the agency collect their personal belongings at USAID headquarters on Feb. 27 in Washington, D.C.

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  • News

Musk, DOGE violated Constitution, judge says. And, when egg prices might drop

A federal judge ruled that Elon Musk and DOGE likely violated the Constitution when shuttering the USAID. And, a look at when egg prices are likely to drop.

March 19, 2025
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By:
  • Brittney Melton
Children look on as people walk amid the rubble of a building destroyed in an overnight Israeli strike in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Israel's deadly strikes on Gaza drew global condemnation, as it said it had "no alternative" other than to resume military operations in order to bring home hostages.

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  • Middle East

Why did Israel resume the war in Gaza?

Israel launched deadly strikes in Gaza to pressure Hamas to agree to a new ceasefire. Hamas isn't budging, and more than half of recently freed hostages oppose the renewed war. Why is Israel doing it?

March 19, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
Military personnel search on March 10, 2025, for Sudiksha Konanki, a university student from the U.S. who disappeared on a beach in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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  • National

Family of U.S. student missing in the Dominican Republic believes she drowned

Sudiksha Konanki remains missing after she disappeared during a spring break trip with friends.

March 19, 2025
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By:
  • Alana Wise
A U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II multi-role combat airplane flies over Ramstein Air Base during a day of fighter plane exercises on June 6, 2024, in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany.

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  • World

Trump's handling of Ukraine and tariffs has NATO rethinking the U.S.-made F-35 fighter

The F-35 was meant as a one-size-fits-all fighter that could be used across NATO. But strained U.S.-Europe relations are giving some member countries second thoughts about the U.S.-built plane.

March 19, 2025
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  • Scott Neuman

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  • Perspective

Stargazing, poetry and meditation: What connects NPR readers to their spirituality

NPR readers of different belief systems share the poignant rituals that make them feel close to their spirituality. For some, it's poetry and gardening, for others, it's meditation and community.

March 19, 2025
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