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Kansas Republican leaders couldn't rally enough support this fall for a special session on redistricting. It's just one example of lawmakers pushing back on a new round of partisan gerrymandering.

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Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a wooly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in the extinct mammal's body just before it died.

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Biomedical engineer Rachel Lance says British scientists submitted themselves to experiments that would be considered unethical today. Her book is Chamber Divers. Originally broadcast April, 10 2024.

The overhaul shifts funds to transitional housing requiring work and addiction treatment. The administration says it promotes "self-sufficiency," but critics warn many will risk losing housing again.

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The overhaul shifts funds to transitional housing requiring work and addiction treatment. The administration says it promotes "self-sufficiency," but critics warn many will risk losing housing again.

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Jenna Norton has spoken critically about the Trump administration's funding cuts and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. At the end of the shutdown, she says she was put on leave.

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Americans are feeling the strain of high prices, and now President Trump is preparing to take on the concern. And, Charlotte, N.C., is bracing for Border Patrol agents to arrive in the city.

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The BBC has apologized to President Trump for the way it edited his Jan. 6, 2021 speech but says it won't pay compensation. Trump has threatened a $1 billion lawsuit against the British broadcaster.

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This week's quiz is mercifully light on politics, unless you count President James Garfield, a Kennedy family member and a new House rep … OK, so it's not light on politics. But there are geese?

Building a social media brand has helped enrich players. But constant harassment — fueled in part by sports gambling — has come to outweigh potential income. Now, staying "regular" is the goal.

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Americans are feeling the strain of high prices, even as President Trump tries to tout "record highs" in the stock market.

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In his latest project, Ken Burns turns his lens to the American Revolution — an event he has called the most significant since the birth of Christ.

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NPR's Steve Inskeep asks George Dunlap, a commissioner on the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners, about the upcoming arrival of Border Patrol agents in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Cyndi Kirkhart and Scott Thompson of the Facing Hunger Food Bank in Huntington, West Virginia, talk about how they met and the rewards of feeding the hungry.

At least 430 drones and 18 missiles were used in the overnight attack, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James asked a judge to dismiss their cases, arguing prosecutor Lindsay Halligan was illegally appointed.

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Disney CEO Bob Iger said his company is talking with AI companies about allowing subscribers to create their own short-form videos on Disney+.

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A new deal to end the government shutdown may briefly restore staff to U.S. Education Department offices that had been gutted by layoffs.

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The Transportation Secretary says air traffic controllers will be paid promptly as the government reopens. But after the last shutdown, in 2019, some controllers sued to get paid in full for overtime.

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In the 2015 attacks, 130 people were killed, including at the Bataclan concert hall. France is still wrestling with how to remember the deadliest attack on its soil in modern history and how to live with it.

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