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Italy's Winter Olympics promised sustainability. But in Cortina, environmentalists warn the Games could scar these mountains for decades.
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Day 5 of search for Nancy Guthrie: 'We still believe Nancy is still out there'
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the recovery of Guthrie and/or the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance.
Together at last, Megadeth and Harry Styles rule the Billboard charts
These wildly different artists both reach the top of the pop charts this week.
Where are all the protest songs?
Protest requires people to take a stand and hold firm. Pop songs are designed to appeal across demographic lines. In music, as in the rest of the world, resistance takes place closer to the ground.
Trump officials propose testing a citizenship question amid a push to alter the census
The Trump administration proposes to include a question about U.S. citizenship status in this year's field test of the 2030 census, as Republicans push to alter the counts behind voting maps.
Some Public Health Service officers deployed in detention centers suffer 'moral distress'
A special corps of health care workers have been called in to work with detained immigrants and many feel deeply conflicted about the assignment, saying they're not able to provide good care.
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The latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll shows what Americans think of President Trump and his policies.
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In 1965, Davis led one of the all-time great jazz groups. That December, they recorded seven sets over two nights in a Chicago nightclub. The complete recordings went unreleased for decades.
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Julia Loktev's documentary My Undesirable Friends follows young independent journalists covering Putin's invasion of Ukraine. -
As South Carolina's outbreak grows to 876 confirmed cases, vaccinations in the state surged in January. Cases have also been reported in two ICE detention facilities. -
Ski mountaineering will make its Olympic debut this year, the first winter sport to do so since 2002. Skeleton, luge, ski jumping and moguls are also getting new events. -
U.S. Olympic athletes are arriving and settling into their digs for the next couple of weeks in Italy. Curlers are amazed by the mountain scenery in Cortina; figure skaters are plant fostering in Milan; and the big air slopestyle women are "smashing pizzas" in Livigno. -
The Trump administration is reducing the number of immigration officers in Minnesota by 700, but there's still no end date for the surge despite weeks of turmoil and the deaths of two U.S. citizens.
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NPR's Leila Fadel asks Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison what concessions leaders in his state are willing to make to secure a further withdrawal of federal immigration agents.
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As Nigeria battles multiple security crises, a single attack in the west left more than 160 people dead and raises new questions about who's really in control.
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President Trump's focus overseas may spare China for now, but Beijing still worries that his "America First" rhetoric hasn't softened what it calls U.S. "military adventurism." -
Until now, estimating how old a dinosaur was when it died has been a fairly simple process: Count up the growth rings in the fossilized bones. But new research into some of dinosaurs' living relatives, like crocodiles, suggests that this method may not always work.
