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NASA

A hunk of space junk crashed through a Florida man's roof. Who should pay to fix it?

Bill Chappell

"It was not like anything I had ever seen before," Alejandro Otero says. It turned out his home was hit by debris from the International Space Station that had been circling the Earth for three years.

SOS: Reintroducing endangered species (Rebroadcast)

Arfie Ghedi, Amanda Williams

Mohammed Salem

REUTERS

Report on UNRWA concludes Israel has not provided evidence of employees' militancy

Jackie Northam

Anna Moneymaker

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Justice & Crime

Justice Department pays $138 million over FBI failures in Larry Nassar case

NPR Staff

Scott Eisen

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Education & Technology

Pro-Palestinian encampments and protests spread on college campuses across the U.S.

Rachel Treisman

Local And Regional Headlines

Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders delivers remarks at a press conference to call a special session of the legislature on Friday, September 8, 2023

Randall Lee

Office of Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Politics

Watch Arkansas Gov. Sanders deliver the State of the State

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Alex Da Corte

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Nasty Little Man

St. Vincent offers tension, release and sonic 'jump scares'

Terry Gross

"I'm not playing with persona," St. Vincent says of All Born Screaming. "It's a really a record about life and death and love. That's it. That's all we got."
Tom Brenner for The Washington Post

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What's at stake as the Supreme Court hears Idaho case about abortion in emergencies

Selena Simmons-Duffin

The Supreme Court will consider the question: Should doctors treating pregnancy complications follow state or federal law if the laws conflict? Here's how the case could affect women and doctors.
The Sounds of America: 'Surrealistic Pillow'

Rupert Allman

"One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small."
J. Scott Applewhite

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AP

House Judiciary Committee chair calls for investigation into Malinowski raid

Daniel Breen

Congressional leaders are calling for more information about an early morning raid which led to the shooting death of former Clinton National Airport Executive Director Bryan Malinowski.

Arkansas Fiscal Session '24

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Daisy Bates with supporters in Memphis in 1958. The statue that will represent Arkansas in the U.S. Capitol was largely based on this photo.

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Arts & Culture

PEN America cancels awards ceremony after writers protest

Elizabeth Blair

PEN America has cancelled its annual Literary Awards ceremony after nearly half of the authors nominated withdrew in protest over the organization's response to the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza.
How the FDA tracks foodborne illness, and what could be done better

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress introduced a bill that would allow the FDA to quickly respond when there’s a problem.
How did Amazon come to be worth more than $1 trillion?

Was Amazon's success from innovating retail or cornering the market on e-commerce when the internet was still a fringe part of society? Was it by creeping into every part of our daily lives, from shopping to entertainment to health care?
One year since Tennessee drag law was struck down

The law would have forbidden any public performance where actors impersonate someone of another gender.
Planes pollute the planet, but new technology could clean up the aviation industry

A nonstop flight from Los Angeles to New York spews about 1,300 pounds of planet-warming carbon into the air — per passenger.
Undocumented students at U.S. public schools targeted by efforts to overturn Supreme Court case

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, is launching a strategy to overturn a landmark Supreme Court decision that protects the right of undocumented students to attend public school.