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October 8, 2025
Dozens of Bob Ross paintings will be auctioned to help public TV after funding cuts
Thirty of Ross' trademark landscapes will be sold at a series of auctions starting in November. He painted many of them live on The Joy of P...
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October 8, 2025
Shutdowns serve as excuse for GOP and Democrats to spend more, says Sen. Ron Johnson
Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin, has a plan for how to avoid shutdown showdown negotiations, but it wouldn't be popular with C...
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October 8, 2025
Why gold is having its best year since 1979
The price of gold hit $4,000 per ounce for the first time ever. It's a bad sign for the U.S. economy
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October 8, 2025
1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has
A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it co...
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October 8, 2025
RFK Jr.'s new dietary guidelines could be controversial. Here's what to watch for
The Health Secretary's affinity for saturated fat and his ire over ultra-processed foods could influence federal food guidelines, expected o...
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October 8, 2025
A MacArthur 'genius' gleans surprising lessons from ancient bones, shards and trash
Kristina Douglass wanted to find out the truth about how past communities adapted to environmental change. Her revelatory work has earned he...
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October 8, 2025
Scientist on front lines of overdose crisis receives MacArthur 'genius' award
Nabarun Dasgupta was recognized with a MacArthur "genius" award for work studying the deadly overdose crisis. He's also a front-line organiz...
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October 8, 2025
Thinkers, dreamers, doers: Here's who made the 2025 MacArthur Fellow list
A cartographer, a composer, a neurobiologist, and a novelist are among the recipients of this year's "Genius Grants." Each Fellow will recei...
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October 8, 2025
Talks resume as Broadway actors consider a strike
Broadway's union for performers and stage managers says the sticking point is health care.
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October 8, 2025
Former FBI director Comey pleads not guilty to federal charges of lying to Congress
The former FBI director, who has long been one of President Trump's most vocal critics, was indicted last month on two counts stemming from...
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October 8, 2025
Greetings from the Mediterranean, where dolphins swim alongside a migrant rescue ship
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.
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October 8, 2025
Research on metal-organic frameworks gets the chemistry Nobel Prize
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share the prize. Their structures can "capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or c...
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October 8, 2025
Pumpkin: A favorite sign of fall, with a bit of shady history
Pumpkins are a harvest symbol and part of our nostalgia for a simpler time. But while the word "pumpkin" has been around for centuries, the...
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October 8, 2025
Chappell Roan's fans welcome the 'Midwest Princess' to Kansas City
Photographer Katie Currid captured fans attending Chappell Roan's tour stop in Kansas City. The Missouri native said bringing joy to the Mid...
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October 8, 2025
Famed polar exploration ship Endurance not as strong as legend held, researcher says
Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's crew famously survived after the Endurance became stuck in ice in 1915. A researcher says the ship wa...
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October 8, 2025
The Root returns to Black ownership. Here's how Ashley Allison is reimagining it
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Ashley Allison, the new owner of the online media outlet "The Root," which focuses on covering Black news an...
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October 8, 2025
Hundreds of hikers rescued from Mount Everest after severe snowstorm
About 900 hikers, guides and other staff who were stranded by a weekend snowstorm on the Chinese side of Mount Everest have reached safety,...
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October 8, 2025
Trump pick Van Epps to face Rep. Behn in fight for open TN congressional seat
Former Tennessee commissioner Matt Van Epps will face off against state Rep. Aftyn Behn in December’s general election.
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October 8, 2025
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Everyone needs a little help being a human. From sleep to saving money to parenting and more, host Marielle Segarra talks to experts to get...
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October 8, 2025
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October 7, 2025
The costs of Israel's longest war, for Israelis
Israelis are paying heavy costs for the longest war in their history: a mental health crisis, trauma, unprecedented division during wartime,...
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October 7, 2025
Democrats take legal aim at "the Radical Left" language during shutdown
Democrats and a federal union argue the Trump administration's language posted on federal agency websites and in some emails blaming the 'Ra...
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October 7, 2025
Two Years After an Attack that Shook the Mideast, What are the Consequences? : State of the World from NPR
On October 7, 2023, a surprise attack from Hamas-led militants in Gaza became the deadliest day in Israeli history. Israel’s ensuing war in...
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October 7, 2025
Texas National Guard members arrive at Chicago area military training facility
Military troops arrived at an Elwood training center after weeks of threats from President Donald Trump's administration, over the objection...
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October 7, 2025
These numbers show how 2 years of war have devastated Palestinian lives in Gaza
It's been two years since Hamas-led militants attacked Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. In response, Israeli leade...
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October 7, 2025
White House floats no back pay for some furloughed federal workers despite 2019 law
A new draft White House memo suggests a 2019 law signed by President Trump that guarantees federal employees get paid after a shutdown ends...
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October 7, 2025
The government shutdown is snarling air travel. Officials say it could get worse
A dozen facilities saw air traffic control shortages on Monday, delaying flights at several airports. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy bl...
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October 7, 2025
Here are the finalists for the 2025 National Book Awards
This year's short list features novelists Rabih Alameddine and Megha Majumdar as well as five first-time nominees for nonfiction, including...
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October 7, 2025
New books this week: Thomas Pynchon's first novel in 12 years, and much more
In addition to Pynchon's Shadow Ticket, this week's releases include a new memoir from Dopesick author Beth Macy, and a coming-of-age story...
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October 7, 2025
Babies take a lesson from soldiers in the war against malaria
Inspired by a military strategy to ward off disease-carrying mosquitoes, researchers see if the technique will help cut malaria infections i...
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October 7, 2025
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen: Lawmakers must find 'common ground' to end the government shutdown
On the seventh day of the shutdown, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen tells NPR she's working with colleagues from both parties to find common ground and...
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October 7, 2025
Deploying troops to Chicago is not legally justified, says Illinois attorney general
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul says the only "chaos" on Chicago's streets is coming from federal immigration agents carrying our aggr...
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October 7, 2025
Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fi...
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October 7, 2025
The Nobel Prize for physics is awarded for discoveries in quantum mechanical tunneling
The Nobel committee said that the laureates' work provides opportunities to develop "the next generation of quantum technology, including qu...
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October 7, 2025
With U.S. leadership in doubt, can its allies chart their own course?
U.S. allies in Europe and the Indo-Pacific are showing willingness to coordinate and cooperate across a wide range of shared interests, from...
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October 7, 2025
Why Democrats are casting the government shutdown as a health care showdown
Democrats are pressuring Republicans to extend billions of dollars in federal tax credits that have dramatically lowered premiums and contri...
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October 7, 2025
Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained
President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Ore...
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October 7, 2025
Why some federal workers aren't scared by the threat of shutdown layoffs
Some federal workers support the government shutdown, even as President Trump threatens to use this moment to lay off employees and cut fund...
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October 7, 2025
Supreme Court weighs conversion therapy in case from Colorado
The case pits conservative Christian groups against the LGBTQ community.
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October 7, 2025
As the Gaza war moves into its third year, peace talks offer some hope
On the second anniversary of the Hamas-led attack on Israel of Oct. 7, 2023, the leaders of Israel and Hamas are pushed by Arab countries an...
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October 7, 2025
A tribe in Arizona planned to connect 600 homes to electricity. Then the funding was cut
The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But t...
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October 7, 2025
Bondi set to give testimony to Congress at first hearing since Comey indictment
Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to testify before a Senate panel Tuesday amid mounting concerns that the DOJ under her leadership is being...
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October 7, 2025
'Mormon Wives' star Mayci Neeley shares her complex life in new memoir
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Mayci Neeley of Hulu's The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives about how her traumatic college days have shaped her...
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October 7, 2025
The government has long researched high school experiences. Then DOGE cut the effort
The federal government has long surveyed high schoolers to help track how their academic choices may have influenced the course of their liv...
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October 7, 2025
A conversation with David Gilmour : All Songs Considered
The Pink Floyd guitarist and singer talks about the 50th anniversary of Wish You Were Here, a new live album and concert film for his latest...
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October 7, 2025
Social Security administrator is named to the newly created position of IRS CEO
Social Security Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano was named to the newly created position of CEO of the IRS on Monday, making him...
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October 6, 2025
Appeals judges will decide fate of Portland troop deployment
The Trump administration is hoping to undo orders blocking the National Guard.
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October 6, 2025
Francine, the West Broad Street Lowe’s cat, is back in Richmond
She was found Monday morning in a distribution center in North Carolina.
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October 6, 2025
Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary
Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and men...
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October 6, 2025