NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Jemele Hill, contributing writer for The Atlantic, about the 36 new players who were drafted into the WNBA and the future of the sport.
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Volunteers are restoring the Manzanar War Reloctation Center's baseball field. In the fall, Japanese-American baseball players play where many of their families were held during World War II.
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More than 10 thousand older adults turn 65 every day. There's growing efforts to make sure they stay in their homes and out of hospitals and nursing homes as they age.
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Electronic warfare connected to the conflict in Gaza is interfering with the global positioning system in a large part of the region.
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A church rents apartments for asylum seekers, who pay the church back after an initial buffer period.
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The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided, with conservatives expressing various degrees of skepticism about the statute used to prosecute more than 350 of the Jan. 6th rioters who invaded the capitol.
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The newest version of the popular board game Catan will make players wrestle with a society-wide problem: How do you build, develop and expand without overly polluting the world?
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with actor Hoa Xuande about the new HBO show 'The Sympathizer' — a rare piece of Hollywood entertainment that tells the story of the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese perspective.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to journalist David Sanger about his new book, New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, And America's Struggle To Defend The West.
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Nafij Ahmed and Josh Bard ran the Boston Marathon on Monday. Nafij is visually impaired and Josh was his guide for the run. We ran a story about the lead up to the run. This is what happened since.
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Demolition is underway on the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore. Crews are using fire to weaken the massive structure so it can be removed as quickly as possible.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Karim Sadjadpour, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about what this escalation tells us about Iran's strategy.
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The Biden administration has launched a new effort to improve the ability of the U.S. to prevent, detect and respond to global health threats. Some experts say the new strategy doesn't go far enough. -
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Adam Moss, author of The Work of Art: How Something Comes From Nothing.
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According to PEN America, 4,349 books were banned from schools between July and December 2023, more than the entire previous school year. More than 3,000 of those bans were in Florida.
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