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BREAKING: Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep himself in power, has filed to run for president again in 2024.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court has delivered a historic victory for LGBTQ people — ruling that the federal law that bars sex discrimination in employment does apply to LGBTQ employees.
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JUST IN: NASCAR has banned the Confederate flag at all of its events and properties.
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BREAKING: President Trump has falsely claimed that he has won the 2020 election. That is wrong. Millions of votes are still being counted in key states.
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BREAKING: The Trump administration just finalized a rule that would remove nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people in health care and health insurance.
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BREAKING: Joe Biden has been elected the 46th president of the United States, according to the AP — narrowly beating President Trump after a turbulent race. More here:
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BREAKING: Two Capitol Police officers have been suspended in connection with last week’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Tim Ryan said. One of the suspended officers took a selfie with a rioter. The other donned a MAGA hat and “started directing people around,” Ryan said.
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Good news: Prancer, the 13-pound gremlin Chihuahua who hates men and children, and was described as a "vessel for a traumatized Victorian child," has been adopted by a 36-year-old single lesbian in Connecticut.
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JUST IN: The House of Representatives has approved legislation making lynching a federal hate crime for the first time in U.S. history. The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act was named for the 14-year-old teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in the 1950s.
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Navajo Nation helped push Arizona blue in a presidential race for the first time since Bill Clinton: 60-90% of roughly 67,000 eligible Navajo voters reportedly voted for Biden. He leads in the state by less than 12,000 votes.
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JUST IN: Twitter confirms to NPR that it has banned Marjorie Taylor Greene's account "for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy."
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"We can no longer pretend that we don't know exactly who and what this president stands for," Michelle Obama says of Trump in a new video. "Search your hearts, and your conscience, and then vote for Joe Biden like your lives depend on it," she says.
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JUST IN: In a stunning reversal for Navy officials, Admiral Michael Gilday — chief of naval operations — has recommended Capt. Brett Crozier be restored to command of the Theodore Roosevelt. A U.S. official confirmed the news with NPR.
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At drive-through COVID-19 testing centers in South Korea, the test takes 10 minutes at most. Results are texted to you, usually the next day. And it's free — paid for by the government.
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BREAKING: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who charted a course for women’s rights at the U.S. Supreme Court and became a legal, cultural and feminist icon, has died from complications from cancer. She was 87.
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The acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia says "hundreds" of people may face charges for storming the Capitol. And, he says, if evidence points to crimes by elected officials — such as incitement of violence — he's prepared to bring charges.
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President-elect Biden's German shepherd, Major, will soon be the first dog to go from a shelter to the White House. That shelter, the Delaware Humane Association, is planning a virtual "indoguration" ceremony for Major on Sunday.
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BREAKING: The Justice Department is suing Texas over its new abortion ban — saying the state enacted the law “in open defiance of the Constitution.”
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Kamala Harris has made history. She brings a legion of firsts to the vice presidency: She will be the first woman, the first Black person, the first Indian American and the first Asian American to hold the office.
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BTS spoke at the United Nations this morning as part of a conference focused on climate change, poverty, inequality and how the pandemic has affected those priorities. To close their speech, the band played a video performance of their song “Permission To Dance."
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The Susan B. Anthony Museum has rejected President Trump's pardon of the leading suffragist. The museum's director said the best way to honor Anthony would be to take a clear stance against voter suppression — and to advocate for human rights for all.
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JUST IN: Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer calls for President Trump to be removed from office via the 25th Amendment. He says if that doesn't happen, Congress should impeach Trump. “What happened … was an insurrection against the United States, incited by the president."
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BREAKING: Adidas is cutting ties with Kanye West over his antisemitic remarks. The company says it will "end production of Yeezy branded products and stop all payments to Ye and his companies."
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At drive-through COVID-19 testing centers in South Korea, the test takes 10 minutes at most. Results are texted to you, usually the next day. And it's free — paid for by the government.
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JUST IN: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also says the 25th Amendment should be invoked to remove President Trump from office — and if it isn't, "Congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment.”
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JUST IN: The House removed GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her 2 committee assignments over her history of trafficking racist, anti-Semitic and baseless conspiracies and promoting political violence.
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"My dearest Ruth, you are the only person I have loved in my life." In 2016, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recited a handwritten letter that her late husband, Marty, had drafted to her when he was ill at a hospital in 2010. Listen here:
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court has upheld DACA — handing a dramatic victory to immigration advocates and allowing the program that has permitted about 650,000 "Dreamers" to stay and work in the U.S. legally to continue.
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Joe Biden is up to 69.9 million votes as of 12:10 p.m. ET Wednesday. That means he has surpassed Obama's record for the most votes of anyone who has ever run for president.
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Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond says if the top 1% of Americans paid the taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion each year. "That is just about enough to pull everyone out of poverty," the author says.
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President Trump retweeted a video of a white man — driving a golf cart with "Trump 2020" and "America First" signs — yelling "white power" in response to protesters. Sharing the video, Trump wrote, "Thank you to the great people of The Villages."
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President Trump admitted in an interview he plans to block additional funding for the U.S. Postal Service in order to prevent increased voting by mail.
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A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
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BREAKING: Michelle Wu has won Boston's mayoral race, breaking a 199-year streak of white, male city leaders to become the city's first woman and first person of color elected to the post.
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Delta has banned 100 anti-maskers from taking their flights — and even gone a step further by adding them to a "no fly" list. Despite outrage from some consumers, legal experts say it's within the airline's scope of rights.
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Just days before Ginsburg's death, as her strength waned, she dictated this statement to her granddaughter: "My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."
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A Florida activist is asking state school districts to ban the Bible — saying it's not an age-appropriate book for kids and contains references to rape, bestiality and infanticide.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court has handed President Trump a giant defeat — ruling that he is not “categorically immune” from having his financial records released to a New York grand jury.
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BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked enforcement of the Texas abortion ban, granting an emergency request from the Justice Department. More details to come.
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BREAKING: The Senate has voted 53 to 47 to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the 116th Supreme Court justice — securing her place as the first Black woman on the nation's high court.
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BREAKING: All three defendants were found guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was chased down and shot while out jogging.
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BREAKING: Democrat Wes Moore has made history in Maryland as the state’s first Black governor, according to an AP race call. He is only the third Black governor elected in the country. #Election2022
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The Gilgamesh Dream Tablet is headed back to Iraq. The 3,500-year-old clay artifact, which was looted from Iraq and bought by Hobby Lobby, was seized by authorities who demanded it must be returned.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court has upheld a key abortion rights decision — invalidating a Louisiana law that required doctors at clinics that perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. Chief Justice Roberts joined the court’s four liberals.
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Richard and Mildred Loving's marriage was deemed illegal because she was Black and Native American and he was white. Their case went all the way to the Supreme Court. And on June 12, 1967, the couple won. "Loving Day" celebrates the historic ruling.
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University of Pittsburgh medical students wrote a new version of the Hippocratic Oath, which calls on doctors to combat disinformation to improve health literacy and be an ally to minorities.
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JUST IN: Virginia lawmakers have approved a resolution ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment — becoming the 38th state of 38 required to do so.
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BREAKING: Democrat Jon Ossoff has defeated Republican David Perdue in the 2nd Georgia Senate runoff, according to an AP race call — handing Democrats control of the House, Senate and presidency.
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JUST IN: Katherine Johnson, one of the women profiled in the hit film "Hidden Figures," died today at 101. She was a black mathematician who calculated the flight path for America's first space mission and the first landing on the moon.
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BREAKING: Joe Biden has won the state of Wisconsin, according to a race call by the AP.
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@NPR Critics say the rule would further harm an already vulnerable group — trans people — amid a pandemic. "I can't help but wonder if the timing is by design so that this is something people won't pay attention to," says one political science professor.
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JUST IN: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is back home and doing well after being hospitalized Tuesday to treat a possible infection, the Supreme Court's press office says.
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Christine Blasey Ford is still being harassed, her lawyers say. She's reportedly had to move four times. She's had to pay for a private security detail. And she hasn't been able to return to her job at Palo Alto University.
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Colorado voters approved a ballot measure to provide free meals for all public school students. The measure will help schools pay for the meals by raising $100 million a year by increasing taxes on the state's richest residents.
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We've deleted a tweet that misspelled Camila Cabello's first name as Camilla.
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"The Second Amendment did not come down from Sinai," the archbishop of Chicago said. "The right to bear arms will never be more important than human life. Our children have rights too. And our elected officials have a moral duty to protect them."
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Elizabeth Warren has unveiled a plan that calls for $4 billion in new elections funding, 30 days of required early voting and a mail-in-ballot to be sent to every registered voter in the U.S. "The pandemic has exposed how vulnerable our voting system is."
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Canada has designated the Proud Boys as a terrorist entity, describing the extremist group as "a neo-fascist organization that engages in political violence."
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Dr. Fauci: "I wouldn't have imagined in my wildest dreams that people who object to things that are pure public health principles are so set against it ... that they actually threaten you. I mean, that to me is just strange."
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Here's how racial inequity affects U.S. school children, including: • Black students are more likely to be arrested at school • Black students are more likely to be suspended • White school districts get more funding on average than nonwhite ones
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Rebekah Jones says she was fired from her job at the Florida Health Department for refusing to manipulate data on its coronavirus dashboard so the state would appear to meet its target to reopen. Now, she has launched her own dashboard.
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Biden vows to rejoin the Paris climate accord, conserve large areas of land and water for biodiversity, stop offshore drilling in the Arctic and invest a massive amount of money in green energy and infrastructure.
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The Missouri Supreme Court indefinitely suspended the law licenses of two St. Louis attorneys, Mark McCloskey and Patricia McCloskey, who waved guns at Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020. @kcur
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A new study found that giving low-income workers money upfront in their work period helped alleviate the mental burden of their financial problems and allowed them to be more productive — echoing other findings on the psychological impacts of poverty.
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Without giving evidence, @SecPompeo accused @NPRKelly of lying to him — "twice." "Let me just say this: we will not be intimidated," NPR President and CEO John Lansing told @npratc . "Mary Louise Kelly won't be intimidated, and NPR won't be intimidated."
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The Trump administration in the past 2 days has abruptly dumped the leaders of 3 agencies that oversee the nuclear weapons stockpile, electricity and natural gas regulation, and overseas aid.
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BREAKING: Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been found guilty of all counts, including murder, in the death of George Floyd.
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JUST IN: Jared Kushner’s attorney told the House Oversight Committee that Kushner uses private apps and personal email to communicate about official White House matters with foreign leaders — a violation of a law governing White House records and official policy.
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The official list of the victims killed at the synagogue shooting: Joyce Fienberg, 75 Richard Gottfried, 65 Rose Mallinger, 97 Jerry Rabinowitz, 66 Cecil Rosenthal, 59 David Rosenthal, 54 Bernice Simon, 84 Sylvan Simon, 86 Daniel Stein, 71 Melvin Wax, 88 Irving Younger, 69
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Michelle Obama: "If you take one thing from my words tonight, it is this: If you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me they can — and they will — if we don't make a change in this election." #DemConvention
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., known for her long braids, has revealed in a new video that she has alopecia and has lost her hair. "I want to be freed from the secret and the shame that that secret carries with it," she said.
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Ruby Bridges was the first Black student at her New Orleans elementary school. Now, she's written a book to tell kids her story.
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BREAKING: Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, says she will vote to impeach President Trump. “The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing," she said in a statement.
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Starting next month, San Francisco will deploy new unarmed teams of professionals from the fire and health departments — not police officers — to handle most calls for people in a mental health or behavioral crisis.
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Summer Taylor, one of two demonstrators who was struck by a car while protesting in Seattle, has died. The second protester, Diaz Love, remains in serious condition.
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JUST IN: The Senate approved President Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan Saturday, securing additional aid for American families, workers and businesses — and a legislative victory for the Biden administration.
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Spending habits of millennials, who are about 21 to 37, are often blamed for killing industries. But a new study by the Fed backs up the idea that it's less about how they're spending — and more about them not having money to spend.
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer: "It's incredibly disturbing that the president of the United States, 10 days after a plot to kidnap, put me on trial, and execute me ... is at it again and inspiring and incentivizing and inciting this kind of domestic terrorism."
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Colleen Kraft, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, visited a Texan shelter for migrant children and saw a young girl crying. Staff told her that federal regulations prevented them from touching or holding the child to soothe her.
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Economists say Bernie Sanders' and Elizabeth Warren's proposals to free millions of Americans from the burden of student debt could boost the economy in significant ways — and help combat income inequality.
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A Pennsylvania county is asking Amy Coney Barrett to recuse herself in an election procedures case pending before the court, arguing that her confirmation is linked, by Trump, to his own re-election.
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