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Addressing mental health has gained momentum after the Sonya Massey shooting. This Citizens Club panel discusses mental health awareness, resources, and the experiences faced daily in our community.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WFIU listener Mark Minster of Terre Haute, Ind., and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.
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Cheers erupted from a street-level crowd as Alex Honnold reached the top of the spire of the 508-meter (1,667-foot) tower, about 90 minutes after he started.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new approach to six shots that were formerly given routinely will introduce new hurdles for getting kids immunized. And it could have a chilling effect on doctors.
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Tensions are escalating in Minneapolis after Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a U.S. citizen, was killed during an encounter with immigration officials on Saturday morning. Here is what to know.
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Three citizenship ceremonies NPR attended in the Washington, D.C. area in January were largely celebratory experiences, despite a year of hurdles and changes to the naturalization process.
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Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and the vital lessons that remain critical for NASA today.
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Russian strikes left much of Kyiv without heat, water and power during freezing temperature, even as Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. held talks on ending the nearly four-year war.
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A look at the extreme winter storm impacting two-thirds of the U.S.
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The incident, which was caught on video, marks the second deadly shooting by federal officers in Minneapolis in less than a month.
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The announcement is a reversal for Trump, who initially initially praised the agreement with China as something Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney "should be doing."
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