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Monkeypox declared global emergency

This alert is the highest alert the WHO can issue and comes in response to 16,000 reported cases from 75 countries

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The Jan. 6 committee isn't done. Expect more hearings, revelations and reports

With Republicans set to take control of the House of Representatives in November, the Democrat-led committee has a lot to pack into the next five months.

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A Skittles lawsuit raises questions over titanium dioxide — a legal food additive

A suit has been filed against the maker of Skittles over titanium dioxide, a color additive that has been on the market for decades but which has been banned in food by European authorities.

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Drugmakers are slow to prove medicines that got a fast track to market really work

Stalled confirmatory trials and lax enforcement plague the Food and Drug Administration's accelerated approval pathway for pharmaceuticals that target urgent medical needs.

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What women truckers can tell us about living and working alone

American long-haul truckers share wisdom from the road on living where you work

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Decades after foster care, she learned she was owed benefits. Where did the money go?

After reading an investigation by NPR and the Marshall Project, former foster youth are asking what happened to their benefits — and the government isn't helping.

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More than 1,000 may lose water — or even their homes — because a landlord didn't pay

Officials in Indianapolis say a utility company's threat to shut off water service at four apartment complexes over the landlord's unpaid $1.7 million bill could cause a "mass-homelessness problem."

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Climate change could cause more heat waves, extreme weather, UNC professor says

Deadly wildfires and oppressive heat waves have swept across the globe as multiple countries experience record-breaking temperatures that environmentalists believe is a result of climate change.

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Former U.N. 'relief chief' shares his secret for coping with crises: a 'sunny gene'

From 2017 to 2021, Sir Mark Lowcock was the U.N.'s "relief chief," the world's most senior humanitarian official. He talks to NPR about what inspired him and why crises are getting worse.

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Music for a college classroom: A Texas school will soon offer a Harry Styles class

Texas State University professor Louie Dean Valencia spoke with NPR about the creation and aims of the class, which is capped at 20 students. He's one of many who hopes it will eventually reach more.

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Cafes opening in Kharkiv, but most large Ukrainian businesses remain shuttered

Business is clawing back in Ukraine, but it won't be anything like normal for a long time.

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The bombed Mariupol theater troupe is back on stage with a homegrown Ukrainian play

Displaced when Russia bombed their historic building, a Mariupol theater troupe has reconstituted what's left of the group and is putting on a play by a famous Ukrainian playwright.

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200,000 student borrowers who say they were ripped off may get their loans erased

A pending legal settlement is good news for defrauded borrowers. But it raises questions about the U.S. Education Department's ability to police college misconduct.

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Biden approval hits another new low as more Democrats sour on him, poll finds

Democrats' approval of President Biden has dropped 9 points, pushing him to just a 36% approval rating in the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.

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Why 100-degree heat is so dangerous in the United Kingdom

"We're used to treating hot spells as a chance to go play in the sun," said a top government scientist. "Our lifestyles and our infrastructure are not adapted to what is coming."

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An amusement park Haunted Mansion delivers summer screams and lifelong memories

At an old-school amusement park in Rehoboth Beach, Del., called Funland, a generation of thrillseekers who grew up screaming in the park's Haunted Mansion now brings their kids to do the same.

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Indiana's AG could face a lawsuit by the abortion provider for 10-year-old rape victim

Dr. Caitlin Bernard has threatened to sue Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita for "false and misleading statements" he made after she provided a medication abortion for the girl from Ohio.

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Beads, felt and bark are turned into masterpieces at Smithsonian Folklife Festival

This summer, artisans from Kenya, Mongolia and Uganda shared the story of their centuries-old traditional crafts — including the art of "barkcloth," declared a UNESCO world heritage "masterpiece."

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If Ukraine Wants To Stand for Liberty and Democracy, It Should Rethink Some of Its Wartime Policies

We can condemn the actions of Moscow without forfeiting the right to point out missteps in Kyiv.

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Homeland Security Is Buying Its Way Around the Fourth Amendment

Plus: The Respect for Marriage Act, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, and more...

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Reproductive care continues in Montgomery, Ala., despite women's clinic closing

The POWER House, which opened in 2015 next door to a now-closed clinic that performed abortions, continues to see clients, offering them sexual information and contraception.

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Colleges navigate confusing legal landscapes as new abortion laws take effect

With abortion access changing in many states, college health centers are trying to understand their rights and responsibilities when counseling students who become pregnant.

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Monkeypox keeps spreading. Here's what authorities are doing to stop it

Public health experts know what it takes to control a disease outbreak: access to testing and vaccines. But in the last two months of the monkeypox outbreak, the response has not met the need.

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Doubting mainstream medicine, COVID patients find dangerous advice and pills online

A 75-year-old woman became enmeshed in conspiracy theories about COVID. After she got infected, she rejected effective treatments and sought out black market drugs instead.

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