Urban heat islands become dangerous when temperatures rise.
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BizSense Beat is a weekly collaboration between VPM News and Richmond BizSense that brings you the top business stories during NPR's Morning Edition on Fridays.
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President Biden's stumbles right from the beginning played into his biggest vulnerability, but how much will the first 2024 general election debate make an impact?
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Change has come to the home and community care system in Virginia.
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Residents are concerned after the pipeline's second testing-related rupture in about a month.
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Local labor and delivery options include homes, hospitals an hour away — sometimes gas stations.
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Biden and Trump last shared the stage at two presidential debates in September and October 2020 (a third was canceled due to COVID). Here's how it all it went — and what's different this time around.
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During World War II, the United States arrested hundreds of Japanese, German and Italian immigrants from Latin America and deported them to the U.S. where they lived in camps.
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Health secretary RFK Jr. has said seed oils, like canola, soybean and sunflower oil are 'poisoning Americans.' But many researchers say the evidence doesn't back up the claims.
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Tillis was one of only two Senate Republicans, along with Rand Paul, Ky., who voted against a motion to start debate on Republicans' massive tax and spending bill.
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Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told CBS that Iran had a "a very vast ambitious" nuclear program.
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A young shop manager living alone in Iran's capital was panicking during the war with Israel. Her family wasn't nearby. Her therapist had fled. So she turned to an AI chat bot.
Arts & Culture
- Shooting fireworks over a historic— and flammable — city takes planning
- Geologists uncover new evidence from ancient asteroid that hit the Chesapeake Bay
- Recent Hanover museum exhibit examines Brown Grove's history, legacy
- On Juneteenth, she celebrates the role quilts may have played in Underground Railroad