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Schools in Greater Richmond impacted by the water outage, boil orders remain closed.
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This weekend's storm is expected to impact 62 million Americans through Monday. Heavy snow, ice, rain and severe thunderstorms are being unleashed from the Plains to the East Coast.
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The new restrictions take effect when classes resume on Jan. 6.
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Funding for the Dolly Parton literacy program became state law in July, but it isn’t ready — yet.
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A Richmond Public Schools program aims to make every child English–Spanish fluent.
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He led the department during the Sept. 11 attacks and D.C. sniper shootings.
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The car you drive years in the future might run off a battery being invented in a lab today. Companies in China and the United States are racing to perfect and scale up next-generation technologies.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with New York Rep. Mike Lawler about Republicans' divisions that threaten to derail the ongoing budget negotiations.
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Five years after George Floyd's death, NPR's Michel Martin talks with Toluse Olorunnipa and Robert Samuels, the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of His Name is George Floyd.
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The Oval Office meeting went off the rails when President Trump started playing videos and repeating discredited claims about a "white genocide" in South Africa.
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Japan's agriculture minister resigned because of political fallout over recent comments that he "never had to buy rice." The resignation comes as the public struggles with record high prices of rice.