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AAA forecasts the highest travel numbers in 23 years. -
The longtime science teacher and Rio District representative was sworn in last week.
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Andrea Sapone’s recently created oversight office is still hiring staff.
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At a federal prison in rural Virginia, more than 50 prisoners say they've been abused. But when they try to file a complaint — they're stopped, often by the same guards they say are abusing them.
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Partner company hopes to have the project up and running by the 2030s.
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The president-elect said the process would be "easy," but the path could be far murkier.
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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.
