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How High Heat Can Impact Mental Health
A new NPR probe found low-income areas in dozens of major U.S. cities are more likely to be hotter than wealthier ones, and people with severe mental illness are impacted by that increase in heat.
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Aid Agencies Struggle To Reach Damaged Areas Of The Bahamas
Following the catastrophic damage left by Hurricane Dorian, the big question now is: How to get help to the people who are in places that can't even be reached?
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Florida Family, Suspecting A Burglar, Alerts Sheriff's Department
The office posted a photo of the "cat burglar" looking bewildered, behind the barred windows of a police car. Good news though: Bones had a microchip and the cat will be returned to his owners.
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Maid Of Honor Stands Out Among Other Wedding Attendants
A Nebraska woman told her sister that if she would be her maid of honor, she could wear whatever she wanted. That explains why social media posts show the sister in an inflatable T-Rex costume.
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Protesters In Hong Kong Win, Extradition Bill Is Withdrawn
Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam says she is withdrawing the China extradition bill that sparked months of protests in Hong Kong.
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Morning News Brief
Hurricane Dorian causes catastrophic damage to the Bahamas. Britain's prime minister calls for a snap election after conservatives suffer a key parliamentary defeat. Walmart curbs ammunition sales.
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In Open Letter, Former U.S. Envoys Criticize Afghan Withdraw Plan
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald Neumann about a plan to withdraw thousands of American troops from Afghanistan in a proposed deal with the Taliban.
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Search Ends For Victims Of California Diving Boat Disaster
NPR's Noel King talks to National Transportation Safety Board member Jennifer Homendy, who leads the investigation into the deadly fire in California aboard the dive boat Conception.
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Rumsfeld and Army Chief Testify In Senate About Crusader
The Army's Crusader artillery system may be losing its last battle with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld unrelenting in his new determination to cancel the program. Tom Cjelten reports.
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Everyone Needs To Take Dorian Very Seriously, FEMA Official Says
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to David Bibo of the Federal Emergency Management Agency about the coordinated response with local officials in the states preparing for Hurricane Dorian's impact.
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Fort Pierce Residents Evacuate Ahead Of Hurricane Dorian
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Linda Hudson, mayor of Fort Pierce, a city of 43,000 on Florida's Atlantic coast, as everyone waits to see what path Hurricane Dorian will take.
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IKEA Employees In Scotland Thwart Hide-And-Seek Game
When IKEA employees caught wind of the plan laid out in a Facebook group, they weren't into the idea of 3,000 people hiding in the store so they called the police. Game players were turned away.