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No Labels will not nominate a third-party presidential candidate for 2024 election
The group No Labels said Thursday that finding the right candidates proved difficult. The organization emerged earlier this year as a potentially well-funded force in the election.
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Khruangbin is out with their first solo album since 2020
After years of touring and collaborations, two members of the trio reflect on how this record created a moment of peaceful solitude. The album is called: A La Sala.
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What's behind the calls for Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor to step down?
NPR's Michel Martin talks to Kate Shaw, a constitutional law scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, about her thoughts on calls for Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down.
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Reflecting on NATO's past and future as the alliance celebrates its 75th anniversary
NPR's Leila Fadel talks to former NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller about how the alliance got its start, and its importance in a changing world.
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A member of Banjamin Netanyahu's war cabinet calls for elections in Israel
Benny Gantz, who leads an opposition party and also regularly faces the prime minister as part of the war cabinet, is calling to set a date for elections. Polling shows Netanyahu would lose to him.
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Coordinated Lunar Time: The U.S. wants the moon to have its own time zone
The moon's different gravity means a precise atomic clock there would run slightly faster than on Earth. The difference could complicate calculations between spacecraft and a potential lunar base.
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If you want to see superstar Caitlin Clark play live it's gonna cost you
Clark and the University of Iowa are electrifying women's college basketball. Tickets for the women's Final Four are currently reselling around $2,300 — more than double the men's Final Four average.
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NATO is marking 75 years since its founding after the end of World War Two
The alliance has grown from just a dozen members in 1949 to the current 32 — including Sweden, which is attending its first meeting as a full member Thursday morning.
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Liberty Media adds MotoGP to its global racing portfolio that already includes F1
NPR's Michel Martin talks to former MotoGP rider John Hopkins about what the proposed takeover of the sport by Formula One owners Liberty Media, could mean for the future of motorcycle racing.
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The FDA has approved the first app to help treat depression
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Dr. John Torous, director of digital psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, about the first app being approved to help treat depression.
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Should whales have the same rights as people?
Some indigenous Polynesians say yes, and they're pushing an initiative to give whales personhood rights as a way to combat climate change.
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Food aid groups forced to suspend operations after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza
NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Rebecca Abou Chedid of the aid organization Anera about its decision to stop operations in Gaza after the death of seven World Central Kitchen staff.