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Fat Bear Week has a winner: 747 aka Bear Force One
The popularity contest started to raise awareness about the brown bears of Alaska's Katmai National Park. As the bears gain weight for winter hibernation, internet fans vote for their favorite.
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Ex-movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is in the midst of a second sex crimes trial
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Gene Maddaus of Variety magazine about Harvey Weinstein's trial in Los Angeles over sexual assault allegations. He was previously convicted in New York.
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Jurors in Florida will consider the death penalty for the Parkland school shooter
Attorneys in the Parkland school shooting trial gave closing arguments. The jury will decide whether Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to death or spend life in prison for the murder of 17 people.
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Kentucky's high court considers if tax dollars can be redirected to private schools
Kentucky's Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday in a case that will decide whether the state can move forward with a program to send more than $100 million in tax dollars to private schools.
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Beloved star of stage and screen, Angela Lansbury, has died at 96
Angela Lansbury, well known for her portray of crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the TV series Murder, She Wrote, died Tuesday. She also had a distinguished career in movies and on Broadway.
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Russia's strikes on Ukraine may also have been meant to quell doubts at home
Russia carried out a barrage of airstrikes across Ukraine on Monday. But what has been the reaction in Moscow to its own military escalation? The Russian assaults were widely condemned by the West.
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Eight years ago, Shane Adams lost his horse Mongo in the Utah desert
Adams was asleep in a tent when he heard wild mustangs and saw Mongo had joined the herd. Last week officers with the Bureau of Land Management found the 18-years-old stallion and brought him home.
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What does the leaked racist conversation tell us about local Los Angeles politics?
NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Los Angeles Time columnist Gustavo Arellano about the president of the Los Angeles City Council resigning her leadership post after she made racist remarks.
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Monkeypox cases in the U.S. have been falling since a peak in early August
New daily monkeypox cases have been falling, and the CDC says cases are probably going to plateau or decline over the next few weeks.
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Examining Russia's influence on the most recent coup in Burkina Faso
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Rinaldo Depagne of the International Crisis Group about Russia's influence on the military coups in West Africa.
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Examining the importance of the only bridge connecting Crimea to Russia
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Andrew Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and NPR's Jason Beaubien about the implications of the explosion on the bridge.
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Chris Slayton is taking the video game 'Minecraft' to the next level
Thousands follow Slayton's creations online. He now plans to build the entire observable universe — block by block. He spent months studying black holes and identifying the colors of the planets.