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Merriam-Webster has added 370 words and phrases to its dictionary
Pumpkin spice was among the new additions. Along with yeet — an exclamation of excitement. Sus — short for suspicious or suspect. And ICYMI which is short for in case you missed it.
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Puzzling trend: large proportion of monkeypox cases have happened in people with HIV
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that a disproportionate number of people who are contracting monkeypox in the U.S. are also HIV-positive.
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Encore: Queen Elizabeth II, who brought stability to a changing nation
At age 96, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II died Thursday at her Balmoral estate in Scotland, after 70 years on the throne. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on Sept. 8, 2022.)
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Extreme weather sparked by climate change is putting a strain on infrastructure
Extreme weather which is fueled by climate change is posing a bigger and bigger threat to the nation's water infrastructure.
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A 200-year-old Saguaro cactus has fallen do to a powerful monsoon
Catalina State Park officials in Arizona believe powerful monsoon rains brought it down last month. Its trunk has splintered and its large arms are now sprawled on the ground.
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FBI finds information about a foreign country's nuclear program in Mar-a-Lago search
NPR's A Martinez talks to former CIA officer David Priess about reports that some of America's most closely guarded secrets were among documents seized from Donald Trump's Florida estate.
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Meet the 7-year-old boy who is South Dakota's corn-bassador
Nicknamed the "Corn Kid," Tariq, who lives in New York, has been declared South Dakota's Official Corn-bassador after his passion for the vegetable went viral on TikTok and YouTube.
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California dockworkers are worried about losing their good-paying jobs to robots
West Coast dockworkers and the shipping industry are locked in contract negotiations. Dockworkers are fighting to keep high paying jobs from being automated.
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Texas State Police downplay their role in Uvalde shooting failures, report says
A ProPublica-Texas Tribune report finds that Texas state law enforcers sought to shift blame to local law enforcement for the Uvalde school shooting in May that killed 19 children and two teachers.
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The 2nd suspect in Canada's mass stabbing case dies in custody, police say
A man suspected of killing ten people and injuring more than a dozen last weekend died after he was taken into custody in Sasketchewan, Canada.
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Remembering longtime NPR foreign correspondent Anne Garrels who died at 71
NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Columbia Journalism School Professor Emerita Ann Cooper about her friend, former NPR foreign correspondent Anne Garrels.
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The U.N. calls for an end to the fighting around a nuclear facility in Ukraine
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield about the fighting around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, and the next steps in order to try to secure the plant.