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Why did Canada separate indigenous families from their children?
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to advocate Andre Bear about the root causes of indigenous child separation in Canada, and what needs to be done.
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Will baseball feel the same if the umpire calling balls and strikes is a robot?
Major League Baseball partnered with the independent Atlantic League to experiment with the game. NPR's A Martinez talks to Rick White, president of the Atlantic League, about what they've been doing.
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Would a push by the U.S. military deter Russia from invading Ukraine?
As the State Department orders relatives of embassy staff in Kyiv to leave, NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to ex-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst about where the diplomatic effort goes from here.
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Biden weighs sending 5,000 troops to Eastern Europe to counter Russia
The Biden administration is considering a plan to send several thousand additional U.S. troops into NATO countries in eastern Europe, near both Russia and Ukraine.
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Toddler in New Jersey orders $1,700 worth of furniture
An adult in the family saw some options online, added them to the site's shopping cart but didn't checkout. The toddler took care of that — completing the purchase while playing on the phone.
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Michigan woman discovers she won the lottery by checking her spam folder
Laura Spears bought a ticket for the Mega Millions drawing online on Dec. 31. A few days later she was looking through her inbox for a lost email — only to find out she had won $3 million.
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Morning news brief
The U.S. weighs sending 5,000 troops to Eastern Europe to counter Russia. COVID cases decline sharply in areas of the Northeast and Midwest. Sarah Palin faces off against The New York Times Monday.
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HBO's 'The Gilded Age' is a story about money and class in 1882 New York
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has developed a new TV show for HBO called The Gilded Age. Our reviewer says it has its own charm, despite feeling a lot like Downton set in America.
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The stakes are high as Blinken sits down with his Russian counterpart
Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Friday with his Russian counterpart, hoping another round of diplomacy will keep the Russian troops massed on the border with Ukraine from invading.
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Can the Russia-Ukraine crisis still be resolved diplomatically?
NPR's Debbie Elliott speaks with Max Boot, a senior fellow in national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, about Russia's military buildup along the Ukrainian border.
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French government investigators expose fraudulent vanilla pods
Vanilla is one of the world's most expensive spices — a pound of pods retails for more than $150. A multi-year probe found that only one in four vanilla pods met French government standards.
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Rescuers in the U.K. got creative when a dog became stranded near the shore
The tide was rising and Millie was about to be engulfed. Rescuers attached a cooked sausage to a drone and flew it tantalizingly close to the dog, who followed the treat to higher ground.