The destruction is still obvious, one month after an EF3 tornado tore through downtown Sulphur, killing one person and damaging more than 200 buildings.
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Five states have banned ranked choice voting in the last two months, bringing the total number of Republican-leaning states now prohibiting the voting method to 10. Missouri could soon join them.
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Michigan suit is challenging lost wages for injured undocumented immigrants
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Four years ago, President Biden overwhelmingly won among Gen Z and millennial voters, and within that group, voters of color led that support for him. But now — a new poll from the University of Chicago, exclusively obtained by NPR, finds that the coalition may be severely diminished.
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President Biden will deliver a defense of democracy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Why rapper Fat Joe is fighting for hospital price transparency.
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David Coker required hospitalization for head trauma after a correctional officer turned his back and let prisoners assault him.
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NPR's A Martínez visits Georgia to see the problems some Americans have accessing healthcare and to hear from providers about what they need to fix it.
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The FDA will review data to decide whether to approve MDMA, also known as ecstasy, for PTSD treatment. Biden is expected to issue an executive order addressing asylum seekers at the southern border.
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Our critics scanned the broadcast and streaming horizons to find the shows you should check out in June, July and August. There's some great new TV — plus, House of the Dragon and The Bear are back.
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Democratic Congressman Andy Kim challenged the state's powerful political machine and won in court and on the ground, making him the unlikely favorite in this November's Senate race.
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Archivists at the University of Houston have saved decades-worth of episodes of local LGBT radio shows that started in the 1970s. Together they tell the story of a complex, diverse community.
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Chants calling for “intifada” have been a prominent feature of pro-Palestinian student protests. It’s a charged word whose use is perceived differently by people with opposing views of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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India “missed the bus” on manufacturing. A new book argues that India can nonetheless grow rich by leapfrogging to an economy dominated by high-skills services.