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USA PBS NewsHour 16h ago
NYC Mayor Mamdani launches community safety office

It's a tentative first step toward fulfilling a key campaign pledge to reduce the role of police in responding to mental health emergencies.

USA NPR 19h ago
Palestinians celebrate Eid in Gaza, making the most of a fragile ceasefire

The ceasefire, in effect for the past six months, has brought some reprieve to Palestinians in Gaza despite continued hardship, displacement and Israeli restrictions on aid.

USA PBS NewsHour 19h ago
The Southwest smashing heat records in March 'is what climate change looks like'

It's more than just another extreme weather blip. It's the latest next-level weather wildness that is occurring ever more frequently as Earth's warming builds.

USA PBS NewsHour 19h ago
Civilians that were under siege by a Mexican cartel fight back with AK-47s and grenades

Experts say Guerrero now holds many competing armed groups and that vigilantes are often absorbed, and armed, by the cartels themselves.

USA NPR Yesterday
More Marines are headed to Middle East as Iran war reaches the 3-week mark

The USS Boxer group of three ships, carrying thousands of Marines from the 11the Marine Expeditionary Unit, has left California and will reach the Persian Gulf in about three weeks, NPR has confirmed.

USA NPR Yesterday
Why it's so hard for world leaders to bring down oil and gasoline prices

From waiving the Jones Act to rerouting oil through the Red Sea, governments are doing their best to make up for the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, but prices are still rising.

USA NPR Yesterday
FCC approves the merger of local television owners Nexstar and Tegna

The FCC has approved the sale of Tegna television stations to rival Nexstar Media Group Thursday. The deal would create a company that owns 259 television stations in 44 states.

USA NPR Yesterday
Pittsburgh synagogue attack survivors talk about their friendship and healing journey

For StoryCorps, two survivors of the 2018 Synagogue attack in Pittsburgh talk about their friendship.

USA NPR Yesterday
'Movement never lies': 100 years of the Martha Graham Dance Company

Graham was a creative force in the performing arts. She wanted dance to express authentic, human emotions — a revolutionary idea in the late 1920s.

USA PBS NewsHour Yesterday
WATCH LIVE: Gabbard, Patel, Ratcliffe testify in House hearing on national security threats

The hearing offers the public a glimpse into the largely secret operations of the government's intelligence agencies and the threats they confront. They take place at a time of scrutiny over the war with Iran and heightened concerns about terrorism at home

USA NPR 2d ago
Kick your tiredness with these 7 natural energy boosters

A full calendar doesn't mean you have to feel exhausted all the time. Experts share natural ways to boost energy and beat the constant battle of tiredness.

USA PBS NewsHour 2d ago
Americans divided on nation's history as 250th anniversary nears

Deep divisions over how Americans remember their past are coming into sharper focus as the nation approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Judy Woodruff reports for her series, America at a Crossroads.

USA PBS NewsHour 2d ago
A look at Eid al-Fitr and how Muslims celebrate the Islamic holiday

The Muslim holy month of Ramadan is drawing to an end and Muslims around the world will soon start celebrating the holiday of Eid al-Fitr.

USA PBS NewsHour 2d ago
Both sides in Iran war ratchet up attacks as oil prices surge

Israel kept up its campaign of targeting Iran's leaders on Wednesday, killing the country's intelligence minister, and an Iranian offshore natural gas field was struck in a sign of the war's mounting pressure – from both sides -- on the region's economic lifeblood: energy.

USA NPR 2d ago
Greetings from Nyeri, Kenya, where grandmothers help coach the next generation

A group of grandmothers in central Kenya have formed a soccer team to keep fit and to give hope to a generation of teenagers — whom they sometimes outrun on the field.