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For Ben Franklin, abortion was basic arithmetic

May 16, 2022
NPR's Emily Feng speaks with Molly Farrell from The Ohio State University on why Ben Franklin included instructions for at-home abortions in his reference book, The American Instructor.
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Argentine soldiers landing from a Sea King helicopter not far from Port Stanley, the capitol of the Falkland Islands (las Islas Malvinas).

40 years ago, the Falkland-Malvinas War transformed Latin rock

May 16, 2022
When English-language music was banned in 1982, Spanish-language groups found an opportunity.
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National

A WWII veteran meets the man who found and returned his long-lost bracelet

May 15, 2022
A Czech hobbyist who returned a Colorado veteran's bracelet he found at a former World War II prisoner of war camp finally got to meet the veteran, traveling halfway around the world to do so.
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Roe v. Wade and the future of reproductive rights in America
A man holds a cross during an anti-abortion rally on the National Mall in Washington on Jan. 24, 2011.

Roe draft is a reminder that religion's role in politics is older than the republic

May 14, 2022
The question arises: Since when did so much of our politics have to do with religion? And the answer is, since the beginning — and even before.
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National
A makeshift memorial for the dozens of Indigenous children who died more than a century ago while attending a boarding school that was once located nearby is displayed under a tree at a public park in Albuquerque, N.M., in 2021.

U.S. report identifies burial sites linked to boarding schools for Native Americans

May 11, 2022
A federal study of Native American boarding schools that sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society has identified more than 400 such schools and more than 50 associated burial sites.
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Culture

2022 Pulitzer Prizes in arts and letters go to 'Fat Ham' and 'The Netenyahus'

May 09, 2022
The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes in fiction, poetry, drama and other categories in arts and letters were announced in New York along with awards for journalism.
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Television

TV show 'Gaslit' highlights the forgotten story of Watergate — Martha Mitchell's

May 09, 2022
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Robbie Pickering, the creator and show runner of the new show Gaslit. The intense — but funny — show focuses on some of Watergate's lesser-known figures.
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Religion

How abortion became a mobilizing issue among the religious right

May 08, 2022
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kristin Kobes Du Mez, professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University, about how evangelicals shaped the debate over abortion in the United States.
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Sports
Kami Rita Sherpa climbed Mount Everest for the 26th time Saturday, setting a new world record for most times summitting the world's tallest peak.

A climber scaled Everest for the 26th time. He broke his own world record — again

May 08, 2022
Kami Rita Sherpa has set and broke his own world record for the most successful Mount Everest ascents multiple times in recent years. He's now summited Everest for the 26th time.
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Roe v. Wade and the future of reproductive rights in America
A counter-protestor holds a large cross during a youth pro-abortion rights rally outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on May 5, following the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion to overturn <em>Roe v. Wade</em>.

The leaked abortion decision blew up overnight. In 1973, Roe had a longer fuse

May 08, 2022
The reaction to Roe vs. Wade was immense, but not immediately so. It took months and years for the anti-abortion movement to fully form, to organize and gain political power.
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Ukraine invasion — explained
Walter Duranty, pictured in 1936 at a luncheon given in his honor by the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents at the Hotel Lombardy in New York, repeatedly defended Soviet Premier Josef Stalin.

'The New York Times' can't shake the cloud over a 90-year-old Pulitzer Prize

May 08, 2022
In 1932, The New York Times' Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for stories defending Soviet policies that led to the deaths of millions of Ukrainians. The Times disavows his work but not the prize.
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History

She found a 2,000 year old sculpture at Goodwill. It took years to get rid of it

May 07, 2022
In Texas, a 2,000 year old Roman sculpture turned up at a Goodwill store. What followed, for one woman, was a years-long effort to learn how it got there and to try to return it to its rightful owner.
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National

Tulsa Race Massacre reparations lawsuit can proceed

May 06, 2022
The last known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre learned a lawsuit against the city of Tulsa can move forward. The plaintiffs said the government was partly to blame for the massacre.
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Politics

Abortion wasn't always the politically charged issue it is today

May 04, 2022
In 1976, Republicans adopted an anti-abortion stance in their party platform. The GOP became a political vehicle for the movement, as a more vocal Christian Right began to rise.
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National
Then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Ala., on March 4, 2007. The church tops the 2022 list of the nation's most endangered historic places, according to the National Trust for Histo

A church at the heart of Selma's 1965 voting rights march is an endangered place

May 04, 2022
The Brown Chapel AME Church, the landmark church that launched a national voting rights movement in Selma, Ala., tops this year's list of the nation's most endangered historic places.
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History
Activists Lori Gordon (R) and Tammie Miller (L) of Payne, Ohio, take part in the annual "March for Life" event January 22, 2002 in Washington, D.C.

The movement against abortion rights is nearing its apex. But it began way before Roe

May 04, 2022
Despite gaining national traction in the 1970s, the history of the anti-abortion movement in the U.S. goes back more than a century before the landmark Supreme Court decision.
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History
People march around the Minnesota Capitol building protesting the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in St. Paul, Minn., in January.

The original Roe v. Wade ruling was leaked, too

May 03, 2022
Leaks of any kind are rare at the Supreme Court, but in 1973, the original Roe decision was leaked to the press before the court formally announced it. The chief justice was furious.
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History
Adolf Hitler inspects the new Volkswagen "people's car" after laying the foundation stone of the new Volkswagen works in 1938. On Hitler's left is the car's designer, Ferdinand "Ferry" Porsche.

Germany pledged to 'never forget' the Holocaust. Its car companies complicate that

May 03, 2022
The Nazi legacies of Germany's wealthiest families highlight the country's challenge to make good on its commitment to "never forget" the Holocaust, according to author David de Jong.
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Science

Why it took nearly 100 years for umami to be globally accepted as a distinct flavor

May 02, 2022
A Japanese chemist identified umami in the early 1900s, but it took a century for his work to be translated into English. NPR's Short Wave podcast looked into why it took so long to be recognized.
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History
Google doodle honoring inventor Elijah McCoy.

Google honors the Black inventor who likely inspired the phrase 'the real McCoy'

May 02, 2022
Elijah McCoy, the revolutionary Black inventor who was born 178 years ago today, came up with an idea for an automatic lubricator that kept engines oiled while they ran.
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Shots - Health News
Lisa Pascoe avoids wearing jewelry her young daughter might put in her mouth, and doesn't visit older or recently renovated homes that could contain lead hazards.

Known to be toxic for a century, lead still poisons thousands of Midwestern kids

May 02, 2022
Four U.S. states are still struggling with high rates of lead poisoning from soil, pipes and paint. It impacts thousands of people each year, especially low-income communities and families of color.
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Politics
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., center, joined at right by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, pause during a news conference on July 21, 2021.

McCarthy embodies House GOP's post-Trump dilemma and post-Gingrich history

Apr 30, 2022
Shakespeare observed that "uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." Something similar seems to apply to the title of Republican leader in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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History
May Day demonstrators march through downtown Los Angeles last year. Thousands of people took to the streets across the nation that May 1 in rallies calling for immigration reform, workers' rights and police accountability.

What is May Day? For the most part, the opposite of capitalism

Apr 30, 2022
What springs to mind when you hear May Day? In the U.S. and abroad, the day has grown to encompass a spectrum of meanings. But the themes have remained the same: worker unity, suppression and rebirth.
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Race

The L.A. Riots, 30 years later

Apr 29, 2022
After Los Angeles exploded three decades ago, some things have changed and so much remains the same.
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History
A cannon encrusted in rust and mud sits inside a warehouse operated by the Army Corps of Engineers in Savannah, Ga., on Thursday. It's one of 19 cannons discovered in the Savannah River since last year that experts believe date to the American Revolution

19 cannons believed from the Revolutionary War are found in the Savannah River

Apr 29, 2022
The mud- and rust-encrusted guns were discovered by accident as the Georgia riverbed was being dredged. Researchers suspect they came from British ships scuttled to the river bottom in 1779.

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