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RBG award ceremony canceled amid controversy over recipients

Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk and junk bond creator Michael Milken were among the recipients of the 2024 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award.

A proposed bill in Georgia could lead to a crackdown on all immigrants, some fear

Republican lawmakers in Georgia are advancing a bill that would require police to help identify undocumented immigrants and detain them for deportation.

How the Texas GOP has grown more and more conservative

The Texas Republican Party has gotten more conservative over the years. Immigration policies once pushed by top GOP officials now seem moderate. Party leaders crack down on dissension in their ranks.

More studies challenge the idea that Havana syndrome comes from foreign adversaries

Two new government studies found no unusual pattern of injury or illness in people with the mysterious cluster of symptoms known as Havana syndrome.

The U.S. bans most common form of asbestos, after decades of pushback from industry

More than 50 other countries have already banned the substance, which has been known to lead to lung and ovarian cancer, mesothelioma and other deadly illnesses.

What to expect this March Madness

NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Justin Williams, a staff writer at The Athletic, about what to look out for when the NCAA basketball tournament starts Tuesday.

This 23-year-old media literacy influencer wants you to read the paper

NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks with 23-year-old Kelsey Russell, who is bringing printed news to TikTok’s Gen Z and Gen Alpha viewers.

No reprieve for ‘Cancer Alley’: Louisiana pollution correlates with preterm births

NPR’s Ailsa Chang speaks with Jessica Kutz, a reporter for The 19th, about a recent study that sheds light on how polluted air in Louisiana has affected pregnant people and their children.

How Nvidia dominated the AI chip market

The chip designer Nvidia is now worth more than Amazon, Meta and Alphabet. New Yorker contributor Stephen Witt talks about how Nvidia cornered the market for the chips fueling artificial intelligence.

Actor Michael Imperioli talks ‘An enemy of the People’ and its modern parallels

NPR’s Sacha Pfeiffer talks with actor Michael Imperioli about his Broadway debut in An Enemy of the People and the relevance of this adaptation of the play, roughly 150 years after the original.

Deep in debt to smugglers, this migrant girl is struggling to make ends meet

A migrant teen struggles to pay the people who smuggled her into the United States. She’d been working at a fish processing plant that illegally employed underage migrants.

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