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Actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, 'Cosby Show' star, has died at the age of 54

NPR News Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 15:02

The actor and Grammy Award winner died in a drowning accident Sunday while on vacation in Costa Rica.

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Airline pilot was about to land in N.D. when he saw a B-52 'coming at us'

NPR News Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 14:22

A Delta Connection flight from Minneapolis was preparing to land in Minot, N.D., when the flight crew spotted a large military aircraft flying toward them.

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After his father died in the hospital, a nurse held him in his arms

NPR News Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 13:11

Alek Hermon didn't think much of his father's overnight nurse until his father died.

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Beyond polo shirts and presidents, Martha's Vineyard has an indigenous past and present

NPR News Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 13:04
Nothing More of This Land traces indigenous communities on Martha's Vineyard. Above, beachgoers on Moshup Beach in July 2010.'/>

In Nothing More of This Land, Aquinnah Wampanoag writer Joseph Lee takes readers past the celebrity summer scene and into the heart of Noepe, the name his people have called the island for centuries.

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A Bangladesh Air Force training jet crashes into a Dhaka school, killing at least 19

NPR News Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 10:17

The jet crashed into a school campus in the capital, Dhaka, shortly after takeoff on Monday.

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A creek with atomic waste from WWII is linked to increased cancer risk

NPR News Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 10:15

A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly stored, affected cancer rates over the decades.

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Assad is gone. But can Syrians go home?

NPR News Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 09:52

After over a decade in exile, many Syrians living abroad are contemplating what was once unthinkable: going home. But what does home look like today?

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COMIC: Exploring the ocean's wonderous, mysterious depths

NPR News Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 07:44

Did you know that we know less about the sea than we do about space? With this comic, we explore some of what scientists do know about Earth's ocean.

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The world keeps millions of vaccines on ice. Is it worth it?

NPR News Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 07:14

It costs nearly $100 million a year to maintain global stockpiles of vaccines for Ebola, cholera, meningitis and yellow fever in case of emergency. A new study estimates how many lives they've saved.

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Harvard and Trump admin. face off in court. And, Texas seeks new congressional map

NPR News Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 06:13

Harvard and the Trump administration are facing off in federal court today over the freezing of over $2 billion in grants and contracts. And, Texas lawmakers are seeking a new congressional makeup.

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Inside a Gaza hospital: A British surgeon on what he's witnessing firsthand

NPR News Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 04:02

Dr. Nick Maynard tells NPR he's treating children shot at food distribution sites and witnessing what he believes is the systematic destruction of Gaza's civilian infrastructure.

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Texas Republicans want to redraw congressional districts in special session

NPR News Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 04:00

Texas lawmakers begin a special session Monday. Republicans want to redraw congressional districts in order to skew voting results so the GOP wins more seats. Trump favors the idea.

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U.S. coffee drinkers and businesses will pay the price for Trump's Brazil tariffs

NPR News Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 04:00

President Trump plans to levy a 50% tariff on all goods from Brazil — the source of about 30% of U.S. coffee imports. This looming tariff threat has sent shock waves through the U.S. coffee industry.

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Trump has a welcome message for new citizens. It's different from past presidents

NPR News Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 04:00

Trump released his video message to newly naturalized citizens. He welcomes them to the "national family," adding that they have a responsibility to "fiercely guard" and preserve American culture.

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In the spotlight after floods, Texas lawmakers eye disaster plans amid FEMA uncertainty

NPR News Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 04:00

The Legislature will look at proposals for emergency preparedness in a special session that was already planned over hemp laws. A bill to help build emergency systems failed in the spring.

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Teens are trying to bulk up on protein supplements. What should parents watch for?

NPR News Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 04:00
A poll of parents last fall found 40% of teens consumed some type of protein supplement in the past year. Boys took it to bulk up; girls took it to replace meals.'/>

Teenage boys especially are getting lots of messages — from peers and from social media — about the power of protein supplements. Doctors caution there can be too much of a good thing.

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Many beauty products have toxic ingredients. Newly proposed bills could change that

NPR News Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 04:00

The "Safer Beauty Bill Package" would ban the most toxic ingredients in everyday cosmetics and create protections for the women of color and salon workers who are disproportionately exposed to them.

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Lawyers for Harvard and Trump square off in court in Boston

NPR News Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 04:00

With more than $2 billion dollars in federal research grants at stake, the two sides will argue before a federal judge as the university pushes back on the administration's demands.

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Ecuador extradites leader of violent Ecuadorian drug gang to the United States

NPR News Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 03:04

José Adolfo Macías Villamar, whose nickname is "Fito," escaped from a prison in Ecuador last year and was recaptured late June. In April, a U.S. Attorney indicted him in New York City on charges he imported thousands of pounds of cocaine into the United States.

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Syria's armed Bedouins say they have withdrawn from Druze-majority city

NPR News Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 00:09

The clashes between militias of the Druze religious minority and the Sunni Muslim clans killed hundreds and threatened to unravel Syria's already fragile postwar transition.

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