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Sept. 7 is National Grandparents Day. NPR readers shared the joys of becoming grandparents and offered some sage advice.

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has expressed his intention on Sunday to step down following growing calls from his party to take responsibility for a historic defeat in July's parliamentary election.

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"The AI Bible is a way to really bring these stories to life in a way that people have never seen before. Think of if we were like, the Marvel Universe of faith," said one of the site's creators.

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Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia at 15 in 2006, is known in the Catholic Church as "God's influencer" for harnessing technology to spread the word about miracles.

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Russia hit Ukraine's capital with drone and missiles Sunday in the largest aerial attack on the country since the war began.

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A boy in the stands of a Philadelphia Phillies game thought he'd scored a baseball hit by Phillies outfielder Harrison Bader, until another fan insisted the ball was hers.

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The Catholic Church is about to canonize its first saint of the millennial generation.

Jim Jarmusch's quietly humorous relationship triptych won the top prize on Saturday. The film about the relationships between siblings, and with their parents, stars Adam Driver, Vicky Krieps and Cate Blanchett.

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South Korea's foreign minister is considering a trip to the U.S. to meet with the Trump administration after hundreds of South Koreans were arrested in Georgia at an electric vehicle battery plant.

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Davey Johnson, an All-Star second baseman who won the World Series twice with the Baltimore Orioles as a player and managed the New York Mets to the title in 1986, died Friday.

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Dryden backstopped the NHL's most successful franchise to championships in six of his eight seasons in the league from 1970-71 to '78-79. He died after a fight with cancer.

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NPR Founding Mother Susan Stamberg is retiring. She became the first woman to anchor a nightly national news program in 1972, and helped loosen up the serious, stodgy sound of radio hosts.

The congressional redistricting fights that President Trump has sparked in Texas, California and Missouri are leading some advocacy groups to reconsider their position on partisan gerrymandering.

In Zambia, we met people who are HIV positive, couldn't get drugs to suppress the virus after U.S. aid cuts and were seeing symptoms. We checked in on them — and the man who's been their champion.

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The Harlem Hellfighters, who became legends for their service during World War I, were honored this week with a Congressional Gold Medal.

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As federal health agencies change their approach to vaccine policy leaving access for COVID shots uncertain, some states are taking things into their own hands.

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A report that health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has promised will come out this month will look at the causes of autism. Many worry it will have claims unsupported by science.

In India's bustling megacities, honking is a common form of communication among drivers. But in this case, one person's language is another person's noise pollution.

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Local officials and community members prepare for the possible arrival of National Guard troops under President Trump.

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In the past, the federal government has taken stakes in American companies during wars or economic crises. But now the government's motivation has more to do with the race for AI chips and technology.

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