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Sixty years ago, America began closing mental hospitals. A growing chorus is blaming that for the crisis of mentally ill folks living on our streets.
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The FBI has launched a criminal probe to determine if any laws were broken when a container ship crashed into the bridge last month. NPR's A Martinez talks to Washington Post reporter Katie Mettler.
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In Michigan on Tuesday, two special elections could break the tie between Democrats and Republicans in the state's House of Representatives.
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To help ensure the integrity of the November elections, federal officials are advising local elections offices to upgrade websites — but many are not doing it.
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Suicide is the leading cause of gun-related deaths in the United States. But it's often only an afterthought in the public debate about gun violence. -
NPR's Michel Martin talks to gun violence researcher Garen Wintemute about the effectiveness of stricter guidelines and laws for firearms.
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Carolyn Forté, executive director of the Homecare and Cleaning Lab at Good Housekeeping, weighs in on whether dishes should be rinsed before they go into the dishwasher.
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Engineers left these drawings as a way to sign their work. Many are puns that made them chuckle to themselves. Now social media has rediscovered them and hobbyists try to keep that history alive. -
Images and videos from previous conflicts, video games and AI generators were often spread by accounts that pay to be boosted on the social media site once known as Twitter. -
Crypto investors are getting excited about an upcoming quadrennial event called the halving that will effectively reduce the supply of new Bitcoin in half. Here's what it all means. -
Musician and composer Ameen Mokdad opens up about his album The Curve, which he composed while living under ISIS occupation in Mosul, Iraq. -
يتحدث الموسيقار والملحن أمين مقداد عن ألبومه «المنعطف» الذي ألّفه أثناء إقامته تحت احتلال داعش في الموصل بالعراق. -
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators blocked roadways in Illinois, California, New York and the Pacific Northwest on Monday, temporarily shutting down travel into some of the nation's airports.
