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A Look At Sports And Health In America
Play ball! Fore! Swish!Americans love sports — watching them and playing them.But as participants, Americans' relationship with sports changes as we grow older. About three-quarters of adults say they...
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Sweeping Or Skydiving? When Counting Calories It's All The Same
Sure, playing in the women's World Cup burns a lot more energy than watching the women's World Cup. But the number of calories expended in sports and daily activities isn't always so obvious.To figure...
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The Iran Vote Explained, In 1 Infographic
This post was updated at 11:35 a.m. ETCongress is back with a daunting must-do list. But its first order of business will be the Iran nuclear deal, as a deadline looms on Sept. 17. Even though the deal...
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Coal, Gas, Nuclear, Hydro? How Your State Generates Power
The government has proposed new standards to lower emissions from coal-fueled power plants. But overall, the country is relying less on coal for power. In 40 states, use of coal as a power source (as a...
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3 Hours In Orlando: Piecing Together An Attack And Its Aftermath
It's been two weeks since a gunman ended the lives of 49 victims and injured dozens of others at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla. As survivors heal and a community embraces the wounded and honors...
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Team USA Lives Here: Where America's Rio Olympians Are From
Are any U.S. Olympic athletes from your town? To find out, you can check our listing of Olympians' hometowns and birth cities below, which draws from data we got from Team USA.The Virgin Islands and...
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What Team USA Looks Like: A By-The-Numbers Look At America's Olympians
If there's such a thing as an average U.S. Olympic athlete at the Rio Games, she might look something like this: a 26-year-old woman from California who stands about 5 foot 8 — and is now at her first...
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Oroville Dam Reached Capacity Faster Than Previous 16 Years
Since going over capacity last week, the water level in the Oroville Dam has dropped, but it's still at a higher level for this time of year than the previous 16 years.The dam reached capacity causing...
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How America's Idea Of Illegal Immigration Doesn't Always Match Reality
When you think of illegal immigration in the U.S., do you picture a border crosser or a visa overstayer? A family or a single person? A farmworker or a waiter?People living in the U.S. without legal...
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Health Care Plan Championed By Trump Hurts Counties That Voted For Him
The Affordable Care Act replacement plan championed by President Trump would hurt low-income people in rural areas that voted heavily for the Republican last fall, according to an NPR analysis of data...
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Maps Show A Dramatic Rise In Health Insurance Coverage Under ACA
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau present the most detailed picture yet of the dramatic rise in the number of people covered by health insurance since the Affordable Care Act went into...
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Winners And Losers Under The House GOP Health Bill
House Republicans have passed a bill to replace the Affordable Care Act. If it is signed into law, the American Health Care Act will affect access to health care for millions of people in the U.S.The...
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CHART: Who Wins, Who Loses With Senate Health Care Bill
Senate Republicans on Thursday unveiled their plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare. The long-awaited plan marks a big step toward achieving one of the Republican...
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CHART: CBO Weighs Who Wins, Who Loses With Senate Health Care Bill
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office weighed in on the Senate health care bill on Monday, saying that 22 million people would lose health coverage in the next 10 years under the Senate's plan....
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Who's In, Who's Left Out With The Latest Senate Health Care Bill
The GOP's latest proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act hews closely to the earlier bill that didn't win enough support among lawmakers to bring to a vote.Perhaps the biggest change in...
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Health Care: Were The Risks Of Repeal Without Replace Too High?
Updated at 2:54 p.m. ETAfter the Senate's attempt to replace the Affordable Care Act collapsed Monday, Republican leaders immediately began talking about repealing the health care law in hopes of...
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See How Much Of The Mueller Report Is Redacted
Members of Congress and the public can finally read what special counsel Robert Mueller and his team of investigators found in their 22-month probe into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential...
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Early Abortion Bans: Which States Have Passed Them?
This year has brought an unprecedented wave of new state laws that only allow abortions to be performed early in pregnancy — if at all.Most of the new laws — known as early abortion bans — explicitly...
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Losing The Eternal Blue Sky In Mongolia
Mongolia is changing. Rivers are dry. Pastureland is giving way to mines. And wintertime smog obscures the famed blue sky. How did Mongolia get here? It's a story of internal migration and economic...
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Satellite Imagery Shows Extent Of Devastating Flooding On Grand Bahama Island
A commercial satellite image shows just how much of Grand Bahama Island is underwater following days of torrential rain and massive storm surge from Hurricane Dorian.The image was taken Monday by the...
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Climate Issues: Where 2020 Democrats Stand On The Green New Deal And More
Climate change — or, more precisely, fighting climate change — has quickly become one of the top priorities among Democratic voters. Increasingly dire warnings about the devastating effects of climate...
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Immigration: Where 2020 Democratic Candidates Stand On Border Crossings And...
Donald Trump's immigration stances — family separation, a ban on immigrants from several majority-Muslim nations, the cancellation of the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals program, to name a few —...
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How The Senate Impeachment Trial Works
The Senate is scheduled to vote on President Trump's fate on Wednesday at 4 p.m. ET after about two weeks of his impeachment trial.The House of Representatives impeached the president in December,...
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2020 Presidential Candidates: Tracking Which Democrats Ran
The Democratic presidential field started out as the most diverse ever, and the largest in at least 40 years. It's since winnowed down to one: former Vice President Joe Biden.Below are also the...
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Tracking The Money Race Behind The Presidential Campaign
Updated April 21 at 8:30 a.m. ESTRaising money isn't just a necessity for presidential candidates — it can also be a way to measure candidates' credibility and staying power.Though Democrats had their...
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U.S. Coronavirus Testing Still Falls Short. How's Your State Doing?
To safely phase out social distancing measures, the U.S. needs more diagnostic testing for the coronavirus, experts say. But how much more?The Trump administration said on April 27 that the U.S. will...
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In Supreme Court Term, Liberals Stuck Together While Conservatives Appeared...
The recently concluded Supreme Court term was remarkable for many reasons. But for SCOTUS geeks who love numbers, it's worth looking at how the conservatives often split among themselves, while the...
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Money Tracker: How Much Trump And Biden Have Raised In The 2020 Election
Updated on December 4 at 8:35 a.m. ETWhich presidential candidate has the fundraising advantage?Here's how much money the campaigns of President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden raised,...
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How Severe Is Your State's Coronavirus Outbreak?
This page is updated regularly. More than 29 million people in the U.S. have had confirmed coronavirus infections and more than 530,000 have died of COVID-19. Tens of thousands of new cases are...
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Booster shots are here. Take our quiz to see if you need one
Scientists and federal health agencies debated COVID-19 boosters for weeks, and are now recommending them for all three approved vaccines, for some — but not all — Americans. Feeling a little lost in...
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When can kids under 12 get their shots? Here's the timeline
Updated October 29, 2021 at 6:10 PM ETUpdated Oct. 29, 5:55 p.m. ETChildren as young as 5 may be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in the U.S. as soon as next week.While some parents aren't sure...
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When can babies and kids under age 5 get their shots? Here's the timeline
Babies as young as 6 months old could be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S. within a few weeksif regulators agree the vaccines are safe and effective for this age group.On Tuesday, Pfizer and...
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Video analysis reveals Russian attack on Ukrainian nuclear plant veered near...
Last week's assault by Russian forces on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant was far more dangerous than initial assessments suggested, according to an analysis by NPR of video and photographs of the...
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The ripple effects of Russia's war in Ukraine are changing the world
Far from Russia's war in Ukraine, stores are running out of cooking oil, people are paying more at the gas pump, farmers are scrambling to buy fertilizer and nations are rethinking alliances. Russia's...
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Songs of Remembrance
In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Two years later, nearly a million Americans have died from the disease. To put a face on this number and pay respect to the...
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Here's how close the votes are for outstanding House and Senate races
Updated November 12, 2022 at 9:25 PM ETWith control of Congress still undecided, several seats have yet to be called in the House and Senate — many with very tight margins as votes continue to be...
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Many Americans don't know basic abortion facts. Test your knowledge
Despite all the headlines about the procedure, many Americans do not know basic facts about abortions or who gets them, according to a new NPR/Ipsos poll.Take the quiz below — it has the same questions...
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When the seas rise in Senegal, so do the fortunes of far-right parties in...
When the seas rise in Senegal, so do the fortunes of far-right political parties in Europe. This is the story of how those seemingly unrelated things are connected.View the project:...
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If there's a war against climate change, Saint-Louis is on the front line....
In Senegal, rising seas have led to devastating coastal erosion. If there is a war against climate change, the UNESCO World Heritage city of Saint-Louis is on the front lines. And the ocean is...
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The ripple effects of Russia's war in Ukraine continue to change the world
A year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine sparked the largest conflict in Europe since World War II, the repercussions continue to reverberate around the world. Not only has the war in Ukraine set off...
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The unexpected link between imperiled whales and Greenland's melting ice
Climate change is causing ice in Greenland to melt rapidly, which is unexpectedly pushing already imperiled whales to the brink. It's a sign of deeper shifts in the oceans as the world's ice...
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The surprising connection between Arctic ice and Western wildfires
The planet's ice is fundamentally tethered to weather patterns that stretch across the globe. Scientists are finding that as the climate changes, that connection could be helping fuel disasters....
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The world's melting ice has surprising impacts. Can you guess them?
Melting glaciers and ice sheets are far from where most people live. But the impacts of disappearing ice stretch across the planet. See if you can guess how. Explore the interactive »Copyright 2023...
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Why Texans need to know how quickly Antarctica's ice is melting
The West Antarctic ice sheet is melting rapidly because of climate change. That's driving sea level rise around the world. But some places are threatened more than others, and Texas is in the...
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Living in the shadow of a dangerous shrinking glacier
Melting glaciers are leaving behind unstable lakes around the world. Millions of people live downstream, in places increasingly threatened by deadly flash floods. What will it take to protect...
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This CDC data shows where rates of heat-related illness are highest
The U.S. is seeing high levels of heat-related illness this year, according to data the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provided to NPR. The agency has been collecting national data on...
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Satellite images show utter devastation from wildfires in Maui
The wildfires in Hawaii have killed at least 36 people on Maui, where gusty winds are fueling the Lahaina fire. The flames have burned more than 270 homes, businesses and other structures. The losses...
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Satellite images capture the extent of flooding in California after storm
The resort town of Palm Springs and surrounding desert cities east of Los Angeles received some 3 inches of rain.The area typically sees roughly 5 inches a year. Take a look at the images. Copyright...
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Satellite images show Israeli forces hold ground around Gaza City's water...
Israeli forces that swept into the north of Gaza have taken up positions near vital water infrastructure, satellite imagery from the commercial company Planet reveals.Imagery from Nov. 6 shows Israeli...
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Here are the Books We Love: 380+ great 2023 reads recommended by NPR
NPR's Books We Lovereturns with 380+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 11 years of recommendations all in one place – that's more than 3,600 great reads. Open the app...
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