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A military body bearer team carries the casket of former President Jimmy Carter into the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum to lie in repose in Atlanta, Ga.

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National

Former President Jimmy Carter's humanitarian legacy honored in Georgia

The first day of memorial services for former President Jimmy Carter began in his hometown of Plains, Ga., and included stops at the Georgia State Capitol and The Carter Center in Atlanta.
Venezuela's opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, center right, and Argentine President Javier Milei hold hands from the government house balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025.

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The Americas

Venezuela opposition leader Edmundo González embarks on international tour

González, who the United States recognized as the winner of last year's presidential election in Venezuela, kicked off an international tour on Saturday that will take him to Washington.
Bottles of alcohol sit on shelves at a bar in Houston on June 23, 2020.

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Health

The U.S. surgeon general wants cancer warnings on alcohol. Here's why

Drinking alcohol raises the risk of developing seven types of cancer, according to a new advisory from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.

Surgeon general warns about a link between alcohol consumption and cancer

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A lady is seen pulling her child along on a sledge as they admire Anthony Gormley's sculpture, the Angel of the North, which is surrounded by heavy snow in Gateshead, North East England, as the severe weather continues across England, on Sunday.

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Europe

Heavy snow brings widespread disruption across the U.K.

Heavy snow and freezing rain has brought widespread disruption across the U.K., with several major airports forced to suspend flights and many key roads in the north of England unnavigable.
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Culture

Michelle Buteau on the advice she's glad she ignored

On Wild Card this week, Michelle Buteau opens up advice she was smart to ignore and why getting married is the biggest risk she's ever taken.

Michelle Buteau on the advice she’s glad she ignored

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Protesters stage a rally demanding the arrest of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol near the presidential residence in Seoul, South Korea, on Sunday. The letters read "Arrest Yoon Suk Yeol."

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Asia

South Korean protesters brave cold to demand Yoon's ouster as detention deadline looms

South Koreans rallied overnight near the residence of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol calling for his arrest, as authorities prepared to renew their efforts to detain him.
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Science

Bats catch a lift from storm winds on long-distance migrations

Migrating hundreds and hundreds of miles is hard work for the common noctule bat. But this European species makes its marathon journey a little bit easier by paying attention to the weather.

Migrating bats surf on storms

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A U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati on Thursday ruled that the FCC did not have legal authority to restore the net neutrality rules first implemented in 2015.

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Technology

Net neutrality is struck down, ending a long battle to regulate ISPs like public utilities

A U.S. Court of Appeals this week ruled that the FCC did not have legal authority to revive the so-called net neutrality rules that were first introduced a decade ago under the Obama Administration.
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Science

Farmers are abandoning their land. Is that good for nature?

Traditional farmers around the world are walking away from millions of acres of land where they once grew crops or grazed animals. It's provoking mixed reactions.

Abandoned farmland

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A guest is seen at the valet area outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on Thursday.

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National

The soldier who died in Cybertruck explosion wrote it was intended as a 'wakeup call'

Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old Green Beret from Colorado, also wrote in a note that he needed to "cleanse my mind" of the lives lost of people he knew and "the burden of the lives I took."
A physician in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, examines an x-ray of a tuberculous patient.

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Goats and Soda

Tuberculosis rates plunge when families living in poverty get a monthly cash payout

A program in Brazil that gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome — result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.

Direct cash program cuts TB rates

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President Biden (L) greets Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (R) as he arrives to the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol for his State of the Union address on March 7, 2024.

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Law

Biden made diversifying the federal bench a top priority. Here's a look at his legacy

President Biden's judicial picks have included the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, women of color to federal appeals courts and openly LGBTQ judges to serve on the federal bench.

Biden's Judicial Legacy

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WATCH

Tierra Whack: Tiny Desk Concert

Best of Tiny Desk 2024: "The level of planning and care and thought it took Tierra Whack and her crew to pull off this Tiny Desk is staggering. " —Robin Hilton
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was re-elected to the position after convincing two members, Reps. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., and Keith Self, R-Texas, to reverse their original votes for other candidates.

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Politics

Mike Johnson is re-elected Speaker of the House, despite initial GOP holdouts

The Louisiana congressman was re-elected to the job after convincing two GOP members to reverse their votes and back him.
President-elect Donald Trump will be sentenced Jan. 10 in the New York case.

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Trump will be sentenced Jan. 10 in New York case, days before his inauguration

In a decision Friday, New York Judge Juan Merchan noted that his inclination was to not impose a sentence of incarceration.

Trump sentencing

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Palestinian artist Tamer Nafar performs during a festival in the town of Sakhnin in northern Israel on Oct. 23, 2016.

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Middle East crisis — explained

The songs Israelis and Palestinians are listening to now, amid war

An Israeli music critic and a Palestinian musician share some songs with NPR's Daniel Estrin — and reflect on more than a year of the war between Israel and Hamas.

2024 saw new Arabic and Hebrew music released in the shadow of war

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Photo collage of a yellow clock that's in the shape of a keyhole with stacked dollar bills standing up at each hour mark.

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Life Kit

5 financial habits to leave behind for a more prosperous new year

As we say goodbye to 2024, let's also bid farewell to some less-than-ideal money habits: impulse purchases, out-of-control credit card debt and the trap of lifestyle creep.

Financial habits to leave behind in 2025

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