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Activists demanding that rich countries pay up for climate finance for developing countries at the COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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Climate

With talks teetering, climate negotiators struck a controversial $300 billion deal

Representatives of developing countries and climate activists were furious over the outcome, saying $300 billion annually from industrialized countries is far short of what vulnerable nations need to better protect themselves from climate change.
Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo speaks before a bill signing by Gov. Ron DeSantis on Nov. 18, 2021, in Brandon, Fla. DeSantis signed a bill banning vaccine mandates for public sector employees and school districts.

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo speaks before a bill signing by Gov. Ron DeSantis on Nov. 18, 2021, in Brandon, Fla. DeSantis signed a bill banning vaccine mandates for public sector employees and school districts. Chris O'Meara/AP/AP hide caption

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Public Health

Florida health official advises communities to stop adding fluoride to drinking water

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Florida's surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, cited developmental concerns from higher levels of fluoride than are found in most U.S. water supplies.

FL fluoridation

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WATCH

Nicole Bus: Tiny Desk Concert

Nicole Bus' sound is reminiscent of vintage R&B, yet still feels current and capable of transcending age and demographics.
Yamandu Orsi, candidate for the Broad Front (Frente Amplio) and running mate Carolina Cosse, right, celebrate after polls closed in the presidential run-off election in Montevideo, Uruguay, on Sunday.

Yamandu Orsi, candidate for the Broad Front (Frente Amplio) and running mate Carolina Cosse, right, celebrate after polls closed in the presidential run-off election in Montevideo, Uruguay, on Sunday. Natacha Pisarenko/AP hide caption

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World

Uruguay's leftist opposition candidate becomes country's new president

The election was free of the anti-establishment fury that has vaulted populist outsiders to power elsewhere, like the United States and neighboring Argentina.
Marty Griffin during his radio show this morning in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Seeking Common Ground

‘People hate that about us.’ Pittsburgh politician and radio host forge unlikely bond

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The country is at odds over how to approach intractable issues such as crime, addiction and homelessness. In Pittsburgh, an unlikely pair of firebrands talk across the political divide.

‘People hate that about us.’ Pittsburgh politician and radio host forge unlikely bond

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Stephen Ghiglieri and Katrina Vaillancourt at their Bay Area home on Sept. 17, 2024.

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Seeking Common Ground

What happens when your partner has an overnight political conversion?

A California couple's relationship was upended when one partner found a whole new set of beliefs after an overnight video binge. Four years later, they're still navigating how to talk about politics.

How this couple managed to stay together when one embraced QAnon conspiracy theories

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Cousins Viva Johnson and Bernadette Pete harvest fresh celery with instructor Leonardo Sugteng'aq Wassilie. Johnson and Pete can't always get fresh produce in their village of Alakanuk, near the Bering Sea.

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NPR's Climate Solutions Week

You buy fish from Alaska. Soon you might get your vegetables from there, too

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Climate change threatens many traditional foods in Alaska. But it’s also making farming more possible. A new training program aims to help Alaska Native communities grow more of their own food.

Alaska Native communities learn to grow food through training program

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Jimmy O. Yang

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Culture

Jimmy O. Yang opens up about one of his deepest fears

Actor Jimmy O. Yang is learning how to take compliments. On Wild Card this week, he opens up about love languages and fears.

Jimmy O. Yang Can't Take A Compliment

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If you plan to serve a homemade turkey on Thanksgiving day, buy your bird at least seven to ten days in advance. Thomas Barwick/Getty Images hide caption

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If you plan to serve a homemade turkey on Thanksgiving day, buy your bird at least seven to ten days in advance.

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Life Kit

First time cooking a Thanksgiving turkey? Here's how to crush the assignment

Don't be nervous — we got you! This guide explains how pick the right turkey, when to buy it, how to prep it and when to start cooking. It also comes with a foolproof recipe.

First time cooking a Thanksgiving turkey? Here's how to crush the assignment

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An artisanal miner, locally known as a zama-zama, mines for gold at a mining operation in Stormhill, west of Johannesburg, on Aug. 11, 2023.

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Africa

South Africa's illegal gold miners are locked in an underground standoff with police

Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long standoff with police in the darkness of a disused gold mine.
Guerrillas from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, or ERP), speak with local residents of San Agustín, in El Salvador's Usulután department, July 5, 1983.

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Perspective

The Picture Show

A photographer's devastating documentation of El Salvador’s civil war in the 1980s

In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.
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