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Unionized Or Not, Teachers Struggle To Make Ends Meet, NPR/Ipsos Poll Finds

Six in 10 teachers in our poll say they have worked a second job to pay the bills.

After years of claiming she was black, Rachel Dolezal was outed as white in 2015. The Netflix documentary The Rachel Divide explores the fallout for Dolezal and her family. Netflix hide caption

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'Rachel Divide' Director Says Dolezal 'Has Remained Resolute'

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A CT-scan image of the skull of an ancient bird shows how one of the earliest bird beaks worked as a pincer, in the way beaks of modern birds do, but also had teeth left over from dinosaur ancestors. The animal, called Ichthyornis, lived around 100 million years ago in what is now North America. Michael Hanson and Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar/Nature Publishing Group hide caption

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How Did Birds Lose Their Teeth And Get Their Beaks? Study Offers Clues

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Clothes of genocide victims whose bodies were exhumed hang at the site of a recently-discovered mass grave near the capital Kigali, in Rwanda on Thursday, April 26, 2018. Eric Murinzi/AP hide caption

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In Rwandan Mass Graves, There Are Few Ways To Identify The Dead. Clothing Is One

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Scott Pruitt speaks on election night 2010, after his successful campaign for Oklahoma attorney general. When Pruitt assumed office, he also took control of the state's case against the poultry industry. Sue Ogrocki/AP hide caption

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In Oklahoma, Critics Say Pruitt Stalled Pollution Case After Taking Industry Funds

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Workers remove Trump signage from Trump Place on Riverside Boulevard. on Manhattan's West Side on Nov. 16, 2016. A separate building nearby won a judge's permission to remove Trump's name if enough residents agree. Bryan R. Smith/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Judge Sides With Residents Who Want Trump's Name Off Their NYC Building

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Music is integral to Arena Stage's Snow Child, and actors sometimes join the house band on their own instruments. Maria Baranova-Suzuki hide caption

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'Snow Child' Conveys Alaska's Wild Magic In Musical Form

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