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Vice President Harris signs the drawer of her desk as second gentleman Doug Emhoff takes a picture on Jan. 16, 2025.

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  • Politics

What's next for Kamala Harris

Inauguration Day marks the first time in more than 20 years that Kamala Harris will not be in public office. "It is not my nature to go quietly into the night," she told allies on Thursday.

January 17, 2025
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  • Deepa Shivaram
The Apple TV+ series <em>Severance</em> returns for a second season on Friday, Jan. 17. Above, Adam Scott as Mark and Britt Lower as Helly.

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  • TV Reviews

The second season of 'Severance' manages to be even weirder than the first

The Apple TV+ series emerged as an engrossing puzzle box of a show when it first debuted three years ago. And it just got even more surreal.

January 17, 2025
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By:
  • Eric Deggans
With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as one of the more controversial picks for President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet, his views on vaccines and abortion rights are raising alarms across the political spectrum.

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  • Politics

RFK Jr. faces a complicated confirmation with some opposition on both sides of the aisle

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s views on vaccines and abortion rights are raising alarms across the political spectrum, as he's one of the more controversial picks for the president-elect's Cabinet.

January 15, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon

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  • Health

Move aside, BMI: There's a better way to define obesity, commission finds

An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds more ways to measure body composition and fat.

January 15, 2025
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By:
  • Allison Aubrey
President-elect Donald Trump holds a press conference at the Mar-a-Lago Club on Jan. 7 in Palm Beach, Fla.

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  • Politics

Trump will begin his presidency in delicate position, poll finds

A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll shows that Americans' support for President-elect Donald Trump's top priorities is split, despite his claims of a mandate for his agenda.

January 15, 2025
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
The food assistance program known as SNAP could face significant reductions if President Trump's tax and spending bill passes the House.

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  • Business

NPR shopped for 96 items at Walmart to track how prices are really changing

NPR has tracked the prices of dozens of items at the same superstore in Georgia, including eggs, T-shirts, snacks and paper towels. Here's what got cheaper over the past year, and more expensive.

January 15, 2025
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh and
  • Juweek Adolphe
A person walks amid the destruction left behind by the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Jan. 9, 2025.

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  • National

California has 'always been there' for disaster-affected states, Sen. Padilla says

California Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla hopes President-elect Donald Trump will 'do the right thing' and support fire recovery efforts with no strings attached.

January 14, 2025
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  • A Martínez and
  • Obed Manuel
Special counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on a recently unsealed indictment against Donald Trump in August 2023 in Washington, D.C.

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  • Law

Special counsel Jack Smith says evidence against Trump was enough to convict him

The report on federal charges against Trump for election interference in 2020 offers special counsel Jack Smith a last chance to explain his decisions after dropping the case.

January 14, 2025
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  • Carrie Johnson
Police scuffle with demonstrators who block a road during a protest demanding a cease-fire deal and the immediate release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel on Saturday.

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  • Middle East

Israel and Hamas may be on the verge of a ceasefire. Here's what we know right now

Negotiators in Qatar are close to a ceasefire deal that sees an exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian detainees, a six-week pause in fighting and eventual troop withdrawal from Gaza.

January 14, 2025
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By:
  • Jerome Socolovsky and
  • Kat Lonsdorf
A contractor installs a solar panel on the roof of a home. Uncertainty over the future of a 30% federal tax credit has some homeowners rushing to get panels hooked to the grid before Trump becomes President.

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  • Climate

People are rushing to install solar panels before Trump becomes president

Potential rooftop solar customers and installers worry the incoming Trump administration might try to eliminate a 30% federal tax credit. Some customers plan to install sooner because of that. And solar companies are changing their business plans.

January 13, 2025
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  • Jeff Brady
There's no precise answer on how much alcohol can be consumed without increasing health risks.

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  • Your Health

Is one drink a day OK? Here's what to consider

On the heels of the surgeon general's warning about the cancer risks of alcohol, there's growing consensus that less is better. But how much is enough? Here's what the experts recommend.

January 13, 2025
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By:
  • Allison Aubrey
The duet by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars spent four weeks at No. 2 on the Hot 100 in November before being swept out of the top 10 by the annual rush of holiday songs. This week, it finally rises to the top of the chart.

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  • Music

With the holidays over, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga and more stars flood the pop charts

Now that most Christmas songs and albums have been packed away into the proverbial attic, the pop landscape of the new year is coming into focus.

January 11, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
Meta's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. in a 2022 file photo. The Facebook parent company announced this week that it will end its work with fact-checkers in the U.S. and change its speech rules after years of criticism from Republicans.

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  • Technology

Meta built a global fact-checking operation. Will it survive?

The company's policy reversal comes as the U.S. is diverging sharply from other countries over regulating social media.

January 11, 2025
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By:
  • Huo Jingnan and
  • Shannon Bond
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 8: The flag-draped casket of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter lies in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 8, 2025 in Washington, DC. Carter, the 39th President of the United States, died at the age of 100 on December 29, 2024 at his home in Plains, Georgia. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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  • Business

U.S. stock markets close to honor former President Jimmy Carter

The New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq will both observe Thursday's national day of mourning in a Wall Street tradition dating back to 1865.

January 10, 2025
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By:
  • Maria Aspan
President-elect Donald Trump looks on during Turning Point USA's AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in December 2024 in Phoenix, Ariz.

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  • Law

Trump is sentenced in hush money case -- but gets no penalty or fine

President-elect Donald Trump received an unconditional discharge for his criminal conviction, meaning he will get a criminal record but no other penalties.

January 10, 2025
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  • Ximena Bustillo
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