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A shopper pushes a cart through a Kroger supermarket in Newport, Ky.

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  • Business

Kroger and Albertsons grocery megamerger halted by two courts

Two rulings — in federal and state courts — make it increasingly likely that Kroger might abandon its $24.6 billion plan to buy Albertsons. The merger aimed to combine two of America's largest supermarket chains.

December 11, 2024
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  • Alina Selyukh

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  • Business

Lawsuit: A chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits

Two families are suing AI chatbot company Character.AI for allegedly encouraging harm after the kids became emotionally attached to the bots. One chatbot allegedly exposed a child to sexualized content.

December 10, 2024
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
A study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows higher speeds are worse for pedestrians regardless of vehicle height — but those risks are amplified for vehicles with taller front ends.

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  • Business

Taller vehicles are more dangerous to pedestrians, even at low speeds, research finds

A study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows higher speeds are worse for pedestrians regardless of vehicle height — but those risks are amplified for vehicles with taller front ends. 

December 10, 2024
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By:
  • Joel Rose
Kendrick Lamar released his sixth album, <em>GNX</em>, without warning on Nov. 22. On this week's <em>Billboard </em>pop charts, its songs landed him the Top 5 spots on the Hot 100 and the No. 1 album.

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  • Music News

No surprise this week: Kendrick Lamar rules the charts

A week after Kendrick Lamar's new album, GNX, was surprise released, it proved to be a chart phenomenon, debuting at No. 1 on the album chart and claiming the Top 5 spots on the singles chart.

December 07, 2024
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  • Stephen Thompson
A view outside the UnitedHealthcare corporate headquarters on Dec. 4, 2024 in Minnetonka, Minnesota. The shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City this week triggered an outpouring of venting about the health care system on social media.

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  • Health

After a shocking shooting, Americans vent feelings about health insurance

The death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson triggered a deluge of painful stories about health care denials on social media.

December 06, 2024
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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
New England Aquarium biologists and volunteers attach a Kemp's ridley sea turtle with a satellite tag at the Sea Turtle Hospital in the New England Aquarium's Animal Care Center in Quincy, Massachusetts, on July 10, 2024.

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  • Animals

Sea turtles are getting trapped in cold waters. This team gets them back to safety

Turtles are ending up in the cold waters of Cape Cod Bay. Here's how the New England Aquarium is warming them up and nursing them back to health.

December 06, 2024
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By:
  • Claire Murashima and
  • Michel Martin
Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., speaks during the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 20, 2024.

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  • Politics

Why a Florida Democrat joined the DOGE caucus that's looking to cut federal spending

Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida tells Morning Edition that members of his party need to be in the room when conversations about cutting government spending and efficiency are happening.

December 05, 2024
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  • Steve Inskeep and
  • Janaya Williams
Smoke from fighting billows in the edges of the town of Hama, Syria, Tuesday Dec. 3, 2024.

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  • Middle East

Syrian opposition forces enter the key city of Hama, in a new blow to Assad's regime

Syrian rebels have entered another major city, in a further blow to President Bashar Assad after they took over Aleppo days earlier.

December 05, 2024
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  • James Hider
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump on Nov. 1 in Warren, Mich. Kennedy has been named to lead the Department of Health and Human Services in the incoming Trump administration. Kennedy is on leave from leading Children's Health Defense, a nonprofit that has filed more than 30 lawsuits challenging vaccines and public health mandates.

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  • National

Inside RFK Jr.'s nonprofit's legal battles over vaccines and public health

The nonprofit Children's Health Defense that Kennedy led has filed nearly 30 federal and state lawsuits since 2020, many challenging vaccines and public health mandates.

December 04, 2024
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  • Shannon Bond
The Supreme Court hears argument in a case involving gender-affirming care for minors in Tennessee.

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  • Law

Supreme Court hears challenge to law banning gender-affirming care for trans kids

At issue is a Tennessee law that bans access to hormones, puberty blockers and other treatments for trans kids in the state.

December 04, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
A general view of the Chinese mining company COMMUS (Musonoïe Mining Company Global SAS), downtown Kolwezi.

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  • Africa

D.R. Congo's mining capital is at the heart of Biden's bid to counter China in Africa

Kolwezi has some of the world's largest copper and cobalt reserves and that makes it a key location at the heart of the U.S. and China's jostle for mineral supremacy on the African continent.

December 04, 2024
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  • Emmet Livingstone
Kash Patel speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally at Thomas & Mack Center, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, in Las Vegas.

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  • Politics

J. Edgar Hoover's biographer weighs in on Trump's pick to lead the FBI

Kash Patel, Trump's pick to lead the FBI, may test internal guardrails, historian and J. Edgar Hoover biographer Beverly Gage tells Morning Edition.

December 03, 2024
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  • Michel Martin and
  • Obed Manuel
At issue in the case before the Supreme Court Monday is the manner in which the FDA regulates e-cigarettes.

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  • Law

FDA battles vaping industry at the Supreme Court

The justices will hear arguments about the FDA's rejection of some e-cigarettes. High schoolers are at the center of the case.

December 03, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
Moderate drinkers who also take weight-loss drugs like Mounjaro, report drinking less alcohol, a new study finds.

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  • Your Health

Dizzy after one drink? Social drinkers on obesity drugs lose the taste for alcohol

A new study finds people who take weight-loss drugs also cut back on alcohol consumption. Researchers think the drugs could be a promising new treatment for addiction.

December 02, 2024
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By:
  • Allison Aubrey
Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is a holiday staple <em>and</em> also an earworm for many. Here, she sings at a 2014 holiday concert in New York City.

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  • Pop Culture

All I want for Christmas is ... help getting this song out of my head

The Earworm Eraser is a 40-second audio track specifically designed to banish "Jingle Bells," "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and other much-too-catchy seasonal tunes.

December 02, 2024
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  • Chloe Veltman
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