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News Articles: Weekend Edition Saturday

The American Library Association had its annual conference in Chicago last year. Several states have moved to disassociate with the ALA amid what some conservatives say has been politicization of the group. ALA officials deny having a political agenda.

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  • National

In Georgia, a bill to cut all ties with the American Library Association is advancing

Several other states have made moves to disassociate from the nation's oldest library professional association. But Georgia's bill, the first of its kind in the nation, goes further than the others.

March 02, 2024
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By:
  • Tovia Smith
Former Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell made headlines for the $800,000 in cash stuffed in shoeboxes found when he died. For more than half a century, a Powell-established $250,000 trust sustained his legacy. But the account that maintained his birthplace as a museum will soon run dry.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Welcome to Payola World!

Illinois has a chance to enshrine its long history of corruption.

February 25, 2024
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By:
  • Scott Simon
An outpost of The Second City has opened in Brooklyn. Above, the Brooklyn Bridge and lower Manhattan skyline are pictured at sunset.

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  • Performing Arts

The Second City, named for its Chicago location, opens an outpost in New York

The improv and comedy organization that famously shuns New York City has just opened in Brooklyn — with a 200-seat mainstage, a 60-seat second stage, classrooms and a restaurant.

February 25, 2024
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By:
  • Jeff Lunden
A view of the Kingfield neighborhood from the roof of the Sundial Building, a new 12-unit apartment building in Minneapolis.

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  • National

The hottest trend in U.S. cities? Changing zoning rules to allow more housing

As Americans struggle to find affordable housing, cities are realizing their own rules have made it too hard and expensive to build the homes they need. Now, some cities are trying to change that.

February 18, 2024
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
Alexei Navalny in Berlin in 2020, surrounded by his wife and two children.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Navalny's spirit and legacy live on

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Alexei Navalny. The Russian opposition leader died Friday in a penal colony.

February 17, 2024
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  • Scott Simon
Dad's Place in Bryan, Ohio, offered lodging to homeless people partly in response to the city's housing shortage, according to the church's lawsuit against city officials.

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  • Religion

Charges dropped against Ohio pastor who housed homeless people at his church

Chris Avell, a pastor from Bryan, Ohio, faced charges after turning his church into a quasi-homeless shelter, partly in response to the city's housing shortage.

February 11, 2024
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
FBI Director James Comey makes a statement at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., on July 5, 2016. Comey said 110 emails sent or received on Hillary Clinton's server contained classified information.

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  • Elections

Special counsel's report on classified documents has echoes of the 2016 election

For people who were involved with Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 presidential campaign, the echoes of then-FBI Director James Comey's press conference on July 5, 2016, are hard to miss.

February 11, 2024
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
Scott Simon gets fitted for his first pair of hearing aids.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: This Valentine's Day, I'm giving the gift of hearing

For people with damaged or diminished hearing, hearing aids are helpful devices that shouldn't carry stigma.

February 11, 2024
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  • Scott Simon
An aerial view of Chicago. In the past few days, at least six high school students in the city have been shot outside their schools.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Their deaths leave holes that will never be filled

A string of shooting deaths of Chicago high-schoolers shocks and saddens, despite a decrease in the city's homicide rate.

February 04, 2024
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  • Scott Simon
Mark Guttridge, farmer and co-owner at Ollin Farms, feeds the chickens. The farm benefits from a county program that helps small growers get their produce to more people.

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  • Fitness & Nutrition

A big idea for small farms: How to link agriculture, nutrition and public health

In Boulder, Colo., the county is investing in sustainable farming and helping people buy local produce. It's been called "a triple win" – for customers, farmers and the economy.

February 03, 2024
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
C.J. Hurst of West Covina, Calif., holds up a .44-caliber rimfire Model 66 Winchester rifle as he poses with his collection of about 600 antique guns in 1952.

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  • National

In today's gun rights cases, historians are in hot demand. Here's why

The Supreme Court has made history a central test of whether a gun control law is constitutional. That has meant a boom in demand for gun law historians, who are digging up forgotten old gun laws.

February 03, 2024
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  • Martin Kaste
Charles Osgood, anchor of CBS's "Sunday Morning," posed for a portrait on the set in 1999. Osgood, who anchored the popular news magazine's for more than two decades, was host of the long-running radio program "The Osgood File" and was referred to as CBS News' poet-in-residence, has died.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Charles Osgood was an anchorman, and a poet

Charles Osgood, who died this week at age 91, was too modest to call himself a poet.

January 27, 2024
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  • Scott Simon
GPB News NPR

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  • Health

In Oregon, some see the benefits of psychedelic treatment for mental health conditions

When Oregon legalized psilocybin, it did so under a measure that specifically cited the drug's efficacy in treating mental health conditions. Centers are now opening their doors across the state.

January 20, 2024
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By:
  • Deena Prichep
Comedian George Carlin appears at a news conference in 1978.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: George Carlin wasn't predictable, unlike AI

Comedian George Carlin has been dead more than 15 years, but AI George Carlin is out with "new" material.

January 20, 2024
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  • Scott Simon
GPB News NPR

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  • Elections

This group holds a boot camp to help left-learning orgs meme-ify politics

Democrats are counting on young voters in 2024. But first? They have to speak meme to reach the extremely online generation. (This story originally ran on "All Things Considered" on January 19, 2024.)

January 20, 2024
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  • Elena Moore
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