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As climate talks come to a close, not all the countries there are on the same page
Friday, November 12, 2021
Negotiations are coming down to the wire at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. There's a new draft agreement, but bitter differences remain between rich and poor countries.
The Marine Corps is reinventing itself to reflect America, says top general
Friday, November 12, 2021
Gen. David Berger, commandant of the Marine Corps, has a new plan to recruit and retain Marines, as the service seeks to prioritize growing a corps of highly skilled and educated workers.
News brief: climate summit, China's historical resolution, Britney Spears
Friday, November 12, 2021
Climate negotiations in Glasgow, Scotland, are down to the wire. China's Communist Party ends its closely watched sixth plenum. Friday's hearing could end Britney Spears' conservatorship.
South Africa's last apartheid president, F.W. de Klerk, dies at 85
Thursday, November 11, 2021
De Klerk shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela, and ceded the presidency to him in 1994 after Black South Africans were allowed to vote. But he's remained a controversial figure there.
Kyle Rittenhouse takes the stand during his homicide trial in Wisconsin
Thursday, November 11, 2021
Rittenhouse testified that he feared for his life when he shot three men, two fatally, during anti-police protests. "I didn't want to have to kill anybody. I was being attacked," Rittenhouse said.
News brief: infrastructure bill, Texas mask rules, Rittenhouse trial
Thursday, November 11, 2021
President Biden addresses inflation and infrastructure bill. Texas schools can set their own face mask rules again following a judge's ruling. Kyle Rittenhouse took the stand in his own defense.
Judge approves $626 million settlement in Flint contaminated water case
Thursday, November 11, 2021
Most of the money is coming from the state of Michigan, which was accused of overlooking the risks of switching Flint's water source in 2014 without treating the water to prevent lead contamination.
Federal judge rejects Trump's bid to block the release of Jan. 6 documents
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
A judge has denied former President Donald Trump's request to block documents from being handed over to a House committee investigating the riot at the U.S. Capitol.
News brief: Jan. 6 ruling, EU border crisis, Ethiopia detains U.N. workers
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
A judge blocks Donald Trump's bid to keep the public from seeing what he did Jan. 6. Troops prevent migrants from crossing into Poland from Belarus. Sixteen U.N. staffers in Ethiopia are detained.
The U.N. seeks the release of 16 staffers detained in Ethiopia
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
The United Nations says Ethiopian government forces have detained 16 of its humanitarian workers, and continues to prevent food aid from reaching areas of Tigray threatened with famine.
Massachusetts high school hockey team is accused of hazing and racist incidents
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
The community of Danvers is outraged following the publication of allegations of hazing and racial incidents involving players on a boys hockey team. Officials have ordered three investigations.
News brief: Jan. 6 subpoenas, Supreme Court preview, India's climate challenge
Tuesday, November 09, 2021
The Jan. 6 House panel issues more subpoenas for ex-Trump officials. A look at two cases before the Supreme Court Tuesday. And, India's rapid development has left it with many environmental issues.
India's environmental issues have been made worse by global warming
Tuesday, November 09, 2021
Unusually heavy rains. Toxic smog. A poisoned river in the capital New Delhi. India's rapid development has left it with many environmental challenges, on top of erratic weather from climate change.
A New York couple endures the effects of long-term COVID
Tuesday, November 09, 2021
The COVID-19 "long-haulers" continue to describe the symptoms they've experienced after contracting the virus. For many, like Jeanine Hays, it's a myriad of odd, extreme and debilitating conditions.
In an election condemned as a sham, Nicaragua's president is reelected
Monday, November 08, 2021
Daniel Ortega will begin a fourth consecutive term as president after being pronounced the winner of Sunday's elections. President Biden said the vote was "neither free nor fair."
News brief: Climate talks, Astroworld festival, Nicaragua presidential election
Monday, November 08, 2021
In the final week of the climate summit, there are more demands for change. Officials in Houston are investigating a deadly music festival. Daniel Ortega has won unscrupulous elections in Nicaragua.
ABBA is back with new music and plans for a high-tech stage show
Friday, November 05, 2021
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson about the first album of new songs in 40 years, and the show that will bring their avatars to the stage.
'All in the Family' is 50 years old. A new book looks at how it changed TV
Tuesday, November 02, 2021
All in the Family creator Norman Lear, along with writer Jim Colucci, talked with NPR about Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton and their roles on the groundbreaking TV show.
Climate change is having an adverse effect on South Carolina's Low Country
Monday, November 01, 2021
On the coast of the eastern U.S., a combination of climate change and development is threatening the fertile fishing grounds and salt marshes that have sustained and protected the region.
News brief: kids' COVID vaccines, billionaires income tax, Jan. 6 defense strategies
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
COVID-19 vaccine doses for kids are a step closer to a final OK. Senate Democrats have a plan to pay for Biden's social spending agenda. Some charged in the Capitol riot will be their own attorneys.