Bill Chappell
Stories
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Business
This airline is weighing passengers before they board international flights
"For safety reasons we need to know the weight of all items onboard the aircraft," Air New Zealand says. Numbers from the scales won't be displayed and will remain anonymous, the airline says.
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National
A service dog gets his own college diploma, winning huge cheers
When Grace Mariani graduated from Seton Hall University this week, the school president had a special gift for Justin, her service dog.
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National
A boy, 11, called police in Mississippi. A cop shot him
Nakala Murry says her son doesn't understand what happened to him. "His words to me were: 'Why did he shoot me? What did I do?' "
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National
Texas high school delays its graduation, after only a handful met diploma requirements
"It's emotional" for all of the students, one parent said. Students at Marlin High School complain that the school failed to give them accurate data about what they needed to do to graduate.
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National
One complaint led a Florida school to restrict access to Amanda Gorman's famous poem
One week after a parent complained, Gorman's The Hill We Climb was moved. The NAACP chapter in Miami says it wants "to ensure that it takes more than one form to remove our history and heritage."
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Politics
Florida lawmakers want to use radioactive material to pave roads
Phosphogypsum, a byproduct in the fertilizer industry, contains uranium and radium — and as the EPA notes, it also forms radon, "a cancer-causing, radioactive gas."
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National
Rochelle Walensky, who led the CDC during the pandemic, resigns
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced her exit on the same day the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 is no longer a global public health emergency.
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National
A massive dump of pasta in New Jersey sets off a fury of interest, and also a fury
"My initial reaction is exactly what yours was," a resident of Old Bridge, N.J., told NPR about the pounds of pasta found along a local brook. "It was funny and humorous and mortifying."
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National
Financier buys Jeffrey Epstein's private islands, with plans to create a resort
Financier Stephen Deckoff paid $60 million for Great St. James and Little St. James. He hopes to open a resort on the islands by sometime in 2025.
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National
El Niño is coming. Here's what that means for weather in the U.S.
Warmer sea waters have many far-ranging effects. In the new pattern, some parts of the U.S. could get relief from drought, while others might see fewer hurricanes.