Justine Kenin
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World record-setting centenarian sprinter Julia Hawkins has died
We remember world record holding sprinter Julia Hawkins, who has died at 108. When she was 100, she broke the 100 meter dash record for her age group.
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Harrison Butker's PAC is an example of how sports and politics can overlap
The Kansas City Chiefs place kicker Harrison Butker is back in national news. He’s founded a Political Action Committee to get conservative Christians out to vote.
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Lake Michigan's mysterious sinkholes
Two years ago, scientists surveyed the floor of Lake Michigan looking for shipwrecks. They found something mysterious and unexpected — a cluster of sinkholes on the lakebed.
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Barbed wire, high fences: some election locations in Arizona close, but others step up
A church and a community college are stepping up to serve as voting locations after others pulled out due to security threats.
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An illegal wine ring — busted in Europe — garnered up to 15 thousand euros per bottle
Six people have been arrested in connection with an international criminal network selling fake bottles of high-end French wine.
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Thomas Rockwell, author of 'How to Eat Fried Worms,' has died at 91
The author of the 1973 children’s book How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell, died late September of Parkinson’s disease and other ailments. He was 91.
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Poet Laureate Ada Limon talks about her poem engraved on a NASA spaceship
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon about her poem engraved on NASA's spaceship headed 1.8 billion miles to the Jupiter moon of Europa.
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Vanderbilt's football beat #1 Alabama over the weekend. And the fans went wild!
The biggest news out of college sports this weekend is that the country’s number one football team, the University of Alabama, lost to Vanderbilt -- losing for the first time since 1984!
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U.S. citizens are advised to lease Lebanon amid conflict with Israel
Israel’s airstrikes in Lebanon have forced more and more people from their homes. The U.S. State Department is urging American citizens in Lebanon to leave the country all together.
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Chicago street gang founder Larry Hoover argues he should be resentenced
The founder of a notorious Chicago street gang is set to make his first appearance in court in more than 20 years. Larry Hoover hopes a new judge will undo a life sentence he received in 1998.
