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Remembering a 'holy grail' baseball stadium: Rickwood Field
Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama is the oldest surviving professional ballpark in the country, where some of baseball's greatest from the Negro Leagues and beyond played.
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Blood and bait: The growing concern about the survival of a prehistoric species, the horseshoe crab
Multiple environmental groups are asking the U.S. government to designate horseshoe crabs as an endangered species.
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Archeogaming applies archaeological methods to virtual worlds
"Shadow of Erdtree" entices gamers to unearth its layers in the same way archaeologists study ancient civilizations.
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Baltimore Sun Guild and leadership locked in ethics debate
The Guild wants The Sun to cease publishing articles and other content from Fox45, an affiliate of the Sinclair media group whose executive chairman David Smith became the owner of the Sun earlier this year.
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Scientists predict a new star will appear soon
Astronomers predict that a new star will appear in the constellation Corona Borealis in the next few months. It's created by a powerful explosion of energy that occurs about every 80 years.
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Why China is buying gold
The price of gold soared in the first quarter of this year, driven in part by demand from China.
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Supreme Court faces crunch of cases in final days of term
Justices are slated to release decisions in a number of high-profile cases about former President Trump, the Jan. 6 attacks, homelessness and the power of government agencies.
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'Zombie mortgages' threaten homeowners with foreclosure, NPR finds
An NPR investigation finds thousands of homeowners face foreclosure over old so-called zombie second mortgages from the housing bubble days. Many thought the loans were dead. But investors buy them and can move aggressively to collect.
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President Marcos Jr. vowed to end killings in the Philippines' drug war, but deaths continue
In 2022, when the Philippines’ current president Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took office, he vowed to end the killing in the drug crackdown. But as NPR’s Emily Feng reports, the killings continue.
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How PFLAG became a political force for LGBTQ rights
Jeanne Manford is credited as one of the founding members of PFLAG, which originally stood for Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.
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How can hot weather affect how we speak?
A new study shows that politicians use shorter words and simpler phrases on warmer days.
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Remembering baseball great Willie Mays
Willie Mays, who is considered to be the greatest all-around baseball player ever, died at the age of 93.