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Why Prague is banning businesses from hosting pub crawls after 10 p.m.
Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, is famous for its cheap beer. But that comes at a different price: large groups of inebriated tourists are causing headaches for some of the locals.
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The election offers Americans 2 different ideas of presidential powers
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jeffrey Rosen of the National Constitution Center, about how the future president could employ unitary theory, which gives the executive branch nearly unbridled power.
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‘How it will end is how it will end,’ but The Cure isn’t over, yet
The Cure's first album in 16 years, Songs of a Lost World, is thematically dark, but sonically rich and inviting. Still, though, Robert Smith says there's so much more to come.
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Why a doctor had to figure out a way to prescribe electricity
Patients who use electricity for a medical device or a health condition, sometimes struggle to pay higher utility bills. In Boston, solar panels and a prescription for electricity is helping.
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Local border sheriffs push back on Trump's promise of mass migrant deportations
Donald Trump says he would use local law enforcement to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. This tactic is unpopular with many sheriffs in border counties.
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100 years ago a female governor was elected. Is it time for a female president?
On Nov. 4, 1924, Nellie Tayloe Ross was elected to become Wyoming's governor, the first time a woman held a governorship in the United States.
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Morning news brief
Vice President Harris and former President Donald Trump visit Arizona and Nevada. Reports offer a picture of the economy ahead of Election Day. Labor unions deploy thousands of canvassers.
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'The Indicator from Planet Money': Why the publishing industry is hot for romance
Romance is one of the few profitable genres in the self-publishing industry. How romance writers turned e-books into a publishing juggernaut.
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VP Harris pledges to listen to experts in contrast to Trump's previous actions
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Tom Nichols, a contributing writer at "The Atlantic," about why some Americans have grown increasingly hostile to expertise, and what it means in this election.
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Some Israelis want land in Gaza seized as payback for the Oct. 7 Hamas attack
The humanitarian crisis in northern Gaza is getting worse by the day, and there are increasing questions over what Israel’s end-game there might be.
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Morgan Library and Museum in New York identifies unknown Chopin waltz
A nearly 200-year-old music manuscript by composer Frédéric Chopin was recently unearthed at a museum in New York.
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Bangladesh's garment workers impacted by Western buyers paying 10% less for clothes
Western brands are paying less for clothes manufactured in Bangladesh. Workers hope recent political changes in the country will lead to improvements in their conditions.
