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'House From Hell' Gets Multiple Cash Offers, Despite Dilapidated State
The former tenant at the house in Colorado Springs vandalized it, spray painted the walls, and left something in the fridge with a terrible smell.
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Same-Sex Couple On Supreme Court Ruling On Same LGBTQ Foster Parents
NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Rob and Reece Scheer, who adopted five children out of the foster system. The ruling says a Catholic group doesn't have to consider same-sex foster parents.
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Lawyer Discusses Supreme Court Ruling On LGBTQ Foster Parents
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Lori Windham about the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of her client, a Catholic agency that had refused to work with same-sex couples applying to be foster parents.
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Oregon's Pioneering Drug Decriminalization Experiment Is Now Facing The Hard Test
Oregon's bold move to decriminalize small amounts of all hard drugs and expand treatment is now meeting the reality of implementation as the treatment community is divided over the way forward.
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New York City Honors Important Black Americans With New Parks
Just in time for the new federal holiday Juneteenth, New York City is naming 16 parks for prominent Black Americans.
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Morning News Brief
Juneteenth has been signed into law as a federal holiday. As U.S. prepares to pull troops out of Afghanistan, allies are left behind in danger. And, Iranians elect a new president.
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Sweeping Voting Rights Reform Looks Unlikely To Pass At The Federal Level
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Stacey Abrams, who pushed for different voting rules after losing the 2018 governor's race in Georgia, about what she wants from Congress, and what advocates can do.
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Coke's Stock Drops After A Slight By Soccer Star Christiano Ronaldo
The Portuguese health fanatic moved two bottles of Coke out of the frame, and held up a bottle of water. Coca-Cola is a tournament sponsor. The company's market value dropped $4 billion.
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English Family Was Devastated To Learn That Their Cat Was Hit By A Car
The family honored 16-year-old Frankie by cremating him and keeping his ashes. Days later, Frankie walked home — hungry and thin, but very much alive. Whose cat is in the urn?
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Wine Industry Benefits From Resolution Of The Airbus, Boeing Trade Dispute
The end of U.S. tariffs brought on by the Airbus-Boeing dispute is a great relief for France's wine industry and U.S. wine importers. One Trump-era dispute remains: tariffs on EU steel and aluminum.
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Why 1 Arab Party Joined Israel's Coalition Government But The Other Did Not
NPR's Noel King talks to Aida Touma-Sliman, a Palestinian-Israeli member of the Knesset, about the new coalition government that unseated Israel's longest serving prime minister.
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Latest Tensions Between Israel And Hamas Threaten Fragile Ceasefire
NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Tamara Hermann of the Israel Democracy Institute about the first major test for Israel's new government after an exchange of attacks with Hamas threatens the ceasefire.