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Baby Boy In Hawaii Hospital's NICU After Being Born On A Plane
Lavi Mounga was flying from Salt Lake City to Hawaii for a vacation when she started to go into labor at just 29 weeks pregnant. A doctor and three neonatal nurses happened to be on the same plane.
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5th Graders Are Obsessed With Jeff Goldblum After Seeing 'Jurassic Park'
After the kids were hooked, Missouri teacher Samantha Brown started assigning Goldblum-themed writing, math and art projects. The kids' parents even sent a letter to the actor and he replied.
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Rescuers Search For Survivors Of Mexico City Subway Collapse
An elevated subway train derailed in Mexico City after a concrete overpass it was crossing collapsed Monday night. There are dozens of casualties.
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Independent Oversight Board Considers Trump's Ban On Facebook
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Kate Klonick of St. John's University about whether Facebook's Oversight Board will decide to allow former President Donald Trump to return to the social media platform.
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High Demand For Song Birds Encourages Some To Attempt Smuggling
NPR's Noel King talks to freelance reporter Kimon de Greef about New York City's songbird competitions, and why some people go as far as to try to smuggle finches into the U.S.
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NPR Project: How Can Americans Make Democracy Work For Them?
As part of NPR's series on democracy, Morning Edition visits Rochester, N.Y., to observe how the national debate around "defund the police" is playing out among city leaders.
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Young Renter Finds Living In A Senior Living Community Has Its Perks
Madison Kohout, 19, moved into an apartment in Arkansas sight unseen. She had moved into a senior living community. Her new place is affordable and spacious, and her neighbors are super quiet.
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British Customers Outraged Over Photo Of Scones
The grocery store Sainsbury's showed a photo with a fruit scone smothered in cream and jam. The problem: the photo showed jam on top of the cream. Customers in Cornwall argued the jam must go first.
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Morning News Brief
Separated migrant families begin to reunite in the U.S. The fight against COVID-19 in the U.S. starts to pay off. States mount a legal fight to block Sackler family's bid for opioid immunity.
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Filmmaker Spotlights Shout At Cancer Choir
After filmmaker Bill Brummel had his voice box removed due to damage by radiation therapy, he trained his camera on the Shout at Cancer Choir, made up of performers who've lost their larynxes.
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Movement Grows For States To Give Back Federal Funds Owed To Foster Children
When kids age out of foster care, they face high rates of unemployment and homelessness. An NPR investigation finds that many of these youths were entitled to federal funds that could have helped.
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White House Says Public Can Do More To Resettle Additional Refugees
Refugees working at a Connecticut moving company make their way in the U.S. with help from Americans who put up their own money. It's an approach that could become more common.