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Tina Miller, adoption coordinator for Lutheran Family and Children's Services (LFCS), said most adoptions today are open where birth parents have contact and even close relationships with adoptive families.
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George Walker IV/APA Tennessee judge has blocked the use of the National Guard in Memphis under a crimefighting operation by President Trump but also put the order on hold, giving the government five days to appeal. -
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images and Phil McCarten/Invision/APThe Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to fulfill a $36 million, multi-year contract with NPR that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump White House.
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Abdel Kareem Hana/APThe plan authorizes a security force in the devastated territory and envisions a possible path to an independent Palestinian state. Russia, which had circulated a rival resolution, abstained along with China on the 13-0 vote. -
Since the Gaza ceasefire began, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has received a boost from President Trump, and is gearing up to run for reelection.
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In an exclusive Washington Post story, reporter Warren Strobel describes a CIA operation in Afghanistan over the course of about a decade. The goal was to degrade the country's opium crop.
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The acting chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has left his post, marking another disruption in a year of staff and policy changes. His leadership was questioned after he delayed responding to deadly floods in Texas. -
Where might we look for inspiration for new cancer therapies? Some researchers say the bowhead whale may offer clues.
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Ahead of the Winter Olympics in Milan in February, curling superfans turn out in Sioux Falls, S.D., for trials to determine which U.S. team will compete in "chess on ice" against the world.
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Abortion is supported by three out of four Mainers, but a popular network of clinics that provides it alongside primary care is being shut out of Medicaid by the Trump administration.
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There's a new celebrity in town and it's... a comet. Much of the attention has to do with an astrophysicist's grandiose suggestions that 3I/ATLAS could contain alien life. Other scientists disagree.
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Ailsa Chang speaks with David Braun, an archeologist, about his team's discovery of a site in Kenya that suggests human ancestors built tools continuously much earlier than previously thought.
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DOJ records show that more than 600 arrests in Chicago's recent immigration enforcement operation may have violated a federal consent decree. And of those arrested, fewer than 3% had criminal records.
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One of our NPR College Podcast Challenge finalists brings the story of a group of women who, every week, take an icy plunge into the Connecticut River.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., after President Trump's recent comments about the potential release of files from the Justice Department's investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.
