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A Baptist congregation in southern Missouri has publicly cut ties with a summer program offered by Branson’s Kanakuk sports camp, apparently becoming the first in the country to do so.
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Scott Olson/Getty ImagesThe Food and Drug Administration expanded authorization of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID vaccine to enable kids ages 5 to 11 who were vaccinated at least five months ago to get a third shot. -
Rebecca Slezak/The Dallas Morning News via APThe arrest was connected to a shooting that wounded three women in a hair salon in the city's Koreatown last week, police said. Federal officials have launched a hate crime investigation.
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Alex Brandon/APThat's up from 143 incidents in a report issued in 2021. Officials partly credited reducing stigma around the issue for the new reports, many of which are older and went unmentioned at the time.
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Polls show most traditional farmers don't believe they contribute to climate change. Two farmers in Illinois started a soil protection program that has myriad climate benefits.
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In Buffalo, N.Y., people are still struggling to comprehend Saturday's attack that killed 10 people at a supermarket. Authorities say a self-avowed white supremacist targeted Black people.
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It had to be on Kai Neukerman's wish list to play with Pearl Jam. Neukerman left the Oakland arena saying it felt surreal, but also with a bit of immortality.
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A new book argues that greater public support for parents is critical for the brain development of America's kids. -
In a video set to a timer, Angel Alvarado, 19, solves the puzzles with his thumbs while tossing them in the air. He set the record at four and a half minutes — breaking his own record by 20 seconds.
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Tony Allen, Delaware State University's president, says once the complaint is officially filed, it will be made available to the campus community to read.
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A racist conspiracy theory is believed to have motivated the suspected gunman in the Buffalo attack. It was once a fringe belief, but it's found its way into the mainstream.
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Choosing one winner from all the incredible entries NPR Music receives each year is no small feat — but this year, one songwriter gave a captivating performance that rose to the top.
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Jillian Hanesworth is the poet laureate of Buffalo, N.Y. In the aftermath of the racist attack that left 10 people dead, Hanesworth is hoping to validate the myriad of emotions people have now.
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The leader of the self-governing East Asian island condemned violence following the deadly attack against a Taiwanese congregation in California.
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Angela Simms and her daughter Dorri Smith remember husband and father Bruce Simms of LaGrange (la-GRAIN-j), Georgia. He died of COVID-19 in February at the age of 73.
