Hear reporting on a visit by Springfield's mayor to Jenny Lind apartments, where residents have struggled with a falling apart building. We’ll also learn about Springfield’s Brew21 cafe and their special mission and the latest in a court case concerning Missouri's Congressional district map.
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The Federal Aviation Administration has shut down the airspace around El Paso, Texas for ten days citing unspecified security reasons. The abrupt move stops all flights in one of the U.S. largest cities.
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U.S. employers added 130,000 jobs in January as the unemployment rate dipped to 4.3% from 4.4% in December. Annual revisions show that job growth last year was far weaker than initially reported.
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Every week, more than 100,000 people ride bikes, skates and rollerblades past some of the best-known parts of Mexico's capital. And sometimes their dogs join them too.
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The shortest month of the year is packed with highly anticipated new releases, including books from Michael Pollan, Tayari Jones and the late Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.
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A former Florida police chief said he spoke with Donald Trump in the mid-2000s about Jeffrey Epstein's behavior, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick testified about visiting Epstein's island.
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More than a thousand people signed up for auditions in hopes of becoming an extra in the upcoming opera of "The Handmaid's Tale" in Detroit.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Maryland's Democratic Gov. Wes Moore about being disinvited from a White House event and his support for redistricting in his state.
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A person was briefly detained in connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. The news came hours after the FBI released surveillance footage of a masked person outside Guthrie's home.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Mary Ellen O'Toole, a former FBI senior profiler and professor of forensic science, about the latest in the Nancy Guthrie abduction case.
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NPR's Michel Martin asks Analilia Mejìa what her primary opponent's concession in New Jersey's 11th Congressional District means for the Democratic Party.
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Vladyslav Heraskevych, a skeleton sled racer, says he will wear a helmet showing images of Ukrainian athletes killed defending his country against Russia's full-scale invasion. International Olympic Committee officials say the move would violate rules designed to keep politics out of the Olympics.
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The man serving a life sentence for New Zealand's deadliest mass shooting asked an appeals court to throw out his guilty plea.
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President Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet Wednesday. The meeting comes at a critical moment for negotiations between the U.S. and Iran.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who says the U.S. should strike Iran.