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By a vote of 8 to zero on Monday night, Springfield City Council passed a rezoning change that will allow a church to be built off Evans Road in south Springfield. Neighbors say they’re concerned about possible traffic impacts from the building — and the undisclosed religious affiliation of the congregation itself.
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Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesThe DOJ settlement goes to 139 victims of Larry Nassar, the disgraced team doctor of USA Gymnastics who sexually assaulted elite and Olympic gymnasts, after the FBI failed to promptly investigate. -
Alex Da Corte/Nasty Little Man"I'm not playing with persona," St. Vincent says of All Born Screaming. "It's a really a record about life and death and love. That's it. That's all we got."
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Beowulf Sheehan/PEN AmericaPEN America has cancelled its annual Literary Awards ceremony after nearly half of the authors nominated withdrew in protest over the organization's response to the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza. -
Cybersecurity experts want more federal protections for good faith security researchers, or "good "hackers, arguing the government shouldn't prosecute good faith efforts to find vulnerabilities.
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The U.K. Parliament has approved Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's controversial plans to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda, regardless of where they're from originally.
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NPR's A Martinez speaks to Debbie Becher, associate professor at Barnard College, about a wave of protests on college campuses amid growing tensions on campuses over Israel's war in Gaza.
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The space probe contacted ground control for the first time in five months with status updates on its engineering systems. A month ago a NASA team discovered corrupted code caused a lapse in contact.
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It will run between Las Vegas and Southern California, reaching a top speed of 200 miles per hour. The company behind the project plans for it to be ready by 2028.
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Gaza protests on college campuses stretch across the U.S. British lawmakers OK plan to outsource U.K.'s refugee system to Rwanda. Supreme Court to hear Starbucks case about fired pro-union workers.
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NPR's A Martinez talks to Hiroyuki Sanada, the lead actor and producer of Shogun, ahead of the finale of the FX miniseries, which is set in 17th century Japan.
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Following House approval of assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, the Senate is expected to take up and approve the measure. The bill could end up on President Biden's desk as early as Tuesday.
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Israel has intensified its airstrikes on Gaza's southern city of Rafah. Palestinians say most of those killed are women and children.
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Genetic researchers and historians say the DNA of 27 people who were enslaved in Frederick, Md., before the Civil War indicates they have about 42,000 living relatives.
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The United Methodist Church is holding its first General Conference since the pandemic and will consider whether to change policies on several LGBTQ issues.
