All Things Considered
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Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he will retire at the end of 2023, meaning he has just weeks left in his term in Congress. His decision to quit comes as Republicans are facing lots of pressure.
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At UN climate talks, the global community is looking at tripling the amount of renewables coming online. In the U.S., that's meant a push into offshore wind — but it's been met with fits and starts.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Quentin Fulks from the Biden Campaign about campaign strategy ahead of the Republican debate in Alabama.
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The publicly-edited online encyclopedia Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year. The Wikimedia Foundation gas released a breakdown of those numbers.
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Norman Lear, who addressed serious issues in humorous sitcoms, died Tuesday in Los Angeles at the age of 101. He leaves behind a legacy of hit 1970s sitcoms that revolutionized television.
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Israeli officials have accused international groups, including the United Nations, of ignoring what it describes as evidence of rape and sexual violence by Hamas fighters during the Oct. 7 attacks. -
Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been testifying before a public inquiry into his government's botched response to COVID-19. Britain had one of the worst COVID-19 death tolls in Europe.
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An initiative from the Mellon Foundation dedicated to creating monuments that tell diverse stories recently pledged to double its funding for the project.
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Ukrainian officials and power companies are preparing for Russia to ramp up its attacks on energy infrastructure again as temperatures dip.
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More than a month after a deadly mass-shooting, Lewiston, Maine, businesses are feeling the economic pain just as residents deal with the trauma of the attacks.
