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Alabama lawmakers pass IVF immunity legislation

The law is intended to restart IVF treatments by shielding patients and providers from civil and criminal charges, but does not change the state Supreme Court's ruling that embryos are children.

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'Rust' film armorer found guilty in death of cinematographer

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is the first to stand trial in a case reexamining the movie industry's safety standards. Actor Alec Baldwin's criminal trial will start in July.

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Haley's Out: Can Trump Win Her Supporters?

Nikki Haley's announcement that she was suspending her campaign for president didn't come as a surprise. She's trailed front-runner Donald Trump in all but two Republican primary contests so far. Haley did manage to sway some Republican voters away from Trump. She also managed to recruit independents and Democrats, too. As she ended her campaign on a stage in South Carolina, Haley did not endorse Trump. She said he would have to earn their votes.Nikki Haley appealed to Republicans who did not want another four years of Trump. Now that she's out of the race, where will her voters go? For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

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President Biden would ban TikTok. But candidate Biden is using it for his campaign

The White House supports a bipartisan bill that would ban TikTok unless its Chinese parent company sells it. It's a popular app with young voters, who the Biden campaign is working to woo.

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Corporate America has new climate rules to follow, but will they cut global warming?

The Securities and Exchange Commission is requiring publicly-traded companies to disclose information about the risks they face from climate change. Industry is expected to sue to stop the rules.

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'Uncommitted' movement spreads to Super Tuesday states

Just a week after 100,000 Michigan voters chose uncommitted on their Democratic ballots, hundreds of thousands of Americans across the country made a similar statement on Super Tuesday.

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Chinese national arrested and charged with stealing AI trade secrets from Google

Prosecutors say at the same time that Linwei Ding was working for Google and stealing the building blocks of its AI technology, he was also secretly employed by two China-based tech companies.

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Houthi missile attack kills 2 crew members in rebels' first fatal assault on shipping

An attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels on a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden killed two of its crew members and forced survivors to abandon the vessel. Six crew members were wounded, officials said.

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Haiti's prime minister is stranded abroad as gangs threaten 'civil war'

Haiti's embattled prime minister is in neighboring Puerto Rico, still unable to return to Port-au-Prince, as calls for him to resign grow louder by the day.

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NTSB says Boeing is withholding key details about door plug on Alaska 737 Max 9 jet

At a Senate hearing, the top federal safety investigator said Boeing has still not provided crucial details about who opened the door plug from an Alaska Airlines 737 Max jet before a midair blowout.

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Gabriel García Márquez's last novel is published against his wishes

Until August is the last novel of the Nobel Prize-winning author, a work he asked his sons to destroy. But, nearly 10 years after his death, they have decided to publish his final novel.

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Rep. Dean Phillips ends a longshot bid to defeat Biden in the Democratic primary

Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., who ran a longshot bid for the Democratic presidential nomination against President Biden and against the national party's wishes, is suspending his campaign.

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How Biden's campaign strategy has changed from four years ago

New Yorker writer Evan Osnos has interviewed Biden on and off since '14 and says the president has become "more solemn." Osnos talks about Biden's handling of the war in Gaza and doubts about his age.

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Long-shot Jason Palmer deals President Biden a caucus defeat in American Samoa

"Biden's chances of a second term are hurting, but not because of my campaign," the Baltimore, Md.-based entrepreneur says of his bid to win the Democratic nomination over the incumbent.

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Protesters ram a truck into Mexico's presidential palace over missing students

Protesters broke down the door of Mexico's presidential palace with a truck on Wednesday, demanding answers for 43 college students who went missing a decade ago.

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Scientists take a step closer to resurrecting the woolly mammoth

Scientists at a biotech company say they have created a key stem cell for Asian elephants that could help save the endangered species and become a steppingstone for bringing back the woolly mammoth.

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Mitch McConnell endorses former President Trump as GOP presidential nominee

The Senate Republican leader has consistently clashed with Trump, most forcefully after the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.

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Politics quiz: Will you be as super as Tuesday at our special primaries edition?

Were you paying attention to the most predictable Super Tuesday ever?

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Up First briefing: Nikki Haley to drop out after Trump, Biden dominate Super Tuesday

Former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador will suspend her presidential campaign. NPR's Domenico Montanaro has four takeaways from Super Tuesday.

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Nikki Haley to suspend presidential campaign

The former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador was the last major candidate to challenge former President Donald Trump for the GOP nomination.

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Newsroom at 'New York Times' fractures over story on Hamas attacks

The newsroom union at The New York Times accuses the paper of targeting staffers of Middle Eastern descent during an inquiry into leaks about internal debates over a story on the Hamas attacks.

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After years of legal discrimination, Poland's same-sex couples await civil union law

The new government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk has promised to introduce legislation that would legalize civil unions in Poland, one of the few nations in Europe that doesn't recognize them.

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Should the government do more to help children? This bipartisan group thinks so

A bipartisan coalition of policy experts agreed on three big ways the federal government could do more to help our most vulnerable children and families.

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Who performs a lethal injection in the U.S.? In some states, they're volunteers

A failed execution in Idaho has put a spotlight on the teams of people that prisons use to impose the ultimate penalty on condemned inmates.

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Airdropping aid is inefficient — so why is the U.S. doing it in Gaza anyway?

There is a "really grim irony" to the U.S. supplying both the bombs that are dropping on Gaza and now the food parcels that are dropping there, according to one aid expert.

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4 takeaways from Super Tuesday

The outcome may have gone as expected overall, but here's what the details mean for the state of the presidential election.

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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried

Voyager 1 has been traveling through space since 1977, and some scientists hoped it could keep sending back science data for 50 years. But a serious glitch has put that milestone in jeopardy.

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Taking on junk fees is popular. But can it win Biden more voters?

President Biden is expected to highlight his push to cap junk fees in his State of the Union address, for a second year in a row. It's a theme he plans to take on the campaign trail.

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Listen to NPR's special coverage of Super Tuesday

Votes will be tallied in 16 states and one territory on Super Tuesday, March 5. Listen to NPR's live coverage starting at 8 p.m. ET.

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Liberty University fined $14 million for federal crime reporting violations

The university agreed to the fine as part of a settlement agreement with the U.S. Education Department, which found numerous violations of the Clery Act, a campus safety law.

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