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Investigators say a Delta jet descended too quickly before Toronto crash last month

Canadian investigators say a Delta Air Lines regional jet that crashed while attempting to land at the Toronto Pearson International Airport last month was descending too quickly. The plane flipped over after the hard landing. None of the 80 people on board died but two passengers were seriously injured.

Canadian investigators released a preliminary report into last month's Delta Air Lines regional jet rollover landing crash in Toronto. The plane was descending too quickly before it hit the runway.

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Dark energy is weakening and the universe could (eventually) collapse, study says

This multi-wavelength image from NASA shows a universe full of galaxies that are various shapes, colors and sizes. Most are small while a handful are somewhat larger. A few stars are also scattered across the image.

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is studying dark energy and the accelerated expansion of the universe.

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West Bank Palestinians displaced by Israel's military fear they'll never go home again

Palestinian children walk amid rubble of destroyed houses after Israeli attacks in Jenin camp, the occupied West Bank, on Feb. 26.

Even as the war in Gaza continues, Israel's prime minister says a "larger and more intense front could be opened" in the West Bank, where more than 40,000 have been displaced in the current operation.

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Pentagon restores webpages of Black veterans, Navajo Code Talkers and others after outcry

Jackie Robinson, shown here in military uniform signing a contract with a farm team for the Brooklyn Dodgers, is among the veterans whose Department of Defense webpages were removed — and then restored — as part of the Trump administration

A Pentagon official not authorized to speak publicly said its review to scrub websites of DEI content was too hasty and used search terms like "gay," which led to the flagging of Enola Gay images.

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As young male voters shift Right, can the Left compete in the 'battle for the bros'?

Popular podcasts in the "manosphere" helped sway young men to go MAGA in the 2024 election. New Yorker writer Andrew Marantz explains how Democrats can win them back.

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Israel expands its ground offensive in Gaza as Hamas fires rockets back

Palestinians recite a prayer over the bodies of victims of Israeli overnight airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip, in front of the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia on Thursday.

The Israeli military expanded its ground offensive in Gaza, and killed at least 80 Palestinians in a new wave of strikes Thursday. Hamas fired its first rockets since Israel broke a recent ceasefire.

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Do you feel you can exercise your right to free speech? NPR wants to hear from you

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NPR wants to know who is feeling more and less free to exercise their free speech rights in this moment. Have you found yourself letting loose more under President Trump or are you holding back?

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How land-loving iguanas from North America may have ended up in Fiji

A Fiji Island iguana is seen at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C.  A new study suggests these iguanas reached the tropical island by crossing thousands of miles of ocean.

A new study suggests iguanas reached Fiji by rafting around 5,000 miles from North America.

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Can you look at these 9 photos and not smile on International Day of Happiness?

The boy and bird are, of course, not really flying together. But ... they are both airborne. The child is jumping into the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok, Thailand, during a heatwave in February 2024. Photographer Andre Malerba notes: "This image recalls the free feeling of leaping from several times one

March 20 is International Happiness Day — a day that the United Nations had dedicated to the celebration of joy. We asked photographers around the world to share a picture that can bring bliss.

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Ex-F1 team owner and media personality Eddie Jordan has died at 76

Eddie Jordan, former Formula One driver and team owner, listens during a press conference in July 2013 in Moscow.

Jordan ran his own team in the 1990s and 2000s in Formula 1. He became a popular pundit on TV after selling the team in 2005.

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'Beauty from the ashes.' Texas Panhandle recovering one year after the state's largest wildfire

Ranchers, from left, Shane and Tatum Pennington walk around their Fields Ranch in Canadian, Texas on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025.

The Smokehouse Creek fire tore through the Texas Panhandle early last year, burning over a million acres in just weeks. In the small town of Canadian, where the devastation was severe, residents say the heartbreak lingers and a full recovery could take years.

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From TV to CMS: How Dr. Oz could shape Medicare and Medicaid

Dr. Mehmet Oz speaks before the Senate Finance Committee during his confirmation hearing to lead the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Washington, D.C. on Friday.

Dr. Oz lacks policy experience but has TV show chops. Tom Scully, who led Medicare and Medicaid for President George W. Bush, argues that Oz is well-suited to be a spokesman for Trump's health care agenda.

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The Fed holds interest rates. And, judge denies request to block DOGE's USIP takeover

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell.

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady yesterday as concerns loom over President Trump's new tariffs. And, a judge denied a request to block DOGE's takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace.

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New 'baby pictures' of the cosmos show the universe in its infancy

A new half-sky image from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope combines three wavelengths of light to show the Milky Way galaxy in purple and the cosmic microwave background in gray. On the right, the image is zoomed in to show the Orion Nebula.

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its 380,000th birthday represent a snapshot of the universe as a newborn.

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COMIC: Still cringing about that awkward moment? Here's what to do about it

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Experts demystify the science of awkwardness — and explain how to reduce the emotional intensity of mortifying flashbacks (like that one time you called your teacher "Mommy").

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Weaponizing antisemitism makes students 'less safe,' says drafter of definition

Student protesters gather inside their encampment on the Columbia University campus in New York on April 29, 2024.

Kenneth Stern, who drafted a widely used definition of antisemitism, says the Trump administration is using antisemitism claims to stifle speech and debate on the Middle East on college campuses.

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Ferrets, water testing and future scientists at risk due to DOGE spending cuts

A baby black-footed ferret clone born at the National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center, in Carr, Colo., in 2024. The center, which is part of the Interior Department, is facing severe financial pressure due to budget cuts driven by the new Trump administration.

Interior Department employees say they have been scrambling to keep the lights on and do their jobs as budget cuts driven by the Department of Government efficiency team start to bite.

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With Trump's crackdown on DEI, some women fear a path to good-paying jobs will close

Lauren Sugerman maintained and repaired elevators in the 1980s. She says she got the job because of a 1965 executive order that required federal contractors to identify and address barriers to employment for women and people of color.

Some fear a setback for women and people of color after President Trump revoked a 1965 executive order that required federal contractors to identify and address barriers to employment.

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How well do you know your March Madness trivia? Take our quiz

From left: coach and former player, former player, current player.

Do you know your saint schools from state schools? Your legendary coaches from your little brothers? Find out if you're in the Final Four — or didn't even get seeded.

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Colorado senator on Schumer: 'It's important for people to know when it's time to go'

U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, Democrat from Colorado, is shown Jan. 29, 2025, questioning Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Kennedy

Colorado Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet stopped short Wednesday of calling on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to step down from leadership, but came pretty darn close.

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Malaysia approves a new search for MH370 wreckage in the Indian Ocean

Jiang Hui, whose mother was on the missing MH370 Malaysia Airlines passenger jet, wears a shirt "Remembering 239 Lives, MH370" as he talks to media on the 11th anniversary of the jet going missing on March 8, 2025, in Beijing, China.

The Boeing 777 plane vanished from radar shortly after taking off on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 people. The plane headed south to the far-southern Indian Ocean, where it is believed to have crashed.

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Canada says China executed four Canadians earlier this year

Canada Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly responds to a question during a news conference on tariffs, Wednesday, March 12, 2025, in Ottawa.

Beijing's embassy in Ottawa said the executions were due to drug crimes and noted that China does not recognize dual citizenship.

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Trump to sign order aiming to close the Education Department

Demonstrators gather outside of the offices of the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C., on March 13 to protest against mass layoffs and budget cuts at the agency.

The Trump administration has already moved to cut the department's staff by half.

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Israel Launches a New Offensive in Gaza

A man overlooks the aftermath of the airstrikes in Gaza.

The two month ceasefire in Gaza has come to an end with Israel conducting airstrikes, killing five Hamas officials along with over 400 others, including many children. The Israeli military has also restarted ground operations in Gaza, sending troops back to areas they had withdrawn from. They say they want Hamas to agree to a new ceasefire deal and release more hostages. But many Israelis are opposed to this return to war. We hear what this resumption of fighting sounds like in Gaza from our producer there. Warning, this episode contains graphic descriptions of war.

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Jury says Greenpeace owes hundreds of millions of dollars for Dakota pipeline protest

Native American protestors and their supporters are confronted by security during a demonstration against work being done for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in North Dakota in 2016. Greenpeace, one of the groups protesting DAPL, was sued by the company building the pipeline. A jury has ordered Greenpeace to pay millions of dollars.

Experts say the verdict has relevance for free speech issues nationwide.

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Trump admin. cuts funding for program that tracked Ukrainian children abducted by Russia

Rep. Greg Landsman, D-Ohio, is among a group of lawmakers who signed a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking whether a database of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia had been deleted.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Rep. Greg Landsman, a lawmaker who signed a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking whether a database of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia had been deleted.

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Judge extends deadline for deportation flight details as DOJ continues to resist

The Trump administration deported hundreds of alleged members of the Tren De Aragua and Mara Salvatrucha gangs to El Salvador over the weekend.

The Justice Department is fighting not to divulge more information about flights that deported alleged gang members to El Salvador. The federal judge is giving lawyers another day to respond.

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Trump administration extends opioid emergency as fentanyl deaths drop

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., himself in long-term recovery from opioid addiction, says a national emergency declaration linked to opioid overdose deaths will be extended past Friday

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the Trump administration will continue to treat opioid overdoses as a "national security" emergency even as fentanyl deaths decline.

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These scientists are building a cat database to understand why they act like that

Everyone believes their cat is a special little creature.

The project, called Darwin's Cats, aims to enhance our understanding of feline behavior and genetics.

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Miami Beach drops plans to evict a theater for showing 'No Other Land'

"No Other Land" tells the story of a Palestinian town in the West Bank that was bulldozed by the Israeli government for use as a military training zone.

Miami Beach's mayor has dropped an effort to evict and defund an arts cinema after strong opposition from the community and other elected officials.

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