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People gathered across the U.S. on Sunday for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day. It's intended to spotlight the high rate of disappearances and killings in Native American communities.
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Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs' signing of the repeal of a Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions was a stirring occasion for the women working to ensure the 19th century law remains in the past.
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Former Taos, N.M., poet laureate Sawnie Morris says as a young girl poetry showed her how events and objects were connected in curious ways. In the latest installment of PoetrySnaps!, she reads her piece called “After the Late-Winter Car Trip.”
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The federal government is spending billions to support semiconductor manufacturing. But trainees seeking chipmaking jobs may have to wait.
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The Coconino National Forest’s Mogollon Rim Ranger District will manage a lightning-caused wildfire that sparked earlier this week in an area already scheduled for a prescribed burn.
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Tribes that use the Colorado River want a say in negotiations that will reshape how the river's water is shared.
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The suspect in Mondays' shooting in Cameron that left one person dead has been arrested in Tuba City.
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Here's the story of one business at the intersection of conservation and growth amid Phoenix’s semiconductor boom.
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Hundreds of people silently linked arms during a vigil at NAU in solidarity with the demonstrators arrested the night before as police dismantled an on-campus encampment in support of Palestinians.
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Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs will sign a bill Thursday that will undo the long-dormant law that bans all abortions except those done to save a patient’s life.
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Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia says this week she will force a vote to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson. The move is unpopular with many of her GOP colleagues.
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Polling revealed immigration has been listed as the top "U.S. problem" for three straight months. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Gallup research analyst Megan Brenan about this polarizing issue.
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Colleges are gearing up for graduation as some students continue to protest the Israel-Hamas war.
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NPR's Michel Martin is joined by New York Times fashion director Vanessa Friedman to talk about Monday night's Met Gala.
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Philadelphia is taking a tougher line on illegal drug use on city streets. The new mayor and city council are launching an aggressive strategy in the city's infamous Kensington neighborhood.
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