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A Boy Scout wears an Eagle Scout neckerchief
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Lifestyle

The Boy Scouts of America will increase their membership fees by more than 80%

Starting Jan. 1, it will cost more money to be a Boy Scout.

7 years ago

Demonstrators rally in Washington, D.C., in April to protest the Trump administration's efforts to add to 2020 census forms a citizenship question, which has since been blocked by the courts. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Blocked citizenship question not likely to lower census response, test finds

After courts blocked the question from appearing on 2020 census forms, the Census Bureau released early findings from a national experiment testing public reaction.

7 years ago

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks to reporters just before the House vote on a resolution to formalize the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump, in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Politics & Policy

Watch: Democrats push impeachment rules package through House

The rules outline how the last several weeks of closed-door depositions of witnesses by three House committees would transition into public hearings.

7 years ago

In this file photo, former Vice President Joe Biden is flanked by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi (right) as he arrives to attend a special audience celebrates by Pope Francis with participants at a congress on the progress of regenerative medicine and its cultural impact in the Paul VI hall in Vatican City, Vatican. (Giuseppe Ciccia/Pacific Press)
Politics & Policy

Biden denied communion for abortion stance

Former Vice President Joe Biden was refused communion at a South Carolina Catholic church over the weekend. It’s happened to other Catholic Democrats.

7 years ago

In this Oct. 15, 2019, photo a Chinese tourist takes pictures of Washington DC t-shirts at a tourism kiosk in Washington. (Bani Sapra/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

U.S. travel industry to Chinese tourists: What trade war?

Washington, D.C., has dangled hotel discounts tied to the Chinese Lunar New Year.

7 years ago

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Monday that the House will vote to formalize its impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Above, she speaks to reporters earlier this month. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

House will vote to formalize impeachment procedures in ongoing inquiry

House Speaker Pelosi announced in a letter to Democrats on Monday that the House will vote to formalize the procedures in the ongoing impeachment inquiry of President Trump.

7 years ago

Calib Willis of the Los Angeles County Fire Department hoses down a smoldering residence destroyed by a wildfire Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, in Santa Clarita, California. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)
Community

New evacuations, power outages near California wildfire

Authorities ordered at least 50,000 residents to evacuate towns near a massive Northern California wildfire Saturday.

7 years ago

A judge has ruled that the Justice Department must turn over grand jury material as part of the House impeachment inquiry. (Liam James Doyle/NPR)
NPR
Courts & Law

Judge orders DOJ to hand over Mueller material, validates impeachment probe

Chief Judge Beryl Howell signed an opinion that rejected the Justice Department's argument that it must preserve the secrecy of grand jury and other material.

7 years ago

Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday. Two days later, Zuckerberg's social media giant announced it is launching a section of its site specifically dedicated to news. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Facebook News: App will offer hand-picked stories from NPR, other outlets

Facebook has hired a small team of journalists who will pick the stories that show up in one of the sections of the app, called Today's Stories.

7 years ago

Supporters of gun control measures gather at the Legislative Office Building in Concord, N.H., in August, to urge Republican Gov. Chris Sununu to act after mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. (Michael Casey/AP Photo)
NPR
Community

Poll: Number of Americans who favor stricter gun laws continues to grow

The percentage of Americans who favor stricter gun laws is on the rise, though significant partisan divisions persist.

7 years ago

Attorneys and other people leave the U.S. District Court in September after Purdue Pharma's first hearing since filing for bankruptcy in White Plains, N.Y.
(Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Partisan divide grows over opioid settlement plan

The nation's response to the opioid epidemic has been bipartisan, but deep divides have emerged over a settlement plan offered by Purdue Pharma, the maker of Oxycontin.

7 years ago

Donna Cryer holds up family photos that include her father Roland Henry. When her father died, she tried to donate his organs, yet the local organ collection agency said no, without talking to the family or providing a reason.
Community

Where you die can affect your chance of being an organ donor

If Roland Henry had died in a different part of the country, his organs might have been recovered. And lives could have been saved.

7 years ago

The Department of Education has proposed several key changes to its massive survey that collects data from the nation's public schools on a wide range of civil rights issues. (Sara Wong for NPR)
NPR
Education

Key changes would alter the government’s massive survey on schools and civil rights

The Department of Education has proposed several key changes to its massive survey that collects data from the nation's public schools on a wide range of civil rights issues.

7 years ago

Rudy Giuliani, attorney for President Trump, addresses a campaign event in Portsmouth, N.H., in August 2018.
(Charles Krupa/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Impeachment inquiry update: What the past week revealed about the Ukraine affair

President Trump deputized lawyer Rudy Giuliani to run a shadow foreign policy for Ukraine outside the State Department, witnesses told Congress this past week.

7 years ago

Astronauts Christina Koch (right) and Jessica Meir pose for a photo on the International Space Station on Oct. 4. NASA moved up the first all-female spacewalk because of a power system failure at the space station. (NASA via AP)
NPR
Science

NASA’s first all-female spacewalk set for Friday

Only 15 women have participated in spacewalks, and all were accompanied by men.

7 years ago

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