Justine Kenin
Stories
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Elections
Barbed wire, high fences: some election locations in Arizona close, but others step up
A church and a community college are stepping up to serve as voting locations after others pulled out due to security threats.
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An illegal wine ring — busted in Europe — garnered up to 15 thousand euros per bottle
Six people have been arrested in connection with an international criminal network selling fake bottles of high-end French wine.
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Thomas Rockwell, author of 'How to Eat Fried Worms,' has died at 91
The author of the 1973 children’s book How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell, died late September of Parkinson’s disease and other ailments. He was 91.
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Arts & Life
Poet Laureate Ada Limon talks about her poem engraved on a NASA spaceship
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon about her poem engraved on NASA's spaceship headed 1.8 billion miles to the Jupiter moon of Europa.
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Sports
Vanderbilt's football beat #1 Alabama over the weekend. And the fans went wild!
The biggest news out of college sports this weekend is that the country’s number one football team, the University of Alabama, lost to Vanderbilt -- losing for the first time since 1984!
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U.S. citizens are advised to lease Lebanon amid conflict with Israel
Israel’s airstrikes in Lebanon have forced more and more people from their homes. The U.S. State Department is urging American citizens in Lebanon to leave the country all together.
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Law & Courts
Chicago street gang founder Larry Hoover argues he should be resentenced
The founder of a notorious Chicago street gang is set to make his first appearance in court in more than 20 years. Larry Hoover hopes a new judge will undo a life sentence he received in 1998.
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Politics
Republican state Sen. Michael McDonnell weighs in on Nebraska's electoral votes
The state of Nebraska has five electoral votes for president, but there’s a catch: Their election laws are written in such a way that those five votes can be split.
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After a 32-year run, United Airlines will stop printing its inflight magazine
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Ellen Carpenter, who edited United Airlines' Hemispheres magazine from 2017-2024. The magazine published its final printed edition in September after a 32-year run.
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National
Haitian Times founder talks about the fallout from Vance and Trump's lies
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Haitian Times founder and former New York Times staffer Garry Pierre-Pierre about the lies spewed by Trump and Vance around Haitian Americans and immigrants, and the fallout.