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NPR Music's 2025 Tiny Desk Contest got more than 7,000 entries, including some standouts in the folk and country genres.
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Tennessee's new laws on immigration already face court challenges. Other states are changing gun laws or imposing new restrictions on transgender people.
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Organizers of Juneteenth celebrations across the U.S. tell NPR how they're feeling this year. And NPR presents a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.
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Ava Gilberg-Stroud picked up the drums at a young age to feel closer to her dad. She interviewed him to learn about how he first got into music for the PBS News Student Reporting Labs.
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Seattle, along with other cities, is struggling to balance the need for more housing with the preservation and growth of trees that help address the impacts of climate change.
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Evangelicals are among President Trump's strongest supporters but some evangelical leaders have been critical of his immigration policies, creating divisions between pulpits and pews.
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Federal health officials have changed the game for COVID vaccine access. Pregnant moms and others who rely on them to protect a high-risk family member are scared.
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Some healthy pregnant women, parents of healthy kids and younger healthy adults are worried they won't be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19 because of the recent changes in access by the federal government.
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In 2021, Wallen was caught on video uttering a racial slur. Since then, he's become the most commercially successful musician in country and popular music. How? By remaining committed to ambivalence.