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Joplin's City Council held the votes amid over seven hours of public testimony, discussion and other city business Tuesday night.
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Leif Parsons for NPRWill it be a year of "fractured resilience"? Or "pragmatic empathy"? Will "MOUs" be the next global health strategy? Are we in a new age of "decolonization" — or of "localization"? -
Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesThe administration wants the authority to fire Lisa Cook, a Fed governor. Experts say that would undermine the independence of the central bank.
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Mandalit del Barco/NPRAs the festival prepares to move to Colorado, filmmakers and cinephiles gather to celebrate its founder and the future of indie film. -
Ian ToneyThe organized event was held Tuesday afternoon in Springfield.
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While a pregnant woman can file for divorce in Missouri, under current law a judge can prevent it from being finalized. -
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his British counterpart, David Lammy, are raising alarms about Iranian ballistic missiles in Russia that threaten Ukraine.
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Nearly 280 filmmakers entered the Internet Archive's annual contest celebrating creative freedom without copyright restrictions. -
The state partnered with a nonprofit to wipe out the debts. It also has a plan in place to prevent medical debt for people in specific income brackets. -
NPR's Leila Fadel asks veteran diplomat Richard Haass about President Trump's objectives with his address to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
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South Carolina is fighting a new, fast-growing outbreak of the measles, as concern grows that the U.S. is poised to lose its measles elimination status.
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ICE's budget hovered around $10 billion for years. But President Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are taking the agency's funding to unprecedented levels. -
In this installment of NPR's "Word of the Week" series we trace the origins of the "cravat" (borrowed from the French "cravate") back to the battlefields of 17th century Europe. -
The Trump administration has ordered work stoppages and layoffs and has tried cutting off funding to effectively dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
