Bill Chappell

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This airline is weighing passengers before they board international flights

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

"For safety reasons we need to know the weight of all items onboard the aircraft," Air New Zealand says. Numbers from the scales won't be displayed and will remain anonymous, the airline says.

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A service dog gets his own college diploma, winning huge cheers

Saturday, May 27, 2023

When Grace Mariani graduated from Seton Hall University this week, the school president had a special gift for Justin, her service dog.

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A boy, 11, called police in Mississippi. A cop shot him

Friday, May 26, 2023

Nakala Murry says her son doesn't understand what happened to him. "His words to me were: 'Why did he shoot me? What did I do?' "

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Texas high school delays its graduation, after only a handful met diploma requirements

Thursday, May 25, 2023

"It's emotional" for all of the students, one parent said. Students at Marlin High School complain that the school failed to give them accurate data about what they needed to do to graduate.

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1 complaint led a Florida school to restrict access to Amanda Gorman's famous poem

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

One week after a parent complained, Gorman's The Hill We Climb was moved. The NAACP chapter in Miami says it wants "to ensure that it takes more than one form to remove our history and heritage."

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A Georgia school district's book bans may have caused a hostile environment, feds say

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Forsyth County Schools didn't spell out its criteria to students, the Department of Education says, leaving the impression that diverse authors and characters were excluded.

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The Smiths bassist Andy Rourke has died

Friday, May 19, 2023

On seminal Smiths recordings in the 1980s, guitarist Johnny Marr said, "Andy reinvented what it is to be a bass guitar player." Rourke had been ill with pancreatic cancer. He was 59.

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4 things to know about Victor Wembanyama, the top NBA prospect since LeBron

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Victor Wembanyama is seen as a lock for the NBA's San Antonio Spurs to select in the draft. He hopes to reproduce the championship success of other French players, like Tony Parker.

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She finished last, but this runner won fans for not giving up in a pounding rain

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

"I wanted to show people that in life, even though we go a bit slow or fast, we will reach our destination all the same," Cambodia's Bou Samnang said of her rain-soaked, Southeast Asian Games run.

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New biography of Martin Luther King Jr. undercuts a widely cited quote about Malcolm X

Monday, May 15, 2023

A critical quote about Malcolm X that has been attributed to King has been taught for decades. But King didn't say the words that appeared in an article by Alex Haley, says biographer Jonathan Eig.

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Jury finds Lori Vallow Daybell guilty of murdering 2 of her children

Friday, May 12, 2023

A jury in Boise, Idaho, found Lori Vallow Daybell guilty of murdering two of her children and conspiring to murder a romantic rival. Vallow Daybell, 49, could face life in prison.

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Former police officer admits to felony assault on Black man after George Floyd murder

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Former Minneapolis police officer Justin Stetson told the court he "crossed the line" on May 30, 2020, when he repeatedly kicked, hit and kneed Jaleel Stallings in the face and head.

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Florida lawmakers want to use radioactive material to pave roads

Tuesday, May 09, 2023

Phosphogypsum, a byproduct in the fertilizer industry, contains uranium and radium — and as the EPA notes, it also forms radon, "a cancer-causing, radioactive gas."

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Rochelle Walensky, who led the CDC during the pandemic, resigns

Friday, May 05, 2023

The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced her exit on the same day the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 is no longer a global public health emergency.

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A massive dump of pasta in New Jersey sets off a fury of interest, and also a fury

Friday, May 05, 2023

"My initial reaction is exactly what yours was," a resident of Old Bridge, N.J., told NPR about the pounds of pasta found along a local brook. "It was funny and humorous and mortifying."

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Financier buys Jeffrey Epstein's private islands, with plans to create a resort

Thursday, May 04, 2023

Financier Stephen Deckoff paid $60 million for Great St. James and Little St. James. He hopes to open a resort on the islands by sometime in 2025.

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El Niño is coming. Here's what that means for weather in the U.S.

Wednesday, May 03, 2023

Warmer sea waters have many far-ranging effects. In the new pattern, some parts of the U.S. could get relief from drought, while others might see fewer hurricanes.

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A student and his father are detained after 9 die in school shooting in Serbia

Wednesday, May 03, 2023

A teenager is in custody after opening fire at a school with his father's gun, police say. The boy called police himself after the shooting and had a list of children he wanted to kill.

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From mini rooms to streaming, things have changed since the last big writers' strike

Wednesday, May 03, 2023

From "mini rooms" to the explosion of streaming, the media landscape has evolved significantly. Now it's heading for a new reckoning.

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The guy who ate a $120,000 banana in an art museum says he was just hungry

Monday, May 01, 2023

The banana installation by artist Maurizio Cattelan evokes everything from slapstick comedy to global trade. But to a college student, it was a reminder of how very hungry he was.

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