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Kyodo News/APFirefighters and army helicopters battled a fire that burned through old wooden houses in a fishing town in southwestern Japan. -
John Ruwitch/NPRFar-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.
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'Struggling artists' isn't a trope, according to a new report. The survey asked more than 2,600 artists about everything from hours worked to housing. -
Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective subjectivity, to the inner life of a country in the throes of deep pain and uncertainty. -
Nov. 19 is World Toilet Day — officially declared by the United Nations to bring attention to the 3.4 billion people who live without "safely managed sanitation." -
The artist's 1940 painting, El sueño (La cama), is expected to sell for $40 to $60 million on Thursday night.
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A schoolgirl who was abducted with 24 others from a dormitory in northwestern Nigeria has escaped and is safe, as hunters joined security forces in the search for the missing students.
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Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In some cases, those changes have already begun. -
The word's definition may be obvious, but Friendsgiving can mean different things to different people. Here are expert tips for how to celebrate it. -
At the Tiny Desk, our small office crowd joins the thousands who have been inside of these power ballads and felt something real. -
Since 1981, Chicago Women in Trades has worked to promote equity by getting more women into the construction trades. Now the nonprofit faces a different challenge: Trump's efforts to erase DEI. -
A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll shows some major warning signs for President Trump and Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections as Americans want the president to focus on lowering prices.
