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Can a chatbot help people with eating disorders as well as another human?

9:46am May 24, 2023

by Kate Wells

The National Eating Disorders Association is shutting its telephone helpline down, firing its small staff and hundreds of volunteers. Instead it's using a chatbot — and not because the bot is better.

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Pipes direct water into an irrigation project held by the University of California. After a few decades of not enough water California water officials are scrambling to catch as much of this year's floodwaters as they can.

California wants to store floodwaters underground. It's harder than it sounds

8:28am May 24, 2023

Even during epic floods, California is trying to prepare for the next drought by capturing water from this year's epic winter storms.

The memorial at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. A mass shooting there on May 24, 2022, killed 19 children and two teachers. For surviving families, the year since has been an agonizing fight for answers and accountability.

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A year after Uvalde's school massacre, healing remains elusive

8:14am May 24, 2023

by Adrian Florido

There are still many unresolved questions about the shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers. As they grasp for answers, surviving families and the broader community feel suspended in grief.

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It's been 1 year since the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, killed 21 people

7:55am May 24, 2023

In the year since 19 children and two teachers were killed inside their classrooms at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the search for healing has been elusive.

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Yazmin Lopez, here at home in Madison, Wis., first learned about credit scores from a personal finance book she picked up at Goodwill a few years after coming to the U.S. as a teenager.

Welcome to America! Now learn to be in debt

7:55am May 24, 2023

The U.S. economy counts on you to borrow money and stay in debt for a credit score. But what if you were taught to never owe anybody anything?

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FILE - A protestor holds a sign during a Students Demand Action event, near the U.S. Capitol, Monday, June 6, 2022, in Washington.

Poll: Most Americans say curbing gun violence is more important than gun rights

5:08am May 24, 2023

by Domenico Montanaro

A year after the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll found the highest percentage in a decade said ending gun violence trumps protecting gun rights.

State probe finds Catholic Church in Illinois vastly underreported clergy sex abuse

5:08am May 24, 2023

by Camryn Cutinello

A multi-year investigation by the Illinois attorney general details decades of child sex abuse by members of the Catholic clergy in Illinois.

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After years of drought, whitewater rafting is roaring back to life in California

5:08am May 24, 2023

by Joshua Yeager

As California's massive winter snowpack melts, the whitewater rafting industry is roaring back to life after years of debilitating drought.

Nicole Ogburn says she has been diagnosed with PTSD, anxiety and depression since she survived the school shooting a year ago.

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'I can't promise we'll be safe:' A Uvalde teacher reflects, a year after the shooting

5:00am May 24, 2023

Nicole Ogburn no longer tells her students that she promises they are safe. Instead, she has taken to saying: "We're safer than we've ever been."

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Jim Farley, Ford president and CEO, wrote in social media postings Tuesday, May 23, 2023 that the company is reversing a decision to scrub the AM band after speaking with government policy leaders who are concerned about keeping emergency alerts that often are sounded on AM stations.

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Ford reverses course and decides to keep AM radio on its vehicles

2:20am May 24, 2023

by The Associated Press

Federal lawmakers cite safety concerns for keeping AM radio, citing its historic role in transmitting vital information during emergencies, such as natural disasters, especially to rural areas.