Morning Edition is celebrating a summer of love
This summer, Morning Edition will bring you love stories — from what the future of marriage looks like to what love songs say about us.
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Morning Edition is celebrating a summer of love
This summer, Morning Edition will bring you love stories — from what the future of marriage looks like to what love songs say about us.
Medicare explores a new way to support caregivers of dementia patients
The government is launching an experimental program to ease the burden on caregivers of people with Alzheimer's. The idea is to keep patients healthier without exhausting their families.
The explosive history of fireworks, from ancient China to Revolutionary America
Pyrotechnic amusements from sparklers to Roman candles have long been a staple of celebrations in the U.S. and beyond, helping to mark national holidays, sporting events and more.
After controversial court rulings, a Voting Rights Act lawsuit takes an unusual turn
Civil rights groups decided not to ask the Supreme Court to review a court ruling that could help end a key way of enforcing the Voting Rights Act, raising questions about the landmark law’s future.
Removing the highway is the easy part. Reconnecting the community is harder.
In Detroit, a one-mile freeway is slated for removal, where a Black neighborhood once stood. It's part of an effort to reimagine divisive infrastructure — but the plan itself has been contentious.
In a moment of stage fright, the most unlikely person helped her to shine
In 2020, when Angela Zhao was just 10, she played in her first piano competition. As she waited to go onstage, a competitor did something small that gave her courage.
To save spotted owls, officials plan to kill a half-million of another owl species
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service strategy is meant to prop up declining spotted owl populations in Oregon, Washington and California by killing barred owls that have encroached into their territory.
2 Union soldiers awarded Medal of Honor for Confederate train hijacking
President Biden awarded the Medal of Honor to two Union soldiers who stole a locomotive in Confederate territory and drove it north while destroying railroad tracks and telegraph lines.
Bob Menendez declines to testify in his bribery trial as defense rests
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez said he chose not to testify at his trial because he believes prosecutors failed to prove the bribery case against him. Closing arguments may begin as early as Monday.