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Hosted by Steve Inskeep, A Martínez, Leila Fadel, and Michel Martin, Morning Edition takes listeners around both the country and the world with multi-faceted stories and commentaries every weekday.

For more than four decades, NPR's Morning Edition has prepared listeners for the day ahead with up-to-the-minute news, background analysis, and commentary. Regularly heard on Morning Edition are familiar NPR commentators, and the special series StoryCorps, the largest oral history project in American history.

Morning Edition has garnered broadcasting's highest honors—including the George Foster Peabody Award and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award.

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Supporoters and former employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rally outside of the CDC Chamblee campus

RFK Jr.'s picks for CDC vaccine advisers meet this week amid controversy

5:00am June 25, 2025

by A Martínez

For the first time since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced all the members of the vaccine committee, it is meeting in Atlanta.

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Environment

E-bikes could be a more affordable way to reduce emissions

by Adam Bearne

With the average price of a new electric vehicle climbing to over sixty thousand dollars, might e-bikes be a more affordable solution to ditching gas powered cars?

Environment

This 13-year-old border collie is saving the environment, one bottle at a time

Scruff the "eco dog" helps clean up his town in central England by fetching hundreds of discarded plastic bottles.

House Democrats release former President Trump's tax returns

The Democrat-led House Ways and Means Committee has released Donald Trump's tax returns, ending the former president's yearslong battle to keep them secret.

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A sampling of the most memorable stories that aired on 'Morning Edition' in 2022

Dozens of journalists, engineers and technical directors work each day to bring you stories from throughout the U.S. and the world. We reflect on some of the most memorable stories featured this year.

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Music & Culture

An appreciation of the work by some of the musicians who died in 2022

by A Martínez

Morning Edition presents a montage of some of the musicians who died in 2022.

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National

2 former bartenders are glad they were a part of the Starlite Lounge

by Esther Honig

Albert Johnson and Donna Cuthbert came to StoryCorps to remember working New Year's Eve at the Starlite Lounge, a historic gay bar in Brooklyn, New York.

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Morning news brief

by A Martínez

This was a pivotal year in America's opioid crisis. Brazilian soccer legend Pele has died at the age of 82. Young Republicans demand change from their party to keep up with their generation.

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Sports

Brazilian soccer superstar Pelé has died at the age of 82

NPR's A Martinez speaks with soccer writer Andrew Downie about legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento — known around the world as Pelé. He'd been battling complications from colon cancer.

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National

U.S. Supreme Court will wait until 2023 to hear arguments on border restrictions

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, a Republican, speaks with NPR's A Martinez about the Supreme Court's decision to maintain border restrictions under a public health order known as Title 42.

National

Ohio man's flight was canceled but he was determined not to miss the Rose Parade

Scott Huntley has been attending Tournament of Roses his entire life and volunteering for the past 36 years. He drove from his home in Columbus to Pasadena, Calif.

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Why nearly the entire population of Tampa, Kan., visited Tampa, Fla.

When you put the name of your destination into Google Maps, the town must be in the correct state. The Florida city's tourism board found the Kansas town that way, and offered residents free trips.

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Politics & Government

Constituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation

by Jasmine Garsd

George Santos, the GOP representative-elect of New York's 3rd Congressional District, has admitted he lied about his background and is now under investigation. He's slated to be sworn in next week.