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Gaza Residents Start To Bury Dead After Violence Along Border

4:35pm May 15, 2018

by Daniel Estrin

Protests and violence along the Gaza border have subsided slightly since Monday, when at least 60 people were killed by Israeli forces. Now residents are beginning to bury the dead.

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How Those Affected By Hawaii's Volcano Eruption Are Coping

4:35pm May 15, 2018

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Monica Devlin a retired school teacher who, house was destroyed when lava flowed into her neighborhood. Devlin says she has no house to go back to she says, but she is happy to be alive.

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The orbit of the Earth (blue line) and its near-intersection with Asteroid 2010 WC9 (in white) is seen in this diagram by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Asteroid Will Pass Between The Earth And The Moon Tuesday (Don't Panic)

4:20pm May 15, 2018

by Bill Chappell

First spotted in 2010, a space rock is zooming toward Earth, making a close pass on Tuesday that will see it fly safely by — about halfway between our planet and the moon.

Why Teens Should Understand Their Own Brains (And Why Their Teachers Should, Too!)

4:01pm May 15, 2018

by Elissa Nadworny

Human brains are still developing throughout our teenage and early adult years. Knowing more about the way they work can teach us about how schools can work, too.

Kanye West surprised everyone — including the U.N. — by tweeting about the organization's sustainable development goals.

Random Tweet From Kanye West About The U.N. Baffles The World

3:50pm May 15, 2018

by Malaka Gharib

The U.N. has been desperately trying to make the Global Goals "famous" since 2015. Then a surprise tweet from the rapper came along.

CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has said he is committed to changing the company's culture to have a new emphasis on accountability and earning trust.

Uber Will No Longer Force Sexual Assault Survivors Into Arbitration Or NDAs

3:38pm May 15, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

Uber says victims of sexual assault or harassment will now have the option of going to court. The ride-hailing company will also publicly release data about sexual assaults that happen in Ubers.

Florida's coral reefs, already bleached by years of warming ocean waters, are being further battered by a mysterious disease.

Battered By Bleaching, Florida's Coral Reefs Now Face Mysterious Disease

3:35pm May 15, 2018

by Greg Allen

Florida's coral reefs are being decimated by a mysterious disease. It comes after years of warming waters have bleached coral reefs around the world, leaving them weakened.

When Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Iowa's new abortion bill into law, protesters gathered outside her office at the Statehouse in Des Moines. Two groups have now filed a lawsuit to block the bill.

Groups File Lawsuit To Block Iowa's New 'Heartbeat' Abortion Law

2:43pm May 15, 2018

by Bill Chappell

Scheduled to take effect on July 1, the law is one of the most restrictive abortion measures in the U.S.

Novelist and journalist Tom Wolfe believed that techniques for fiction and nonfiction should be interchangeable. "The things that work in nonfiction would work in fiction, and vice versa," he said.

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Tom Wolfe, Best-Selling Author And Genre-Breaking Journalist, Dies At 88

2:32pm May 15, 2018

by Tom Vitale

The author of The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff used to give himself a quota of 10 triple-spaced pages per day. He also experimented with literary techniques in his nonfiction.

Employees check a Sichuan Airlines Airbus A-319 on Monday after an emergency landing in Chengdu in China's northwestern Sichuan province. A cockpit window that broke midflight has been covered up; the flight's co-pilot was partially sucked out of the wind

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Chinese Jet Lands Safely After Co-Pilot Partially Sucked Out Of Windshield

1:37pm May 15, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

The co-pilot of the Sichuan Airlines flight was pulled back into the cockpit with only minor injuries. The pilot brought the Airbus down in an emergency landing, and no passengers were harmed.