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Smoke billows over a street near the airport in Lviv, Ukraine. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR Smoke billows over a street near the airport in Lviv, Ukraine. Claire Harbage/NPR As Friday draws to a close in Kyiv, Ukraine, and in Moscow, here are the key developments of the day: Russian missiles hit […]
On the day Russia invaded Ukraine, Max and his wife drove from their home in Germany to Poland, and then crossed the border into Ukraine. With fear, they moved in the opposite direction of the long line of cars that intended to flee the country and that was snarling the roads for miles. Traveling diagonally […]
At a distant end of the Earth – hidden somewhere on the remote Australian island of Tasmania – a strange structure is about to witness and record the end of the world as we know it. The project, called Earth’s Black Box, is a giant steel installation, soon to be filled with hard drives […]
The Nintendo Switch is bound to be a popular item in the run-up to November 28, and even though we’ve seen a number of enticing Black Friday Nintendo Switch deals already appear, I’ve got my eye on one particular item which so far refuses to on sale. The Hori Split Pad Pro might not be […]
Why many Black Americans changed their minds Black Americans were once less likely than any other racial group to be vaccinated. But a wave of pro-vaccine campaigns, employer mandates and a surge of virus deaths have helped narrowed that gap. A roughly equal share of Black, white and Hispanic adult populations — 70 percent of […]
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Nashville Public Radio. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Chapter 1: “What in the World?” Friday, April 15, 2016: Hobgood Elementary School, Murfreesboro, Tennessee Three police officers were crowded into the assistant principal’s […]