National Grandparents Day is Sep. 7. NPR wants to hear from new grandparents about how your life has changed.
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In the brain, a lost limb is never really gone
Even years after an arm is amputated, the brain maintains a detailed map of the limb and tries to interact with this phantom appendage.
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Drowning prevention program comes to a halt at the CDC
A few years in, a CDC drowning prevention program was ready to share its findings on how to mitigate the leading cause of death among young children. Then the administration terminated that staff.
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Flag burning has a long history in the U.S. — and legal protections from the Supreme Court
President Trump’s executive order challenges a landmark Supreme Court decision, according to free speech attorneys.
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What’s tea? No, seriously. What’s ‘tea’?
How did a word that simply referred to a millennia-old beverage come to be the latest iteration of “what’s up?”
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Hurricane Katrina forced changes at FEMA. Trump is rolling them back
The government’s colossal failure to respond after Hurricane Katrina led to major reforms at the nation’s top disaster agency. Now, the Trump administration has reversed some of those changes.
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The Framers wanted the House closest to the people. Redistricting may undermine that
Redistricting critics warn that efforts to redraw maps mid-decade risks fueling further gridlock in Congress, and ceding more power to the executive and judicial branches.
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A ‘college for all’ push thrived in New Orleans after Katrina. It wasn’t for everyone
After Hurricane Katrina, many New Orleans charter schools united in a mission to send more students to college. Today, some of those students, now adults, wish they’d been given more options.
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If Abrego Garcia is deported to Uganda, here’s how it might happen
Experts say sending a migrant to a third-party country that they have no connection to is a costly, complex and legally questionable move.
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Some FEMA staff are put on leave after signing dissent letter
More than 180 current and former FEMA employees signed the letter sent to the FEMA Review Council and Congress warning that FEMA’s capacity to respond to a major disaster was dangerously diminished.
