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The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin Madison, who built an observatory under Antarctica.
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Germany's former foreign intelligence agency chief has been arrested on suspicion of treasonous espionage. A former high-ranking aide has also been arrested.
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French high school students are marched together as they demanded better learning conditions at their schools. Several hundred thousand students turned out in cities across France.
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Midterm candidates are talking about Medicare for All, and two out of three Americans tell pollsters they support it. It speaks to the desire for radical change, though many don't really know what it is.
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Five years after the U.S.'s withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban remains firmly in power. Here's how the Taliban doing in terms of foreign policy.
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British police said they had made a seventh arrest in a murky plot that may have targeted a U.K. airbase.
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Nonprofits fighting HIV used get direct funding from the CDC. Now that money is going to state health departments that may have other priorities.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with marine ecologist Jeff Seminoff about the first known natural sea turtle nesting on California's shores.
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Cubans in the U.S. are growing frustrated with President Trump's immigration policies, which has resulted in their detention and the dismissal of protections that have benefitted Cubans specifically.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks to White House correspondent April Ryan about her new memoir, Notes on a Blacklash: When a Black Woman Goes Viral.