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Florida teachers are leaving the state and their profession. They blame unrealistic workloads, restrictive laws and stagnant pay.
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Michael Zamora/NPR/NPRThe Radiohead drummer performs three songs with a mix of deep warmth and wry, self-effacing modesty. -
NPRThe Tiny Desk blooms with the stanzas, sounds and legacy of jazz poetry.
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Minds Without Borders advocates for student's mental health. In 24 states, Executive Director and founder, Anjani Sharma talks about the youth led global non-profit started here in Melbourne.
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Verdi Eco School Receives Coveted YASS Prize. Ayana Verde, Founder of the school talks about additional opportunities for a larger award that the community can help them win.
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Chris O'Meara/APDorsey found lasting fame as the creator of the crime-comedy novel series starring Serge A. Storms, an energetic fan of Florida history and an ingenious serial killer.
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Jim Vondruska/Getty ImagesPeter Antonacci, the head of Florida's elections fraud office, had just left a heated meeting when he collapsed in the hallway of the governor's office, according to a newly released investigation.
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Eric Gay/APThe rocket cleared the launchpad and separated from its booster, surpassing the first attempt. But minutes later, controllers lost contact with the vehicle.
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SpaceX/X (formerly Twitter)NASA plans to use Starship to bring astronauts to the lunar surface. But first, it faces a key test flight.
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"How does he do it?" Author Mac Barnett and illustrator Jon Klassen squeeze, squash and generally put Santa through the wringer while trying to answer an age-old Christmas mystery. -
Billy Crystal, Dionne Warwick, Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, Renée Fleming and Queen Latifah were given the star treatment as they received their Kennedy Center Honors.
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Shane MacGowan was a famously hard-drinking but brilliant musician who shot to fame in the 1980s with the folk punk band The Pogues.
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The governors square off in a first-of-its-kind debate Thursday. Let's compare the political rivals’ health care positions, showing how their policies helped — or hinder— the health of their states’ residents.
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Florencia gives star Ailyn Pérez a rare chance to sing in Spanish. As the bilingual daughter of Mexican immigrants, she learned early on that language had the power to shape her experience and voice.
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Actors Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan give warm, deeply sympathetic performances as wide-ranging musician Leonard Bernstein and his wife, Felicia Montealegre Cohn, in a biopic directed by Cooper.
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CBS first aired the televised holiday special in 1973. The message still shines, but some characters and scenes feel a little dated.
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