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1 month ago | 
mprnews.org | Jaclyn Diaz |Nick McMillan
Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. When Loni Long thinks of her cousin Benita Long, she’s taken back to when she was 14 years old. That was when she first met Benita, a confident girl who was a year her junior but who seemed decades more mature. For Loni, a shy teen scarred by years of abuse and foster care, Benita was a revelation. “I was so blown away by how outgoing she was,” she recalled.
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2 months ago | 
laist.com | Chiara Eisner |Nick McMillan |Graham Smith
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2 months ago | 
npr.org | Chiara Eisner |Nick McMillan |Graham Smith
Los Angeles County firefighters pull a hose in front of a burning home as the Eaton Fire moved through the area in Altadena, Calif., on Jan. 8. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Days after the Eaton fire in Los Angeles first ignited, firefighters warned that downed power lines owned and operated by Southern California Edison were live and starting new fires, first responder radio traffic obtained by NPR reveals.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
kuow.org | Domenico Montanaro |Elena Moore |Nick McMillan |Connie Hanzhang Jin
In the debate over whether demography is destiny, the 2024 presidential election showed clearly it is not. Democrats long believed that the diversifying of the country would lead to their party's long-term success, but President-elect Trump was able to win over many of the voters Democrats believed they could rely on, showing identity is less important when people feel negatively toward the incumbent party on things like prices and immigration.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
npr.org | Domenico Montanaro |Elena Moore |Nick McMillan |Connie Hanzhang Jin |Daniel Wood
In this election, demographics did not determine how people votedIn the debate over whether demography is destiny, the 2024 presidential election showed clearly it is not.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
kpbs.org | Domenico Montanaro |Elena Moore |Moore worked |Nick McMillan
In the debate over whether demography is destiny, the 2024 presidential election showed clearly it is not. Democrats long believed that the diversifying of the country would lead to their party's long-term success, but President-elect Trump was able to win over many of the voters Democrats believed they could rely on, showing identity is less important when people feel negatively toward the incumbent party on things like prices and immigration.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
kcur.org | Chiara Eisner |Nick McMillan
When Andrew Bardwell drives around the ranch he manages near Augusta, Montana, he keeps a rifle in the back seat of his pickup truck. Grizzly bears have started venturing into the property's thousands of acres more than in previous years, he says, threatening the herds of cattle that graze there. But when he worries that a grizzly might have injured a cow, Bardwell doesn’t grab the gun and kill the bear himself.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
npr.org | Chiara Eisner |Nick McMillan
When Andrew Bardwell drives around the ranch he manages near Augusta, Montana, he keeps a rifle in the back seat of his pickup truck. Grizzly bears have started venturing into the property's thousands of acres more than in previous years, he says, threatening the herds of cattle that graze there. But when he worries that a grizzly might have injured a cow, Bardwell doesn’t grab the gun and kill the bear himself.
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May 18, 2024 | 
mprnews.org | Chris Arnold |Robert Smith |Jess Jiang |Sam Kesler |Robert Benincasa |Nick McMillan
Updated May 18, 2024 at 6:00 AM ETOne spring morning two years ago, Karen McDonough was having tea at her dining room table. She lives in a cozy little two-bedroom house in Quincy, Massachusetts. She looked out her window and saw something unusual. "There were like 20 cars, and they all came at the same time and they parked in front of my house, across the street, up the street," McDonough said. "I just had this feeling like something really bad had happened ...
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May 10, 2024 | 
npr.org | Chris Arnold |Robert Smith |Jess Jiang |Sam Kesler |Robert Benincasa |Nick McMillan
Karen McDonough sits inside her home in Quincy, Massachusetts. Vanessa Leroy for NPR hide caption toggle caption Vanessa Leroy for NPR Karen McDonough sits inside her home in Quincy, Massachusetts. Vanessa Leroy for NPR One spring morning two years ago, Karen McDonough was having tea at her dining room table. She lives in a cozy little two-bedroom house in Quincy, Massachusetts. She looked out her window and saw something unusual.
