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wrvo.org | Quil Lawrence |Tom Bowman
As many as 9,000 Afghan refugees are at risk of deportation, as the Trump administration has ended the temporary protected status (TPS) that allowed them to stay in the U.S. legally. The White House says their country is no longer dangerous for them, a contention that confounds Afghanistan watchers. "It's a death penalty for them if they return," said Zia Ghafoori, who worked as an interpreter in combat with U.S. Army Special Forces from 2002 to 2014.
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wrvo.org | Russell Lewis
Updated May 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM EDTThe commissioner of Major League Baseball has removed Pete Rose, 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson and 15 other deceased players from the sport's permanent ineligibility list. The move clears the way for Rose, Jackson and others to potentially be voted into the Hall of Fame. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred made the decision after the Rose family filed an application to change the policy following Rose's death last year at age 83.
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wrvo.org | Becky Sullivan |Juana Summers |Vincent Acovino |John Ketchum
The Dallas Mavericks have received the top pick in the next NBA Draft ... which has led to questions after the team traded away its star to the Los Angeles Lakers earlier this year.
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2 days ago | 
wrvo.org | Darian Woods |Adrian Ma |Julia Ritchey |Kate Concannon
Before NPR, and before there were threats to defund NPR, there was a decentralized scattering of stations across the U.S. airing mostly educational programs. There was WHA in Wisconsin, which broadcast updates on 4-H clubs and rising dairy prices. And KPFA in Berkeley, Calif., featuring Beat poets and interviews with civil rights leaders. It wasn't until the 1960s, when Congress began working on the Public Television Act, that the idea of federal funding for public radio came to the fore.
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wrvo.org | Julia Simon
VIENNA – Vienna's city hall, with its stone towers and gargoyles, often reminds visitors of another neo-gothic building, says city council member Nina Abrahamczik. "Children who come with the school classes are like, 'Oh, it looks like Hogwarts,'" she says. But Abrahamczik, who heads the city's climate and environment committee, says this building has something Hogwarts doesn't: solar panels.
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3 days ago | 
wrvo.org | Brittany Luse |Isabella Gomez Sarmiento |Alexis Williams |Neena Pathak
Concert tickets are more expensive than ever, and according to Live Nation, 2023 was the biggest year ever for concert turnout and ticket sales. So why are indie artists turning to OnlyFans to pay the bills? This is PART ONE of our new series, Money Troubles. And for the next few weeks, we're looking into the ways everyday people are trying to make ends meet... and what it says about how our culture views labor, basic needs, and even our favorite pastimes.
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3 days ago | 
wrvo.org | Darian Woods |Adrian Ma |Julia Ritchey |Kate Concannon
Today, we're airing an episode of NPR's daily economics podcast, The Indicator from Planet Money. It's about a group of people we know well: scientists. President Trump's federal cuts and scrutiny of academic institutions are forcing some U.S. scientists to head for the border. On today's show, an entomologist keeping America's farms safe from pests reconsiders America. And a CEO of a Canadian hospital explains how they are benefiting from the exodus.
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3 days ago | 
wrvo.org | Geoff Brumfiel |Darian Woods |Cooper McKim |Julia Ritchey
Robots have been a thing for a long time, but they've never quite met expectations. While AI has changed the game for chatbots, it's not quite so clear for robots. NPR science desk correspondent Geoff Brumfiel spoke to our colleagues over on our science podcast Short Wave on how humanoid robots are actually developing with the help of artificial intelligence. It was a fascinating discussion and so we are sharing that conversation with you today on the Indicator. Related episodes: Is AI underrated?
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3 days ago | 
wrvo.org | Aisha Harris |Shamira Ibrahim |Mike Katzif |Jessica Reedy
If you're a celeb visiting The Jennifer Hudson Show, it's almost guaranteed you're going to make your way down the Spirit Tunnel – and possibly go viral. In just a few seconds, these videos can reveal a lot about a celeb's personality and persona: Do they have rhythm? Are they any good at improv? And how famous are they, really? The answers are (sometimes) really surprising!Audio engineering was performed by Jimmy Keeley, Robert Rodriguez, and Kwesi Lee. Copyright 2025 NPR
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wrvo.org | Jessica Cain
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) is calling creating affordable housing a top priority in her state budget, and her housing programs seem to already be paying dividends in central New York. On Thursday during a visit to Syracuse, Hochul presented the keys to a new three-bedroom home on Loomis Ave. to Theresa Durham. Durham plans to move there from her current home at McKinney Manor. "They told me to start packing.