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Ashley Garner thought her wedding ring was gone for good

5:52am October 10, 2022

She lost it outside her Florida home days before Hurricane Ian hit. After it passed, the family ventured out to clean up. Her husband spotted something glinting beneath some brush — it was the ring.

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A rural community in New York aims to turn vacant homes into affordable living spaces

5:05am October 10, 2022

by Emily Russell

The country's got a severe shortage of housing. Yet in many parts of the rural United States, houses sit abandoned and in need of repair.

Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, pictured in this 2017 file photo, faces his second criminal trial in Los Angeles.

Harvey Weinstein faces his next criminal trial in Los Angeles this week

5:00am October 10, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

Weinstein, a former Hollywood producer, is already serving his 23 year prison sentence doled out by a New York criminal court two years ago.

This photo provided on Oct. 10, 2022, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects a missile test at an undisclosed location in North Korea, as taken sometime between Sept. 25 and Oct. 9.

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North Korea confirms a simulated use of nukes to 'wipe out' its enemies

4:52am October 10, 2022

by The Associated Press

North Korea's recent barrage of missile launches were the simulated use of its tactical battlefield nuclear weapons to "wipe out" potential South Korean and U.S. targets, state media reported Monday

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After years of violence and neglect in Alabama's prisons, thousands of inmates strike

5:19pm October 09, 2022

by Michel Martin

NPR's Michel Marin talks with The Marshall Project reporter Keri Blakinger, who is in touch with some of the participants.

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A parents' lawsuit accuses Amazon of selling suicide kits to teenagers

4:44pm October 09, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

Amazon sold the food preservative sodium nitrite, which lawyers say has no household use at high purity levels, to people who later killed themselves using the substance, the suit claims.

Emily Sisson, from the United States, runs to a second place finish in the women's division of the Chicago Marathon on Sunday.

Emily Sisson sets a record for American women at the Chicago Marathon

4:29pm October 09, 2022

by The Associated Press

Benson Kipruto of Kenya was first in the men's division while Ruth Chepngetich, also of Kenya, led the women's division. Sisson finished second.

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A growing number of women are entering the manufacturing industry

7:53am October 09, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Allison Grealis >, president of the Women in Manufacturing trade association, about the growing number of women who have entered the industry.

What are "tactical" nuclear weapons and how might they be used?

7:53am October 09, 2022

President Biden's stark warning about the "tactical" nuclear weapons Russia might use is raising fears of a new crisis. But what are these weapons and how might they be used?

In this photo shot with a drone, shrimp boats lie grounded atop what was a mobile home park, following the passage of Hurricane Ian, on San Carlos Island in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

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Hurricane Ian highlighted the vulnerabilities of older mobile homes

6:00am October 09, 2022

by John Burnett

Mobile homes built before 1994 can't withstand the kind of ferocious winds of a major hurricane. In Florida, there are thousands of these older homes that crumble during big storms like Ian

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