The 4th grade winners of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge
For the first time this year, NPR's Student Podcast Challenge handed the mic over to fourth graders. Here's two of our judges' favorite entries.
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The arrest of Telegram's founder has spooked the far right in the U.S.
Telegram has become a prime tool used by the far right to communicate. But the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov is prompting paranoia over whether it will remain secure and accessible.
States train election workers to identify AI-manipulated materials
Election officials across the country have spent years fighting false claims and conspiracy theories about stolen elections. Now they’re worried that new AI technologies could make the problem worse.
Whatever happened to ... the doctors who stand by their patients in gang-ridden Haiti?
How do you get a cancer patient to a center that provides treatment when the roads are not safe? That's one of the challenges facing Haiti's health-care providers. How are they doing?
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson shares the poem she's kept in every one of her offices
The first Black woman appointed to the Supreme Court says Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "The Ladder of Saint Augustine," has been a guiding principle. Jackson's new memoir is Lovely One.
Law enforcement had prior warning about suspect in fatal Georgia high school shooting
The FBI released new details about the 14-year-old suspect currently in custody after a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., killed two students and two teachers and injured nine others.
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff says he is 'gutted' at a vigil for Israeli hostages
Emhoff, who frequently uses his platform to talk about his Jewish faith and antisemitism, addressed Adas Israel Congregation this week in the wake of the death of Hersh Goldberg-Polin and others.
Navy commander relieved of duty after photo showed him firing rifle with scope backward
Cameron Yaste, the commander of a Navy destroyer in the Middle East, has been relieved of duty about four months after he was seen in a photo firing a rifle with a scope mounted backward.
Decades of failures turned Grenfell Tower into a 'death trap,' report says
The report on the deadly London high-rise fire blames government, regulators and the industry for the deaths of 72 people.
'Never lose courage': A Paralympian who could barely walk as a kid takes 2 track medals
Neighbors told Preeti Pal's parents she'd never marry because she was born with cerebral palsy. She just won two bronzes and is now a hero in India. Oh, and she has no interest in marriage.