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For more than four decades, NPR's Morning Edition has prepared listeners for the day ahead with up-to-the-minute news, background analysis, and commentary. Regularly heard on Morning Edition are familiar NPR commentators, and the special series StoryCorps, the largest oral history project in American history.

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There's an upside to cold, snowless New England days — great skating

9:52am January 17, 2025

Maine Public reporter Ari Snider heads out on a couple of Maine's lakes to explore the burgeoning sport of "wild ice skating." (Story aired on All Things Considered on Jan. 16, 2025.)

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World News

Calls for revenge grow as Hezbollah and Hamas bury assassinated leaders

Israel and Lebanon are bracing for the possibility of even stronger attacks after Israel’s killing of three top leaders from the militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah -- in three different countries.

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Dollar General stores now sell fresh produce. Could it improve rural food access?

by Stephen Bisaha

Dollar General is expanding faster than most other grocery chains, bringing fresh produce to areas of the country that wouldn't otherwise have access.

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World News

Morning news brief

President Biden welcomes Americans who had been imprisoned by Russia. Hezbollah and Hamas are burying assassinated leaders. Simone Biles cemented her legacy as the greatest gymnast of all time.

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A woman addicted to methamphetamine says becoming a mother turned her life around

by Zanna McKay

In this week's StoryCorps, a mother talks with her son about how she overcame her addiction to drugs.

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'Miss Merkel' imagines the former German chancellor as a small-town amateur sleuth

by Esme Nicholson

A series of crime novels now adapted for TV imagines former German Chancellor Angela Merkel as a crime-solving detective.

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Children in northern Nigeria are suffering from acute malnutrition, aid groups say

by Emmanuel Akinwotu

Nigeria has one of Africa's largest economies but is seeing record rates of child malnutrition. Aid groups call it a nearly unprecedented crisis.

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Ina Jaffe, longtime NPR correspondent, dies after a battle with cancer. She was 75

Morning Edition remembers longtime NPR correspondent Ina Jaffe, who died Thursday at age 75 after battling cancer.

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Ina Jaffe, longtime NPR correspondent, dies after a battle with cancer. She was 75

Morning Edition remembers longtime NPR correspondent Ina Jaffe, who died Thursday at age 75 after battling cancer.

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World News

Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan among Americans freed from Russian custody in prisoner swap

Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was detained in Russia in March 2023 on espionage charges that the newspaper and U.S. government say are false. Whelan, a former U.S. Marine, has been detained in Russia since 2018.

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Morning news brief

Assassinations in the Middle East stoke fears of more violence. The case against three of the alleged 9/11 attack plotters reaches a conclusion. More than 100 large wildfires are burning in the U.S.

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Electric cars quickly moved into the mainstream. Now electric boats are powering up

by Murray Carpenter

From working skiffs to multi-million dollar yachts, there's a small but growing market for EV boat motors on the New England coast.

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World News

After 2 assassinations in the Middle East, the region braces for all-out war

The killing of a Hezbollah commander in Beirut and the killing of a top Hamas official in Iran are stoking very real fears of a wider regional war in the Middle East.

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