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These missionaries have volunteered at a dozen disaster sites this year
by Jeff Brady
Volunteers from across the country are in southern Appalachia to help with recovery from Hurricane Helene. Among them are a Texas couple who have volunteered at a dozen disaster sites this year.
Dolly Parton bows out of this year's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominations
The country music legend Dolly Parton posted on social media that she doesn't want to split votes. Others nominees include Dionne Warwick and Pat Benatar. Parton says she may do a rock album one day.
A library in New Zealand closed for a holiday but the doors didn't lock
People were free to enter without any librarians around. Nearly 400 people used the library that day. Readers used self checkout machines to borrow 147 books. Not one book was stolen.
Why manatees are dying at an alarming rate in Florida
by Amy Green
An unprecedented die-off of manatees in Florida is now projected to last years. Saving the manatees will mean restoring a distressed lagoon, where the loss of seagrass has left them starving.
Amid misinformation, how do Russians perceive Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine?
NPR's A Martinez talks to Julia Ioffe, founding partner of the media company Puck, about Russia's crack down on free speech which has led many media outlets to leave the country or go underground.
Try as she might, Bram Stoker's widow couldn't kill 'Nosferatu'
by Avery Keatley
The world's first vampire movie premiered 100 years ago. After a long court battle, Florence Stoker, widow of the author of Dracula, asked for all copies of Nosferatu to be destroyed. But were they?
Many states are setting up their own extensive weather monitoring networks
by Caroline Eggers
Forecasters say with a rise in extreme weather disasters, the states' monitoring networks are key to saving lives.
Oscar-winning actor William Hurt has died at age 71
Hurt is best known for his roles in Body Heat, Children of a Lesser God and Broadcast News. Hurt won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Kiss of the Spider Woman.