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Ukrainian refugee Anastasiia Ivanova says her faith is what's helped her get through all of her trials. She brought her Bible with her when the family fled Kharkiv for a new home in Brazil. But a new crisis made her wonder if Brazil was the right place for her.

Health & Safety

Whatever happened to the Ukrainian refugees who found a haven in Brazil?

8:07am September 02, 2023

After fleeing the war in Ukraine, a family found a sense of belonging far away - in Prudentópolis, Brazil, known as "Little Ukraine." A year later, the family finds themselves starting over yet again.

National

Celebrating a couple who got engaged in a StoryCorps booth 2 decades ago

7:42am September 01, 2023

StoryCorps is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Michael Wolmetz and Debora Brakarz got engaged at a StoryCorps booth nearly 20 years ago. They return to share an update about marriage and parenthood.

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Reva Stewart preparing to meet people without housing at a park in Phoenix

Fake 'sober homes' targeting Native Americans scam millions from taxpayers

10:48am August 31, 2023

by Alice Fordham

The scale of a scam to recruit Native Americans into fake treatment for substance in Phoenix and bill the government fraudulently is now emerging. It's huge.

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Students from the Yupiit School District learn how to prepare freshly caught salmon.

An Alaska district aligns its school year with traditional subsistence harvests

4:59am August 30, 2023

by Evan Erickson

Three Alaska Native Villages have changed their school calendar so that students now can take part in things like the fall moose hunt and the spring migratory bird harvest.

Jenny Eckart Hoyt directs her daughter Winnie's attention to an "eye gaze" device in their Portland, Ore., home.

Schools could be getting millions more from Medicaid. Why aren't they?

10:13am August 24, 2023

In 2022, schools recouped $6.6 billion from federal and state Medicaid programs. They could be getting much more.

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Five-year-old cousins Layla and Mila Cabanilla Okano are among the many children staying with members of their extended family at one property on Maui in the wake of the wildfires.

After the fires on Maui, one home shelters 87 people

5:00am August 23, 2023

Those displaced by the fires have found temporary quarters in hotels and with family and friends. One host opened their home to 87 evacuees, most of them from one extended family.

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Greg Rosalsky looks at his new son in the hospital.

I'm a new dad. Here's why I'm taking more parental leave than my wife.

10:18am August 22, 2023

by Greg Rosalsky

More than 70 percent of American fathers return to work less than two weeks after having a baby. Here is why I'm not one of them.

An extended family of 87 people took shelter at a single house due to Maui fire

4:55pm August 21, 2023

by Greg Allen

In West Maui, some people are heading to the hotels and Airbnbs that have been set aside for evacuees. But others are sticking with family or friends in surviving houses on the island.

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How a grassroots network helped reunite a family separated in the Maui fires

5:56pm August 17, 2023

by Lauren Sommer

The toll of the Maui wildfires is still growing, but amid the destruction, there have been moments of lightness. One separated family reunited thanks to the grassroots supply network that's sprung up.

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Ezekiel Arita, from Kaneohe, Hawaii, calls his hairstyle "Mr. Aloha Mullet." His hairdo makes him feel like a superhero.

National

The national kid mullet contest is back — and the hairdos are longer and wilder

3:32pm August 11, 2023

by Juliana Kim

The annual USA Mullet Championship recently announced the Top 25 for the kids category. Voting for the final round ends Friday night.