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Four judges take on possibly tens of thousands of lawsuits over Camp Lejeune water

4:25pm June 07, 2023

by Jay Price

Lawsuits about tainted water at Camp Lejeune are reaching the district court charged with hearing them. Its four judges are set on managing the case as they face possibly tens of thousands of suits.

Education

Study: Most textbooks don't include key events in U.S. history that involve Latinos

12:10pm June 07, 2023

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Viviana López Green, senior director of the racial equity initiative at UnidosUS, about the lack of Latino history in high school textbooks.

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U.S Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley salutes during a D-Day anniversary ceremony at the American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France on Tuesday.

The U.S.' top general reflects on the changing face of war, 79 years after D-Day

2:37pm June 06, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, marked the D-Day anniversary in Normandy this week. He spoke to NPR about the modernization of warfare and what AI might mean for the future.

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Navajo citizen Lorenda Long, who attended a federal boarding school as a young girl, is a supporter of students at Riverside Indian School today.

Federal Indian boarding schools still exist, but what's inside may be surprising

6:00am June 06, 2023

The schools were tools of the U.S. government's attempts to erase tribal culture. But the few that remain have become places Native families want their children to attend.

Sen. Robert Kennedy speaks at an election rally in 1968.

Politics & Government

Robert Kennedy was killed 55 years ago. How should he be remembered?

5:48pm June 05, 2023

by Ashley Montgomery

On June 5, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down in a hotel in Los Angeles. Kennedy, a presidential hopeful who was memorialized as a liberal icon, was complicated and contradictory.

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A plane with a dark past is returning from the U.S. to Argentina

5:21pm June 05, 2023

by Carrie Kahn

A plane used by Argentina's military dictatorship in what have been dubbed "death flights" has been located. It will go in a museum dedicated to victims of torture during Argentina's Dirty War.

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'The Red Hotel' tells the story of Western journalists who were largely confined to Moscow's Metropol Hotel as they attempted to cover the Soviet side of World War II.

'The Red Hotel': Trying to cover World War II from a 'gilded cage' in Moscow

4:58pm June 05, 2023

by Greg Myre

When Russia's Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, he clamped down on the media. In his new book, author Alan Philps sees parallels to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin who confined reporters in World War II.

World News

Now in her 80s, the subject of a communist soldier rescue prays for peace

5:37pm June 03, 2023

by John Ruwitch

More than 70 years ago a young girl was the subject of a celebrated rescue by China's People's Liberation Army. Today, she is praying for peace as tensions rise in the region.

National

Dropping the name of a Confederate leader, Fort Bragg is becoming Fort Liberty

4:57pm June 01, 2023

by Jay Price, WUNC

After more than a century as Fort Bragg, the Army's largest base by population becomes Fort Liberty Friday. Bragg is among nine army bases that are dropping the names of Confederate leaders.

Tupperware is now selling some products at Target, but it still makes most of its money through individual sellers.

Tupperware once changed women's lives. Now it struggles to survive

4:08pm June 01, 2023

by Alina Selyukh

The brand turned homemakers into saleswomen and became synonymous with kitchen storage. But it has relied on Tupperware parties for sales--and struggled to keep its business fresh. Is its fate sealed?