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Democratic state Rep. Justin Jones of Nashville gestures during a vote on his expulsion from the state legislature at the State Capitol Building on April 6, 2023 in Nashville, Tenn. Monday, the Nashville Metro Council voted to temporarily reinstate Jones to House District 52.

Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones returns to Capitol after Nashville Council reinstates him

11:32pm April 10, 2023

by Cynthia Abrams

Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones, who was expelled from the state House last week alongside former Rep. Justin Pearson of Memphis, was reinstated to his seat Monday on an interim basis.

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Navy ship with a Confederate name now honors Black Union Hero Robert Smalls instead

4:40pm April 10, 2023

by Quil Lawrence

The navy is renaming the USS Chancellorsville, a name honoring a Confederate victory. It will now be the USS Robert Smalls, after an enslaved man who escaped the South by stealing a Confederate ship.

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A hundred years later, a Welsh women's peace petition returns home

4:56pm April 07, 2023

A Welsh petition for world peace sat forgotten in the Smithsonian for nearly 100 years. This week, it finally returned to Wales for its signatures to be digitized and its history remembered.

The World Health Organization led this measles vaccination campaign in India in 1974 — reflecting its mission "to promote and protect the health of all peoples."

8 bold agenda items for the World Health Organization as it turns 75

12:26pm April 06, 2023

by Ari Daniel

Pay more attention to teens, ethics, the planet, long COVID and more. NPR asks public health leaders what this U.N.-created agency should add to its docket in this anniversary year.

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Podcast 'You Didn't See Nothin' looks into the 1997 beating of Lenard Clark

5:39pm April 05, 2023

NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with Yohance Lacour, host of the podcast You Didn't See Nothin.

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Judge Janet Protasiewicz delivers her victory speech after winning a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in Milwaukee, Wis.

For the first time in 15 years, liberals win control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court

11:32pm April 04, 2023

by Shawn Johnson

The Wisconsin Supreme Court could soon vote to legalize abortion and end gerrymandering now that Janet Protasiewicz, backed by Democrats, has defeated GOP-backed Dan Kelly for a seat on the bench.

Martin Cooper with the fruits of his labor.

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The father of the cellphone predicts we'll have devices embedded in our skin next

5:26pm April 03, 2023

by Manuela López Restrepo

Martin Cooper made the first-ever cellphone call exactly 50 years ago. He says artificial intelligence is the new frontier.

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Former Solicitor General Ted Olson (second from left) sits with Bush administration lawyers during the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on Guantánamo detainees on July 11, 2006, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Onetime supporter of Guantánamo's military court now says it was 'doomed'

4:26pm April 03, 2023

Former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson speaks with Sacha Pfeiffer about his change of heart on Guantánamo and his belief that the 9/11 case should be settled rather than taken to trial.

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50 years ago, Martin Cooper made the first cell phone call

4:25pm April 03, 2023

On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper made the first ever cell phone call on the streets of New York. His invention, a brick-sized device, became the first cell phone available to the general public.

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Ulysses S. Grant was the first president to be arrested

5:13am April 03, 2023

Donald Trump is the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges. But Ulysses S. Grant was the first president to be arrested.