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Individual grants fuel diverse research, from break dancing to enslaved beer brewers

8:31am April 16, 2022

by Scott Simon

The National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced grants for 245 projects, including research on Latina members of the military, Black women brewers, and the history of break dancing.

A pack of wolves in Yellowstone National Park are spotted from a wildlife tracking plane

A record number of Yellowstone wolves have been killed. Conservationists are worried

11:34am April 13, 2022

by Nick Mott

States neighboring Yellowstone National Park have eased rules on hunting wolves, resulting in the most being killed in nearly a century

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Left: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Feb. 22. Right: Zelenskyy on April 4.

Images of Zelenskyy show the physical toll that trauma and stress can have on the body

6:00am April 13, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

Health experts told NPR that long-term exposure to trauma and stress — like that of the war in Ukraine — can impact a person's sleep, memory, mood and physical appearance.

Encore: Maine couple revives sea shanties thought lost to time

5:03am April 13, 2022

by Keith Shortall

After a decade of research, a couple from Maine has published a book of seafaring folk songs rarely heard in the last 80 years. (This story originally aired on All Things Considered on Feb. 16, 2022.)

National

A Pearl Harbor sailor has finally been laid to rest with honors after 8 decades

9:14am April 10, 2022

by Derek Operle

A Navy sailor who died in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor was identified last year using DNA from relatives and has now been buried with full military honors in a family plot in western Kentucky.

Body bags with the remains of Kosovo Albanians buried in mass graves in Serbia in 1999 lay in Batajnica near Belgrade in August 2005 prior to being returned to Kosovo.

From Nuremberg to Darfur, history has seen some war criminals brought to trial

9:12am April 10, 2022

by Ron Elving

Responsibility is difficult to prove conclusively in a war zone, and evidence might have to link such acts to national leaders far from the battlefield. But it has happened.

A long lost tape shows the artist Prince back when he was another kid in Minneapolis

4:20pm April 08, 2022

As a child, the late artist Prince was interviewed about a teacher's strike in Minneapolis for a local news story. The rediscovered tape proves that even artists as big as Prince were kids once.

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Anti-government militant Ammon Bundy is among a slate of far-right candidates running for office in Idaho in 2022.

Republicans face a test of extremists' power in Idaho's primaries

10:33am April 08, 2022

by Kirk Siegler

Moderate Republicans are organizing in opposition to extremists gaining control of the party.

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The Senate has confirmed Judge Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court

4:22pm April 07, 2022

by Kelsey Snell

The Senate made history Thursday when it confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. After 233 years, she'll be the first Black woman to ever serve on the nations highest court.

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Encore: Mystery recordings will now be heard for the first time in about 100 years

4:29pm April 06, 2022

A new machine at the New York Public Library can read cracked and broken wax cylinders, and play recordings from regular people not heard in about 100 years. It's one of seven in the world.