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New detail raises more questions about the botched response to the shooting in Uvalde

4:39pm June 02, 2022

by Adrian Florido

One of the teachers killed by the gunman called her husband, a Uvalde schools police officer, after she'd been shot. This and other new details raise questions about police's response to the shooting.

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Encore: Discovering movies, and how visions are seldom all they seem

4:39pm June 02, 2022

by Bob Mondello

NPR's Bob Mondello remembers the first movie he ever saw in a theater and what it meant to him.

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Encore: Gas stoves leak climate-warming methane even when they're off

4:39pm June 02, 2022

by Jeff Brady

Americans love their gas stoves, but many may soon face a decision about switching to electric. Gas stoves emit more pollution into homes and are supplied through a system that leaks methane.

Why teens are choosing the app BeReal over Instagram

4:39pm June 02, 2022

by Bobby Allyn

BeReal asks people to post one candid, unedited photo a day. It can't be "liked" or shared. There are no algorithms. No ads. The feed of your friends' photos is intentionally boring and mundane.

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Thousands of high schoolers protested after Parkland. This one says little changed

4:39pm June 02, 2022

by Shaylee Ragar

One of thousands of high school students who walked out of class demanding action after the Parkland shooting says that there has been no meaningful reform, and America's politics are ruled by fear.

Encore: A new app guides visitors through NYC's Chinatown with hidden stories

4:39pm June 02, 2022

by Jennifer Vanasco

A new audio soundwalk app reintroduces visitors to Manhattan's Chinatown by exploring the oral histories of those whose families came to the area.

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Surya Kapu, 13, from South Jordan, Utah, competes during the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Wednesday in Oxon Hill, Md.

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He was knocked out of the National Spelling Bee, but appeal gives him another chance

4:37pm June 02, 2022

by The Associated Press

Surya Kapu, 13, misspelled "leucovorin" — a medicine used to counteract the side effects of a cancer drug. His family said that Scripps omitted details when he asked a question about the word's roots.

1985 hit song back in the charts thanks to the new season of 'Stranger Things'

4:20pm June 02, 2022

The new season of Stranger Things is out and has reignited the hit Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush. The song has risen to the top of the streaming charts since being featured in the first episode.

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Stormy Daniels and her attorney Michael Avenatti leave federal court in New York, on April 16, 2018. Avenatti was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for cheating client Daniels of hundreds of thousands of dollars in book proceeds.

Avenatti gets 4 years in prison for cheating Stormy Daniels out of book proceeds

3:18pm June 02, 2022

by The Associated Press

Michael Avenatti was sentenced for stealing about $300,000 from Daniels, the porn actor who catapulted him to fame as he represented her during her legal battles with then-President Donald Trump.

Two people hug outside at Memorial High School where people were evacuated from the scene of a shooting at the Natalie Medical Building on Wednesday, in Tulsa, Okla.

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Tulsa gunman bought an AR-15 the day of the mass shooting and targeted his doctor

3:03pm June 02, 2022

by Rina Torchinsky

The shooter had complained multiple times about pain following back surgery and sought additional treatment days before the attack, which left five people dead, including the gunman, police said.