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Antonio Basco hugs a boy at the memorial service for his wife, Margie Reckard, at La Paz Faith Memorial and Spiritual Center in El Paso, Texas. Basco, who doesn't have many local friends and family, invited the public to attend.

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El Paso Shooting: Hundreds Of Strangers Come To Mourn With Widower At Wife's Funeral

3:50pm August 17, 2019

"Never had so much love in my life," Antonio Basco said Friday as countless people, whom he had never met, showered him with hugs, blessings and support.

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Writer Joanna Schroeder On Preventing Teenage Boys From Turning To Hate

8:53am August 17, 2019

White teenage boys are being exposed via social media to groups peddling hate. NPR's Scott Simon asks Joanna Schroeder how she talks to her kids about what they encounter online.

Siblings Christine Cuddy (left) and Flip Cuddy hold a photo of their mother, Susan Ahn Cuddy, the first Asian American woman in the Navy, at their StoryCorps interview in Northridge, Calif., last July.

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Their 'Tough' Mom Was Also The Navy's 1st Asian American Woman Officer

8:00am August 17, 2019

Susan Ahn Cuddy didn't fit the 1950s housewife mold. For one, she was an expert in air combat tactics. It wasn't until after her death in 2015 that her kids understood the full extent of her legacy.

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Fighting Seagulls In Ocean City, N.J.

8:00am August 17, 2019

Seagulls have gotten aggressive on the boardwalk in Ocean City, N.J. NPR's Scott Simon talks to local business owner Randy Levchuk about a new plan to tame the gulls.

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Hundreds Mourn El Paso Shooting Victim

8:00am August 17, 2019

by Mallory Falk

Margie Reckard was one of 22 people killed in the Walmart shootings in El Paso, Texas. Her husband, Antonio Basco, said he had no other family and invited the public to attend.

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Chicago's Underground Snow Cone Economy

8:00am August 17, 2019

by Linda Lutton

On Chicago's West Side, from the first hot day of spring until the end of summer, snow cone and candy stands sprout up to form a sweet, underground summertime economy.

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Government Checks Addresses To Prepare For Census

8:00am August 17, 2019

by Hansi Lo Wang

Census Bureau workers are spreading out across the U.S. to make sure they have a list of every home address for next year's head count. Getting left out could lead to an inaccurate 2020 census.

Mississippi River Flooding's Impact On Commercial Fishing

8:00am August 17, 2019

by Travis Lux

The Mississippi River is continuing to flood and all that water is devastating oyster harvests downstream. It's bad and getting worse.

Teaching To Protect The Hopi Language

8:00am August 17, 2019

by Melissa Sevigny

Hopi is an endangered language. The Hopi Nation in Arizona is working to preserve it with a summer program that teaches the language to preschoolers and, in some cases, to their parents.

A screenshot from video recently released by the Colorado Springs Police Department, which captured the moments before De'Von Bailey ran from police and was shot in the back on Aug. 3. He later died from his injuries.

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Family Wants Independent Probe In Fatal Police Shooting Of Teen In Colorado

9:13pm August 16, 2019

by Brakkton Booker

Colorado Springs police say De'Von Bailey reached for a firearm prior to running from officers. Bailey's family says newly released body camera footage disputes that version of events.