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Seven years after meeting Moh, I waited to hear: Was he now an American citizen?

4:17pm February 16, 2022

by Ari Shapiro

I knew that Monday, February 14 would be a landmark day for Mohammed al Refai. It would also be a major turning point in a story that I had started following more than six years ago.

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San Francisco man spreads joy with pancakes

4:06pm February 16, 2022

by Annelise Finney

Curtis Kimball has recently begun hosting free pancake parties for all passersby. He says the pandemic has caused a bad vibe all around, and making breakfast for people is a good way to fix it.

The New Jersey State House is seen in Trenton, N.J., Tuesday, June 27, 2017.

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N.J. police are under scrutiny for racial bias after breaking up a fight between teens

3:11pm February 16, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

In video posted to social media of a shopping mall fight, an officer tackles the Black youth who's involved and handcuffs him with the assistance of another officer as the white participant looks on.

Nicolas Montero, 16, wanted to get vaccinated but had to hide his plans from his parents, who are opposed to COVID-19 vaccination.

This 16-year-old wanted to get the COVID vaccine. He had to hide it from his parents

2:22pm February 16, 2022

by Nina Feldman

At 16, Nicolas Montero is old enough to get vaccinated on his own in some parts of the country. But he had to try to get the jabs without his parents knowing, since they're opposed to the vaccine.

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A makeshift shrine to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting is set up shortly after the massacre in December 2012 in Newtown, Conn.

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Sandy Hook families hope the Remington settlement prompts change in the gun industry

2:03pm February 16, 2022

by Nell Clark

Families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre hope the $73 million settlement will put companies that insure gun-makers on notice that they could be on the hook for huge future payouts.

Often overlooked, civil rights advocate Constance Baker Motley gets her due

1:30pm February 16, 2022

by Tonya Mosley

In Civil Rights Queen, author Tomiko Brown-Nagin profiles Motley, a Black woman who wrote the original complaint in Brown v. The Board of Education and was on Martin Luther King's legal team.

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A seemingly endless amount of drama, name-calling, lawsuits and outrage from parents and city officials, made the saga of San Francisco's school board a riveting pandemic sideshow. Voters recalled three members Tuesday.

San Francisco voters recall 3 school board members

10:07am February 16, 2022

by Peter Granitz

Voters in famously liberal San Francisco ousted three members of the board who, critics argued, focused more on renaming students than getting schools back into classrooms.

Ranking member Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., speaks during a Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security hearing about online child safety in October.

Senators aim to rewrite child safety rules on social media

8:21am February 16, 2022

by Shannon Bond

The bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act comes amid mounting frustration in Washington that apps like Instagram and YouTube aren't doing enough to protect their youngest users.

The Juyongguan Pass, part of China's Great Wall stands just roughly 30 miles from central Beijing.

Stepping outside of the 2022 Beijing Olympics bubble to see a part of 'real China'

7:47am February 16, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

NPR's Jaclyn Diaz got the rare chance to step outside the COVID quarantine bubble of the 2022 Beijing Winter Games. She and a few others got to visit the famed Great Wall.

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If you're looking to make new friends, try reaching out with pancakes

6:51am February 16, 2022

After Curtis Kimball's wife told him he was getting weird, he put up flyers saying he needed friends and was making pancakes. Roughly 100 people showed up, and about 300 showed up for the next party.

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