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Fans cheer after Serena Williams won the first set against Anett Kontaveit in their Women's Singles Second Round match on August 31, 2022.

Watching in the stands or on television, Serena Williams has dazzled in the U.S. Open

12:03pm September 02, 2022

by Tom Goldman

Capacity crowds have turned out to watch American tennis star Serena Williams play in the first two rounds of the U.S. Open. She's said this might be her last tournament. No one wants to say goodbye.

Nicole Ogburn enseña la nueva herramienta que usará este año para evaluar el estado emocional de sus alumnos.

Esta maestra sobrevivió el tiroteo en Uvalde. Ahora explica por qué regresa a clases

11:53am September 02, 2022

Este año, mientras Nicole Ogburn prepara su salón de clases, su prioridad ya no son las decoraciones. En cambio, está comprando cosas para hacer que el salón sea más seguro.

Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, attends a Senate hearing in Washington last July. She spoke to NPR shortly after the CDC recommended updated booster shots.

There's no bad time to get a new COVID booster if you're eligible, CDC director says

10:11am September 02, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

People can get the Moderna booster if they're 18 or older, and the Pfizer-BioNTech version if they're 12 and up. In both cases, they must wait at least two months since their last COVID vaccine.

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Brigham Young University officials say they have no evidence that a man whom the university had banned from entering its athletic facilities had used a racist slur during a recent women's basketball game against Duke University.

BYU says it has no proof that the fan banned over racist slurs said them

6:33am September 02, 2022

by Bill Chappell

The slurs marred a high-profile volleyball match between BYU and Duke last Friday. Duke sophomore Rachel Richardson says players were "targeted and racially heckled."

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Morning news brief

5:40am September 02, 2022

Joe Biden gives a stark warning at his primetime speech. We answer your burning questions about student loan forgiveness. And, August's job numbers are predicted to look good.

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Brandy Bottone has said she was not trying to make a political statement when she told Dallas deputies that her fetus counts as a living person.

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Pregnant woman who claimed her fetus was an HOV lane passenger gets another ticket

5:30am September 02, 2022

by Vanessa Romo

Brandy Bottone got the first traffic violation dismissed, arguing that under Texas' abortion law, her fetus counted as a person. She's hoping to make the same argument again.

The aurora australis over Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 2009. A new report from the National Science Foundation finds sexual harassment and assault are a major problem at remote facilities.

Sexual harassment and assault plague U.S. research bases in Antarctica, report says

9:20pm September 01, 2022

A new report commissioned by the National Science Foundation finds a culture of silence and fear among employees at U.S.-run facilities in Antarctica.

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Oklahoma's top education official is calling for an educator's teaching certificate to be revoked after she gave students access to books restricted under a new state law.

An Oklahoma teacher gave her students access to banned books—now she's under scrutiny

8:41pm September 01, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

Summer Boismier resigned from Norman High School after a student's parent complained. Now, Oklahoma's Secretary of Education wants to revoke her teaching certificate.

Workers line up to vote on unionization at Amazon's warehouse in Staten Island on March 25.

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Amazon loses key step in its attempt to reverse its workers' historic union vote

7:40pm September 01, 2022

by Alina Selyukh

A federal labor official is recommending a dismissal of Amazon's objections after a lengthy hearing on the company's appeal against the historic union win at a warehouse in New York's Staten Island.

The FBI photographed documents marked "Top Secret" on the floor of former President Trump's office in Mar-a-Lago, Fla. The redacted image was included in a Justice Department filing.

Why the DOJ's photo of top secret documents held by Trump matters

6:11pm September 01, 2022

by Bill Chappell

The photo, showing top secret documents splayed across a carpeted floor in Mar-a-Lago, was called unprecedented by many observers. It has driven discussions about Trump's legal woes into overdrive.