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A Washington state man has been arrested after allegedly calling a Buffalo, N.Y., grocery store and threatening to kill the Black people inside. This nearby Tops Grocery store in Buffalo was the scene of a deadly mass shooting in May.

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A man is charged with threatening to shoot Black shoppers at a Buffalo grocery store

6:01am July 26, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

The federal criminal complaint details other threatening calls allegedly made by the suspect over the past year to businesses in California, Maryland, Connecticut and Washington state, officials say.

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Native Hawaiians are concerned by a new telescope slated for the big island

5:04am July 26, 2022

The prospect of a new telescope on Mauna Kea poses a problem for some who believe the Hawaiian volcano is sacred.

Steven Lopez listens during a court hearing, July 25, 2022, in New York. Lopez, a co-defendant of the so-called Central Park Five, whose convictions in a notorious 1989 rape of a jogger were thrown out more than a decade later, had his conviction on a rel

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A 6th teenager charged in the 1989 Central Park jogger case is exonerated

3:34am July 26, 2022

by The Associated Press

A co-defendant of the so-called Central Park Five, whose convictions in the notorious rape of a jogger were thrown out more than a decade later, had his conviction on a related charge overturned.

The changes the Fed is making in the face of historically high inflation

5:19pm July 25, 2022

This week, the Federal Reserve will again decide whether and how much to raise interest rates to try to bring inflation under control.

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Rep. Elissa Slotkin on her visit to Ukraine and meeting with President Zelenskyy

5:19pm July 25, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., about her trip to Ukraine with a bipartisan Congressional delegation and meeting with President Zelenskyy.

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Bob Rafelson, 'Five Easy Pieces' director, has died at age 89

5:19pm July 25, 2022

by Bob Mondello

Filmmaker Bob Rafelson, a key figure in the 1970s New Hollywood movement and director of Five Easy Pieces, has died at 89 from lung cancer.

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Freedom fighter Denmark Vesey is being honored in the same city where he was executed

5:10pm July 25, 2022

by Victoria Hansen

Denmark Vesey was a freeman who organized a slave rebellion that was thwarted when news of it was leaked. He ultimately was hanged. A bicentennial celebration was held earlier in July for Vesey.

Joni Mitchell returns to Newport Folk Festival

5:10pm July 25, 2022

For the first time since 2000, folk legend Joni Mitchell took to the stage with some friends, to the delight of fans at the Newport Folk Festival.

After receiving their white doctor's coats, dozens of incoming medical students at the University of Michigan walked out in protest of a keynote speaker with anti-abortion beliefs.

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Michigan medical students walk out on an anti-abortion keynote speaker

4:47pm July 25, 2022

by Becky Sullivan

A petition had circulated before Sunday's white coat ceremony asking the university to remove the speaker, a physician who directs the school's Health, Spirituality and Religion program.

Outfitting cows with GPS trackers could be good for ranchers and prairie birds

4:45pm July 25, 2022

by Celia Llopis-Jepsen

In Kansas, some cattle are now wearing GPS trackers. It's part of a plan to see if invisible fences can help ranchers grow healthy grass while also protecting disappearing prairie birds.