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Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Friday with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, hoping another round of diplomacy will keep Russian troops massed on the border with Ukraine from invading.
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NPR's Debbie Elliott speaks with Max Boot, a senior fellow in national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, about Russia's military buildup along the Ukrainian border.
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Vanilla is one of the world's most expensive spices — a pound of pods retails for more than $150. A multi-year probe found that only one in four vanilla pods met French government standards.
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The tide was rising and Millie was about to be engulfed. Rescuers attached a cooked sausage to a drone and flew it tantalizingly close to the dog, who followed the treat to higher ground.
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Meat Loaf, born Marvin Lee Aday, was best known for Bat Out Of Hell, one of the best-selling albums of all time. He also appeared in over 65 movies, including The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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Photojournalist Margarito Martinez was shot dead this week in the northern border city of Tijuana, the second journalist to be killed in Mexico in just weeks.
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More than a thousand health professionals are calling on Spotify to crack down on COVID-19 falsehoods aired on the podcast of the company's most popular host. -
The White House launched two new efforts to help Americans get free access to rapid COVID tests. It's still hard to find tests, and reimbursement for tests bought at a store isn't necessarily easy.
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NPR's Debbie Elliott talks to Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio about the issues facing the Democrats' agenda, and why President Biden can't seem to get a win on Capitol Hill.
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Anti-abortion activists hope Friday's March for Life will be the last time they'll have to ask the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, and decades of precedent supporting abortion rights.
