Loni Long’s cousin Benita Long has been missing since March 2022. Jovelle Tamayo for NPR hide caption toggle caption Jovelle Tamayo for NPR When Loni Long thinks of her cousin Benita Long, she’s taken back to when she was 14 […]
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Canadian former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, 43, who is a fugitive, is seen top left, with 15 other defendants who have been charged in a 16-count superseding indictment for allegedly running and participating in a transnational drug trafficking operation that
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President Trump’s executive order that the federal government recognizes only two sexes, male and female, led the State Department to suspend its policy allowing transgender, intersex and nonbinary people to update the “sex” field on their passports and to eliminate
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A sign for the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons is displayed in the Brooklyn borough of New York, July 6, 2020. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Lennihan/AP The Bureau of Prisons is pushing ahead with plans
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Demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they carry the group’s flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, Iraq, on June 16, 2014. STR/AP hide caption toggle caption STR/AP The FBI says the man responsible for the
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Activists appeal for a $15 minimum wage near the Capitol in Washington in 2021. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP Minimum-wage workers in 21 states will see a bigger paycheck come the new year. They’re among
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An airplane flies over starlings over a lake near the southern coastal city of Larnaca, in southeast Mediterranean island of Cyprus, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. Petros Karadjias/AP hide caption toggle caption Petros Karadjias/AP While the exact cause of the tragic
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Niki Capaci (third from right) sits with her children in an old family photo. The Capaci family hide caption toggle caption The Capaci family Niki Capaci, a mother of seven, died last year while incarcerated in a New York jail.
Shoppers walk along Fifth Avenue on Nov. 29 in New York City. Heather Khalifa/AP hide caption toggle caption Heather Khalifa/AP If you’re feeling guilty for thinking about returning that unironically ugly sweater your least favorite aunt gave you this holiday
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Marc and Debra Tice, the parents of American journalist Austin Tice (portrait, left), who was abducted in Syria more than 12 years ago, give a news conference in Beirut in 2018. Joseph Eid/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption
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