Heidi Glenn
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Biden is delivering his first State of the Union address on Tuesday amid a high-stress period for the nation: a growing fatigue over the pandemic and Russia's continued invasion of Ukraine.
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The United States sanctioned Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, according to White House press secretary Jen Psaki.
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For Thanksgiving, consider an orange cranberry sauce. It's a tangy, bright dish that will cut the richness of some of the staples like mashed potatoes and gravy.
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Mayor Charles Burkett tells NPR that video of the collapse shows that "it was obvious that these buildings just sort of came straight down on top of each other."
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Manas Ray, a biochemist in Cambridge, Mass., wrote "Praying From A Distance" about the toll COVID-19 has taken on his family in India. He submitted it as part of an NPR poetry callout last month.
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Forecasters used nine Greek letters to name the final storms of last year's Atlantic hurricane season. This year, the National Hurricane Center has a new plan.
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Dan Pashman, host of the podcast The Sporkful, had a quest: develop and market a brand-new shape of pasta. The result is cascatelli, a short, flat, ruffled pasta three years in the making.
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Getting some teachers comfortable with opening schools will hinge in part on elected officials showing they have educators' "best interest in mind," says union leader Randi Weingarten.
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Dr. Joseph Varon of Houston's United Memorial Medical Center senses distrust for a vaccine among some hospital staff. "They all think it's meant to harm specific sectors of the population," he says.
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Nurses are taking to social media, describing grim hospital scenes and imploring Americans to stay safe as hospitals reach capacity limits. "We're seeing the worst of the worst," says one nurse.