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In the more than four decades since, almost everything about the program has changed, from the hosts, producers, editors and reporters to the length of the program, the equipment used and even the audience.
However there is one thing that remains the same: each show consists of the biggest stories of the day, thoughtful commentaries, insightful features on the quirky and the mainstream in arts and life, music and entertainment, all brought alive through sound.
All Things Considered is the most listened-to, afternoon drive-time, news radio program in the country. The program has earned many of journalism's highest honors, including the George Foster Peabody Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and the Overseas Press Club Award.
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This Weekend, tornadoes ripped through Oklahoma, Iowa and Nebraska. At least four people have died in Oklahoma and the destruction was enormous.
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Florida had been a destination for people in the Deep South to get abortions, but on May first a six-week abortion ban goes into effect there, making the region the most restrictive for the procedure.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Luis Miguel Echegaray, ESPN soccer analyst, about the two teams in the race for the English Premier League soccer title with only three weeks left in the season.
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After 18 years of service in the State Department, Hala Rharrit discusses her resignation with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.
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The federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled in favor of transgender patients on Monday. The case was brought by Medicaid recipients in West Virginia and state employees in North Carolina.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with David Scheffer, former ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, about the possibility of the ICC issuing arrest warrants for Israeli officials due to acts in Gaza.
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Kentucky's legislature passed a ban on street camping, a measure opponents say criminalizes homelessness. The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a case that could affect the fate of such bans.
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As protests rise on college campuses around America, students reflect on the legacy of the campus activism of the late 1960s.
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Earlier this month in Utah, a shy, 6-year-old indoor cat named Galena vanished from her home. Then her microchip was detected 650 miles away in California.
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While some property owners try to turn a profit from the street artist's murals, others have carried the intense and costly responsibility of protecting them.