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Happy 5th birthday, @UpFirst! 🎉
Our inaugural episode covered Trump's first in-person meeting with China's president and the global response to a chemical attack in Syria. Also, Beyoncé had just dropped a new music video.
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The FDA's approval of a second booster shot for people over 50 had @AMartinezLA and @NPRinskeep feeling... old.
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Tune into today's @UpFirst for the top stories we're following today - Ukraine, Student Loans & GOP primaries npr.org/podcasts/510318/up-f…
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A 40-mile #convoy of #Russian military vehicles is closing in on #Kyiv; Russians are feeling the #economic pain of Western #sanctions; and President #Biden will deliver his first #SOTU tonight amid several crisis. On today's @UpFirst w/@AMartinezLA npr.org/2022/02/27/108337811…
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Top of the morning to all!
-Russian President Vladimir Putin says the US is stoking war
-NFL coach Brian Flores is suing three teams and the NFL over racial discrimination in their hiring practices.
- Crude oil prices reach seven-year highs
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Have enjoyed guest-hosting @UpFirst this week.
Here's today's pod: Senate Advances Budget Plan, Cuomo Resigns, Is COVID As Contagious As Chickenpox? npr.org/2021/08/08/102594899…
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"I had an awesome job, I was in love... It ended up into needles and accidental overdoses, purposeful suicide attempts."
As the judge hears final arguments in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case, opioid victims detail how the pills ravaged their lives.
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Wally Funk is now the oldest person to reach space, on the Blue Origin launch.
In the 1960s, she passed many of the same tests that qualified men to be astronauts, but was denied from NASA four times.
Funk never gave up on her dream of going to space. n.pr/3rmEV5a
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🦋NEW EP ALERT 🦋
@Maria_Hinojosa & @NopalitaMami are both Mexican Americans with multiracial ancestry and relatively light skin. But Maria H. strongly identifies as a woman of color, while Maria G. no longer uses the label POC. We wanted to know: Why?
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Landfills are among the U.S.'s largest sources of methane. Reducing it could almost immediately curb climate change.
But the challenges with reining in methane are big — starting with even quantifying how much is released by landfills.
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A reminder how early some @NPR journalists get up for you. This is when my alarm will go off tomorrow so I can host @MorningEdition & @UpFirst with @NPRinskeep. The show is staffed 24 hours, so some of my colleagues will have been up all night. Support public radio & local media!
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Search efforts in Surfside, Fla. have shifted from rescue to recovery, officials said.
After nearly two weeks since the condo collapse, authorities acknowledged finding survivors now isn't likely.
They held a moment of silence after the announcement. n.pr/3dY2RWX
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The assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse may be "a very difficult situation for Haiti to remain stable," NPR's @ckahn says.
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Democrats are criticizing President Biden's new bipartisan infrastructure plan, saying it doesn’t go far enough.
@SenSanders is pushing back on the bill — he tells @rachelnpr it needs more to address issues like climate change or healthcare.
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G☕️☕️ D M☕️ R N I N G!
Today's top stories:
Life expectancy in the U.S. has dropped two years since the start of the pandemic.
Many southern states are far behind President Biden’s vaccination goal.
And Carl Nassib’s coming out is making history. npr.org/live-updates/morning…
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Happy Wednesday! Had your coffee yet?
Today’s news you need to know starts with Britney Spears as she heads to court over her conservatorship.
Next, find out why pro-democracy paper Apple Daily is shutting down in Hong Kong.
Stay with us ☕️
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Good morning, Twitter! Join us LIVE as we break down today's top stories right here: n.pr/3xGGb5c
To start your day, read on about Carl Nassib, who became the first openly gay active NFL player. ⬇️