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Closing Costs: Parents Push For Role In Choosing New Charter School Operator

The school year is winding down, and for three New Orleans charters, the last day will bring dramatic changes. Two of those schools are closing for good.…

The Ebene Quartet Powers Through Mendelssohn

Watch one of today's top string quartets delve deep at a Brooklyn bookstore to play the dark-hued second movement of Felix Mendelssohn's Op. 80 string quartet.

NPR's Liane Hansen at work on the Serendipity 3 Frrrozen Hot Chocolate.

Landmark New York Eatery Turns 50

This fall, Serendipity 3, the quirky dessert restaurant and boutique on New York's Upper East Side, celebrates its 50th year in business. Co-founder Stephen Bruce has written a book. He speaks with NPR's Liane Hansen.

Matthew Fitzpatrick reacts after winning the U.S. Open golf tournament at The Country Club, Sunday in Brookline, Mass.

Matthew Fitzpatrick wins the U.S. Open

Fitzpatrick just barely outplayed Will Zalatoris to win his first major golf tournament, winning by one stroke in Massachusetts on Sunday.

Not Your Mother's Pot Brownie

A Boulder-based baker of marijuana-infused products is capitalizing on the growing popularity of "edibles" with a cookbook.

The tiny fishing village of El Bosque, Mexico, is vanishing into the Gulf because of rapid coastal erosion. Guadalupe Cobos describes how quickly her neighbors have had to flee the encroaching waves.

The Unlikely Hero of El Bosque

El Bosque, Mexico, a tiny fishing village on Mexico’s Gulf Coast, is quickly vanishing into the sea. In this episode, we journey to El Bosque to meet the town’s most unlikely hero—one person determined to fight for a future as her neighbors flee the encroaching waves.

A stock clerk working on Black Friday moves merchandise into position at a Toys R Us store in Fairfax, Va. Retailers added 50,000 jobs in November.

Jobless Dip May Overstate Economic Improvement

The unemployment rate dropped unexpectedly to 8.6 percent in November, in part because hundreds of thousands of Americans stopped looking for work. But analysts said the modest increase of 120,000 jobs created last month points to an economy that's generally still limping.

Activists from the Gulf Coast and Germany come together to protest the global expansion of LNG in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

All Gassed Up, Part 2: The German Connection

Until the Ukraine War, Russia was Europe’s biggest supplier of natural gas. After the invasion, political leaders wanted off Russian gas, and fast. So, they turned to the U.S. In part two, we follow American gas all the way to Germany — Europe’s biggest energy consumer, where the energy crisis hit hardest. U.S. LNG provided a lifeline for Germany. But what happens when a country gets hooked?

They were there on D-Day, on the beaches and in the skies. This is what they saw

More than 150,000 U.S., British and Canadian troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. A small handful told NPR about their experience.

A ski jumper flies overhead on the 60-meter ski jump at the Suicide Hill Ski Bowl in Ishpeming, Mich. on March 7, 2021. The Suicide Hill Ski Bowl is home to 5 ski jumps - one being the infamous 90-meter Suicide Hill Ski Jump.

America's birthplace of organized skiing is in Michigan, here's what it looks like

Michigan photographer Nic Antaya started a documenting Ishpeming Ski Club to understand how it has birthed a handful of Olympic athletes and its culture.

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