A short documentary, “Yazzie,” shares the story of a champion “fancy dancer” at the Shining Mountains Film Festival this weekend; it will be followed by a performance from Yazzie’s company, Native Pride Productions.
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On today's newscast: The temporary migrant shelter in Carbondale is still at capacity and town is facing challenges in their effort to support the roughly 125 new arrivals, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been working with western landowners to help preserve migration corridors, the annual Summit for Life uphill race takes place at Aspen Mountain this Saturday, and more.
NPR News
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The twice-extended cease-fire held long enough for Israel to secure the release of more than 100 hostages seized by Hamas in its Oct. 7 attack. In exchange, Israel freed hundreds of Palestinians.
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Israel's military said it had resumed combat operations in the Gaza Strip minutes after a temporary truce with Hamas expired Friday, blaming the militant group for breaking the cease-fire.
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The law is seen an important test case. More than a dozen other states are weighing similar bans of the wildly popular video-streaming app, which is owned by a Chinese tech company.
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Baby boomers are entering older age amid a historic affordable-housing shortage and widening inequality. A new study warns many won't be able to access the kind of housing or caregiving they need.
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NPR appoints Gimlet executive Collin Campbell to oversee its podcasts in the wake of a sharp dive in revenues and churn in its executive ranks.
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A critic becomes an amateur detective in order to avoid becoming a murder suspect in Alexis Soloski's Here in the Dark. In The Mystery Guest, by Nita Prose, a hotel's maid has to clean up a real mess.
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Shane MacGowan was a famously hard-drinking but brilliant musician who shot to fame in the 1980s with the folk punk band The Pogues.
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This year's United Nations climate summit is being held in the petroleum-dependent United Arab Emirates. Delegates began by approving a landmark fund to pay for climate losses.
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As both sides prepared for the final planned hostage-for-prison swap, gunmen killed three Israelis in an attack on the outskirts of West Jerusalem early Thursday.
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Es Devlin says that stadiums are designed for competition and combat. So her job, whether she's designing for Beyoncé, Super Bowl Halftime, or The Olympics, is to achieve intimacy on a massive scale.
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