Jose Centeno hands food to LAUSD student Jesus Sanchez at Hollenbeck Middle School on Friday, Jan. 10. Jireh Deng for NPR hide caption toggle caption Jireh Deng for NPR More than 600,000 students in and around Los Angeles have had their schooling disrupted by the historic fires this week. School districts across the region started…
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Nvidia is truly masterful at one thing: perfectly showcasing the graphics cards at the launch of a new GPU generation. This isn’t bad in itself; after all, a fruit seller at the market also advertises his bright red apples as a real treat. But apple doesn’t cost $2,000 like Nvidia’s new gaming flagship, the GeForce…
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The trolls finally got one, but not for long. NBA social media has become a cesspool of negativity, where fans come together to commiserate about why this player is overrated and that team is garbage. Today’s athletes are so inundated with criticism from the anonymous morass that most of them have learned to push it…
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DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m David Bianculli. “A Complete Unknown,” the new film about Bob Dylan’s early career, starring Timothee Chalamet, is out in theaters. Today we hear from three of the people who were depicted in the film – first, Suze Rotolo, who was Dylan’s girlfriend and his muse. She met…
Federal Reserve officials at their December meeting expressed concern about inflation and the impact that President-elect Donald Trump‘s policies could have, indicating that they would be moving more slowly on interest rate cuts because of the uncertainty, minutes released Wednesday showed. Without calling out Trump by name, the meeting summary featured at least four mentions…
Russia fined TikTok for not removing prohibited content. The results of a presidential election in Romania were thrown out over concerns the app had been used to spread foreign influence. Albania banned TikTok for a year following the stabbing death of a teenager by another one after the two quarreled online. “Either TikTok protects the…
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This article was updated on January 9 to reflect the ball being used in Sunday’s FA Cup third round game between Arsenal and Manchester United. Mikel Arteta was in no doubt. Arsenal’s manager was dissecting a painful 2-0 home defeat against Newcastle United in Tuesday’s Carabao Cup semi-final first leg when — unprompted by any…
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TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Terry Gross. On this day of Jimmy Carter’s funeral, which has also been declared a national day of mourning, we listen back to more excerpts of the interviews I recorded with him over the years. At 100 years old, Carter was the oldest living former president in…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS boosted taxpayer services through Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act but still faces processing claims from a coronavirus pandemic-era tax credit program and is slow to resolve certain identity theft cases, according to an independent watchdog report released Wednesday. “For the first time since I became the National Taxpayer Advocate in 2020,…
Kellen Hedler’s classroom aid, Parker Van Buskirk, checks in with Kellen as he works on an assignment. Kellen is largely independent throughout the school day, but Van Buskirk is available in case he needs help. Katrina Ward for NPR hide caption toggle caption Katrina Ward for NPR Kellen Hedler, 11, is outgoing and gregarious. He…
