Amy Held
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NPR News: 02-06-2025 3PM EST
It's two and a half times the size of our Milky Way. Never before has a telescope detected so many rings in a galaxy. This cosmic bullseye has nine star-filled rings, with what looks like an arrow really a smaller blue dwarf galaxy piercing the heart. It traveled like a dart, NASA says, some 50 million years ago, leaving what looks like a ripple linked by a trail of gas.
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NPR News: 02-06-2025 3PM EST
Our universe has billions of galaxies, huge groups of stars and other matter glued together by gravity, thought to form and grow by collisions and mergers. What is really rare is for one galaxy to dive through the center of another. And the rings around this bullseye boost a long-established theory, NASA says. They appear to have moved outward almost exactly as models predicted. Amy Held, NPR News.
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NPR News: 01-19-2025 6PM EST
Negative wind chills forecast early this week spurred the National Weather Service to issue extreme cold advisories. As far south as Texas, Alabama, and Georgia, in North Dakota, there's a wind chill of 55 below possible. Widespread cold that's not just a nuisance, but can be life-threatening. with frostbite and hypothermia possible. Multiple cities are opening warming centers.
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NPR News: 01-19-2025 6PM EST
Along the East Coast, several inches of snow are set to fall before the bitter cold arrives by Monday. Some of the Arctic air mass also set to reach portions of the western U.S. In Southern California, however, the concern is the return of fierce Santa Ana winds tomorrow. That, plus low humidity, create more critical fire weather risk. Amy Held and Pierre Neuss.
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NPR News: 03-16-2025 2PM EDT
Across states, dozens of tornadoes, some described as violent, tossed trees, cars, and homes. I've got foundations with no houses attached to them. Mark Smith is coroner in Wayne County, Missouri, where several died. In the community of Butler, Tiffany Boyles said the gas station where she worked is no more.
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NPR News: 03-16-2025 2PM EDT
In Arkansas, the governor says recovery could take months, all from a sprawling system with winds feeding wildfires in Oklahoma and Texas and a deadly dust storm driven 50-car pileup in Kansas. Forecasters say a slight risk remains Sunday for severe weather in the eastern U.S. Amy Held, NPR News.
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NPR News: 02-16-2025 6PM EST
Rain over burn scars led to mudslides trapping cars in the Los Angeles area. The fire department responded, and a member had his vehicle swept off the road and into the ocean by debris flow, according to a spokesman. Mud has even seeped into homes, including Jill Forders near Pasadena.
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NPR News: 02-16-2025 6PM EST
That same system moved eastward, says forecaster Bob Orovac.
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NPR News: 02-16-2025 6PM EST
Kentucky's governor says historic flooding closed hundreds of roads. By Sunday, winds were picking up all along the East Coast, bringing the risk of outages. And in the Northern Plains, Arctic air is bringing life-threatening cold into the negative 30s. Amy Held, NPR News.
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NPR News: 03-15-2025 2PM EDT
Buildings crushed, tractor trailers tipped, trees and power lines down. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said daylight dawning on the devastation helped crews assessing the damage. In Butler County, the coroner reported rescue workers found a man dead in a home turned upside down.
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NPR News: 03-15-2025 2PM EDT
Scenes from a massive system that swept from Texas Friday, where a wind-whipped dust storm led to three car crash fatalities, into the southeast a day later, where residents were told to take shelter. as forecasters issued a rare high-risk Level 5 warning of severe thunderstorms with the potential for violent, long-lasting tornadoes.
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NPR News: 03-15-2025 2PM EDT
In Texas and Oklahoma Saturday, dry winds continue to drive wildfires.
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NPR News: 12-22-2024 9PM EST
The guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg mistakenly fired on and hit an F-18. Forcing two U.S. Navy pilots to eject safely, according to U.S. Central Command, one pilot suffered from minor injuries. For more than a year, the U.S.
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NPR News: 12-22-2024 9PM EST
military has been operating Navy warships in the region, conducting strikes on Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen who are targeting international ships in the Red Sea, and disrupting commerce in one of the world's busiest waterways. Also this weekend, CENTCOM says they shot down drones and a guided missile operated by Houthis and conducted strikes on a Houthi missile storage facility in Yemen.
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NPR News: 11-11-2024 3PM EST
Here's NPR's Amy Held. Thirteen women will serve as governors next year, breaking the record of 12 set two years ago. After Kelly Ayotte won the governor's race in New Hampshire, the new record was inevitable with two women running in that race.
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NPR News: 11-11-2024 3PM EST
And while the increased visibility is helping normalize seeing women in high office, the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers finds women remain underrepresented in political leadership. with money, family responsibilities, and party influence among the persistent barriers against increasing their political power.
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NPR News: 11-11-2024 3PM EST
Through history, 49 women have served in their state's chief executive office. 18 states have never had a female governor. Amy Held, NPR News.
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NPR News: 01-05-2025 8PM EST
Congestion pricing is now in effect in the heart of New York City. NPR's Robbie Griffiths has this report.
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NPR News: 01-05-2025 8PM EST
It's NPR News. With California's commercial Dungeness crab season starting today, the port of San Francisco is kicking off fresh-off-the-boat crab sales. Billy Cruz of member station KQED reports.
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NPR News: 01-05-2025 8PM EST
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Amy Held. A major snowstorm is moving from the Midwest to Washington, where Congress is required by law to meet and certify the presidential election results tomorrow. The D.C. government has declared a snow emergency, but congressional leaders say they will not be delayed. NPR's Luke Garrett reports.
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NPR News: 01-05-2025 8PM EST
South Korea's anti-corruption agency has requested that police take over efforts to detain impeached President Yoon Sung-yeol. A one-week warrant for Yoon is due to expire Monday.
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NPR News: 01-05-2025 8PM EST
The Corruption Investigation Office for high-ranking officials will likely seek a new court warrant to extend the window for Yoon's detention he's wanted on charges of insurrection related to his brief imposition of martial law on December 3rd. Jobs data and clues from the Fed will be top of mind as investors return to a full trading week after the holiday period.
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NPR News: 01-05-2025 8PM EST
In December, the Fed cut rates for a third consecutive time but signaled it was expecting only two cuts this year. It is releasing minutes from that meeting Wednesday, and the jobs report is due out on Friday. This is NPR News.
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NPR News: 01-05-2025 8PM EST
Four years after the insurrection and violent attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters, from the White House tonight, President Biden addressed Democratic members of Congress.
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NPR News: 01-05-2025 8PM EST
Biden says he is leaving office determined to respect the peaceful transfer of power. People in Atlanta can pay their final respects to former President Jimmy Carter until Tuesday. Georgia Public Broadcasting's Sarah Callis reports.