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NPR News: 04-09-2025 10AM EDT
The Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration is responsible for millions of miles of oil and gas pipelines like Keystone. It's sending investigators to look into what happened near Fort Ransom, North Dakota. Officials say an employee heard a mechanical bang and shut down the pipeline within a couple of minutes.
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NPR News: 04-09-2025 10AM EDT
The company that operates Keystone estimates that about 3,500 barrels of oil spilled into an agricultural field in a rural area.
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NPR News: 04-09-2025 10AM EDT
The industry watchdog group Pipeline Safety Trust says the safety agency is under-resourced and underfunded, and several media reports say it has lost several key leaders, including the top pipeline safety official to buyout offers from Elon Musk's Doge cost-cutting team. Giles Snyder, NPR News.
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NPR News: 10-29-2024 4AM EDT
While Harris speaks this evening, Donald Trump will be rallying supporters in Pennsylvania, which has a growing Puerto Rican population. The Trump campaign is facing backlash from the Sunday evening rally at Madison Square Garden after a comedian called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage. Giles Snyder, NPR News.
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NPR News: 10-29-2024 4AM EDT
Kamala Harris is to deliver her speech on the National Mall at the Ellipse with the White House in the backdrop. The Ellipse is the same spot where former President Donald Trump spoke to his supporters on January 6, 2021, just before they stormed the Capitol in an attempt to prevent Congress from formalizing President Joe Biden's victory.
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NPR News: 02-18-2025 4AM EST
The Department of Energy has rescinded the firings of many workers responsible for overseeing the nation's nuclear weapons. NPR's Jeff Bromfield reports a reversal came within hours of mass terminations.
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NPR News: 02-18-2025 4AM EST
The Vatican says Pope Francis remained in the hospital to treat what it calls a complex clinical situation. Francis admitted late last week for a respiratory infection, as NPR's Jackie Northam reports.
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NPR News: 02-18-2025 4AM EST
This is NPR News. The death toll from widespread flooding in Kentucky is rising. Governor Andy Beshear says at least 12 people were killed in his state following heavy rain over the weekend. One fatality has been confirmed in West Virginia, where the governor is asking President Trump to declare a federal disaster.
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NPR News: 02-18-2025 4AM EST
It's icy, snowy and cold across much of the U.S., but Brazil is getting record heat. Rio de Janeiro hit 107 Monday. prompting city officials to issue health warnings and open cooling centers, as NPR's Carrie Kahn reports.
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NPR News: 02-18-2025 4AM EST
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul says the Trump administration is making a mistake by meeting with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia without Ukraine and Europe on board.
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NPR News: 02-18-2025 4AM EST
And international hockey, Sweden top Team USA in last night's Four Nations face-off game in Boston. But the victory has no bearing on Thursday night's final. The U.S. already assured of playing. And the game will be a rematch against Canada, which advanced with a victory over Finland. Canada lost to the U.S.
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NPR News: 02-18-2025 4AM EST
and Montreal over the weekend, a game marked by three fights in the first seconds of action. This is NPR News.
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NPR News: 02-18-2025 4AM EST
Top U.S. and Russian officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Our meeting at the Sauer in Riyadh, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he will not recognize any agreements without Ukraine at the table. And European leaders held emergency talks in Paris on Monday amid concern that they could be sidelined.
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NPR News: 02-18-2025 4AM EST
The National Transportation Safety Board sending investigators to Toronto to assist their Canadian counterparts in the investigation into Monday's crash at Toronto Pearson International Airport. A Delta flight out of Minneapolis crashed while landing and flipped upside down. Officials say 18 people were injured, but no one was killed.
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NPR News: 02-18-2025 3AM EST
New York Governor Kathy Hochul plans to meet with New York City officials Tuesday to discuss a path forward for the city as a corruption scandal engulfs the mayor. Bruce Convisor reports the governor appears to be considering drastic action.
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NPR News: 02-18-2025 3AM EST
This is NPR. Forecasters are warning of life-threatening cold in the Rockies and Northern Plains, saying temperatures in parts of North Dakota could drop to 60 below. Extreme cold warnings have been posted across 11 states, stretching from Canada to Oklahoma and Central Texas. The cold follows deadly weekend flooding. At least 14 people were killed, including 12 in Kentucky.
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NPR News: 02-18-2025 3AM EST
and one in West Virginia. The White House says it will nominate political activist Ed Martin as the top federal prosecutor to serve in Washington, D.C. NPR's Kerry Johnson reports that Martin's record has come under scrutiny.
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NPR News: 02-18-2025 3AM EST
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Talks between top U.S. and Russian officials got underway in Saudi Arabia a short time ago. The talks are the first face-to-face between the two countries since Russia invaded Ukraine. But neither Ukraine nor any European allies are participating.
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NPR News: 02-18-2025 3AM EST
To Maryland now, where police have arrested the apparent leader of a cult-like group known as the Zizians. Maryland State Police say 34-year-old Jack Lasota was arrested Sunday, along with another member of the group. Investigators say the Zizians are tied to the shooting death last month of a Border Patrol agent in Vermont and may be linked to five other deaths in three states. This is NPR News.
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NPR News: 02-18-2025 3AM EST
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he will not recognize any agreements made without Ukraine at the table. The president and CEO of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, Deborah Flint, is giving credit to first responders for the absence of fatalities stemming from Monday's crash of a Delta Airlines jet that flipped on its roof while landing at Pearson International Airport.
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NPR News: 02-18-2025 3AM EST
Officials say 18 passengers out of 80 people on board the flight were taken to hospital. The NTSB is sending investigators to Toronto to assist their Canadian counterparts in the investigation. Dallas-based Southwest Airlines laying off 15% of its corporate employees. Caroline Love of member station KERA reports on this part of the company's restructuring after recent turmoil.
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NPR News: 02-11-2025 12PM EST
The first storm is moving east out of Kansas, where Governor Laura Kelly has declared a state of emergency. The storm will bring significant snow and ice accumulations to the mid-Atlantic. Winter storm warnings extend from Kentucky to southern New Jersey. And Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has also declared an emergency amid warnings of treacherous travel conditions and potential power outages.
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NPR News: 02-11-2025 12PM EST
On the heels of the first storm, another round of heavy snow from a second storm is expected from Kansas and Missouri into the Great Lakes and will be on the East Coast by Thursday morning. A third significant storm is expected to bring the threat of flooding to California, especially to areas devastated by last month's wildfires around Los Angeles. Giles Snyder, NPR News.
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NPR News: 02-11-2025 11AM EST
Trader Joe's says it's now limiting customers to one dozen eggs daily, saying the move is intended to ensure eggs remain available for as many shoppers as possible. Other chains, including Costco and Aldi, are limiting the amount of eggs customers can buy, and restaurants are feeling the shortage. Last week, Waffle House implemented a 50-cent surcharge on each egg until prices come down.
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NPR News: 02-11-2025 11AM EST
With the bird flu outbreak leading to the slaughter of millions of egg-laying hens, the price of eggs are soaring. The average per dozen hit $4.15 in December, and the Agriculture Department expects prices to rise another 20 percent this year. Joel Snyder, NPR News.
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NPR News: 02-16-2025 7PM EST
But he says the public stands to lose a lot more. You're losing people who are
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NPR News: 02-16-2025 7PM EST
I mean, that's what the Park Service is founded on. That's their mission. Gibbs says he has other skill sets, but that this job was his passion.
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NPR News: 02-16-2025 7PM EST
The National Weather Service says river levels across the region were already high after a round of precipitation early last week. Meteorologist Alex Vorst says Saturday's rainfall worsened the situation.
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NPR News: 02-16-2025 7PM EST
NWS reports central and western Kentucky got the heaviest rainfall. Communities in the eastern Kentucky mountains have also been affected, including denser population centers like Hazard and Pikeville. For NPR News, I'm Shepard Snyder in Lexington, Kentucky.