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New York State troopers used the badge to settle personal scores and elicit favors. Still, they remained on the job, an investigation found.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration/nasa.govOn January 28, 1986, the world watched in horror as Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch, killing seven astronauts. A WNY astronomer recalls memories and notes local legacies. -
Nitashia Johnson for NPRForth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes.
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Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. -
At his first Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing since Nicolas Maduro was seized, Secretary of State Marco Rubio warns the U.S. could still use force to pressure Venezuela's adminstration. -
The German film Sound of Falling compels and disturbs in equal measure. -
In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from WHO, California is the first state to participate in the agency's disease monitoring network. Are others following? -
Experts say federal immigration agents' skills are a dangerous mismatch for urban settings such as the Twin Cities
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Regional News
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An accredited university dedicated to Indigenous studies could welcome its first students in the fall of 2027 to the former campus of Wells College. -
As 34 people become U.S. citizens in a Syracuse courtroom, immigration attorneys and advocates say expanded enforcement continues to fuel fear across Central New York. -
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Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan signed the order Monday which prohibits the use of city personnel or resources for federal civil immigration enforcement. -
Several states, including California and Texas, have already redrawn their maps in an arms race started by Republicans at President Donald Trump’s urging. -
Gov. Kathy Hochul Sunday said that federal Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign, be fired, or impeached for a fatal shooting of a protester by federal agents Saturday in Minneapolis.
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According to insiders at ESPN and NFL Network, offensive coordinator Joe Brady has been promoted as successor to Sean McDermott. He was fired following the team's playoff loss to the Denver Broncos. -
While Democratic candidate Jeremy Zellner and Republican candidate Dan Gagliardo both have concerns with ICE, they have diverging views on if state and local police should cooperate with ICE. -
Former Dunkirk Treasurer Mark Woods has been arrested and charged with the alleged theft of $120,000 from the city. State Senator George Borrello says a control board could help get finances under control.
Arts & Culture Beat
- Theater Talk: BTPM Broadway trip a success, Shea's celebrates 100th anniversary, while Shea's 710 has MAMMA MIA! and Shea's Smith has SHREK: THE MUSICAL. Off Main Street RENT continues in Lockport, and two new plays opened: BLOOD ON LINOLEUM OR RETAIL HORROR (apt title) and PRESERVATION. (See listings)
- Theater Talk: Anthony reads Elizabeth Ashley's memoir, has some Broadway insights, and talks of openings, including a quick run-through of this very, very busy local opening weekend
- Theater Talk: Peter Shaffer's BLACK COMEDY at Desiderio's, funny!, great food, and the only show in town, then next week theaters explode with MAMMA MIA! , PRESERVATION, SHREK, LADY DAY, and Sean Ryan (the actor, not the mayor) stars in RENT. Click through for listings through February. And Anthony has a bittersweet story about a favorite Manhattan restaurant closing and a meal with Veanne Cox.
- Theater Talk: Notable passings in 2025 and Anthony sees LIBERATION at the James Earl Jones Theatre in NYC
Disabilities Beat
- Disabilities Beat: Are gubernatorial candidates listening to the disability community?
- Disabilities Beat: Remembering advocate Natalie Barnhard-Castrogiovanni, 'a beacon of light'
- Disability advocate, Motion Project founder Natalie Barnhard-Castrogiovanni, dies
- ‘Unprecedented’: Western New York hospitals overwhelmed by influenza A outbreak