Bill Chappell
Stories
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Politics
Worried about your 2024 ballot being counted? These states let you track it online
“There's no need to panic,” an elections expert tells NPR. All but three states have free tracking sites that send updates to voters as their ballot goes through the system.
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National
Owners of ‘horrific’ funeral home plead guilty to federal fraud charges
Jon and Carie Hallford were accused of taking money from customers and a pandemic relief fund and spending it on travel, plastic surgery and expensive cars.
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National
'Gate lice' begone? Airline seeks to enforce order in boarding process
What’s a traveler with a carry-on bag to do as they watch scores of people file onto a plane with limited overhead bin space? Wait their turn, American Airlines says.
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Arts & Life
Former Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries is arrested in federal sex trafficking case
Several men who made bombshell allegations against Jeffries were male models who described a dynamic in which money and potentially legitimate jobs were used as leverage to exploit them.
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Sports
U.S. woman wins conkers world title, as men's champ faces metal nut cheating charges
An autumn tournament for conkers, a traditional English game, has drawn people to a country pub for years. But now a scandal — or conkerversy — is brewing after an accusation of cheating.
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National
‘We were ecstatic:’ Coast Guard rescues a man clinging to a cooler in open water
"We couldn't believe it, honestly, that he was OK," a pilot said as he described finding a man who spent the night of Hurricane Milton's landfall 30 miles from land.
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Science
There have been 38 eyewitness-reported tornados in Florida: Why did Milton cause so many?
“We ended up with 126 tornado warnings” in Florida, Matthew Elliott, the warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center, told NPR.
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National
Hurricane Milton could double in size as it surges toward Florida's coast
The Coast Guard declared “port condition Zulu” on Tuesday, closing 19 Florida ports due to incoming gale-force winds. Officials say residents should rush to finish preparing for the storm.
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National
The scale of Helene’s devastating impacts are eye-popping, even from space
Many of Helene’s effects are individual and heartbreaking, such as the deaths of children, grandparents and others. But the storm's impact is also so outsized that it’s clearly visible from space.
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Politics
In excerpt from new memoir, Melania Trump says women have the ‘right to choose’ abortion
The former first lady says she is a longtime supporter of abortion rights. Her memoir is coming out a year after former President Donald Trump said he was "able to kill Roe v. Wade."
