Bill Chappell
Stories
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Voters could make recreational weed legal in a majority of U.S. states
Voters in three states will decide whether to legalize recreational use. Earlier this year, Pew reported that 88% of U.S. adults said marijuana should be legal for medical or recreational use.
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How has the Electoral College survived, despite being perennially unpopular?
Despite its substantial-sounding name, the Electoral College isn’t a permanent body: It’s more of a process. For decades, a majority of Americans have wanted it to be changed.
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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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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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'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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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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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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‘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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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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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.
