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Nearly 800 faculty and staff members at UNC-Chapel Hill have signed an open letter calling on administrators to lift punishments on student protestors who participated in the pro-Palestinian demonstrations last week.
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An Israeli tank brigade seized control Tuesday of the Gaza Strip side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, authorities said, as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remain on a knife's edge.
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Ryan Riccucci, a 17-year agency veteran, says he feels the agency is misunderstood by the U.S. public.
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Three doctors talk with co-host Leoneda Inge about an audio archive they've all contributed to that captures reproductive health history, happening now. We also talk about the disproportionate impact of abortion restrictions on historically-marginalized populations.
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A reporter and an abortion clinic director talk about the anticipated impact in North Carolina, and the changes that have already taken place, after Florida's new restrictions went into effect on May 1.
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NASA astronaut Christina Koch touches down in the Due South studios for a wide-ranging conversation on space exploration and some of the common questions she gets about living and working in space.
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Jeff Tiberii and Leoneda Inge talk with Rachel Smith, an astrophysicist at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science who studies star and planet formation. She talks about her research and some of humankind's biggest questions, like – are we alone in the universe?
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WUNC's Brian Burns chats with Kamasi Washington about his new record 'Fearless Movement.'
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Ukrainians in an Easter address to be united in prayer and called God an "ally" in the war with Russia.
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A wide region was swamped from Houston to rural East Texas, where game wardens rode airboats through waist-high waters rescuing both people and pets.
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Friends, colleagues and the wife of fallen Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Joshua Eyer are remembering him as a hard-charging outwardly stern cop who also peppered friends with "how's things" texts and showered love on his wife and young son. Thousands packed the sanctuary at Charlotte's First Baptist Church on Friday for Eyer's memorial service.
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A decline in hunters and a deadly disease are threatening the foundation of our wildlife management system.
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State lawmakers are back in Raleigh to begin what’s known as the short session – several months in which they’ll make adjustments to the state budget for the upcoming year and consider a variety of other legislation that didn’t make it across the finish line in the 2023 long session. One of the biggest partisan battles is likely to be over education funding: How much of the state's projected revenue surplus will go to public schools, and how much will address high demand for private school vouchers? Will the state address the funding cliff that childcare centers are experiencing as federal pandemic money expires?To sort through the issues facing lawmakers, WUNC's Colin Campbell spoke with Sen. Gale Adcock, D-Wake. Adcock, a longtime nurse practitioner, also discusses the state's healthcare policy needs in the months following the expansion of the Medicaid program.
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Something Special for you all: an episode from "Me and My Muslim Friends," featuring Sameera Qureshi. She is a therapist and founder of Sexual Health for Muslims. Her approach to sex education, therapy, and health is grounded in the Islamic framework and the Islamic understanding of the soul. Unfortunately, most Muslims don’t have access to a comprehensive sex education growing up. Host Yasmin Bendaas and Sameera dive into the consequences of that and talk about some of the most common issues Sameera hears in her counseling practice.
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Three doctors talk with co-host Leoneda Inge about an audio archive they've all contributed to that captures reproductive health history, happening now. We also talk about the disproportionate impact of abortion restrictions on historically-marginalized populations.
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Religion and sexuality are often pitted against one another...so where does that leave folks who seek attunement and education for both?
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