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BBC Topline — 5:15 a.m. every weekday. Topline provides a 90-second snapshot of the world’s most important unfolding stories.
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Don Noble Book Reviews — 7: 45 a.m. every Monday. Host Don Noble reviews books written by Alabama authors.
StoryCorps — 7:45 a.m. every Tuesday. Recordings and collections of everyday stories from everyday people. Excerpts are selected and produced by Alabama Public Radio.
Keepin' It Real — 7: 45 a.m. every Friday. Host Cam Marston brings us weekly commentaries (opinion pieces) on the world he observes as it goes on around him.
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Swiss authorities say dozens of people were killed in an overnight fire at the Le Constellation bar at the Crans-Montana ski resort.
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Jan. 1 is the day the extra financial help to buy Affordable Care Act health insurance goes away.
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Now that the Affordable Care Act subsidies have expired, NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Democratic Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont about the future of the ACA.
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The legendary 95-year-old investor spent decades building his company into one of the world's largest and most powerful. Now Greg Abel is taking it over. -
The Affordable Care Act subsidies have expired, Trump administration freezes Minnesota childcare funds after claims of fraud, Zohran Mamdani sworn in as New York City mayor.
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A look at some of the works going into the public domain in 2026, like the characters Betty Boop and Miss Marple, the first film adaptation of "All Quiet on the Western Front" and many classic songs by George & Ira Gershwin.
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NPR's A Martinez speaks to Nicholas Burns, former U.S. ambassador to China, about the current state of relations between the U.S. and China.
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We unpack one of the biggest economic buzzwords of 2025: What is a "K-shaped' economy?
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Baltimore's crime rate dropped dramatically in the past year. NPR's Michel Martin asks Thomas Abt, a criminology professor at the University of Maryland, what Baltimore did right.
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Italy has quietly made a small change to its national anthem, removing a single word.
