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Legislators finished the 2026 legislative session Thursday with a hotly contested primary bill falling short.
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America’s favorite pastime meets the power of music. Listen to the newest edition of Anthems April 7.
We’re excited to share some upcoming changes to your listening schedule. Your favorite show is still waiting for you, but it may be at a different time or perhaps a different day.
Gulf States Newsroom
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Elise Catrion Gregg/Gulf States NewsroomAs advocates and lawmakers in Mississippi look for ways to push automatic restoration in the state, Louisiana offers a model for compromise. But, advocates there say their system comes with trade-offs as well. -
Illustration by Jay Marcano for the Gulf States Newsroom and Type Investigations; Photos by AP PhotoLouisiana officials signed non-disclosure agreements as Amazon's $12 billion data centers unfolded in secret.
News from NPR
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Pope Leo XIV's four-nation, 11-day trip to Africa is so dizzying in its complexity it recalls some of the globetrotting odysseys of St. John Paul II in his early years. -
The Bollywood legend was one of the world's most recorded artists — who, by her own reckoning, made more than 12,000 songs. -
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KUT listener Nell Newton and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz. -
In a rare interview, a wounded Hezbollah commander tells NPR about his secretive Shia Muslim militia's new command structure and how it has managed to keep firing rockets into northern Israel. -
After talks between the U.S. and Iran collapsed, President Donald Trump claimed the U.S. will "blockade" the Strait of Hormuz.
