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A baby girl, her parents and uncle were found dead in a central California orchard two days after they were kidnapped at gunpoint from their business, police said. (Image credit: Andrew Kuhn/AP) Read More at NPR

The Fifth Circuit said a federal district judge in Texas should take another look at the program following the revisions adopted by the Biden administration, leaving the future of DACA up in the air. (Image credit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP) Read More at NPR

Writer Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reflects on what the holiest day in Judaism has meant for her after an experience in Germany changed her connection to religion. Read More at NPR

President Biden is in Fort Myers, Fla., meeting with business owners and residents hit hard by Hurricane Ian, trying to assure them that the federal government will help them recover. Read More at NPR

NPR’s Juana Summers speaks with former FEMA director Craig Fugate on the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. Read More at NPR

NPR’s Ailsa Chang speaks with author Jaquira Díaz, about the idea of independence for Puerto Rico in light of the recent challenges the island has faced after a string of natural disasters. Read More at NPR

Arizona courts reinstated a Civil War era ban on nearly all abortions. Now there is a bipartisan call for a special legislative session as providers and patients are confused and anxious. Read More at NPR

An activist is using the FIFA Men’s World Cup in Qatar to shine a light on the country’s poor record on LGBTQ rights. Read More at NPR

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Weihua Li, a data reporter for The Marshall Project, on the FBI’s new and incomplete crime report and consequences for the public. Read More at NPR

Productivity is probably the most important economic indicator for the health of an economy, and it’s falling. There is a battle over the narrative around worker productivity and the stakes are high. Read More at NPR

OPEC and its allies plan to slash oil output by 2 million barrels a day to prop up oil prices. Gasoline prices are rising again in the U.S., but the effects vary in different parts of the country. Read More at NPR

Supporters say Leila de Lima is a human rights defender still paying the price for speaking out against the abuses of the former president’s drug war. (Image credit: Maria Salvador Tan/AFP via Getty Images) Read More at NPR

Niemann, a grandmaster, is slated to compete in the U.S. Chess Championships tournament that began Wednesday in St. Louis. (Image credit: Pongkiat Rungrojkarnka/EyeEm/Getty Images/EyeEm) Read More at NPR

Crews from 30 states have converged on Southwest Florida to restore power after Hurricane Ian devastated the area. The work is precise and dangerous. (Image credit: Martin Kaste/NPR) Read More at NPR

Ride a bike. Learn the guitar. Continue studying. All of this came to a violent end for 16-year-old Marzia Mohammadi. Her diary lays bare the struggles of Afghan girls since the Taliban takeover. (Image credit: tk for NPR) Read More at NPR

Under the settlement, which is subject to court approval, the filming of Rust will continue with the “original principal players on board” and Hutchins’ husband will serve as executive producer. (Image credit: Jae C. Hong/AP) Read More at NPR

Jolie alleges that on a 2016 flight, Pitt hit and poured alcohol on both her and their children. She filed for divorce soon after, and the couple is still battling over assets and custody of the kids. (Image credit: AP) Read More at NPR

A 2,554-pound pumpkin grown in upstate New York broke the previous national record by 24 pounds. (Image credit: The Great Pumpkin Farm via AP) Read More at NPR

This year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded in equal parts to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless for developing way of “snapping molecules together.” (Image credit: Henrik Montgomery/AP) Read More at NPR

The former U.N. official had been arrested after going to Iran to try to free his son – who remains held there. Read More at NPR

As oil producers in the OPEC Plus alliance meet Wednesday, they’ll discuss cutting supplies. That could lead to higher gas prices and hints at new political challenges for the White House. Read More at NPR

A Seattle nonprofit recently got some of the highest prices ever for carbon credits from urban forests. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on Oct. 4, 2022.) Read More at NPR

Restoring power after a hurricane is a massive job, but crews are running ahead of schedule, even as some residents demand they work faster. Read More at NPR

Human remains from the Philadelphia bombing of the MOVE house in 1985 have yet to be released. The bombing left eleven people dead. (Story aired on All Things Considered on July 6, 2022.) Read More at NPR

Investigators are scouring old shooting homicides for possible connections to the six fatal shootings that have terrorized the the city, officials told NPR. (Image credit: AP) Read More at NPR

Talk about a late bloomer. Carl Allamby, who ran an auto repair shop for more than 20 years, was recently hired as an attending physician at Cleveland Clinic’s Hillcrest Hospital at age 51. (Image credit: Stephen Travarca/Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital) Read More at NPR

Mann is a Marine Corps pilot, NASA astronaut and member of the Wailacki tribe of the Round Valley Indian Tribes. (Image credit: Nicole Mann/Twitter) Read More at NPR

If you are following events in Russia and Ukraine closely, you could be forgiven for wondering if Vladimir Putin has backed himself into a corner. So, where does this leave him? (Image credit: Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images) Read More at NPR

Former students at the Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas, who were once banned from speaking Spanish, have worked for years to preserve the school’s history. (Image credit: Carlos Morales) Read More at NPR

The dismissal for 7 people was significant but not a surprise after the Michigan Supreme Court earlier said a different judge acting as a one-person grand jury had no authority to issue indictments. (Image credit: Carlos Osorio/AP) Read More at NPR