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Jenna Norton is currently on furlough due to the ongoing government shutdown. She serves as Program Director at National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases within the National Institutes of Health, where she supports efforts to implement health disparities research.
Some federal workers support the government shutdown, even as President Trump threatens to use this moment to lay off employees and cut funding to programs. A federal worker explains why she’s not afraid of Trump’s layoff threat.
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Why Democrats are casting the government shutdown as a health care showdown.
The Supreme Court weighs conversion therapy in a case from Colorado.
Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee.
Bondi is set to give testimony to Congress at the first hearing since the Comey indictment.
Dr. Tsion Firew at her home in Kigali, Rwanda. A year ago, Rwanda announced the country's first Marburg outbreak — a deadly virus that's a cousin to Ebola. Firew was afraid for herself and her kids, but she helped quash the outbreak.
A bold doctor sent her kids away and helped beat one of the world's deadliest viruses.
Displaced people return to Rafah, Gaza Strip, a day after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas went into effect.
As the Gaza war moves into its third year, peace talks offer some hope.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Psychiatrists say recent gains in substance abuse treatment are in jeopardy under his leadership.
Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary.
President Donald Trump shakes hands with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.
With U.S. leadership in doubt, can its allies chart their own course?
The Nobel Prize for physics is awarded for discoveries in quantum mechanical tunneling.
From left, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics announces the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
With hundreds of clinics specialized in hair transplants, Istanbul is a growing hub in the industry, attracting people from all over the world.
How one country has become a top destination for hair transplants.
Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano speaks during an event.
A Social Security administrator is named to the newly created position of IRS CEO.
A tribe in Arizona planned to connect 600 homes to electricity. Then the funding was cut.
The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.
A group of friends and family look through the locked gate to Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. The fort is closed due to the government shutdown.
The federal government is shut down. NPR's network is following the ways the government shutdown is affecting services across the country.
Design students voice strong reservations about having children. Their reasons vary: one doesn't believe she would make a good mother, others want to pursue creative careers, and some feel the world is not a good place to raise children.
Chile's plunging birth rate may foreshadow future in U.S.
Nihilistic online networks groom minors to commit harm. Her son was one of them.
Dana began noticing personality changes within her then-14-year-old son. Then over the course of the next few months, she became aware that he was self-harming in part prompted by online communities that target vulnerable people online, including children.
President Donald Trump is exerting an unprecedented amount of control over the shape — and future — of U.S. business.
Trump is tightening the screws on corporate America — and CEOs are staying mum.
'At least I'm safe': A Kenyan immigrant opts to leave the U.S. on his own terms.
National Guardsmen stand outside the Edward Roybal Federal Building.
Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained.
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Federal judge declines to immediately block National Guard deployment in Illinois. Appeals judges will decide fate of Portland troop deployment.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued new recommendations for COVID vaccination that require a consultation with a health professional first.
The CDC says people must consult a health professional before COVID shot.
The Free Press' Bari Weiss has been named the new editor-in-chief of CBS News.
Who is Bari Weiss? CBS News' new editor-in-chief is a vocal critic of legacy media.
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Rising Appalachia: Tiny Desk is charged with the roots music that sisters Leah Song and Chloe Smith learned in fiddle camps as kids.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before signing an executive order.
Trump OKs road for Ambler Mining District, to make Alaska 'bigger and more powerful'. The Ambler Road would enable development in a mineral-rich area of Northwest Alaska. Road opponents worry it would endanger the landscape and wildlife.
France's prime minister resigns after less than a month in office.
Facing criticism from all sides, France's new prime minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned less than 24 hours after naming his government and after less than a month in office, plunging the country into a deep political crisis.
A snowstorm traps hundreds of hikers on Mount Everest during China's national holiday.
Rescue workers were helping hundreds of hikers trapped by heavy snow at tourist campsites on a slope of Mount Everest in Tibet.
Research suggests men could narrow the longevity gap, by mimicking some of the habits that women have, like more regular doctor visits and attention to diet and exercise.
Why do women live longer than men? A study offers clues to close the gap.
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House Democrats prepare to speak on the steps of the Capitol to insist that Republicans include an extension of expiring health care benefits as part of a government funding compromise.
Democrats united in effort to stop Trump's 'lawless activity,' says Sen. Van Hollen.
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The Other Side Village is building tiny cottages in Salt Lake City as part of its program to help people who've been chronically homelessness.
An unusual 'village' aims to help people leave long-term homelessness for good.
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A puppeteer plays a mourning mother in Gaza during a performance of Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution In Progress! in Ypsilanti, Mich.
Bread and Puppet Theater is still working to 'make the revolution irresistible'.
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The medicine Nobel Prize goes to 3 scientists for work on peripheral immune tolerance.
Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were honored for research into how the body helps the immune system avoid attacking your own tissues instead of foreign invaders.
Bari Weiss joins CBS News with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' coverage.
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Civil rights jobs have been cut. Those ex-workers warn of ICE detention violations.
After layoffs, it's unclear how many people are policing civil rights violations inside the Department of Homeland Security, even as the Trump administration ramps up ICE detention.
A Census Bureau worker knocks on the door of a home.
A major census test begins recruiting workers as some supporters warn about delays.
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Ex-NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez is stabbed in altercation that leads to charges against him.
Ex-NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez was stabbed during an altercation with a truck driver in Indianapolis, which resulted in criminal charges against the Fox Sports analyst, according to court records.
Australia's 'mushroom murderer' got a life sentence. Prosecutors say it's not enough.
Erin Patterson hosted four of her estranged husband's relatives for lunch. Three of them died of death cap mushroom poisoning. A jury found her guilty this July, after a nine-week trial.
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Christian McBride is shepherding the next generation of jazz musicians.
The composer and bandleader talks about his latest album and founding a new group called Ursa Major.
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Amid funding cuts and public health battles, the NIH issues autism research grants.
Cornell University will receive $5.1 million as the Trump administration seeks to find a source and cure for autism.
ICC finds former Sudan militia leader guilty of war crimes in Darfur.
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