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Dixie Chicks Return, 'Taking the Long Way'

The Dixie Chicks are back after a three-year break with a new album, Taking the Long Way. It's the band's first release after it experienced a furious backlash in 2003 after an anti-Bush comment by lead singer Natalie Maines.

On the DEP's website, there was no mention of a public meeting that took place at 10 a.m. Thursday in Deerfield Beach.

Florida Department of Environmental Protection May Have Violated State Open Government Law

Florida Department of Environmental Protection officials may have violated state law by failing to provide online public notice of a meeting for a draft...

Bollywood dance instructor Samson Kohletkar leads, and Sandip Roy follows, in a class at the Indian Community Center in Milpitas, Calif.

Bollywood Dance Follows Movies, Music to the U.S.

Americans are encountering India's Bollywood style on fashion runways and in music videos. But commentator Sandip Roy, an Indian immigrant, isn't sure what to make of the new Bollywood section at his local Blockbuster.

Letters: Leaving Home And Making New Friends

NPR's Neal Conan reads from listener comments on previous show topics including the difficulties young people face as they try to leave home and why it's easier to make lasting friendships when you're younger.

Letters: Radio Moments, Defense Spending

NPR's Neal Conan reads from listener comments on previous show topics, including life-changing radio moments and opinions on defense spending.

Michigan State Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey was caught on video calling the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol building "fake."

Michigan's Top Republican Falsely Calls U.S. Capitol Attack A 'Hoax'

Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey said Tuesday he regretted his "insensitive comments," but he didn't address his claims that the siege was fake.

After O.J.: Not Enough Has Changed

When O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman, the way individual Americans reacted to the verdict depended largely upon their race. Commentator Aaron Freeman observes that in a decade, that hasn't changed much.

Letters: Doctor Shortage, Studying Abroad

NPR's Lynn Neary reads from listener comments on several past programs, including shows about the shortage of primary care physicians, sexual harassment in online gaming and the benefit of study abroad programs.

Ye attending the Balenciaga Womenswear show in October as part of Paris Fashion Week. Since then, he's made a string of increasingly brazen extremist comments.

Ye says 'I see good things about Hitler' on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' show

The rapper previously known as Kanye West made a series of antisemitic comments, declaring "I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis." Ye was on the show alongside white-nationalist Nick Fuentes.

Rice's whales can grow to 42 ft but fewer than 100 remain.

Top Florida Ports official seeks petition to protect whales tossed

Florida Ports Council President and CEO Mike Rubin is raising alarms that proposed changes to protect an endangered whale species could economically hurt ports from Tampa to Pensacola.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is nearing the end of a public-comment period on a petition from conservation organizations to establish a year-round 10-knot vessel speed limit in the “core” habitat area of the endangered Rice’s whale.Rubin wants the petition tossed.

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