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NPR's Allison Aubrey examines the danger that common food allergies pose to some Americans. Common allergens, such as peanuts and certain grains, are often unlisted as ingredients on food packaging, or contaminate other food prepared in the same factory. Such problems lead to product recalls every year and have prompted the Food and Drug Administration and food processors, to find ways to test for allergens.

A grounded freighter continues to spill heavy fuel oil into a pristine Alaskan wildlife area as poor weather conditions hurt cleanup efforts. Six people remain missing. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.

Where did the name grapefruit come from? It's an obvious misnomer. There's nothing grape about the fruit. Some have tried to explain away physical reasons for the name. But the truth lies in that alley of language containing other mixed words, like eggplant.

NASA announces it will probably cancel plans to send a robot to fix the Hubble Space Telescope. The president's proposed budget for the agency did not contain funding for the mission. An alternative proposal would send humans to repair the aging Hubble.

Thousands of Inca mummies have been found beneath a dusty shantytown in Peru. The mummy bundles -- containing several individuals each along with food, tools and jewels for the afterlife -- are providing archaeologists with amazing stories about Inca culture. For All Things Considered, NPR's Allison Aubrey reports.

The Environmental Protection Agency proposes that 11 of the nation's worst toxic waste sites should get cleanup priority under its Superfund initiative. The list, meant to relieve the worst contamination levels, includes projects in nine states. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

Woodie King Jr., one of black theater's most respected voices and author of the new book The Impact of Race: Theatre and Culture, talks with NPR's Tavis Smiley about the politics of black theater. [Editor's note: This report contains language that some may find offensive.]

An exhibit at London's Natural History Museum contains photographs that are meant to be touched. Artists created the tactile photos by utilizing a type of plastic in order to create texture which gives the sense of depth, light and shadow. Carrie Giardino reports.

Journalist Richard Pollak's latest book, The Colombo Bay, tells the story of his five-week journey from Hong Kong to New York aboard a container ship. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and Pollak.

Novelist Nick Hornby's new book, Songbook, contains a collection of essays about Hornby's favorite pop tunes. It includes a meditation on a reggae version of "Puff the Magic Dragon." The unusual song is a favorite of Hornby's autistic son, and it teaches him something about his passion for music. Hear Hornby and NPR's Renee Montagne.

The owner of the online bookstore Sistah Scifi has rolled out vending machines that contain books by Black and Indigenous science fiction and fantasy authors, most of whom are women.

It’s thought the crew has three to four days-worth of oxygen left at most.

Fire officials say they have more than a third of the fire contained on Catalina Island, and they hope to have it under control by early next week.

It's one of the most common words in English, and one of the most maligned. But it has been doing useful work for centuries, and lately it's acquired a new, hip meaning. Fresh Air linguist Geoff Nunberg gives us his thoughts on the little word, "um."

If the Toronto Blue Jays decide to no longer use Dunedin as their spring training home, a replacement team may already be waiting in the wings.The Phoenix…

Clearwater Police shut down Sunset Point Road for about two hours Sunday morning after an apparently mentally ill man tried to set a bucket of fertilizer…

A University of South Florida police officer in Tampa whose Twitter bio described herself as a "KKK member" has been fired.Former USF officer Presley…

Is coronavirus stopping you from visiting a loved one? Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has expanded an order preventing people from visiting nursing homes to…

Noah talks to Ramogi Huma, Chairman of the Collegiate Athlete Coalition, about why he contacted the United Steelworkers of America to help him organize the football players at UCLA. Huma is a former linebackers with the UCLA Bruins, and is attending graduate school at the UCLA. School of Public Health.

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An Atlanta office building housing an abortion clinic was the site of two explosions this morning. The first explosion was inside the building, on the first floor where the clinic is housed. The second was in a trash container near the building after law enforcement and fire personnel were on the scene. There were several injuries, but no deaths. Joshua Levs reports from Atlanta.

NPR's Joe Palca reports on a medical mystery that has baffled doctors for decades -- Does a monkey virus that contaminated a polio vaccine in the mid-1950s increase the risk of certain rare cancers? Federal officials held a two-day conference this week to examine new data showing that the virus is present in rare tumors of the brain, bone, and lung.

NPR's Vicky Que reports on an outbreak of hepatitis A that is being linked to contaminated strawberries. So far the only cases that have been confirmed are in Michigan, but the strawberries were shipped to five other states. School officials in Los Angeles are planning to offer shots to about nine thousand students who may have eaten strawberries distributed through school lunch programs.

the Persian Gulf War to try and get further information about illnesses connected to the destruction of an Iraqi chemical weapons depot in 1991, which is now believed to have contained nerve gas.

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