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A man blows a shofar, or ram's horn, during a Rosh Hashanah ritual in Israel.
Ariel Schalit
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How shofars became the spiritual soundtrack of Rosh Hashanah
Deena Prichep
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins at sunset Friday. For many Jews around the world, a highlight of the holiday will be hearing the shofar: an animal's horn blown like a trumpet.
People walk past closed shops at the nearly empty traditional main bazaar during Iranian New Year, or Nowruz, holidays in Tehran, Iran, March 29, 2026.
Vahid Salemi
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Amid war and sanctions, many Iranians are losing their jobs and struggling to get by
Hadeel Al-Shalchi
A woman places flowers at the September 11 memorial plaza in Lower Manhattan ahead of a ceremony commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at the National September 11 Memorial in New York on Friday.
Dave Sanders/New York Times via AP
In photos: Remembering the Sept. 11 attacks, 25 years later
NPR Staff
David J. Sencer CDC Museum at the Edward R. Roybal campus, the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. CDC is the national public health agency of the United States, under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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As diseases loom, CDC's response to measles deaths stirs fears about agency's reliability
Rob Stein
Texas Standard
Trump’s convention comments about Paxton a mixed bag of support and criticism. Did it help?
Texas Attorney General endured barbs and roadblocks for his chance in the national spotlight at the Republican midterm convention — and it may not be enough.
Researchers say they may have detected a dark matter particle for the first time
25 years later, a Houston firefighter remembers the brother he lost on 9/11
This Texan’s 9/11 Story Is Now A Book And A Musical
The Army is training medics to treat a different kind of patient: Wounded dogs on the battlefield
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