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Hayden Panettiere attends amfAR Gala Los Angeles 2022 at Pacific Design Center on November 03, 2022 in West Hollywood, California.
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Hayden Panettiere, who starred in 'Heroes' and 'Nashville,' dies at 36
NPR Staff
A child actor since she was cast in various commercials as an 11-month-old, Panettiere was best known for her role as the country music star Juliette Barnes in the series "Nashville."
Former residents, current residents and friends of Anne Montgomery House begin a traditional Greek dance at the farewell celebration in Washington, D.C. on July 31, 2026. The community house, run by Society of the Sacred Heart, is closing after a decade.
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Living with nuns: Priced out of D.C., young women found low rent with unlikely roommates
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Ebert Velasquez Ramos (right) works at the drive-through at a McDonald's in Morningside, Md. He doesn't have a car so he sometimes turns to Escalate, a startup that provides Uber vouchers for workers who need last-minute rides among other support.
Claire Harbage
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NPR
Car problems? No childcare? How an app is helping people get to work
Andrea Hsu
A sign informs registered voters to have their photo IDs ready to check in at a polling place in Lancaster, N.H., in 2024.
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Can a student ID be used for voting? More Republican-led states are banning it
Hansi Lo Wang
Texas Standard
Texas schools see modest improvement in 2026 A-F ratings. Here’s how they fared
About 85% of Texas public schools earned a passing grade in the state’s latest A-F accountability ratings, while roughly one-quarter of districts and campuses scored higher than they did last...
Texas has started handing out school voucher funding. Over 20,000 students have returned the money.
Mike D’Antoni, who coached the Houston Rockets to new heights, to join Naismith Hall of Fame
Shrouded in the desert, the public can now visit artist James Magee’s masterwork ‘The Hill’
Hundreds of Monkey’s Brain sea beans wash ashore in Texas
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