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LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 29: Lil Yachty performs on the Stage during day 2 of Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival 2017 at Exposition Park on October 29, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

Lil Yachty's delightfully absurd path to 'Let's Start Here'

The singsong rapper began as an oddity. His new "psych rock" album feels representative of his career arc.

Earthquakes strike at a moment's notice. Here are seven steps you can take to help prepare your family, according to emergency and disaster preparedness experts.

Indigo De Souza, 'Younger & Dumber'

De Souza's fighting for the belief that not only can she rise from the ashes of a dumpster-fire world, but that she can revel in the flames and find beauty in their flicker.

This photo provided by the Dallas Zoo shows an emperor tamarin that lives at the zoo. Two of the monkeys were taken Jan. 30 from the zoo, the latest in a string of odd incidents at the attraction that are being investigated.

A man jailed in the theft of monkeys from the Dallas zoo said he'd do it again

Court records say Davion Irvin told police that he jumped a zoo fence after dark, cut the metal mesh of a tamarin monkey enclosure and took the two emperor tamarin monkeys before escaping by train.

A king pigeon that was dyed completely pink was named Flamingo after the domestic bird was rescued. But despite efforts to rehabilitate the animal, Flamingo has died.

A pigeon named Flamingo is dead after someone dyed it pink

"We don't know why this bird was dyed pink, although many of our followers have speculated that it was for a gender reveal party," a Wild Bird Fund official told NPR.

Flags fly over the state capitol, Friday, Feb.11, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. Republican lawmakers there are working to restrict drag shows in the state.

At least 9 GOP-led state legislatures want to restrict or criminalize drag shows

Lawmakers in Tennessee are advancing a bill that would restrict drag show performances in the state. This bill and others like it threaten the LGBTQ community as well as businesses, critics say.

Elián González, pictured in 2014, has been nominated to join Cuba's parliament. Elections are planned for March 26. González was at the center of a bitter custody battle in 2000 between relatives in Miami and his father in Cuba.

Elián González nearly became an American. Now, he's poised to become a Cuban lawmaker

Nearly 23 years after being ripped from a relative's home in Miami, González has been nominated to become a member of the communist country's parliament.

Conductor Gustavo Dudamel will leave Los Angeles for the New York Philharmonic

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Deborah Borda, CEO of the New York Philharmonic, about conductor Gustavo Dudamel leaving the Los Angeles Philharmonic to lead New York's top orchestra.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy of Calif., listen as President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington.

5 takeaways from Biden's State of the Union address

The president drew a clear distinction with House Republicans, baiting them into several moments of hectoring, while seemingly getting them to agree to not cut Social Security or Medicare.

Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova (C) acknowledges applause during President Biden's 2023 State of the Union address.

In 2022, Ukraine was a rallying cry in the State of the Union. In 2023, not so much

Last year the State of Union came six days after Russia invaded Ukraine. Lawmakers waved Ukraine flags and cheered President Biden's stirring call for support. This year, the focus had changed.

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