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A guard walks with a detainee in the intake area at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in 2019. A previously confidential report obtained by NPR found "negligent" medical care and other problems at the facility. Chris Carlson/AP hide caption

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Despite Findings Of 'Negligent' Care, ICE To Expand Troubled Calif. Detention Center

A previously confidential report obtained by NPR found major failings at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California, one of the nation's largest immigration detention centers.

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A guard walks with a detainee in the intake area at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in 2019. A previously confidential report obtained by NPR found "negligent" medical care and other problems at the facility. Chris Carlson/AP hide caption

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Despite Findings Of 'Negligent' Care, ICE To Expand Troubled Calif. Detention Center

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Disparate Youth Santigold
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Liang Jun, a tractor driver and Soviet model worker, was immortalized in the 1960s on China's 1 yuan banknote. DeAgostini/Getty Images hide caption

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Liang Jun, China's Iconic Female Tractor Driver, Dies At 90

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Winter Fields Bat for Lashes
The Louvre Lorde
Weissensee Neu!

For decades, the Earth has steadily gotten hotter. The planet has already warmed about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (or almost 1 degree Celsius) compared with in the mid-20th century. David Goldman/AP hide caption

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2019 Was The 2nd-Hottest Year On Record, According To NASA And NOAA

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Director Bartlett Sher is now working on an opera based on Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel, and preparing the London premiere and national tour of To Kill A Mockingbird. He's shown above during a rehearsal in May 2006, in Seattle. Elaine Thompson/AP hide caption

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One Director's Secrets To Success: Chaos, Confidence And 'Collective Genius'

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Don't Stop (On My Account) Owen Pallett
Western Black Midi

A light micrograph of a primitive human embryo, composed of four cells, following the initial mitotic divisions that ultimately transform a single-cell organism into one composed of millions of cells. Science Photo Libra/Getty Images hide caption

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Embryo Research To Reduce Need For In Vitro Fertilization Raises Ethical Concerns

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Lifelines Doves
Selange Cluster & Brian Eno

Nick Selby and NYPD officer Luis Sayan interview a retired New York City teacher who lost more than $300,000 to online scammers posing as Chinese police. Martin Kaste/NPR hide caption

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Coaxing Cops To Tackle Cybercrime? There's An App For That

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Mirage, Pt. 1 Digitalism
Sure Hatchie

"OK, boomer" made its first appearance in the Supreme Court Wednesday, invoked by Chief Justice John Roberts, seen here in February 2019, in an age-discrimination case. Mark Humphrey/AP hide caption

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Chief Justice Roberts: Is 'OK, Boomer' Evidence Of Age Discrimination?

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Sunlit Cloudchord & G Mills
Territory The Blaze
Levo Recondite
everything i wanted Billie Eilish
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