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Bills targeting trans youth are growing more common — and radically reshaping lives
An NPR analysis finds that over the past two years, state lawmakers introduced more than 300 bills targeting trans people. Most of this legislation, 86%, takes aim at the rights of trans youth.
Listen: How American Indian family separation leaves impacts generations later
With that reunion came new questions on what shapes identity, and how generations of displacement of American Indians affects that identity.
‘I watched it rapidly turn into absolute chaos’: Inside the deepening dysfunction at North Star psychiatric hospital
Former workers say understaffing and decisions by management pushed the private psychiatric hospital — the only one in Alaska that serves children — to the brink of disaster.
Experts are concerned Thanksgiving gatherings could accelerate a ‘tripledemic’
As the holiday approaches, infectious disease specialists are bracing for the possibility that big family get-togethers and travel will propel the spread of RSV, flu and COVID-19.
First bear with bird flu in US was cub in Glacier Bay
The only other bear diagnosed with the strain was an adult female black bear in Quebec.
Move over, pumpkin! This Thanksgiving, try ube pie
This recipe is a rich, vibrant “move-over pumpkin pie” for the holiday dessert lineup.
How monoclonal antibodies lost the fight with new COVID variants
The treatments were highly popular earlier in the pandemic. One by one, they got knocked out by more convenient, less expensive treatment options, and new COVID variants.
Ethel Lund remembered as a health care trailblazer for Southeast Alaska Natives
The Alaska Native Sisterhood honored Ethel Aanwoogeex’ Lund as a champion for Native health care at a memorial service in Juneau on Friday.
Carrying out executions took a secret toll on workers — then changed their politics
NPR spoke with 26 people who were involved with more than 200 executions across the country. Most said their health suffered and they had little support to help them cope with their unusual jobs.