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A woman on death row in Texas has won a stay of execution

A Texas court halted Wednesday's planned execution of Melissa Lucio, who was convicted in the 2007 death of her two-year-old daughter. Lawmakers, celebrities and jurors are questioning the verdict.

Encore: Paris exhibit looks back on Graciela Iturbide's photographs

Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide has won international renown for her portraits of indigenous and marginalized peoples across the globe. (This story first aired on ATC on April 8, 2022.)

Bad Bunny speaks at CinemaCon on Monday in Las Vegas, during the announcement of his new role.

Bad Bunny will be the first Latino to lead a live-action Marvel movie

Puerto Rican musician Bad Bunny will play the title character in the Spider-Man spinoff El Muerto — about a wrestler who gets superpowers from a mask. Sony Pictures plans a 2024 release.

Students attend a pre-K class at P.S. 124 in New York City on Jan 13, 2021. A new report found enrollment drops at state-based preschool programs during the 2020-2021 school year.

The pandemic erased a decade of public preschool gains

An annual review of state-based preschool programs found big drops in enrollment and state funding in the 2020-2021 school year.

Corvette's "electrified" model will come as early as next year, followed by a fully electric version, General Motors says.

Corvette is the next big name in cars to roll out an electric

An "electrified" Corvette is coming next year, with a fully electric model to follow, GM's president says. The automaker faces heavy competition in an electric vehicle market dominated by Tesla.

Delta Air Lines will start paying flight attendants for the time that passengers are boarding. That's a first for a major U.S. airline. Flight attendants in the U.S. generally don't begin getting paid until the doors close after boarding.

Delta will begin paying flight attendants for flight boarding time

Pay for flight attendants typically starts when all the passengers are seated and the plane's doors close. The change is expected to increase wages by several thousand dollars a year.

Texas Appeals Court halts execution for woman found guilty of murdering her child

Melissa Lucio had faced death by lethal injection on Wednesday.

<strong>April 28:</strong> Emergency services work at the site where fires were triggered by an explosion in Kyiv, Ukraine. Russia struck the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv shortly after a meeting between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.N. Secretary-General AntÃ³nio Guterres on Thursday evening.

Photos: Russian missiles strike Kyiv, as battle slows down in eastern Ukraine

Orthodox Easter weekend did not stop Russian forces from attacking their targets in eastern Ukraine.

New research finds that previous studies of mental illness using brain scans may be too small for the results to be reliable.

Brain scans may reveal a lot about mental illness, but not until studies get bigger

Scientists are using MRI scans to understand how mental illness shows up in the bran. But new research raises concerns that existing studies are not reliable because the sample sizes are too small.

'Throughline': How rats became one of Earth's most successful mammalian colonizers

Love 'em or hate 'em, rats are part of our world. NPR's history podcast Throughline dove into the history of rats and found a story that spans thousands of years and touches nearly every continent.

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