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Aug 29, 2025
The FBI is calling the attack at a Minnesota Catholic church an act of domestic terrorism driven by "hate-filled ideology." Extremism analysts say the picture may be more complex.
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Aug 29, 2025
The Food and Drug Administration approved the next round of COVID-19 vaccines, but they come with restrictions. NPR wants to know your questions about the new guidance.
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Aug 29, 2025
When Al DiStefano accidentally dropped his ring into the Long Island Sound, he never thought he'd see it again. More than half a century later, the kindness of a stranger brought the ring back to him.
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Aug 29, 2025
Producer Lorne Michaels has said he is looking to shake things up ahead of SNL's 51st season, which starts in early October.
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Aug 29, 2025
Here's your recap of what happened in the leadership shakeup at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week.
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Aug 29, 2025
When his son began kindergarten this week, educator James Kassaga Arinaitwe flashed back to his own initiation into school, growing up in Uganda under far humbler circumstances.
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Aug 29, 2025
It's typical that former vice presidents have Secret Service protection for 6 months after leaving office. In Harris' case, she had received an extension of her detail. Trump is ending the extension.
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Aug 29, 2025
When North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits China next week for a military parade, it will be his debut at a gathering of foreign leaders for a rare meeting of China, Russia and North Korea.
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Aug 29, 2025
Parishioner Cathrine Spandel said worshippers at Annunciation Catholic Church in south Minneapolis had just finished a psalm when gunfire erupted. "It seemed like it went on forever," she said.
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Aug 29, 2025
The father of a boy killed in the Minneapolis church shooting speaks out on how he wants his son to be remembered. And, a new acting CDC director has been announced.
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Aug 29, 2025
Thailand's Constitutional Court on Friday dismissed Paetongtarn Shinawatra from her position as prime minister, ruling that as the country's leader she violated constitutional rules on ethics.
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Aug 29, 2025
The Trump administration argues that rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule will help wildland firefighters. Fire researchers warn that more roads could exacerbate the problem.
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Aug 29, 2025
Two years after the oil deal was signed, it collapsed — with the Taliban accusing the Chinese company of breaching the contract and some Chinese employees likening the Taliban's actions to robbery.
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Aug 29, 2025
This weekend features three top-10 matchups, the most ever for an opening weekend in college football history. And Arch Manning, the most hyped player of a generation, will start for the first time.
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Aug 29, 2025
While much of the focus marking 20 years since Hurricane Katrina is on New Orleans, where federal levees failed and flooded the city, the historic storm also decimated the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
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Aug 29, 2025
Parents are struggling to figure out what to say to their children after another school shooting. We talked to some experts, who offered these guidelines.
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Aug 29, 2025
This week, Taylor Swift debuted her engagement ring and the parasite world brought us something gross to worry about.
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Aug 29, 2025
It's been a week of turmoil at the CDC, and now there's a new person tapped to be acting director of the agency.
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Aug 29, 2025
Businesses are scrambling for ways to minimize the impact of the Trump administration's global tariff policy. NPR's Planet Money team explores tricks and legal loopholes companies are using.
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Aug 29, 2025
While the Baltimore Orioles compete on the field, another battle takes place in the stands: the fight to be top vendor. StoryCorps brings a conversation with "Fancy Clancy," a vendor who's been selling beer at Baltimore Orioles games since 1974.
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Aug 29, 2025
The ruling marks the latest setback for prosecutors in a case that shocked the country when videos were released showing officers violently kicking and punching Nichols during a traffic stop.
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Aug 29, 2025
Hurricane Katrina resulted in nearly 1,400 deaths, according to revised statistics from the National Hurricane Center, and remains the costliest storm in U.S. history at around $200 billion in today's dollars.
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Aug 28, 2025
Two children were killed, and 18 children between the ages 6 and 15 were injured by a shooter. Middle schoolers acted heroically to protect others, a parent said.
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Aug 28, 2025
A federal judge has ruled that Trump administration official Kari Lake can't unilaterally fire the director of Voice of America.
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Aug 28, 2025
Without Congressionally-approved funding, public media stations say communities will be left with aging infrastructure amid growing risks from extreme weather.
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Aug 28, 2025
Amtrak just reopened a route from Mobile, Ala., to New Orleans that's connecting communities along the Gulf Coast for the first time since Hurricane Katrina. It's called the Mardi Gras line.
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Aug 28, 2025
NPR station photographer and New Orleans native Tyrone Turner travelled back to Louisiana to document the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Aug 28, 2025
The Department of Transportation says it will be "reclaiming management" of the transportation hub, which it has owned since the 1980s. D.C.'s mayor says that would be an "amazing initiative."
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Aug 28, 2025
NPR first wrote about the group "No Sex for Fish" in 2019 — Kenyan women out to end the practice of trading sex to a fisherman in exchange for his catch to sell. Since then they're faced tribulations.
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Aug 28, 2025
A report from the World Health Organization says 1 in 4 people lack access to safe water to drink. Even more don't have water for sanitation. We asked someone who grew up that way to share childhood memories.
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Aug 28, 2025
Once a prominent musician in New York City, Wachner was working as a grade school teacher in Indiana. Prosecutors have accused him of possessing sexual abuse imagery of young children.
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Aug 28, 2025
Nearly two dozen states have passed laws regulating how tech companies collect data from our faces, eyes and voices. It comes as Congress has yet to pass any facial recognition technology.
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Aug 28, 2025
The immigration detention center in Florida's Everglades will soon be empty. State officials expect the facility to have no detainees "within a few days."
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Aug 28, 2025
Foreign doctors have been serving as medical volunteers, but must be approved by Israel to enter Gaza. The World Health Organization says denial rates have increased by 50% since March.
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Aug 28, 2025
Lisa Cook is challenging the president's attempt to remove her from office based on what she says is "an unsubstantiated allegation" of mortgage fraud prior to her Senate confirmation as governor.
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Aug 28, 2025
Exclusive interviews with NPR reveal how U.S. policy during Biden's administration impacted Gaza. And, a shooter opened fire on a Minneapolis church yesterday, killing two children.
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Aug 28, 2025
With Russia's Vladimir Putin also coming for the parade, the event will underline the three-way alignment among Beijing, Moscow and Pyongyang in the face of a U.S. push to bolster its alliances with South Korea and Japan.
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Aug 28, 2025
Local authorities recovered additional firearms at three residences in the Minneapolis area that are linked to the shooter.
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Aug 28, 2025
In Mike Johnson's district, not only could thousands of Louisianians lose coverage, health centers are bracing for a financial hit. They're hoping for additional funding to make up for Medicaid cuts.
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Aug 28, 2025
The NextGen Acela trains, as Amtrak calls them, are faster and lighter than the current fleet. They're scheduled to start revenue service along the Northeast Corridor on Thursday.
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Aug 28, 2025
Critics say that "slop" videos made with generative AI are often repetitive or useless. But they get millions of views — and platforms are grappling with what to do about them.
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Aug 28, 2025
It's been 70 years since Emmett Till, a Black teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, was killed by white men because he whistled at a white woman. Now the gun used in his death is in a museum.
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Aug 28, 2025
On Friday, the U.S. is ending its de minimis rule that made it easy for cheap goods to reach consumers. The change will affect roughly 4 million such packages processed each day.
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Aug 28, 2025
As famine plagues Gaza, NPR exclusive reporting looks at the U.S.'s role in the humanitarian crisis. Many former officials NPR interviewed share a common refrain: Did we do enough to prevent this?
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Aug 28, 2025
The Southern Nevada Water Authority has investigators who patrol Las Vegas neighborhoods in search of wasted water.
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Aug 28, 2025
On Friday, the U.S. is ending its de minimis rule that made it easy for cheap goods to reach consumers. The change will affect roughly 4 million such packages processed each day.
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Aug 28, 2025
A mass Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine's capital, including a rare strike in the center of the city, early Thursday killed at least 10 people and wounded 48.
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Aug 28, 2025
Denmark's foreign minister summoned the top U.S. diplomat in the country for talks after the main national broadcaster reported that at least three people with connections to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland.
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Aug 28, 2025
Denmark's foreign minister summoned the top U.S. diplomat in the country for talks after the main national broadcaster reported that at least three people with connections to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland.
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Aug 27, 2025
"Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," the Department of Health and Human Services wrote in a social media post. Her lawyers said she had neither resigned nor been told she was fired.
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Aug 27, 2025
Delays and increased screenings for visas mean that many students didn't make it to campus on time - and that has some big implications for the economy.
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Aug 27, 2025
The Food and Drug Administration approved the next round of COVID-19 vaccines, but is restricting them to people at high risk for COVID complications.
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Aug 27, 2025
Companies from Pillsbury to Invisalign to Olipop are cheering — and trying to cash in on — the couple's engagement. Experts spoke to NPR about how brands can strike a better balance.
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Aug 27, 2025
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.
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Aug 27, 2025
The shooter fired through the windows of Annunciation Church during Mass on Wednesday before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara.
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Aug 27, 2025
The shooter fired through the windows of Annunciation Church during Mass on Wednesday before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara.
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Aug 27, 2025
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said the shooter fired through the windows of Annunciation Church during Mass on Wednesday. The gunman was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Aug 27, 2025
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said the shooter fired through the windows of Annunciation Catholic Church during Mass on Wednesday. The gunman was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Aug 27, 2025
Think you have what it takes to successfully manipulate the market and build a domestic industry from the ground up? If so, these eight questions stand between you and your Summer School diploma in Political Economy.
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Aug 27, 2025
When parents die, sibling tensions can arise over inheritance. In many traditions, the oldest child used to get it all. In a part of Pakistan, there's a surprise twist: The youngest is the chosen one.
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Aug 27, 2025
Fed Governor Lisa Cook plans to fight to keep her job with a forthcoming lawsuit challenging President Trump. And, the DNC addresses the Democratic Party's challenges.
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Aug 27, 2025
How do you heal the wounds of war? That is the mission of Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a reconstructive and plastic surgeon at the American University of Beirut Medical Center.
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Aug 27, 2025
At a time when Congressional Republicans are generally opting against town halls, Missouri Rep. Mark Alford is embarking on a four-day, 15-stop tour to meet with constituents.
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Aug 27, 2025
National Grandparents Day is Sep. 7. NPR wants to hear from new grandparents about how your life has changed.
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Aug 27, 2025
A few years in, a CDC drowning prevention program was ready to share its findings on how to mitigate the leading cause of death among young children. Then the administration terminated that staff.
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Aug 27, 2025
Even years after an arm is amputated, the brain maintains a detailed map of the limb and tries to interact with this phantom appendage.
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Aug 27, 2025
The government's colossal failure to respond after Hurricane Katrina led to major reforms at the nation's top disaster agency. Now, the Trump administration has reversed some of those changes.
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Aug 27, 2025
President Trump's executive order challenges a landmark Supreme Court decision, according to free speech attorneys.
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Aug 27, 2025
After Hurricane Katrina, many New Orleans charter schools united in a mission to send more students to college. Today, some of those students, now adults, wish they'd been given more options.
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Aug 27, 2025
Redistricting critics warn that efforts to redraw maps mid-decade risks fueling further gridlock in Congress, and ceding more power to the executive and judicial branches.
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Aug 27, 2025
How did a word that simply referred to a millennia-old beverage come to be the latest iteration of "what's up?"
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Aug 27, 2025
Earlier this month President Trump signed an executive order imposing an additional 25% tariff on India due its purchases of Russian oil, bringing the combined tariffs to 50%.
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Aug 27, 2025
More than 180 current and former FEMA employees signed the letter sent to the FEMA Review Council and Congress warning that FEMA's capacity to respond to a major disaster was dangerously diminished.
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Aug 27, 2025
Current and former Microsoft employees were among those arrested. Microsoft has said it is reviewing a report that Israel has used its platform to facilitate attacks on Palestinian targets.
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Aug 26, 2025
After a series of failures during recent test flights, SpaceX's massive Starship had a smooth ride for Tuesday's blast-off, and successfully deployed some fake satellites.
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Aug 26, 2025
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, these storms can whip up walls of dust as high as 10,000 feet.
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Aug 26, 2025
An investigation by NPR, Texas Public Radio and 1A in 2024 found that more than 250 workers had died as a result of preventable trench collapses since 2013, and that at-fault companies were rarely held accountable.
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Aug 26, 2025
Average temperatures have been going up in many cities, including New Orleans. Here's what those higher temperatures sound like.
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Aug 26, 2025
For decades the program has supported writers who would become big names - Alice Walker, Michael Cunningham, Louise Erdrich and more. Last week, applicants got an email saying the program would be no more.
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Aug 26, 2025
The singer-songwriter announced the engagement Tuesday on Instagram, with the caption: "Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married."
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Aug 26, 2025
The digital afterlife industry may near $80 billion in a decade, fueled by AI "deadbots." Tech firms see profit. But experts warn of troubling consequences.
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Aug 26, 2025
The digital afterlife industry may near $80 billion in a decade, fueled by AI "deadbots." Tech firms see profit. But experts warn of troubling consequences.
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Aug 26, 2025
A whistleblower complaint says that the personal data of over 300 million Americans was copied to a private cloud account to allow access by members of the Department of Government Efficiency team.
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Aug 26, 2025
Day 1 of the Democratic National Committee's summer meeting saw party chair Ken Martin detail how the party is pushing back on Trump administration policies and trying to win back voters.
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Aug 26, 2025
A district judge in Virginia was specially tapped to oversee the unusual case after DOJ named all 15 federal district court judges in Maryland as defendants in a lawsuit related to deportations.
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Aug 26, 2025
On a planet that can feel increasingly challenged, we asked activist Edgard Gouveia Jr. about his latest efforts to improve life on Earth, what "artivism" is — and what he dreams of.
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Aug 26, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been taken into custody and faces deportation again, this time to Uganda. And, Trump seeks to fire a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.
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Aug 26, 2025
Fungi and plants have something to teach humans about global trade and cooperation
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Aug 26, 2025
People were forced to leave their pets behind during Hurricane Katrina, creating an unprecedented animal welfare crisis that has shaped the country's disaster response ever since.
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Aug 26, 2025
Hurricane Katrina flooded nearly every building in St. Bernard Parish near New Orleans in 2005. Twenty years later, the community is still rebuilding and flood protections encouraged some to return.
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Aug 26, 2025
No neighborhood was hit worse in Katrina than New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward and it's been one of the slowest areas to rebound. There's still an effort to attract new residents and businesses there.
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Aug 26, 2025
Inside the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Monday, tensions over the potential for federal overreach broke into open court.
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Aug 26, 2025
After giving birth to her second child, NPR's LA Johnson struggled with scary thoughts that didn't seem to go away. She illustrates her experience in a comic, along with tips on how to cope.
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Aug 26, 2025
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina crashed into Louisiana and Mississippi, surprises continue to surface. A washed-up ID and how a park ranger found its owner is a moment of joy in the tragedy.
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Aug 26, 2025
U.S. Judge Royce Lamberth ordered Trump administration official Kari Lake to be deposed about her plans for Voice of America, saying she was on "verging on contempt."
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Aug 26, 2025
About 90,000 people spent months in limbo as central Missouri's major medical provider fought over insurance contracts. These disputes between insurers and hospitals are a recurring problem.
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Aug 26, 2025
Australian leader Anthony Albanese accused Iran of organizing two antisemitic attacks in Australia, saying the country would cut off diplomatic relations with Tehran. Iran had no immediate reaction.
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Aug 26, 2025
Former Mexican cartel kingpin Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada will spend the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty Monday to U.S. drug trafficking charges.
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Aug 25, 2025
These weather patterns are typical for this time of year in Nevada's deserts. Eventgoers should keep an eye on the forecast and prepare for hazardous conditions, the National Weather Service said.
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Aug 25, 2025
President Trump says he's firing Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, after a Trump ally accused Cook of making false statements on a mortgage applications. The president's authority to remove a Fed governor may be challenged in court.
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