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Jun 19, 2026
Peace talks between the U.S. and Iran scheduled to take place Friday were postponed due to continued Israeli attacks in Lebanon.
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Jun 19, 2026
While a bill to study slavery reparations has failed to advance for decades, the Trump administration's 'anti-weaponization fund' could have used a source that exists due to other reparations efforts.
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Jun 19, 2026
NPR Music's Stephen Thompson reports on the pop star's latest song for a feature film.
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Jun 19, 2026
The shallow, sunny waters of the reflecting pool are an ideal incubator for algae growth in the summertime. Experts say the recent renovation may have helped accelerate it.
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Jun 19, 2026
Teen movies like She's the He, Girls Like Girls and Leviticus are all turning tropes on their heads by centering queer characters.
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Jun 19, 2026
With judicial clerkships and internships coveted by law programs, a group Emory Law School students asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on the judiciary's system for policing its own bad behavior.
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Jun 19, 2026
It's often a derogatory term used to describe digital dinosaurs and technophobes. That wasn't always the case. NPR's Word of the Week looks back at the not so backwards-looking Luddites.
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Jun 19, 2026
While some enslaved people did not know about Lincoln's order, many learned of it while the fighting was still ongoing through informal networks, rumors and sometimes from slaveholders themselves.
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Jun 18, 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blasts NATO allies as a "paper tiger" while launching a six-month review of U.S. troop deployments in Europe and pressing for Europe to take the lead on its own defense.
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Jun 18, 2026
Three decades after Woody, Buzz Lightyear and pals debuted in Hollywood's first fully computer-animated feature, Pixar brings the whole gang back for a new adventure in Toy Story 5.
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Jun 18, 2026
Gambling is not something that grew out of American sports. Sports in the U.S. exist in their current form because of gambling. We talk to the author of a new book on sports betting.
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Jun 18, 2026
We take you to the big parade in New York City celebrating the New York Knicks, who won their first NBA championship in 53 years.
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Jun 18, 2026
Authorities in Mississippi are investigating a police shooting that left a young child dead and an adult seriously injured when police shot at a car in a parking lot during an alleged shoplifting call.
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Jun 18, 2026
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Andrew Gulli, managing editor of The Strand Magazine, about publishing a new short story from Edith Wharton and its resonance today.
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Jun 18, 2026
A tropical seabird way off course in deeply landlocked Kansas City has set off a birding frenzy. Even as the city hosts the World Cup, for some the most exotic visitor is a Brown booby.
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Jun 18, 2026
Sen. Bernie Sanders talks with NPR's Juana Summers about his new legislation, which would create a sovereign wealth fund, and give the American people a say in regulating AI.
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Jun 18, 2026
As part of a collaboration between the Poetry Society of America and Babbel, 1,500 poets and poetry lovers weighed in on the most beautiful word in the English language, crowning "diaphanous."
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Jun 18, 2026
The Justice Department is offering more than a billion dollars to cities and police departments across the U.S., but there's a catch: recipients must cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
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Jun 18, 2026
The story of Motown Records is a quintessentially American story about the American Dream, civil rights and entrepreneurship — but it has a special significance in Detroit, where it all started.
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Jun 18, 2026
All living former presidents gathered for the dedication of the Obama presidential center in Chicago. It was a star studded event that harkened back to a more-optimistic era in American politics.
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Jun 18, 2026
The U.S. and Iran have signed a preliminary agreement. Who are the winners and losers? We unpack what we know.
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Jun 18, 2026
The court ruled that the law used to prosecute a marijuana user violated his Second Amendment right to bear arms and is unconstitutionally vague.
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Jun 18, 2026
Federal law requires most museums and other buildings to be accessible to people with disabilities. But access to what's actually inside is often still limited.
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Jun 17, 2026
The Obama Presidential Center opens this week. But it isn't an official presidential library.
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Jun 17, 2026
Kevin Warsh held his first news conference since taking over as the Federal Reserve chair. With inflation at its highest level in three-plus years, Warsh and his colleagues held interest rates steady.
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Jun 17, 2026
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang of the Las Culturistas podcast about their tongue-in-cheek "Culture Awards" broadcast.
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Jun 17, 2026
President Trump gave a wide-ranging press conference Wednesday at the end of the G7 summit where he tackled questions about his tentative agreement with Iran.
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Jun 17, 2026
Nationwide peoples electric bills are up an average of 30% in the last five years. A big rate increase in Tucson has locals blaming a new data center.
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Jun 17, 2026
The World Cup debut of Uzbekistan signals the region's growing confidence on the global stage and, some argue, the arrival of a "golden generation" making its mark in sports, culture and science.
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Jun 17, 2026
The working class area where George Orwell set a 1937 book may chose the next U.K. prime minister. Manchester's center-left mayor is vying for a seat in Parliament - and a path to the PM's job.
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Jun 17, 2026
More than 30,000 US military veterans are homeless. The Trump Administration has promised new housing for vets, but one of Trump's executive orders is targeting homeless people.
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Jun 17, 2026
Swing voters from Wisconsin share their thoughts on the Iran war, high prices and how they're feeling about America at its 250th year marker.
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Jun 17, 2026
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former Iranian diplomat and nuclear negotiator who spent decades representing Iran, about President Trump's deal to end the war with Iran.
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Jun 17, 2026
Anti-regime protesters feel the U.S. abandoned them after having promised support.
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Jun 17, 2026
Lionel Messi answered questions about age and injury with a hat trick in Argentina's World Cup opener. CBS Sports Golazo Network's Nico Cantor explains what makes the 38-year-old Messi so unique.
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Jun 17, 2026
Peru's capital Lima is sweltering with unusually warm ocean waters offshore. Scientists warn a record-breaking "Godzilla" El Niño may be forming, driven by climate change.
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Jun 17, 2026
The prolific writer Jane Yolen was best known for books like The Devil's Arithmetic and the picture book Own Moon. She was 87.
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Jun 17, 2026
Senators wanted to fast-track President Trump's pick for Director of National Intelligence. But Trump now says he wants to delay until they pass voting legislation that already failed in the Senate.
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Jun 16, 2026
Sometimes a broken appliance gets thrown out even though it just needs a little fix. That's where volunteer tinkerers come in. They make it work again and give it to people in need.
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Jun 16, 2026
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Jakob Larsen, chief safety and security officer at BIMCO, the global shipping association, about what it might mean to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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Jun 16, 2026
Plans to develop a luxury resort that has links to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have prompted a growing protest movement against Albania's government.
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Jun 16, 2026
Jazz legend and anti-apartheid icon Abdullah Ibrahim has died at the age of 91. He leaves behind a global contribution to jazz music.
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Jun 16, 2026
NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with ecologist Justin Stewart about mapping the complex network of fungi connecting the Earth's plants.
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Jun 16, 2026
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Kelsey Pfendler, who is rowing solo from California to Hawaii. She is attempting to become the first American woman to do so.
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Jun 16, 2026
President Trump said the next stage of negotiations with Iran should be easier than the first as he continues to tout the recent agreement between the two countries at the G7 summit in France.
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Jun 16, 2026
For some high school mountain bike races, varsity girls race shorter distances than boys. One 16-year-old athlete in Utah is trying to change that.
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Jun 16, 2026
In an era of partisan gerrymandering, Colorado's 8th Congressional District remains a toss-up. Voters, many unaffiliated, have a variety of opinions on what type of candidate they want this November.
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Jun 16, 2026
Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, says the bureau disrupted an alleged plot to attack attendees at Sunday's UFC fight at the White House.
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Jun 16, 2026
A resident of San Juan, Puerto Rico, shares the toll of living without running water for nearly two months.
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Jun 16, 2026
In the U.S., 115 million adults have prediabetes, which is tied to heart disease and other health problems. A 20-year follow-up to a landmark diabetes study shows lifestyle interventions cut the risk.
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Jun 16, 2026
Rebecca Simonitsch had just learned she might be a candidate for brain surgery. The man seated beside her on the flight home pulled out a notebook to explain what lay ahead.
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Jun 16, 2026
The Iraq national men's team hasn't played a World Cup in 40 years; a drought that ends Tuesday night, to the excitement of soccer fans in Dearborn, Michigan, home to a large Iraqi diaspora.
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Jun 16, 2026
There's been a lot of confusion and disruption about the legal authority the Trump administration has to suspend AI technology.
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Jun 16, 2026
The moves to the federal departments of Health and Human Services and Justice, respectively, would further dismantle an agency that President Donald Trump has vowed to close.
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Jun 16, 2026
The U.S. may be the world's biggest producer of crude oil, but that's not the case for motor oil. The cost of lubricants is soaring, and even a tentative deal to end the war won't solve the problem.
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Jun 15, 2026
French president Emmanuel Macron met with Trump and congratulated him for signing the new Iran agreement.
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Jun 15, 2026
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Paul Rudnick about his new novel, The Tuxedo Society.
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Jun 15, 2026
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with New Yorker and grief specialist Barri Leiner Grant, who has written about how the New York Knicks championship run sparked a "collective effervescence" in the city.
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Jun 15, 2026
One of the world's leading brain research labs is switching from fruit flies to a tiny, transparent fish. The goal is to observe an entire animal's brain at work.
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Jun 15, 2026
The UK government has announced it will ban social media for all children under 16. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was "giving children their childhood back."
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Jun 15, 2026
The UK government has announced it will ban social media for all children under 16. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was "giving children their childhood back."
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Jun 15, 2026
While the U.S. has rejected the Iran soccer team, forcing them to train in Tijuana during this world cup, the border city has rolled out a welcome for a squad caught between sport and geopolitics.
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Jun 15, 2026
The FIFA World Cup is thought to bring an economic windfall to the cities and regions where games will be played during four weeks this summer. How true is that?
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Jun 15, 2026
In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, an Ebola outbreak is reshaping life, with fear spreading faster than information and hospitals turning into places of urgent containment rather than care.
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Jun 15, 2026
California Gov. Gavin Newsom claims the Trump administration is targeting him and his wife.
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Jun 15, 2026
A third of Illinois counties have passed resolutions seeking to separate from the city of Chicago. People in these rural counties resent what they see as disproportionate power wielded by Chicago.
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Jun 15, 2026
President Trump says a deal had been reached to prolong a ceasefire with Iran and open the Strait of Hormuz, but many challenges remain.
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Jun 15, 2026
Russian strikes have left cultural scars across Ukraine, damaging Kharkiv's Art Museum and striking Kyiv's historic Pechersk Lavra monastery, reminding how war reaches even sacred and storied places.
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Jun 15, 2026
It's prime tick season, especially in the Northeast and Midwest. The prevalence of ticks is changing the way some people in highly affected areas live their lives.
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Jun 15, 2026
Crude oil prices are falling as oil markets react to President Trump saying the U.S. and Iran have agreed on a framework for reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
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Jun 15, 2026
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Wendy Sherman, the lead U.S. negotiator on the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, about the road ahead for U.S. negotiators aiming to strike a new deal to end the Iran war.
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Jun 14, 2026
President Trump says a deal has been reached to end the war with Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. NPR's Franco Ordoñez discusses what we know and what comes next.
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Jun 14, 2026
President Trump is celebrating his 80th birthday with a UFC fight on the White House lawn. A closer look a the political message behind the event and why some Republicans are uneasy.
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Jun 14, 2026
Juneteenth is often told as an American story. But it's been celebrated for generations in Corina Torralba Harrington's hometown in Mexico by descendants of Black Seminoles.
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Jun 14, 2026
A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Trump's order to remove some exhibits at national parks. One historic site targeted by that order faces an uncertain future.
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Jun 14, 2026
Activists in Philadelphia are fighting to restore an exhibit about enslaved people who lived and worked in George Washington's presidential household.
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Jun 14, 2026
From a recording studio inside a Cameroon prison to a tribute to New York's retired MetroCard, the Tribeca Film Festival marked 25 years by spotlighting unexpected stories.
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Jun 14, 2026
Fried rice, bread pudding and homemade broth all start with ingredients many people throw away. Life Kit looks at how rethinking leftovers can change the way you cook.
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Jun 14, 2026
President Trump and other G7 leaders meet in the French Alps this week as wars, economic uncertainty and strains in the transatlantic alliance loom over the summit.
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Jun 14, 2026
Many Iranians say they can no longer afford the lives they once had. Writer and historian Arash Azizi talks with NPR's Adrian Florido about the economic pressures reshaping daily life.
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Jun 13, 2026
The removal of President Trump's name from the facade of the Kennedy Center after a judge's order was shrouded in secrecy. NPR's Frank Langfitt joined onlookers as workers hid the process from the public.
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Jun 13, 2026
NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Micah Maidenberg about Space X's IPO and what it means for the economics of space exploration.
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Jun 13, 2026
A World Cup fever is sweeping Brazil. So is sports betting. NPR's Julia Carneiro reports on the country's gambling boom and the growing concerns about debt and addiction.
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Jun 13, 2026
Victor Wembanyama may be basketball's brightest young star. Rebecca Rosman visits the French club that helped launch the 22-year-old Spurs standout.
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Jun 13, 2026
More than 3,700 people in Lebanon have died in the war between Israel and Hezbollah. In a village in southern Lebanon, one airstrike last month killed 14 people, including 10 women and children.
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Jun 13, 2026
Sleep-deprived teens, devoted dads, and hundreds of birds. NPR spends twenty four hours at the World Series of Birding.
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Jun 13, 2026
Nearly 60 years ago, a fight over a massive Everglades airport helped reshape U.S. environmental law. Reporter Meghan Bowman reports on that battle in the podcast Defenders of the Everglades.
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Jun 13, 2026
Exiled Russian journalist Vladimir Raevsky says laughter can be a weapon against authoritarianism. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports on his history-inspired comedy act.
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Jun 12, 2026
Legendary painter David Hockney died on Thursday at the age of 88. The late NPR correspondent Susan Stamberg spoke with the artist in 2016 about his lifelong obsession with looking.
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Jun 12, 2026
The Justice Department closed its investigation into the proposed $110 billion merger of Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery, saying it found no threat to competition or consumers.
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Jun 12, 2026
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with pop artist Bebe Rexha about her new record, Dirty Blonde.
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Jun 12, 2026
It's Scotland's first World Cup in nearly 30 years. Moira Brown, perhaps the oldest of Scotland's Tartan Army of soccer fans, will be in Boston when Scotland's team plays against Haiti on June 13.
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Jun 12, 2026
A federal judge on Friday denied an appeal by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' board of trustees for a stay on the removal of President Trump's name from the building.
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Jun 12, 2026
San Antonio Spurs fans are looking for their rabbit foot and other good luck charms as the Spurs face a do-or-die finals game on Saturday night against the New York Knicks.
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Jun 12, 2026
On Wild Card, famous guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Actor Brett Goldstein talks about the ways he's softened as he's grown older.
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Jun 12, 2026
For the U.S. men's national soccer team, this day has been circled on the calendar for almost a decade: The most talented generation in team history is in its prime for a FIFA World Cup on home soil. Can they pull off the unthinkable?
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Jun 12, 2026
The Ebola outbreak is taking place in a region that has been through decades of deadly conflict. That's affecting how responders are doing their work, from testing to treating patients.
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Jun 12, 2026
President Trump is hosting a UFC fight on the White House lawn on his birthday.
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