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Immigration arrests dip in July, and activists hope they're partly responsible

Since June, there have been nightly protests outside the now-boarded-up offices of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Portland, Ore.

Immigration arrests falter in July after a big push for mass deportations in June. Activists in sanctuary jurisdictions hope their resistance plays a role.

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Video shows prominent Palestinian prisoner for the first time in years

Senior Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti appears in court in Jerusalem in 2012.

The world got a glimpse of Marwan Barghouti for the first time in years in a video of a far-right Israeli minister berating him.

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Air Canada suspends operations as flight attendants go on strike

Cancelled and delayed Air Canada flights are seen on the departure board at Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport on Friday.

More than 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants went on strike after a deadline to reach a deal passed, leaving travelers around the world stranded and scrambling during the peak summer travel season.

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Hurricane Erin becomes a Category 4 in the Caribbean as the region braces for flooding

A warning flag flies on the beach as people swim in Condado, Puerto Rico, as Hurricane Erin approaches on Friday.

Erin strengthened into a powerful Category 4 hurricane in the Caribbean on Saturday and continues to intensify, the National Hurricane Center said.

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Opinion: Remembering Ted Clark, great colleague - better friend

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Scott Simon remembers former longtime NPR colleague Ted Clark, who passed away last week at the age of 79.

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As arms race in Asia intensifies, a-bomb survivors make final plea for peace

Toshiyuki Mimaki, 83, co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning group of a-bomb survivors in Japan, sits outside his farmhouse, about 10 miles outside the city of Hiroshima.

While atomic bomb survivors warn the catastrophic risks, leaders of nuclear-armed states and self-proclaimed 'realists' argue that the deterrence of nuclear weapons is what keeps them from being deployed.

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Amid growing 'scandal' of elder homelessness, health care groups aim to help

Roberta Rabinovitz, right, had cancer and had been living with her grandson, sleeping on his couch. With her is Rachel Nassif, day center director at the PACE Organization of Rhode Island in East Providence.

The housing crisis is requiring creative scrambling and new partnerships from health care organizations to keep older patients out of expensive nursing homes as homelessness grows.

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Teenagers in Washington D.C. say the federal police takeover makes them feel unsafe

Police officers set up a roadside checkpoint on 14th Street Northwest on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. President Trump deployed federal officers and the National Guard in order to place the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and assist in crime prevention in the nation

When President Trump announced his crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C., the local U.S. Attorney said she wanted to focus on juveniles. But experts say harsher punishments don't deter criminals.

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Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal details of Trump-Putin summit

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Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.

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Chimpanzees pick up communication styles from their moms, not their dads

A baby chimpanzee sits with mother at Dublin Zoo on Sept. 21, 2005.

A new study finds that chimpanzee babies learn vocal and visual communication patterns from their mothers. The findings may shed light on the way human babies learn from those close to them.

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Old Fiddler's Convention is pushing 90 and keeping mountain music alive

A band competes against more than 100 others in the bluegrass band competition during the 89th Annual Old Fiddler

The Old Fiddler's Convention in Galax, Va., features mostly amateur musicians playing Bluegrass and Old Time music. At age 89, it's the oldest continuous competition of its kind in the U.S.

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For Puerto Ricans on and off the island, Bad Bunny's concert feels like home

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Bad Bunny's 30-concert residency in San Juan inspires pride in Puerto Rican culture and soothes pangs of sorrow over many people's decision to leave their island in search of opportunity.

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Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation

Ken Thomas and his wife Delilah have invested in energy-saving windows and insulation for their Boca Raton, Fla. home. But in the dog days of summer, their electric bill can still top $400 a month.

Electricity prices are rising more than twice as fast as overall inflation. That's especially costly during the dog days of summer when air conditioners are working hardest. In addition to hot weather, a variety of factors are causing power bills to climb, including the high cost of natural gas used to generate electricity and soaring demand from data centers.

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Private equity and crypto could be heading for your 401(k). Here's what to know

Employer-sponsored retirement funds may soon have options like private equity and cryptocurrency funds, alongside the typical stock and bond funds.

A recent executive order paves the way for retirement accounts to include a lot more than stock and bond funds.

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Hope and disappointment as world reacts to Trump-Putin summit

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Russia hailed the summit as "very positive," while U.S. and European leaders urged Trump to push harder for a ceasefire.

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California Democrats unveil their new congressional map to counter Republicans

Accompanied by California and Texas lawmakers, California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks in support of the Texas Democratic lawmakers for their walkout to block a vote on a congressional redistricting plan sought by President Donald Trump, during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Friday Aug. 8, 2025.

As the battle over partisan redistricting mounts, Democrats in California unveil a congressional map that could yield up to five new seats for their party, countering Texas' plan for five GOP seats.

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Class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations

Otter.ai is a Mountain View, Calif.-based tech company that uses artificial intelligence to generate speech-to-text transcriptions. It has become a popular tool for transcribing virtual office meetings.

The suit claims the popular service may be recording and processing millions of users' private conversations without consent.

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After a freeze, Trump administration reluctantly agrees to fund EV chargers

A Volkswagen ID.4 electric vehicle charges via a fast charger in Torrance, Calif., on February 23, 2024. A federal program to fund fast chargers across the U.S. has been on pause for six months, but the Trump administration is now restarting it.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he doesn't agree with federal subsidies for high-speed EV chargers, but that his department "will respect Congress' will" and release the funds.

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When our inflation infeelings don’t match the CPI

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For most Americans, we just lived through the highest period of inflation in our lives. And we are reminded of this every time we go grocery shopping. All over TikTok, tons of people have posted videos of how little they got for … $20. $40. $100. Most upsetting to us: an $8 box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Food prices are almost 30% higher than they were five years ago. It’s bad. And those new, higher prices aren’t going away.

At the same time, prices are no longer inflating at a wild pace. For the last two years, the rate of inflation has slowed way down. And yet, our fears or feelings that things will spiral out of control again? Those have not slowed down.

This mismatch has been giving us all the …. feelings. Inflation feelings. Infeelings.

On our latest show: we sort through our infeeltions. We talk to the economists who have studied us. We learn why our personal inflation calculators don’t always match the professional ones.

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Putin and Trump tout 'progress' despite no Ukraine peace deal

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting at a military base outside Anchorage, Alaska. We've got the latest.

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A Secret History of the Japanese Army

On the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in WWII, the legacy of a biological warfare unit still haunts. And human rights activists are alarmed by the Trump administration’s changing focus.

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Children in a mental health crisis can spend days languishing in the ER

The study looked at records for more than 250,000 emergency department visits by children who are on Medicaid.

A new study finds that nearly 1 in 10 kids on Medicaid visiting an emergency department for mental health care remain stuck there for days waiting for follow up psychiatric care.

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Embryos small but mighty, first live videos show

A nine-day-old human embryo seen through a microscope.

Scientists have recorded a human embryo implanting in a womb in real time. The implications of how it happens could lead to more and better treatments for infertility.

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Some John Grisham adaptations are better than others. We ranked them

Lana Parrilla and Milo Callaghan in a new TV adaptation of John Grisham

A TV version of The Rainmaker is out this week, which gave critic Linda Holmes as good a reason as any to rank the on-screen adaptations of John Grisham's legal novels.

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CFPB staff layoffs can proceed, appeals court rules

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau headquarters in Washington, DC, in February.

The Trump administration sent reduction-in-force notices to more than 1,400 staffers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in April.

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Tensions grow as Trump and Washington, D.C. officials fight over police authority

The attorney general of Washington, D.C., Brian Schwalb, has filed a lawsuit challenging what he calls the "federal government

Tension in the nation's capital escalated over the question of who controls the city's police department after Washington, D.C.'s Attorney General sued over the White House's bid for full control.

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What to know ahead of Trump-Putin summit. And, Texas Democrats could end boycott

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Trump and Putin meet in Alaska today. Here's what you need to know before the summit. And, Texas Democrats could end their boycott if California also begins redistricting.

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In Houston, some worry their problems would be neglected after redistricting

Democrats have been leaving a lot of empty chairs in the Texas House of Representatives. They blocked a quorum needed to allow Republicans to vote on President Trump

In one neighborhood of the city, Latinos worry about immigration and urban problems but may soon be grouped in with suburban voters.

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As Republicans face voters during tense town halls, it's about sticking to the script

Karen Wagner, left, speaks with Rep. Mike Flood before a town hall at Kimball Recital Hall on campus at the University of Nebraska Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska, on August 4, 2025.

While just a fraction of Republicans in Congress are holding town halls during the August recess — in-person and virtual — the questions from voters, and answers from lawmakers, strike a similar tune.

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Trump and Putin meet today in Anchorage. Here's what to know

FILE - President Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit on July 7, 2017, in Hamburg, Germany.

President Trump had pledged to use his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin to broker a deal. But he's been vague about potential outcomes from his Friday summit.

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