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Flood death toll in India's Assam reaches 100 as thousands lose their homes

A school girl and her father wade through floodwaters in Alengmora village in Jorhat, India, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026.

Days of heavy monsoon rain has caused rivers, including the Brahmaputra, to overflow, inundating communities, disrupting livelihoods and damaging infrastructure.

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Decades of abuse revealed at Michigan art school. And, the Iran war's impact on midterms

Vessels transit the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas in southern Iran on Aug. 10, 2026.

A new report has revealed decades of alleged abuse at an elite art school. NPR spoke with one of the victims. And, Iran is playing the long game with negotiations, which could impact midterms.

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Some disabled people want to advance their careers. They say Medicaid rules stop them

Erica Carter of Sioux City, Iowa, says she enjoys her job as a finance manager for the Omaha Nation public school district in Nebraska, working to find grants and opportunities for low-income students. But when she learned her pay was too high for her to remain in an Iowa Medicaid program, Carter had to choose — leave the job or give up her benefits.

Medicaid will have new work requirements next year. But some people with disabilities, who already work, say they'd like to work more, but risk losing their Medicaid coverage if they earn too much.

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The FAA wants to reboot the nation's airspace. This airline shows how it might work

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When Alaska Airlines wanted to optimize its operations, it turned to a small startup called Air Space Intelligence. Now the FAA has hired the company for a major reboot of the entire U.S. airspace.

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Voters are sick of the two-party system. A new poll shows they're open to big changes

Voters cast ballots Tuesday at the Copland Center in Wyandotte, Mich.

A new poll shows support for moving the U.S. toward proportional representation, a system that elects multiple representatives in a single district in rough proportion to a party's vote share.

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Who really needs testosterone?

The military plans to start screening service members for low testosterone, and social media is overflowing with claims about testosterone therapy.

The military plans to start screening service members for low testosterone, and social media is overflowing with claims about testosterone therapy. But who actually needs it?

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Mike Lindell touts Trump ties in race for governor of Minnesota, where Trump has lost

Mike Lindell, candidate for Minnesota governor in Tuesday

Lindell, of "MyPillow," plays up his ties to Trump, who endorsed him for Tuesday's primary. But the state Republican convention backed one of his opponents.

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An arts school where Epstein allegedly preyed on students reveals decades of abuse

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In a new report,former Interlochen students detail some 70 allegations of sexual abuse by nearly 50 adults employed or affiliated with the school. One of the former students tells his story to NPR.

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In a competitive Maine Senate race, women voters could be the deciders

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, walks in the annual Moxie Day Parade on July 11, 2026 in Lisbon, Maine. In her 2020 Senate campaign, Collins won women voters by three points, according to exit polling.

The race between Susan Collins and Troy Jackson is one of this year's most high-profile Senate contests. To win, both candidates will need support from an especially powerful voting bloc: Maine women.

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Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian city of Nizhnekamsk kills 12, authorities say

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Ukraine has targeted Russian oil facilities with long-range drones almost daily in recent months. The barrage has caused fuel shortages in Russia and unsettled the Russian public.

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Iran aims to put pressure on Trump amid negotiations with Oman, Labor Department to release new report on inflation, new report reveals decades of abuse at arts school linked to Epstein.

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The view from the proving grounds for next-generation nuclear reactors, Atomic City, Idaho

Arco, Idaho is among the small towns near Idaho National Laboratory with a decades-long nuclear energy legacy.

A new generation of small nuclear reactors is poised to come online in the next few years. Public opinion remains split.

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Crews battle wildfires in western U.S. and Canada

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Forest Service on Friday, Aug. 7, 2026, shows the Widemouth 2 wildfire burning near Richfield, Utah.

There have been 183 new wildfires, including eight large ones, across the U.S. since Saturday, the National Interagency Fire Center reported on Sunday.

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Demi Vollering wins Tour de France for the 2nd time

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Vollering, who first won the competition in 2023, finished the stage more than a minute ahead of Spaniard Paula Blasi Cairol and 2024 champion Polish rider Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney.

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Nearly 30 years after Tupac's death, the trial over his murder will finally begin

In 2023, police charged Duane Davis, also known as "Keefe D," with organizing Tupac Shakur's murder in 1996. Author Ben Westhoff discusses Davis' trial that begins Monday.

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Netanyahu rejects Trump's Gaza Peace Plan, demands Hamas disarm first

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Netanyahu's comments come just over a week after President Trump said his Board of Peace had reached a "historic" agreement with Hamas to give up its weapons.

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Haunted by Hoover, Trump searches for an endgame in Iran

US President Donald Trump arrives to participate in a roundtable on the American mining industry at the US Department of State in Washington, DC.

President Trump is confronting a question that has haunted presidents throughout history: how a war - that has gone on longer than predicted - can reshape a presidency.

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Can birth control trends explain the rise in abortions? It's complicated

A chorus of influencers on social media in the MAHA and "trad wife" communities emphasize the downsides of hormonal birth control. Research shows few of them have medical expertise.

The number of abortions is up in the United States. Is it because fewer people are using birth control pills?

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This rising painter reimagines Renaissance art in a cocoa plantation in Cameroon

Marc Padeu, a painter from Cameroon, draws inspiration from Renaissance art brought into an African landscape. The above painting is title "Sous le poids de la coupe" — under the weight of the cup.

A new gallery show in London features the paintings of Marc Padeu, playing with themes from Renaissance art and bringing them to his homeland of Cameroon.

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Yemen's Houthis claim attack on Aramco oil facility in Saudi Arabia, and other Middle East news

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Meanwhile, Iran has made new demands about the restart of negotiations and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and the Pentagon is pressing the U.S. defense industry to accelerate production of weapons.

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Solar eclipse to occur next week. Here is what to know

The Moon crosses in front of the Sun during a total solar eclipse at Lake Monroe on April 08, 2024 in Indiana, United States.

It will be visible in parts of the U.S. on Wednesday.

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Meet the man circumnavigating the Arctic Ocean, alone

Sailor Matt Rutherford at the helm of a sailboat. He hopes to be the first to circumnavigate the Arctic Circle alone.

Matt Rutherford is sailing 10,000 nautical miles, through ice floes and gales, to try and accomplish a world first. He spoke with NPR from the cabin of his boat.

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Tanker sailors still face danger in the Strait of Hormuz

An agreement over the Strait of Hormuz is still far away. Tim Wilkins, who works for a tanker industry group, says the ships stuck around the waterway are in limbo, and transiting is still dangerous.

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Ukraine mourns "collector of souls" Oleksiy Yukov, killed recovering war dead

Ukrainian military members carry the coffin of Oleksiy Yukov, head of the Ukrainian platsdarm search unit, during his funeral at the St. Volodymyr

Oleksiy Yukov spent two decades recovering the bodies of soldiers – including many Russians. He was killed during a recovery mission after stepping on a landmine.

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K-pop's global wave inspires Chile's next pop stars

Members of Q_ARE, a Chilean K-pop-inspired boy band, pose for a photo in Santiago, Chile.

K-pop conquered the world — now Chile's young creatives are remixing the movement and making it their own.

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Opinion: Europe's summer of heat

Children cool off as they play football under a fountain next to the Manzanares river on June 23, 2026 in Madrid, Spain.

Europe is in another brutal heat wave. The summer's earlier record-breaking weather already damaged crops, sparked wildfires and led to increased deaths.

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Switzerland is a neutral nation but has more nuclear bunkers than any country in the world

A tunnel leading from the entrance of the Sonnenberg nuclear bunker in Lucerne, Switzerland, leads to a complex deep underground. The bunker is the world

Instead of scrapping its network of bomb shelters after the Cold War, Switzerland kept building them. The country has more than 370,000 nuclear bomb shelters. Some are now used to house migrants.

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The Women's Professional Baseball League makes its historic debut

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The Los Angeles Queens, the New York Heights, the Boston Hunters and the San Francisco Firebells take the field in Springfield, Ill., as the Women's Pro Baseball League kicks off its inaugural season.

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Private prisons announce $1.4 billion in revenue as immigration detentions climb

The CoreCivic, Inc. California City Immigration Processing Center stands in the Kern County desert awaiting reopening as a federal immigrant detention facility under contract with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in California City, California on July 10, 2025.

That revenue does not include net proceeds of $1.6 billion made by CoreCivic after the recent sale of four of their facilities to the Department of Homeland Security.

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Federal funds can't be used to give test strips to drug users, raising overdose fears

A drug user uses a test strip on Aug. 22, 2018, in New York, to see if fentanyl has been added to heroin, which could increase the risk of overdose.

Drug addiction groups are reeling after Trump officials said federal grants cannot be used to hand out test strips to drug users. The strips help users check street drugs for dangerous adulterants.

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