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Jury finds Trump liable for battery and defamation in E. Jean Carroll trial. Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is arrested. President Biden and congressional leaders discuss the debt limit.

Supreme Court strikes down Biden's student debt forgiveness program

Millions of federal borrowers will not see their debts decreased or erased. Roughly 1 in 8 Americans will have to restart loan payments as soon as September.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stands with fellow Democrats holding photographs of the victims of the mass shootings in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas, before passing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act in front of the House of Representatives in Washington, DC.

Closing the 'boyfriend loophole' with gun legislation

Dating partners convicted of domestic abuse will no longer be able to purchase firearms, rather than just spouses and former spouses.

RaDonda Vaught listens to victim impact statements during her sentencing in Nashville. She was found guilty in March of criminally negligent homicide and gross neglect of an impaired adult after she accidentally administered the wrong medication.

Tennessee nurse convicted in lethal drug error sentenced to three years probation

RaDonda Vaught's prosecution was widely condemned by nurses, who said it set a dangerous precedent that would worsen the nursing shortage and make them less forthcoming about admitting mistakes.

Chesa Boudin's ouster raises questions about the future for progressive prosecutors

NPR's Cheryl W. Thompson speaks with writer and attorney Josie Duffy Rice about how progressive prosecutors are faring amid rising crime.

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President Biden will travel to Israel and Jordan as the Israel-Hamas war intensifies, and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza deepens. The House is set to vote Tuesday to elect a new speaker.

The two generals fighting for control in Sudan were once allies

The two generals waging a bloody power struggle in Sudan actually have a long history of working together. Both were key figures in the brutal military crackdown in Darfur in the early 2000s.

Group chat: How to keep friendships between parents and non-parents alive

NPR's Juana Summers talks to New York Magazine writer Allison P. Davis, and Claire Fallon of the podcast Rich Text, about the difficulties of maintaining friendships between parents and non-parents.

Why Guatemala has never had an indigenous president

Nearly half of Guatemala's population identifies as indigenous, yet the most high profile indigenous Presidential candidate is not on the ballot and Guatemala has never had a native president

Brian 'Thee beast' fights his way to Kenyan gaming domination!

When his family fell into poverty, a young boy in Kenya found comfort and strength from video games. Now he's the country's gaming ambassador, a mentor to kids in the slums — and a firefighter.

Displaced Yemenis receive humanitarian aid provided by the World Food Programme in the city of Taiz on September 11.

The U.N.'s food program has a funding problem. Now millions are going hungry

Cindy McCain, the U.N. World Food Programme's executive director, has been tasked with closing the giant hole in the budget.

Fifth-graders wearing face masks sit at proper social distancing during a music class at the Milton Elementary School in Rye, N.Y., May 18, 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic that shuttered classrooms set back learning in some U.S. school systems by more than a year, with children in high-poverty areas affected the most, according to data shared with The Associated Press.

COVID-19 is a leading cause of death among children, but is still rare

Children ages 19 and under died from COVID-19 at a rate at 1 per 100,000, making it rare, but still a leading cause of death among that age group.

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