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Brazil’s government has granted an initial permit that will allow a major freeway to be paved through one of the Amazon rainforest’s most preserved areas.

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Shadi Hamid, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about Tunisia’s new constitutional referendum that gives President Kais Saied near total power.

NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks with Stephanie Scott, executive director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, about the pope’s apology to Indigenous peoples for Canada’s residential schools.

Here are some highlights from each day of the first eight public hearings.

JACKSON, Ky. — Trapped homeowners swam to safety and others were rescued by boat as record flash flooding killed at least 16 people in eastern Kentucky and swamped entire Appalachian towns, prompting a frenzied search for survivors through some of

The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge climbed rapidly in June. Wage and benefit gains are fast, too, separate data showed.

Kentucky floods kill at least 16 as governor warns toll will be “a lot higher”  CBS News Kentucky flooding death toll reaches 16 and will ‘get a lot higher,’ governor says  Fox News KY 15 closing in Breathitt Co. as floodwaters near

CNN Exclusive: Russian officials requested adding convicted murderer to Griner/Whelan prisoner swap  CNN Tehachapi native Trevor Reed optimistic for Brittney Griner release  23 ABC News | KERO Who is Viktor Bout, the prisoner the U.S. may trade for Brittney Griner?  NPR Blinken presses

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he has spoken to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and urged Moscow to accept a U.S. proposal to release WNBA star Brittney Griner and another American detainee, Paul Whelan.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he has spoken to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and urged Moscow to accept a U.S. proposal to release WNBA star Brittney Griner and another American detainee, Paul Whelan.