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What we know about the failed attempt to assassinate Argentina’s vice president

NPR’s Ailsa Chang speaks with Buenos Aires-based journalist Natalie Alcoba about the failed assassination attempt on Argentina’s vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

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The United Kingdom’s next prime minister could be a foreign policy hard-liner

NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Ben Judah, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, about British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who will likely succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister.

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What It’s Like to Participate in a Clinical Trial for Bladder Cancer

Sometimes numbers tell a story, but sometimes they obscure one. According to the latest figures from the National Cancer Institute, the death rate for people diagnosed with bladder cancer has hardly budged during the past 30 years. But experts who

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‘I can breathe a little bit more.’ How student debt relief will affect 8 borrowers, in their words

What eight borrowers of federal student loans told the PBS NewsHour about student loan debt relief.

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Exoplanets Have Been Impossible to Photograph Directly—Until Now

There’s nothing terribly special about the exoplanet known as HIP 65426 b. It’s a gas giant nine times the mass of Jupiter, orbiting its host star 385 light years from Earth. Just one of at least 5,000 exoplanets astronomers have

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Prosecutors detail items seized from Trump estate, including dozens of empty ‘classified’ folders – POLITICO

Prosecutors detail items seized from Trump estate, including dozens of empty ‘classified’ folders  POLITICO Unsealed documents reveal new details from search of Trump’s home  Al Jazeera English FBI materials seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home included 90 empty folders  The Guardian US DOJ Reveals

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Aid pours into Pakistan as deaths from flooding cross 1,200 mark

Officials say planes carrying fresh aid from the United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan have landed overnight at an airport near Pakistan’s capital.

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Energy war as West caps Russian oil price, Moscow keeps gas pipe shut

By Tom Balmforth ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) -Rich countries agreed on Friday to try to cap the global price of Russian oil, while Russia delayed the re-opening of its main gas pipeline to Germany, as both sides raised the stakes in

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How some encounters between police and people with mental illness can turn tragic

People experiencing mental health crises have been being killed by police in America. But how many is unknown.

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‘Red flag’ laws get little use even as mass shootings, gun deaths soar

An AP analysis found many U.S. states barely use “red flag” laws that allow police to take guns away from people threatening to kill, a trend blamed on lack of awareness of the laws and a reluctance to enforce them

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