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Niger coup: Wagner taking advantage of instability – Antony Blinken  BBC Why is instability in Niger a problem for the US and its allies? | DW News  DW News Niger coup leaders defiant in face of Western, regional warnings and deadlines |

Donald Trump gloats about USA’s Women’s World Cup elimination  The Guardian Trump Cheers the Defeat of Rapinoe and the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team  The New York Times Trump taunts defeated U.S. women’s national team  POLITICO

Western allies receive increasingly ‘sobering’ updates on Ukraine’s counteroffensive: ‘This is the most difficult time of the war’  CNN It’s almost 18 months since Russia invaded Ukraine, and peace seems no closer  The Guardian Western allies get ‘sobering’ update on Ukraine counteroffensive  CNN

Biden will designate a national monument protecting Indigenous land near the Grand Canyon. NPR’s Yuki Noguchi has lessons from Japan about healthy living. (Image credit: Ryan Heinsius/KNAU)

A YouTube chef has been charged with murdering and dismembering a Colombian surgeon on a Thai island.

Thousands of flights are delayed or canceled following severe storms  CNN Tracking dangerous storms sweeping across the U.S.  CBS Evening News Map Shows Flights Avoiding East Coast Thunderstorms  Newsweek Tornado watches, severe weather cause thousands of flight delays on the East Coast  KMPH FOX26

American teens are having a hard time. From 2008 to 2019, the rate of U.S. high school students reporting chronic feelings of sadness and hopelessness rose 65% from one in five to one in three, according to data from the

Former President Donald Trump has already been indicted three times this year, the first time in U.S. history a former President has faced criminal charges. But one more indictment could lie ahead, and it’s the one some think may present

Imagine a world without failure. A republic of success, where our entire existence consists of one, long, never ending victory lap. Would it be enlivening? Or would it lack something essential? Sports fans know the answers to those questions in

Peter Paccone, a social studies teacher in San Marino, Calif., has a new teacher’s aid helping him in the classroom this year. He plans to defer to his helper to explain some simpler topics to his class of high schoolers,