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A new report from the group Common Sense Media shows teens are experimenting with AI "companions" designed to provide deep conversations and advice.

The government of the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho has declared a two-year state of disaster, as its once-thriving garment industry unravels in the wake of Trump's tariffs threats.

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Soaring prices, lagging incomes and burdensome social security payments are the top issues for frustrated, cash-strapped voters. Stricter measures targeting foreign residents and visitors have also emerged as a key issue, with a surging right-wing populist party leading the campaign.

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Officials in a Texas hill country community pummeled by deadly flooding July 4 said Saturday that just three people remain missing, down from nearly 100, after people who had previously been reported missing have since been accounted for.

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Congress voted to claw back federal funding to public media. Some of those hit hardest include community radio stations in areas that voted for the president.

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Palestinians were shot dead during a food distribution on Saturday at a center run by a U.S.- and Israeli-backed group in southern Gaza, hospital officials said.

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The latest season of the podcast "Unsettled" from Iowa Public Radio looks at how gender affects people's everyday lives.

New York police said the 61-year-old man was wearing a large metal chain that caused him to be "drawn into the machine." The FDA warns that MRI scan create a "strong, static magnetic field."

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Chris Camponovo, a former State Department lawyer, examines what a multi-national prisoner swap says about the Trump administration's third country deportation strategy.

Behind the scenes with NPR's reporting on how Florida has become the scene of some of the Trump administration's most aggressive immigration enforcement efforts.

A boat carrying tourists capsized during a sudden thunderstorm in Vietnam on Saturday afternoon during a sightseeing excursion, killing 34 people.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi has filed a formal request to release grand jury testimony related to Jeffrey Epstein. But the president continues to distance himself from the late, disgraced financier.

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This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with host Peter Sagal, special guest James Gunn and panelists Paula Poundstone, Adam Burke, and Bobcat Goldthwait

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A vehicle rammed into a crowd of people waiting to enter a nightclub along a busy boulevard in Los Angeles early Saturday, injuring 30 people and leading bystanders to attack the driver, authorities said.

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A vehicle rammed into a crowd of people waiting to enter a nightclub along a busy boulevard in Los Angeles early Saturday, injuring 30 people and leading bystanders to attack the driver, authorities said.

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A vehicle rammed into a crowd of people waiting to enter a nightclub along a busy boulevard in Angeles early Saturday, injuring 30 people.

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Congress passed the first major crypto legislation in the U.S., marking a major milestone for the digital currency sector. And with President Trump's support, the industry plans to march on.

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The U.S. Army announced that 141 of its 236 horses, donkeys, and mules will be put up for adoption, in a move it says will save about $2 million dollars.

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The league is set to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars from expansion fees and a new media rights deal. And the players' union is pushing for a new contract to change a legacy of low pay.

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President Trump celebrated another legislative win, clawing back $9 billion from public broadcasting and foreign aid. And the fallout continues over the administration's handling of the Epstein case.