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During President Biden's last address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House, he spoke on July 14 about about the assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

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  • Elections

For the first time since he exited the presidential race, Biden to address the nation

President Biden will address the nation Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. ET for the first time since dropping out of the race for president and endorsing Vice President Harris.

July 24, 2024
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  • Ben Giles
A pharmacist holds a vial of lenacapavir, the HIV prevention injectable drug that was shown to be 100% effective in newly published clinical trial data.

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  • Global Health

New HIV preventive strategy sparks excitement -- and protests -- at AIDS conference

The final results of a trial for a new HIV preventive strategy are out today. Experts express enthusiasm. But activists at the 2024 AIDS conference in Munich are protesting the likely cost.

July 24, 2024
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  • Maria Isabel Barros Guinle
GPB News NPR

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  • Book Reviews

These dictators are different. 'Autocracy, Inc.' explains how

The dictators of today aren't united by ideology, writes Anne Applebaum: They operate like companies, focused on preserving their wealth, repressing their people and maintaining power at all costs.

July 24, 2024
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  • Frank Langfitt
Chickens stand in their cages at a farm in 2009, near Stuart, Iowa. Millions of chickens have been culled in Iowa, Colorado and other states since 2022 in response to the current H5N1 bird flu outbreak.

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  • Health

With the U.S. bird flu outbreak uncontained, scientists see growing risks

A recent crop of human cases at a chicken farm highlight the risks of the ongoing outbreak. Here's what scientists fear could happen next in the evolution of the virus.

July 24, 2024
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By:
  • Will Stone
Tennis player Coco Gauff, seen here training ahead of the Paris Olympic Games, will join LeBron James in carrying the U.S. flag during the opening ceremony.

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  • Sports

Tennis star Coco Gauff will carry the U.S. flag at the Olympic opening ceremony

Gauff, 20, is the first tennis player to serve as a U.S. flag bearer at an Olympic Games. At Friday's opening ceremony, she will carry the flag alongside basketball great LeBron James.

July 24, 2024
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks at her campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, on Monday.

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  • Politics

As she is poised to be the Democratic nominee, here are 5 facts about Kamala Harris

In a career marked by firsts, Harris is no stranger to charting a new path. If she becomes the Democratic nominee, and beats Trump in November, she would be the first woman president of the U.S.

July 24, 2024
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  • Jeongyoon Han
Christopher Dunn, right, listens to his attorney Justin Bonus during the first day of his hearing to decide whether to vacate his murder conviction in May at the Carnahan Courthouse in St. Louis. A Missouri judge on Monday overturned the conviction of Dunn, who has spent more than 30 years in prison for a killing he has long contended he didn’t commit.

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  • Law

A Missouri prison again has ignored an order to free a wrongfully convicted inmate

Christopher Dunn's situation is similar to that of Sandra Hemme, who spent 43 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of a woman in 1980 before her conviction was overturned.

July 24, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
People hold pictures of Israeli hostages during a vigil on the National Mall on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Families of hostages are hopeful Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will agree to a ceasefire deal that would bring the hostages home.

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  • Politics

Relatives of Israeli hostages want cease-fire deal from Netanyahu speech

Families of hostages still being held in Gaza are hopeful Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will announce a cease-fire deal that would bring the hostages home during his address to Congress Wednesday.

July 24, 2024
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  • Barbara Sprunt
Vice President Harris, seen here on Feb. 27, 2024, is played by actor Maya Rudolph on SNL.

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  • Pop Culture

Hey SNL, we're ready for Maya's Kamala

Social media is crying out with calls for Saturday Night Live veteran Maya Rudolph to bring back her Kamala Harris impression.

July 24, 2024
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Rev. Charles Duplessis walks by his solar panel-topped house in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood on Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. The Environmental Protection Agency this week awarded the city nearly $50 million to help pay for installing solar on low to middle income homes.

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  • Climate

Here's how $4 billion in government money is being spent to reduce climate pollution

Most states submitted plans to reduce planet-warming pollution to unlock federal grant money, and they proposed projects to get started. This week, the Biden administration announced the winners.

July 24, 2024
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  • Halle Parker, WWNO,
  • Ellis Juhlin,
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 Rusty Sabich (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Raymond Horgan (Bill Camp) prepare to hear the verdict in Rusty's trial in the finale of <em>Presumed Innocent</em>.

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  • TV Reviews

'Presumed Innocent' finale: And the murderer is ...

The verdict is in, and the ending is a dud: Rather than wriggling out of the original story’s sexism, the Apple TV+ series just makes the same mistakes in a new way.

July 24, 2024
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  • Linda Holmes
A deep sea shark and several eels are attracted to bait placed at the summit of the Cook seamount, as seen from the Pisces V submersible during a dive to the previously unexplored seamount off the coast of Hawaii's Big Island on Sept. 6, 2016.

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  • Science

Scientists may have discovered 'dark oxygen' being created without photosynthesis

It has long been understood that photosynthesis creates oxygen, but researchers believe they've found oxygen being created in parts of the ocean with no light.

July 24, 2024
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  • Joe Hernandez and
  • Regina G. Barber
<em>Wall Street Journal</em> reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage of a Russian courtroom on  July 19. A Russian court convicted Gershkovich on espionage charges that his employer and the U.S. have rejected as fabricated. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison after a secretive and rapid trial.

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  • World

Dozens of Americans are wrongfully detained or held hostage abroad, often for years

The number of "unjust detentions" fell 42% over the last two years, according to the nonprofit Foley Foundation. Despite the progress, nations like Russia continue to pose major risks for U.S. travelers.

July 24, 2024
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  • Jason Breslow
 A screenshot from a video taken by a person on a nearby boat shows a whale just as it is about to crash down on another boat off the coast of Portsmouth, N.H., on Tuesday.

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  • National

A breaching whale capsized a boat, tossing 2 people overboard off New Hampshire coast

The Coast Guard said the two boaters were uninjured and their boat salvaged. They said the whale appeared to be uninjured.

July 24, 2024
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks during the second day of the Republican National Convention, July 16, in Milwaukee. Haley strongly endorsed Trump in her speech.

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  • Politics

'Haley Voters for Harris' pledge to fight on after Nikki Haley says cease and desist

In a letter from her attorneys, former S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley called on the newly renamed "Haley Voters for Harris" to stop using her name as she "has been clear in her support for Harris' opponent."

July 24, 2024
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  • Sarah McCammon
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