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Members of the Lebanese army and the Italian contingent of the UNIFIL peacekeeping force inspect a house destroyed by an Israeli attack during a patrol in Yarine on June 10, 2024.

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  • Middle East

U.N. peacekeepers take cover as Lebanon's Hezbollah and Israel trade attacks

“The situation is really quite volatile,” Capt. Alessandro Crepy, with the Italian contingent of the peacekeeping group UNIFIL, says of the fighting between forces in Israel and Lebanon.

July 15, 2024
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  • Jane Arraf
Obstetrician-gynecologist Taylar Swartz uses an ultrasound scanner to check the health of Addie Comegys' baby on May 30. Comegys, who is due in late August, had traveled 45 minutes for her prenatal appointment at Mahaska Health in Oskaloosa, one of a few rural hospitals in Iowa still offering labor and delivery services.

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  • Health

As a baby bust hits rural areas, hospital labor and delivery wards are closing down

In some rural areas, births have dropped by three-quarters since the late 1950s, and hospitals are shuttering labor and delivery units, leaving mothers little access to care when they need it.

July 15, 2024
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  • Tony Leys
Andrii Denysenko, CEO of design and production bureau "UkrPrototyp," stands by Odyssey, an 800-kilogram (1,750-pound) ground drone prototype, at a cornfield in northern Ukraine on June 28, 2024. Facing manpower shortages and uneven international assistance, Ukraine is counting heavily on innovation at home to halt Russia’s incremental but pounding advance in the east.

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  • Europe

Ukrainian startups are creating a low-cost robot army to fight Russia

An ecosystem of labs in hundreds of secret workshops is leveraging innovation to create a robot army that Ukraine hopes will kill Russian troops and save its own wounded soldiers and civilians.

July 15, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Peter Nyongesa walks through the mangroves to monitor his beehives in the Bangladesh slums in Mombasa, Kenya, on May 30, 2024. The 69-year-old Nyongesa recalled how he would plead unsuccessfully with loggers to spare the mangroves or cut only the mature ones while leaving the younger ones intact. So he has turned to deterring the loggers with bees, hidden in the mangroves and ready to sting.

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  • Environment

To protect mangroves, some Kenyans combat logging with hidden beehives

As part of a local conservation effort, beehives dot a section of coastline in Mombasa to try to deter people who chop mangroves for firewood or home construction.

July 15, 2024
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How much does Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) want the Iron Throne? ARRRRRdently!

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  • TV Reviews

‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2, Episode 5, Orchestrated maneuvers in the dark (and rainy)

In episode 5, Daemon's dreams go from spooky to scandalous. Plus: Your choice of kings — original recipe or extra-crispy.

July 14, 2024
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  • Glen Weldon
 An electric car and a plug-in hybrid car charge at a public charging station on October 12, 2019 in Berlin, Germany.

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  • National

Biden faces criticism over his gas car ban. But he doesn’t have one

Swing state voters are seeing ads warning them about a federal ban on their gas-powered vehicles. But there is no such ban, even as candidates campaign on it.

July 14, 2024
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  • Ximena Bustillo
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley announced that she would vote for former President Donald Trump during an event at the Hudson Institute on May 22. Haley will speak at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this week.

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  • Politics

After saying she wouldn't be there, Nikki Haley will now speak at Republican convention

Haley, the top rival to former President Donald Trump in the 2024 primary election, just released her delegates and encouraged them to back Trump. Now, she'll be at the convention to nominate him.

July 14, 2024
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  • Sarah McCammon
Shannen Doherty, best known for her roles in <em>Beverly Hills 90210</em> and <em>Charmed</em>, died Saturday after her years-long battle with breast cancer.<br>

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  • Arts & Life

Actress Shannen Doherty dies at 53, after a nearly decade-long battle with breast cancer

Doherty, who died at 53, almost ten years after she was first diagnosed with breast cancer, was a child actor, most notably on Little House on the Prairie. She was in Heathers in 1988, which is a bright spot on any résumé. But she became an icon as Brenda Walsh on Beverly Hills, 90210, one of the biggest hits of the early '90s and the spark for many teen soaps that came later.

July 14, 2024
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  • Linda Holmes
PepsiCo said sales of its Frito-Lay snacks slumped in the most recent quarter as shoppers became more sensitive to rising prices.

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  • Business

Food prices are no longer rising as much — but here's why it might not feel that way

Food prices have largely leveled off, but many people are still frustrated when they go to their local grocery store.

July 14, 2024
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  • Scott Horsley
Former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally in Butler, Pa., after an assassination attempt on his life.

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  • Politics

Trump is fine after an assassination attempt at his rally

The FBI identified the gunman as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pa. One person at the rally was killed and two others wounded before Secret Service agents killed the shooter.

July 14, 2024
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  • Danielle Kurtzleben
Ksenia Karelina, also known by the last name of Khavana, sits in a defendant’s cage in a court in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on June 20, 2024. The dual Russian-U.S. citizen was arrested on treason charges in Yekaterinburg in February after returning from Los Angeles to visit relatives. The charges reportedly stem from her $51 donation to a U.S. charity that helps Ukraine.

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  • Europe

Treason and espionage cases are rising in Russia since the war in Ukraine began

Treason cases have been rare in Russia in the last 30 years, with a handful annually. But since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, they have skyrocketed, along with espionage prosecutions.

July 14, 2024
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Artist Bill Viola speaks at a press conference in Tokyo in 2011.

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  • Obituaries

Trailblazing video artist Bill Viola dies at 73

Often working with multiple video screens showing actors moving in extreme slow motion, Viola’s ruminations on fundamental human themes like grief and spirituality were immersive and hypnotic.

July 14, 2024
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  • Chloe Veltman
Former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally in Butler, Pa., after an assassination attempt on his life.

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  • Politics

Photos: See how the Trump rally shooting unfolded

Former President Donald Trump says he was shot and hit by a bullet in the upper part of his right ear. Take a look at the aftermath of the shooting.

July 14, 2024
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  • Grace Widyatmadja and
  • Nicole Werbeck
<a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/07/13/1154459269/richard-simmons-fitness-exercise-star-dead"target="_blank"   ><strong>Read Richard Simmons' obituary</strong></a>

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  • Obituaries

Richard Simmons, who believed fitness is for everyone, dies at 76

With his short shorts, sparkly tank tops, frizzy hair and flamboyant personality, Simmons created a fitness empire. He preached positivity, portion control, moving your body — and having fun.

July 13, 2024
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  • Kyle Norris
Dr. Ruth Westheimer participates in an "Ask Dr. Ruth" panel at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour on Feb. 11, 2019, in Pasadena, Calif. Westheimer died Friday at age 96.

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  • Obituaries

Pioneering sex expert Dr. Ruth Westheimer dies at 96

Westheimer's deep knowledge about human sexual behavior and advocacy of safe sex, along with her pragmatism and sense of humor, catapulted her to national fame in the 1980s.

July 13, 2024
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