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Claire Landgraf helps a bride try on a dress at her shop Finery Bridal Chic in Rochester, Minn.

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  • Business

Here comes the bridal gown tariff

How much extra would you pay to see your dream come true? It's always a big question for wedding-planning couples. Now, there's a new twist courtesy of U.S. trade policy.

June 29, 2025
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  • Alina Selyukh
Chang Chih-yuan as a child, with his mother and Taiwanese father, when they were still living in China.

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  • World

Deadline nears for Taiwan's Chinese immigrants to prove no China household registration

Amid a wave of national security measures, immigrants from China must prove they've given up their household registration in China by June 30. Many are Chinese women married to men from Taiwan.

June 29, 2025
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  • Ashish Valentine
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., (R) says he hopes to pass the Senate's massive tax and spending bill this week. If he succeeds, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., (L), will have to sell the bill to holdouts in his own party if he hopes to meet President Trump's goal of signing the bill on July 4.

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  • Politics

GOP megabill narrowly wins first test in the Senate. Here's what's in it

Senate Republicans voted to advance their massive tax and spending bill late Saturday night after hours of delays and negotiations.

June 29, 2025
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  • Elena Moore and
  • Kelsey Snell
NPR uses information from anonymous sources to tell important stories that otherwise would go unreported.

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  • News

Who said that? NPR's approach to anonymous sources

Sometimes people with vital information face serious risks for speaking to a journalist. In those cases, NPR may consider granting the source anonymity. Here's how we think about it.

June 29, 2025
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  • Meghan Ashford-Grooms
J. J. O Dochartaigh from the hip hop trio Kneecap performs during the Glastonbury Festival in Worthy Farm, Somerset, England, Saturday, June 28, 2025.

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  • Music

Northern Irish rap group Kneecap plays Glastonbury despite controversy

Irish-language rap group Kneecap gave an impassioned performance for tens of thousands of fans on Saturday at the Glastonbury Festival despite criticism by British politicians and a terror charge for one of the trio.

June 29, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Mourners view the caskets of Melissa and Mark Hortman as they enter the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis before their funeral service on Saturday.

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  • Politics

Slain Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman mourned at funeral service

The Minnesota lawmaker was killed during a string of attacks against Democratic elected officials in the state.

June 28, 2025
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  • Alana Wise

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  • Music Interviews

Willi Carlisle blends the absurd and the sentimental on 'Winged Victory'

On Winged Victory, songwriter Willi Carlisle weaves between the absurd and the sentimental. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Carlisle about the 11 tracks of originals and covers.

June 28, 2025
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  • Scott Simon,
  • Dave Mistich,
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In a courtroom sketch, Sean Combs (left) listens alongside his lawyers Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos as Assistant U.S. Attorney Christy Slavik (center) makes her closing arguments as U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian presides during Combs' sex trafficking trial in New York City.

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  • Music

Prosecution says Combs used 'violence, power and fear' to control victims

On Thursday, the government delivered closing arguments in the sex trafficking trial of Combs. The rapper and executive is accused of coercing multiple women into sexual encounters with male escorts.

June 28, 2025
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Participants in the Pride march cross the Elisabeth Bridge in Budapest, Hungary, on Saturday.

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  • Europe

Around 100,000 march in Budapest Pride event in defiance of Hungary's ban

Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and fines to participate in the annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing governing party.

June 28, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Demonstrators hold a sign reading "Hands Off Birthright Citizenship!" outside the Supreme Court on June 27, 2025. The Supreme Court did not rule on President Trump's controversial executive order, but it did limit lower courts' ability to block executive actions with universal injunctions.

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  • National

What is birthright citizenship and what happens after the Supreme Court ruling?

Within two hours of a Supreme Court ruling that limits the ability of federal courts to impose universal injunctions, lawyers for immigrant rights groups filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of their clients.

June 28, 2025
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  • Bill Chappell
A jar of Smucker's preserves is displayed on Aug. 16, 2010, in Philadelphia.

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  • Food

J.M. Smucker plans to remove artificial colors from its jams and other products

Smucker joins a growing number of big food companies that have announced plans to eliminate artificial dyes.

June 28, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A 5-year-old Customs and Border Protection beagle named Freddie, pictured in a CBP Facebook video in March, was kicked and injured by a traveler this week during a bag search at Washington Dulles International Airport.

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  • Law

Man kicked and injured a CBP beagle during airport baggage search

An Egyptian traveler who kicked the 25-pound dog was ordered to pay its vet fees and turn himself in for removal from the country.

June 28, 2025
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  • Alana Wise
Generative AI is transforming the publishing industry. Authors are pushing back on a variety of fronts, most recently with an open letter to publishers asking them to curtail their use of the technology. (Getty stock photo.)

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  • Arts & Life

Authors petition publishers to curtail their use of AI

The open letter and accompanying petition asking publishers "to make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines" garnered more than 600 signatures within a few hours.

June 28, 2025
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Soroka Hospital in the southern city of Beersheba, after it was hit by a missile fired from Iran on June 19. Israel has scored a series of military successes and reshaped the Middle East since being stunned by a surprise Hamas attack in October 2023.

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  • Middle East

With a series of wars, Israel's military reshapes the Mideast

Israel was stunned by a surprise Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023. Since that day, Israel has delivered devastating blows to rivals and has reconfigured the Middle East.

June 28, 2025
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  • Greg Myre
Palestinians carry food packages near a distribution site operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday.

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  • Middle East

Israel's leaders slam a news report on a Gaza 'killing field' near food sites

Israel's prime minister denounced a report in Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoting Israeli soldiers saying commanders ordered them to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites.

June 28, 2025
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