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President Biden issued an executive order altering the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice, after Congress endorsed key changes to how the military handles sexual assault cases. Biden is seen here heading to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday.

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  • National Security

Biden implements sweeping changes to how the military handles sexual assault cases

The reforms place serious criminal cases under the authority of trained prosecutors. Previously, key decisions had been left up to victims' own commanders.

July 28, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
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  • Sports

Much anticipated U.S. and Netherlands World Cup rematch ends with a resounding ... tie

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with soccer writer Sophie Downey about the U.S. and Netherlands' much anticipated match in the Women's World Cup.

July 28, 2023
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  • Michael Levitt,
  • Mallory Yu,
  • and 1 more
GPB  NPR

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  • World

Drugmaker Mallinckrodt aims to avoid paying an opioid settlement to victims

The drugmaker Mallinckrodt is working to avoid payments to people who have struggled with addiction to opioids, as originally reported by the Wall Street Journal.

July 28, 2023
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By:
  • Brian Mann
Kimberly Mata-Rubio, 34, is running for mayor of Uvalde, Texas, in honor of her daughter, Lexi, who was killed in a school shooting at Robb Elementary School in May 2022.

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  • National

A woman is running for mayor of Uvalde in honor of daughter killed in school shooting

Kimberly Mata-Rubio says she hopes to reunite the community if elected. The town has been torn on how to move on after 19 children and two teachers were killed in the 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary.

July 28, 2023
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By:
  • Dustin Jones
As the planet heats up, Greenland's ice sheet is pouring more meltwater into the Atlantic. Scientists are tracking whether this could cause a collapse in a crucial ocean current.

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  • Climate

Why it's so important to figure out when a vital Atlantic Ocean current might collapse

Scientists know a current in the Atlantic Ocean could collapse suddenly as the climate changes. The question of when matters to billions of people around the globe.

July 28, 2023
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  • Lauren Sommer
GPB  NPR

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  • Arts & Life

Randy Meisner, founding member of the Eagles, dies at 77

Called "the sweetest man in the music business" by ex-bandmate Don Felder, Meisner joined Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Bernie Leadon in the early '70s to form one of the most popular acts in history.

July 28, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
A Ukrainian sailor stands watch at a machine gun on the back of a patrol boat in the Dnipro River off Kyiv. Russia seized or destroyed much of Ukraine's navy, but the country is trying to rebuild its sea forces.

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  • Europe

Ukraine struggles to rebuild a navy destroyed by Russia

First, Russia wiped out Ukraine's navy. Now, Moscow is blocking critical grain exports. As Ukraine tries to rebuild its navy, and fight back, NPR's Greg Myre got a ride on one of its few boats.

July 28, 2023
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  • Greg Myre
Los Angeles Lakers' LeBron James, left, accepts the award for best record-breaking performance from his sons, Bronny James, center, and Bryce James, at the ESPY awards July 12, 2023, in Los Angeles. Bronny James was hospitalized in stable condition Tuesday, July 25, 2023, a day after going into cardiac arrest while participating in a practice at the University of Southern California.

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  • Sports

LeBron James' son is released from hospital days after suffering a cardiac arrest

Bronny James committed to join the University of Southern California's basketball team in May. He was practicing with the team earlier this week when he went into cardiac arrest.

July 28, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie

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  • Politics

Trump charged with additional counts in Mar-a-Lago documents case

A new defendant was also added the indictment against Trump and his aide Walt Nauta. Carlos de Oliveira was added to the obstruction conspiracy charged in the original indictment.

July 28, 2023
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  • Carrie Johnson
Gender rights activists demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 30, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Many of the bans states passed this year against gender-affirming health care for youth are in federal court and may be on their way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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  • National

Can states' bans on transgender care hold up in court? We break down the arguments

The 20 gender-affirming care bans states have passed are undergoing intense legal scrutiny and testing federal courts in new ways, setting up battles that may go to the U.S. Supreme Court.

July 28, 2023
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  • Morgan Watkins
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks to members of the media at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on May 24, 2023.

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  • News

Up First briefing: Extreme heat and hospitals; Trump faces new charges; summer reads

Congress and the Biden administration have until Sept. 30 to avoid a government shutdown. Hospitals deal with extreme heat. How to cope with losing a pet.

July 28, 2023
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  • Anandita Bhalerao
That's some pretty good side-eye, Barbie.

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  • National

We promise this week's NPR news quiz isn't ALL about 'Barbie'

Other things happened this week besides Barbenheimer. There are also questions about Twitter, Hunter Biden, and animals that continue to evade capture.

July 28, 2023
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  • Holly J. Morris
At Northwestern University, allegations of hazing in its football program led to the firing of longtime coach Pat Fitzgerald (right) and has the school facing multiple lawsuits, with more likely. Here, Fitzgerald leads the football team onto the field on Sept. 24, 2022, in Evanston, Illinois.

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  • Education

As hazing lawsuits mount against Northwestern, experts hope for a shift in attitudes

With allegations of hazing within several sports programs at Northwestern University, experts say that other U.S. universities should use this time to change their own cultures.

July 28, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Paola Mendoza, the daughter of farmworkers, says her parents didn't want her to join them in the fields. She's now in college, studying to be a teacher.

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  • Business

As these farmworkers' children seek a different future, who will pick the crops?

U.S. farms have faced worker shortages for years. Now compounding the problem: The children of farmworkers are leaving the fields, forcing farm owners to look to other countries for labor.

July 28, 2023
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu and
  • Ximena Bustillo
The central business district is shrouded by haze in Singapore, on Sept. 23, 2019. Singapore conducted its first execution of a woman in 19 years on Friday, July 28, 2023, and its second hanging this week for drug trafficking despite calls for the city-state to cease capital punishment for drug-related crimes.

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  • World

Singapore has executed a woman for the first time in nearly two decades

Singaporean national Saridewi Djamani, 45, was convicted in 2018 of trafficking over 30 grams of heroin. She is first woman to be hanged since 2004.

July 28, 2023
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  • Ashley Westerman
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