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Travelers stand in line at an American Airlines counter at Reagan National Airport on Friday, July 19, 2024, in Arlington, Va.

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  • Business

American Airlines reaches agreement with flight attendant union, avoiding strike

At the center of the deal is a proposed new contract for about 28,000 workers which includes increased pay levels. Flight attendants had not received salary increases since 2019.

July 21, 2024
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By:
  • Willem Marx
President Biden exits Air Force One at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware after he had to leave the campaign trail due to testing positive for COVID.

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  • Politics

Biden is still sidelined with COVID, but the debate over his campaign rages on

President Biden is stuck in Rehoboth Beach, Del., with COVID. Vice President Harris was out raising money for the Biden-Harris campaign. And Democrats continue to weigh who should lead their party.

July 21, 2024
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  • Tamara Keith,
  • Asma Khalid,
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  • Games

Sunday Puzzle: Can you guess these stars?

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with this week's winner Darryl Nester from Bluffton, Ohio and puzzle master Will Shortz.

July 21, 2024
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  • Will Shortz
Students clash with riot police during a protest against a quota system for government jobs, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, July 18, 2024.

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  • News

Bangladesh's top court scales back jobs quota after deadly clashes with protesters

Students, frustrated by shortages of good jobs, have demanded an end to a quota that reserved 30% of government jobs for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh's war of independence in 1971.

July 21, 2024
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Allyson Felix of Team United States competes in the Women's 4x400m Relay heats on day nine of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 at Hayward Field on July 23, 2022 in Eugene, Oregon.

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  • Arts & Life

'Wait Wait' for July 20, 2024: With Not My Job guest Allyson Felix

This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with guest host Karen Chee, special guest Allyson Felix and panelists Shantira Jackson, Hari Kondabolu, and Roy Blount, Jr.

July 20, 2024
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Comedian Bob Newhart pretends to speak on an antique telephone at his home in the Bel Air Estates community of Los Angeles, June 25, 2003.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Bob Newhart showed us the extraordinary in the ordinary

NPR's Scott Simon remembers understated comedian and actor Bob Newhart, who died this week at the age of 94.

July 20, 2024
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  • Scott Simon
Passengers line up at London's Gatwick Airport amid a global IT outage on Friday.

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  • Technology

Disruptions continue after IT outage affects millions around the globe

Airports, hospitals, and banks said they were recovering after a failed software update delivered by the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike to Microsoft’s Windows systems.

July 20, 2024
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  • Rebecca Rosman
A handout picture obtained from Yemen's Huthi Ansarullah Media Center show a huge column of fire erupting following reported strikes by Israeli fighter jets in the Yemeni rebel-held port city of Hodeidah on Saturday.

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  • Middle East

Israel strikes Houthi targets in Yemen a day after drone attack on Tel Aviv

Israel said its fighter jets struck targets at a port in Yemen in response to "hundreds of attacks" against Israel in recent months. On Friday, a drone slammed into an apartment building in Tel Aviv.

July 20, 2024
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  • Willem Marx
At least two people have died and more than a dozen have been hospitalized in connection with a listeria outbreak linked to meat sold at deli counters, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

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  • Health

The CDC issues a warning after at least 2 deaths in a listeria outbreak linked to deli meat

The U.S. public health agency said it was still investigating information about what specific products have been affected.

July 20, 2024
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  • Rebecca Rosman
Oleksii Kharkivskyi, the chief of the patrol police of Vovchansk, in his police car in an undisclosed location in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, on May 26.

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  • World

Near Ukraine's front line, a devastated community takes stock after Russian advances

For the last 10 weeks, a battle has raged for a small northeastern Ukrainian border town just five miles from Russia. After delays, Western military aid helped stall Russia's assault.

July 20, 2024
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By:
  • Joanna Kakissis,
  • Polina Lytvynova,
  • and 1 more
A hairdresser straightens a woman's hair by applying a hair product. A delayed proposal by the Food and Drug Administration would ban the use of formaldehyde as an ingredient in hair relaxers and hair straighteners.

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  • National

The FDA misses its deadline again to propose a ban on formaldehyde in hair products

The FDA's proposed rule would take a large step in shedding light on the potential harm that formaldehyde can cause to the many Black women who typically use hair straightening products.

July 20, 2024
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally in Butler, Pa., after an assassination attempt on his life.

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  • National

Trump's close call: A detailed time line

A day-by-day and hour-by-hour look at the events surrounding the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on July 13.

July 20, 2024
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  • Eric Westervelt
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  • Architecture

6 design tricks to transform your home, according to a feng shui expert

Fall in love with your home again with these feng shui-inspired decorating tips from architect Cliff Tan. They focus on creating an environment that feels happy, harmonious and full of good energy.

July 20, 2024
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  • Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong
Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee, D-Texas, speaks during a House Judiciary Committee meeting on Dec. 13, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

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  • Obituaries

Longtime U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas has died at age 74

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, helped lead federal efforts to protect women from domestic violence and recognize Juneteenth as a national holiday. She announced she had pancreatic cancer in June.

July 20, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Flares fired by the Israeli military north of Nuseirat are pictured from Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip late on July 1.

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  • World

'We're inside the 10-yard line': Secretary of state on an Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal

Antony Blinken talks speaks on everything from the prospect of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, to the war in Ukraine and what the U.S. is doing to bring home Americans detained in Russia.

July 19, 2024
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