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The NAACP logo is shown during an event at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in 2015. The civil rights group has announced it won't invite President Trump to address its convention, breaking a 116-year tradition of inviting sitting presidents.

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NAACP won't invite Trump to its national convention, breaking a 116-year tradition

President Trump is the first U.S. president in 116 years that the NAACP hasn't invited to the annual convention. The group says Trump is attacking democracy and civil rights.

June 17, 2025
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By:
  • Kristin Wright
Smoke rises from the rubble of an Iranian state media building in Tehran after an Israeli airstrike on June 16, 2025. The strike, which Israel confirmed targeted "terror-linked propaganda infrastructure," marks a further escalation in regional tensions.

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  • World

4 things to know as the war between Israel and Iran intensifies

Panic and confusion gripped Iran's capital, Tehran, as Israel warned civilians to evacuate or face more potential strikes as conflict between the two countries spilled into its fifth day.

June 17, 2025
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf and
  • Scott Neuman
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho., is seen here during a hearing on June 12, 2025. The Senate Finance Committee has released the text of its portion of the "big, beautiful bill." Various adjustments between the Senate's proposal and the House-passed bill could complicate the passage.

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  • Politics

Senate Republicans' changes to 'big beautiful bill' tee up clash with House

The highly anticipated text from the Senate is out — and it's already causing concern from GOP stakeholders in both chambers.

June 17, 2025
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By:
  • Barbara Sprunt
President Trump returned to the White House early on June 17, 2025, cutting his time short at the G7 summit in Canada because he said he wanted to focus on the Iran-Israel conflict.

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  • Politics

Trump threatens Iran's supreme leader, escalating his rhetoric about the conflict

President Trump called Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei an "easy target" but said, "We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now."

June 17, 2025
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
Palestinians are brought to Nasser hospital in Khan Younis after being wounded or killed by Israeli forces while they tried to get food on Tuesday.

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  • World

As Israel turns its focus to Iran, the death toll mounts in Gaza -- and hunger deepens

Palestinians say Israeli forces killed scores of people trying to reach food aid in Khan Younis on Tuesday in the deadliest attack of recent weeks on hungry crowds attempting to get food in Gaza.

June 17, 2025
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By:
  • Aya Batrawy,
  • Anas Baba,
  • and 1 more
People impacted by the wildfires seek information and relief at a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center in 2025, in Pasadena, Calif. The leader of FEMA's top disaster response coordination office has resigned, as President Trump moves to eliminate the agency.

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  • Climate

Leader of top FEMA disaster coordination office resigns, as Trump moves to eliminate agency

Jeremy Greenberg was in charge of coordinating federal help after hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes and other emergencies. He has resigned from leading FEMA's National Response Coordination Center.

June 17, 2025
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  • Rebecca Hersher
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Georgia Today: Arrested journalist could be deported; Atlanta tree protection; Proposed Medicaid cuts

On the June 17 edition: A journalist arrested in Georgia over the weekend could face deportation; the city of Atlanta updates its ordinance on protecting trees; and proposed federal cuts to Medicaid have some caregivers worried. 

June 17, 2025
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By:
  • Peter Biello and
  • Jake Cook
Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., walks to the Senate chambers on Tuesday to deliver his first remarks on the Senate floor since he was forcefully removed from a DHS press conference last week.

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  • Politics

Alex Padilla recounts his removal from DHS news conference in emotional Senate speech

The California Democrat returned to the Senate floor Tuesday to warn that the Trump administrations response to immigration protests in Los Angeles should "shock the conscience of our country."

June 17, 2025
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  • Claudia Grisales
Adriana Smith and her son

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GPB evening headlines for June 17, 2025

The baby of brain-dead Georgia woman has been delivered; health officials respond to a spread of infectious diseases; Spanish-language journalist known for documenting ICE raids is arrested

June 17, 2025
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  • GPB News Radio
The "song of the summer" sweepstakes have finally been joined by an honest-to-goodness pop jam from Sabrina Carpenter.

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  • Music

Sabrina Carpenter joins the 'song of the summer' race, just in time

"Manchild," the first single from Sabrina Carpenter's forthcoming album Man's Best Friend, enters this week's Hot 100 singles chart at No. 1, making a late-breaking bid for "song of the summer" status in the process.

June 17, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
Patricia Cheeley, center, has been coming to Homeplace Adult Day Center in Wrens, G.a. for about five years. She's often found in the living room reading from her Bible. Cheeley and others who are elderly and/or disabled and eligible for Medicaid can use it to pay for long-term support services, like attendance to a day center.

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  • Health Care

For Georgia's aging population, Medicaid cuts threaten options for care

Medicaid helps pay for the services seniors can no longer do for themselves. Proposed cuts target federal spending for the program, worrying providers of caregiving services.

June 17, 2025
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  • Sofi Gratas
Kraft Heinz says 90% of its food items already use natural food colorings. Products that still use synthetic dyes are in its beverage and dessert categories like Crystal Light and Jell-O.

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  • Health

Kraft Heinz to remove artificial dyes from all products, like Jell-O and Kool-Aid

By 2027, Kraft Heinz says all artificial food dyes will be replaced with natural colors. The move comes two months after federal officials called on food companies to stop using synthetic dyes.

June 17, 2025
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By:
  • Maria Godoy
The entrance to the Turner Job Corps Center in Albany recently.

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  • Economy

How cuts to the nation's trade school could put vulnerable young people at risk

Among recent targets for federal spending cuts is a sixty year old Department of Labor program called the Job Corps. NOW thousands are wondering where they'll go next.

June 17, 2025
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
A rally in New York on June 9 protested President Donald Trump's new travel ban, which restricts entry to the United States for citizens from 19 countries.

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  • Global Health

How Trump's travel ban could disrupt the way knowledge about health is shared

Global health specialists talk about the consequences of the full or partial ban on travel to the U.S. from 19 countries.

June 17, 2025
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By:
  • Jonathan Lambert
Chessboards have no players at the Kabul Elite Chess Club in Kabul after Taliban authorities have barred the game across Afghanistan.

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  • Global Health

The Taliban has banned a lot of things ... but chess?

A former chess coach says a member of the Taliban vice squad told him: "Playing chess is forbidden. Buying a chess set is forbidden. Even watching it — is forbidden." Why was the game banned?

June 17, 2025
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  • Diaa Hadid and
  • Fariba Akbari
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