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Why did U.K.'s Tories pull the plug on Johnson but Republicans still support Trump?
Why did Conservative party lawmakers in Britain force out Prime Minister Johnson for a series of scandals and lies, while in the U.S., many GOP lawmakers continue to support former President Trump?
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U.S. defense officials pledge to keep weapons supply flowing to Ukraine
Nearly five months into Russia's war in Ukraine, it increasingly looks like a war of attrition. At the Pentagon, the top leaders spoke about how the U.S. is adapting to this reality.
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Why did a man who bought a real Picasso sketch try to pass it off as a fake?
Investigators say the collector was at an airport in Spain and had the 1966 work called "Three figures" in his luggage. He didn't declare the piece, worth nearly half a million dollars, to customs.
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Record high temperatures cause infrastructure damage in Britain
A heat wave that's been affecting Europe has caused dangerous infrastructure damage in Britain. The country's transportation sector has seen the worst of it.
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Why rural Americans feel inflation's effects more than people in cities and suburbs
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to professor Dave Peters, an economist and sociologist with Iowa State University's extension service, about the pain rural Americans are feeling because of inflation.
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Northern Europe is bracing for unusually high temperatures this week
As the heat wave in southern Europe shows some signs of abating, temperatures in northern Europe are soaring. Record highs are expected in the U.K. where officials have declared a national emergency.
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A Shell chemical plant brings economic hope and environmental fears to Western Pa.
Oil giant Shell will soon open a chemical plant near Pittsburgh that will turn gas from fracking into plastic. The project is creating hundreds of jobs but some residents worry about the air quality
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A hawk patrols the El Cerrito del Norte BART station for unwanted pigeons
A light rail station in a San Francisco suburb had a nasty problem: pigeon poop. The solution: a trained hawk scares the pigeons away. Commuters now treat the hawk and his handler like celebrities.
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To avoid states' abortion bans, a doctor proposes a floating clinic
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Meg Autry, an OBGYN and a professor at the University of California at San Francisco, about plans to offer surgical abortions on a floating clinic in the Gulf of Mexico.
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At sentencing, Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz faces the death penalty
In a Florida court Monday, lawyers for Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, will ask a jury to spare his life. He already pleaded guilty to the murders.
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Actors who fled Mariupol theater bombing stage a play in another Ukrainian city
Several actors who survived the Russian bombing of a theater in Mariupol are now in Ukraine's far west. They went back on stage over the weekend for the first time since the war began.
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Reproductive rights groups want to make it easier to prevent pregnancy
The advocates want to make it simpler for people to access birth control options as many states move to ban or restrict access to abortion. One idea: making "the pill" available over-the-counter.