Justice Brett Kavanaugh dismissed the final bid to hold the Nov. 3 election on lines designed to aid Republicans. The decision fixes the state ballot as the deadline for changes passes.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Lonnie G. Bunch, III, the Smithsonian Secretary, who announced he is retiring after 38 years of service with the institution. He will step down at the end of the year.
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The Trump administration's escalating trade war with one of the U.S.'s closest allies, Canada, is causing economic anxiety in rural border states like Montana, which counts Canada as its main export market.
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A new study shows the steep economic cost of 2025's ICE raids in Chicago. Fear kept many immigrants home, draining the area of more than $1.26 billion in lost retail, restaurant, and sales-tax revenue.
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Pediatrician Rupa Narra of Doctors Without Borders talks about the challenges of treating children with Ebola, especially because their fatality rate is so high.
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Bunch has spent the last few months defending the Smithsonian against attacks from President Trump. In a statement, Bunch says he leaves with "mixed emotions."
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Caroline Rose's new album, Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall, is out Oct. 23.
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A decade ago, Gerald was a rising star, a Yale and Harvard graduate running a celebrated nonprofit. Then he shut it all down. His new book is an argument for forging a different path.
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Second City TV was a low-budget sketch comedy show that came out of Canada in the mid-1970s and aired until 1984. Netflix's new six-season collection is an (almost) complete treasure trove of SCTV.
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A government statement said on Tuesday social media platforms would be required to send a notification to new and existing users offering them a choice over their default feed.
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France, Canada and other countries joined the U.K. in banning goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Israel said it would close the British Consulate among other measures.
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In 2024, the ruling Taliban pledged to use flogging as well as stoning to punish people for not following certain of their precepts — committing adultery, running secret schools for girls. Have they followed through?
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Canada's retaliatory tariffs against U.S. imports went into effect early Tuesday, escalating the trade war between former close allies.
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Chrystia Freeland understands the U.S.-Canada relationship from her time at the negotiating table. Here's what she sees now.
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Hurricane Lowell triggers hurricane warnings on its approach to western Hawaii as a major Category 3 storm.