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We asked a first grader to interview his hero: A bird scientist

Janet W. Lee

NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.
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Trump says he's cancelling Iran strikes, deal pending

NPR Staff

Trump said that Iran and other Middle Eastern countries had asked the U.S. "to hold off any attack" on Iran because "the perimeters of a deal has been agreed to."

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'Sopranos' actor Vincent Pastore, known for playing mobsters and tough guys, dead at 80

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Vincent Pastore appeared in movies dating back to the 1980s and had roles in big movies including "Goodfellas" and "Awakenings," both in 1990.
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Avalanche in Pakistan kills famed mountaineer Nirmal Purja and his fellow climbers

Chris Arnold

A mountaineering team with climbers from around the world, including the U.S., was attempting to climb one of the tallest peaks on earth.
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Overnight Russian barrage kills nine in Kyiv, as air defense struggle with U.S. continues

Greg Myre, Willem Marx

Ballistic missiles tore into five districts of the Ukrainian capital before dawn Saturday. President Trump is now walking back a promised boost to Ukraine's missile defense systems.
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Spain's Pedro Sánchez was a hero of migrants. After Ceuta, he faces his biggest challenge

Miguel Macias, Ruth Sherlock

The pro-immigration leader is facing backlash at home and abroad after roughly 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave.

Pooja Gawali and her family left the tin shack in which they'd live and moved into a new apartment building. She helped design their unit, which, she says, gives her much needed privacy and the space to take on a hobby. Her sewing machine occupies pride of place in her living room. The construction project has won an award for its innovative spirit.

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How these slum dwellers went from one-room shacks to beautiful new apartments

Kamala Thiagarajan

It's a bold new experiment and it's already won a prize. Residents in a jam-packed slum, many of them living in one-room tin shacks, help design their apartments in a brand new building.

Moderna will soon learn the regulatory fate of its mRNA-based flu shot.

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FDA weighs a new kind of flu shot based on technology RFK Jr. has questioned

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Dead After Death

Isabella Gomez Sarmiento, Felix Contreras

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Lebanese who fled the Israeli invasion visit to see what's left

Jane Arraf, Jawad Rizkallah

Residents of the ancient town of Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon have endured wars in the past, but the latest conflict with Israel is testing the limits of their endurance.
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More than 25,000 children lose previous legal protections, as federal contract ends

Chiara Eisner

Thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children are set to lose legal representation. The federal contract that pays for legal access expired Friday.
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Death toll in Spain border crisis reaches 67 as tens of thousands cross back in to Morocco

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The death toll in Spain's Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67. They included some who drowned and some who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier.
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Why did OpenAI's and Anthropic's AI models hack other companies?

Huo Jingnan

OpenAI and Anthropic say their models broke into other companies' systems during testing, raising security concerns amid a heated debate over how to regulate AI.
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Staff Sgt. Rampersad, 28, who always knew she wanted to serve, is laid to rest

Brittany Kriegstein

Staff Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad is one of a handful of service members who've recently died in the conflict with Iran. Her family says she knew from a young age she wanted to serve in the military.