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Sunday, July 20, 2025
- 3 people are still missing from deadly floods in Texas county, down from nearly 100
Officials in a Texas hill country community pummeled by deadly flooding July 4 said Saturday that just three people remain missing, down from nearly 100, after people who had previously been reported missing have since been accounted for.
Saturday, July 19, 2025
- Examining the role of men in the gender gap in American society
The latest season of the podcast "Unsettled" from Iowa Public Radio looks at how gender affects people's everyday lives.
- Police are investigating a man's death after he was pulled into MRI machine
New York police said the 61-year-old man was wearing a large metal chain that caused him to be "drawn into the machine." The FDA warns that MRI scan create a "strong, static magnetic field."
- Reporting on family separation and aggressive immigration enforcement in Florida
Behind the scenes with NPR's reporting on how Florida has become the scene of some of the Trump administration's most aggressive immigration enforcement efforts.
- Tips for handling car emergencies
You might know the basics of car safety, like buckling your seatbelt or using your turn signal. But what do you do in car emergencies? NPR's Life Kit has tips for handline emergency situations.
- Trump calls for the release of Jeffrey Epstein grand jury testimony
Attorney General Pam Bondi has filed a formal request to release grand jury testimony related to Jeffrey Epstein. But the president continues to distance himself from the late, disgraced financier.
- Florida: the frontline of Trump's immigration crackdown
NPR correspondent Jasmine Garsd has taken several reporting trips to Florida recently, a state seeing some of the most aggressive immigration enforcement since President Trump took office again in January. She's spoken with children separated from their parents and reported on a new massive detention center in the state.
For our weekly Reporter's Notebook series Garsd talks about how Florida is key to understanding what the future of immigration enforcement may look like.
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- Man whose car struck crowd outside LA club, injuring 30, was shot, attacked by crowd
A vehicle rammed into a crowd of people waiting to enter a nightclub along a busy boulevard in Los Angeles early Saturday, injuring 30 people and leading bystanders to attack the driver, authorities said.
- An NPR member station manager assesses the future after Congress cuts federal funding
NPR's Scott Simon talks to North Country Public Radio General Manager Mitch Teich about the recently approved federal funding cuts to public media and what they mean for his station.
- Here's why is it's so hard to have good cell service in certain areas of the U.S.
After devastating flooding in Texas, NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Curtis Knobloch of the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative about problems with rural coverage and possible solutions.
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