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From abortion restrictions in Kansas to the removal of so-called junk fees in California, here are some laws taking effect today in states.

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The Supreme Court on Monday put a pair of controversial social media laws on hold, sending the cases to lower courts for further review.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday has put Florida and Texas social media laws on hold, sending both cases back to lower cases for more review.

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Longevity researchers are taking a generic drug they think may help extend people's lives. Now a dentist is testing if rapamycin stops gum disease — a canary in the coal mine for age-related diseases.

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“Potentially catastrophic wind damage is expected" in parts of the Windward Islands near the storm's core, the National Hurricane Center said.

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BREAKING NEWS: The decision likely ensures that the case against Trump won’t be tried before the election, and then only if he is not reelected.

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The president called surprise legislative elections, in two rounds on Sunday and July 7, and they're shaping up to be among the country's most divisive in recent history.

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Democrats spent the hours following the first presidential debate dodging questions about President Biden’s fitness to lead the party and struggling to unify around a message about Biden's performance.

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We conclude 2024’s Black Music Month celebration at the Tiny Desk with the catalyst for the all-female lineup.

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Correction: An earlier post incorrectly said that former Trump White House aide Steve Bannon reported to a federal prison in Connecticut today (June 28). In fact, Bannon has a July 1 deadline to report to a federal prison in Connecticut.

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Former Trump White House aide Steve Bannon reported to a federal prison in Connecticut today to serve time after refusing to comply with a congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol riot.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has limited which defendants accused of taking part in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot can be charged by federal prosecutors for obstructing Congress.

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BREAKING NEWS: The Supreme Court just undid decades of regulatory law, making it far more difficult for federal agencies to issue rules and regulations that carry out broad mandates enacted by Congress.

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In its biggest decision on homelessness in decades, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that cities can ban people from sleeping and camping in public places.

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Iowa is set to become the latest state to tightly restrict access to abortion after the state's supreme court upheld a law banning abortions at six weeks of pregnancy.

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You can tune into the CNN presidential debate tonight at 9 p.m. ET on CNN or simulcast on NPR. Find it — and NPR analysis following the debate — on NPR.org, many public radio stations or the NPR app.

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President Biden and former President Donald Trump face off in the first presidential debate of the 2024 general election Thursday night in Atlanta, kicking off a new phase of the presidential race as the matchup remains extremely tight.

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The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday, in a 6-3 opinion, temporarily allowed abortions in medical emergencies in Idaho. The opinion was erroneously posted on the court's website on Wednesday.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday invalidated a controversial bankruptcy deal involving Purdue Pharma, maker of the highly addictive painkiller Oxycontin, and members of the Sackler family who owned the scandal-plagued drug firm.

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The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Good Neighbor Plan.”

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The U.S. is among the countries bringing portable AC units to the Paris Olympics this summer since the Athletes' Village won't have any. Many athletes are worried about competing in extreme heat.

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Thursday’s presidential debate is the first time – and one of the only times – voters will see President Biden and former President Donald Trump side by side ahead of November.

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Wilmer Vasquez died at just 29 years old after suffering heat illness during the hottest year on record. His brother, Yonatan, says climate change played a big role.

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The beach at Herculaneum is believed to be where some 300 people died while waiting for boats to save them from the volcanic eruption in 79 AD. It's now open to the public for the first time.

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Scientists working to save Florida’s ailing reef hope Caribbean coral thriving in hotter water could bring some relief.

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Companies like EasyKnock offer to help people in financial trouble by buying their home and renting it back. An NPR investigation finds the deals cost some people a lot of money and even their homes.

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The housing market continues to be impacted by high mortgage rates. That's reducing the supply of available housing, sending home prices to an all-time high.

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The Supreme Court upholds a federal ban on gun possession for anyone subject to a domestic violence restraining order.

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For hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops and their families, when the Pentagon orders them to find health care off base there is none.

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Internal emails, interviews and in-app messages show Uber and Lyft deployed a powerful lobbying playbook to stop minimum wage laws in Minnesota. But drivers had a playbook of their own.

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A sweltering heat wave is bearing down on a large swath of the U.S., creating potentially dangerous conditions for millions of people in multiple states.

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The new CEO of The Washington Post and his hand-picked news chief come from a tradition of rough-and-tumble British journalism that plays loose with ethics, compared to U.S. media.

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The Kunsthaus Zurich museum will remove works by artists including Van Gogh, Monet and Gauguin from public view on June 20 as it investigates their provenance.

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Boeing says a deal to buy fuselage-maker Spirit AeroSystems will help it control quality and safety. But a whistleblower who worked at Spirit for over a decade warns its problems won’t be easy to fix.

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Home and auto insurance premiums have been rising at double-digit rates.  That's prompting even the most loyal insurance customers to shop around for better deals.

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It is hard to escape the impression that the more Congress holds people in contempt, the more people have contempt for Congress.

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Catherine, Princess of Wales, has said she had a few more months left in her chemotherapy treatment and she i making "good progress."

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The training team has pondered what effect it could have on an already traumatized survivor trapped beneath rubble when they’re approached by a giant rat wearing a backpack.

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Alex Jones is ordered to sell off his personal assets to pay nearly $1.5 billion in damages to Sandy Hook families.

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Say bye to El Niño. La Niña is likely to arrive soon. Here’s what that means for hurricanes.

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The Supreme Court strikes down a federal ban on bump stocks, devices that speed up firing on semiautomatic weapons.

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The U.N. office on refugees found that by the end of last year, 1 in 69 people had been forced from their homes — either within their own country or across an international border.

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The Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling upholds access to mifepristone, a drug used in more than 60% of abortions. The decision shocked some doctors and abortion rights advocates.

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A Boeing 737 Max 8 jet experienced a rare problem known as a "Dutch roll" before landing safely. The cause of the accident during a Southwest Airlines flight last month is under investigation.

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court unanimously agrees to toss out a challenge to the FDA’s rules for prescribing and dispensing abortion pills — saying the anti-abortion doctors who brought the case failed to show they had been harmed.

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A federal jury in Delaware has convicted President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, on felony gun charges stemming from his purchase of a Colt revolver in 2018.

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Multiple federal and state government agencies count the number of deaths from extreme floods, wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes. They don't always agree on which deaths should be counted.

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The council has endorsed President Biden’s step-by-step plan for a cease-fire, an exchange of hostages and prisoners and an end to the the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

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BREAKING NEWS: Martin Luther King, Jr. called civil rights pioneer, the Rev. James Lawson, the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence.

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June 16 is Father's Day. We want to hear about the dads who shaped your lives.

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