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NPR's Michel Martin talks to Kimmy Yam of NBC Asian America, about Jenn Tran being named the first Asian American Bachelorette.
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The nation's third-highest ranking diplomat retired this month. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Victoria Nuland about her career in diplomacy.
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The attack killed 143 people and injured scores more after the attackers set the venue on fire. The group ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the attack — an assessment the U.S. has deemed credible.
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NPR's Debbie Elliott asks engineering professor Sebastian Bryson what officials will be considering as they plan to rebuild the collapsed bridge in Baltimore.
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NPR's Debbie Elliott speaks to Anthony Madu, a young Nigerian ballet dancer who's featured in a new Disney+ documentary about his discovery, and move to a prestigious ballet school in England.
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Lithuania's foreign minister visited Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. this week to make a pitch to the divided electorate in the U.S. that Europe needs American support to win the war in Ukraine.
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It's been one year since Gershkovich was detained in Russia, where he remains in custody. NPR's Debbie Elliott talks Emma Tucker, editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal, about Gershkovich.
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The city of Berkeley is repealing a landmark ban on natural gas hookups in new homes to comply with a court ruling. That could slow, but won't stop, the growing electrification movement.
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Rev. Lauren Bennett, 33, leads a St. Louis church serving the LGBTQ+ community, and Father Gerry Kleba, 82, a retired Catholic priest, talk about ministering to inmates on death row in Missouri.
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Raw sewage spills into England's rivers doubled last year. Organizers of a famous rowing race on the River Thames have installed a disinfecting station at this weekend's finish line.