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A display panel advertises tickets for a Powerball drawing at a convenience store, Nov. 7, 2022, in Renfrew, Pa. The Powerball jackpot soared to an estimated $875 million after no winning ticket was sold for Wednesday's drawing.

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Powerball jackpot climbs to $875 million, the third-largest on record

4:40pm July 13, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

The new jackpot for the next drawing is the third-largest in the history of the game, coming behind the world record $2.04 billion jackpot won last year and the $1.586 billion jackpot won in 2016.

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How Vermont's farms are dealing with the unprecedented effects of severe storms

4:28pm July 13, 2023

Severe storms have caused catastrophic flooding in Vermont this week. NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with Eric Seitz from Pitchfork Farm on how the flooding has impacted farmers in the area.

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Republican presidential candidates vie for the influential evangelical Christian vote

4:28pm July 13, 2023

by Clay Masters

Evangelical Christians make up an oversized share of the Republican vote in Iowa. One prominent leader wants the state to move on in 2024, but can anyone pry evangelical votes away from Trump?

Veterinarians worry about their access to tranquilizer xylazine with new restrictions

4:28pm July 13, 2023

by Scott Maucione

Multiple states are cracking down on xylazine after it started showing up in illicit opioids. But controlling the drug is causing headaches for veterinarians who use the drug to sedate large animals.

The backstory of 19th-century masterpiece 'Whistler's Mother'

4:28pm July 13, 2023

by Susan Stamberg

The painting known as "Whistler's Mother" is on display in Philadelphia for the first time in nearly 150 years. It's one of the best-known paintings in the world — and it has a backstory.

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A breakup led this former White House speechwriter to rediscover her Jewish faith

4:28pm July 13, 2023

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with former White House speech writer Sarah Hurwitz about the wisdom she found in an unexpected place: her childhood faith.

A year later, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has released body-worn camera footage of a July 13, 2022, incident in which one of several deputies arresting a woman at a traffic stop punched her in the face as she held her newborn baby.

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An LA deputy punched a woman in the face as she held her 3-week-old baby, video shows

3:19pm July 13, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna released video of the July 2022 incident this week, saying he'd only just learned of it. He said the deputy has been disciplined and the FBI is looking into it.

Traffic warden Rai Rogers mans his street corner during temperatures as high as 106 in Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday.

The Southwest's enduring heat wave is expected to intensify over the weekend

3:00pm July 13, 2023

by Emily Olson

More than 111 million people across the U.S. remain under weather advisories or warnings as forecasters say an oppressive heat wave might get worse before it gets any better.

President George H. W. Bush holds a bag of crack cocaine as he poses for photographers in the Oval Office of the White House, Sept. 5, 1989.

Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

2:59pm July 13, 2023

by Tonya Mosley

"We won't heal until we make sense of the crack epidemic," Donovan X. Ramsey says. His book, When Crack Was King, examines the drug's destructive path through the Black community.

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Fulton County Jail is seen on April 2, 2013, in Atlanta. The Justice Department announced that it has opened a civil investigation into the conditions at the facility.

Feds to investigate Georgia's Fulton County Jail for filthy, dangerous conditions

2:31pm July 13, 2023

by Jaclyn Diaz

The investigation into the Atlanta-based jail comes almost a year after the death of Lashawn Thompson who died in a bedbug-infested cell in Fulton County Jail's psychiatric wing.