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Saturday Sports: Kansas City Chiefs win close game, Americans make U.S. Open finals

8:01am September 07, 2024

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant talk about the latest in sports: the Kansas City Chiefs' close win, U.S. Open finals, and more.

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DOJ says Russia paid right-wing influencers to spread Russian propaganda

8:01am September 07, 2024

by Scott Simon

NPR’s Scott Simon and disinformation expert Renee DiResta discuss payments to right-wing influencers in what the Justice Department says is a Russian campaign to influence U.S. policy and voters.

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In a first, the Paralypmics prevented power chair athletes from competing in tennis

8:01am September 07, 2024

by Emily Chen-Newton

For the first time at the Paralympic Games, tennis athletes who use motorized wheelchairs were prevented from participating.

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Week in politics: Trump hearing postponed, candidates agree to debate rules

8:01am September 07, 2024

by Ron Elving

Former President Donald Trump's sentencing postponed again in New York, Vice President Kamala Harris' massive fundraising haul, and ahead of Tuesday's debates both candidates agree to rules.

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Unpacking the foreign policy issues likely to be in focus at the presidential debate

8:01am September 07, 2024

by John Ruwitch

What big foreign policy issues will feature in next week’s presidential debate? We speak to NPR international correspondents about what the world will be listening out for.

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'Woodland' is the sound of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings rebuilding together following disaster

7:00am September 07, 2024

The magnetic bond between Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, partners in life and in music, has always been central to their songs. On their latest album, the "we" becomes existential.

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Ukraine's military trains civilians in 'Test Week' to give a sense of war with Russia

6:00am September 07, 2024

Ukraine needs more soldiers as its troops defend Ukrainian territory and carry out an offensive inside Russia. An elite Ukrainian military unit offers civilians a one-week tryout as soldiers.

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Palestinian little girl playing in street killed in Israeli attack on Gaza

Killed in her pink roller skates, a Palestinian girl’s photo in Gaza goes viral

6:00am September 07, 2024

The photo of a girl in Gaza killed by an Israeli airstrike while wearing pink roller skates goes viral and draws attention to the plight of children nearly a year into the war.

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How Harris will distinguish her foreign policy from Biden — and Trump

6:00am September 07, 2024

by Asma Khalid

By necessity, Vice President Harris has worked in lockstep with President Biden on his foreign policy. What she would do in the White House if she wins on Nov. 5 will be in focus in Tuesday's debate.

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Debates have proved a tough test for vice presidents running for president

5:00am September 07, 2024

A look back at other sitting vice presidents who were running for the top job and debating on TV against the nominee of the opposition party: Gore in 2000, George H.W. Bush in 1988 and Nixon in 1960.