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Rose Lavelle, Lindsey Horan and Mallory Pugh are the new faces of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team. Who they are tells us about how the career paths of elite women footballers have changed.

Sudanese authorities shut down the Internet around the same time that they violently broke up an opposition sit-in seeking civilian rule. The protesters are gone, but the Internet is still down.

Facing the worst drought in nearly four decades, the country is grappling with food shortages that affect 40% of its population. The donation has humanitarian – but also diplomatic – aims.

A town proposal, passed in May, started with a high school student. She called for an end to "shaming menstruation."

After nearly starting a trade war with Mexico, President Trump has pulled back his threat of tariffs.

In Nicole Dennis-Benn's new novel Patsy, she explores the demands on one woman who immigrates from Jamaica to New York and leaves her young daughter behind. She talks with NPR's Barrie Hardymon.

Under a new agreement, Guatemalans seeking asylum must first seek refuge in Mexico, and not the U.S.

How do you study the upper limits of human endurance? Professor Herman Pontzer of Duke University tracked long-distance athletes running across the country. He talks with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with José Díaz-Briseño, Washington correspondent for the Mexican newspaper Reforma, about the agreement between the U.S. and Mexico on immigration.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Andrew Roth, Moscow bureau chief for The Guardian, about the arrest of Russian investigative journalist Ivan Golunov.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Vox culture critic Emily VanDerWerff, who came out publicly as a trans woman in her recent review of the new season of The Handmaid's Tale.

The stars and creators of Always Be My Maybe, a romantic comedy with a mostly Asian American cast, brought elements of their own California childhoods into their new film.