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Police identify suspect in the fatal ambush of 2 firefighters in Idaho
by Kirk Siegler
Police in Idaho have identified the man who fatally shot two wildland firefighters and critically injured another in an apparent ambush after he intentionally started a brush fire.
A Colorado woman is reunited with her dog that ran away after a car crash
The lost golden retriever was her late husband's comfort dog as he battled Stage 4 cancer. After her searches failed, police used a drone — finding the dog within minutes after the drone launched.
A sigh of relief this morning: a railway strike has been averted
President Joe Biden said Thursday a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a potentially devastating strike before the pivotal midterm elections.
A rail strike would have put another kink in an out-of-balance supply chain
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Abe Eshkenazi, CEO of the Association for Supply Chain Management, about the effects that a strike would have had on supply chains still recovering from the pandemic.
A U.S. sailor who died during the Pearl Harbor attack has been buried
Herbert Jacobson died when Japanese torpedoes sank the USS Oklahoma. In 2015, technology made it possible to ID some remains. His descendants finally attended a burial at Arlington National Cemetery.
Senators grill top health agencies on the U.S. response to monkeypox
by Pien Huang
In the first congressional hearing on monkeypox, federal officials were criticized for being slow to act, and struggling to apply the lessons of the pandemic to the current outbreak.
Controversial harm reduction strategies appear to slow drug deaths
U.S. public health experts are studying Canada's harm reduction programs which include supervised injection sites and legally prescribed drugs that people with addiction can use to get high.
White House hosts bipartisan summit to tackle hate-fueled violence
Many say rising political division and ideological violence threaten democracy but there are risks with Biden addressing it directly. President Biden and Vice President Harris will give remarks.
Fla. Gov. DeSantis sent migrant flights to Massachusetts, his office says
by Eve Zuckoff
In Massachusetts, the residents of Martha's Vineyard are scrambling to care for 50 immigrants, mostly from Venezuela, who arrived without warning yesterday at the local airport.
The revamped tour of Virginia's executive mansion doesn't mention slavery
by Ben Paviour
Before Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin was elected, years of work went into updating the executive mansion tour to include the lives of enslaved people. His redesigned tour doesn't recognize slavery.
U.S. unfreezes billions of Afghanistan's money aiming to stabilize its economy
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West about a new fund being created for some of the frozen money from the Afghan central bank.
Xi-Putin meeting will happen on the sidelines of a security forum in Uzbekistan
The leaders of China and Russia join other world leaders for meetings at the Eurasian summit — dealing with security and trade. Top of the agenda: regional security and Russia's war in Ukraine.
The concept of quiet quitting has captured the post-pandemic zeitgeist
by Alina Selyukh
At heart, it's a debate about how emotionally invested people should be in their work, with quiet quitting as a Rorschach test.