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First Group Of Trapped Boys Rescued From Cave In Thailand

11:08am July 09, 2018

by Michael Sullivan

On Sunday, four of the trapped soccer players had been freed from a flooded cave. A second round of rescues has begun. The operation is complicated and is an hours-long process.

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Morning News Brief

7:30am July 09, 2018

President Trump is set to announce his latest Supreme Court nominee. A rescue drama in a flooded Thai cave complex continues. And NPR begins a new series on the effects of heat, as the climate warms.

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After British Woman Exposed To Nerve Agent Dies, U.K. Wants Answers

6:01am July 09, 2018

by Scott Neuman

Police say the woman was exposed to Novichok, the same nerve agent that also sickened a former Russian spy and his daughter in March. The U.K. is blaming the Kremlin for the woman's death.

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U.S. Soybeans Are A Prime Target For Chinese Tariffs

5:06am July 09, 2018

David Greene talks to soybean farmer Michael Petefish, head of the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association, about how farmers are preparing to take the hit from Chinese tariffs.

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Emergency workers in Salisbury, England, last week investigated two recent cases of nerve agent exposure. British police say Dawn Sturgess was staying in Salisbury before she showed signs of sickness in nearby Amesbury on June 30. She died Sunday.

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English Woman Exposed To Nerve Agent Dies

7:47pm July 08, 2018

by Clare Lombardo

Dawn Sturgess and a 45-year-old man became sick in Amesbury, England, just miles from the home of the former Russian spy exposed to Novichok in March.

A Guatemalan woman holds her son as she is reunited with her daughter, who was released on July 1 from a child welfare agency in Michigan. Other young children have been going through deportation proceedings while separated from their parents.

1-Year-Old Shows Up In Immigration Court

5:53pm July 08, 2018

by Sasha Ingber

The boy, who was brought to the United States from Honduras, drank milk and played with a ball as he awaited the hearing in Phoenix.

NATO Summit Preview

5:36pm July 08, 2018

NPR's Michel Martin speaks to Alexander Vershbow, a former deputy secretary general of NATO, about the upcoming NATO Summit.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, background, is welcomed by Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki as he disembarks a plane on Sunday in Asmara, Eritrea.

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Ethiopia And Eritrea Have Been In Conflict For 20 Years. Today, Their Leaders Hugged

3:36pm July 08, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

As the Ethiopian prime minister walked off the plane in Eritrea, he smiled and gave a big hug to Eritrea's authoritarian ruler. It's a sign of a rapid thaw in the tensions between the two countries.

Onlookers watch and cheer as ambulances deliver boys rescued from a cave in northern Thailand to a hospital in Chiang Rai on Sunday.

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First Boys Are Rescued From Cave In Thailand

2:37pm July 08, 2018

by James Doubek

The Thai Navy SEALS say four of the 13 people who had been trapped for more than two weeks have been rescued. Rescue efforts began Sunday morning.

A female reporter in 2000 accused Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, photographed at a press conference during the G7 summit in June, of groping her.

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Woman Allegedly Groped By Justin Trudeau Breaks Her Silence

1:52pm July 08, 2018

by Sasha Ingber

"I issue this statement reluctantly, in response to mounting media pressure," the former reporter wrote in a statement on Friday.