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Michigan Democratic Senate primary winner Abdul El-Sayed speaks during a press conference in front of the Spirit of Detroit statue on August 05, 2026 in Detroit, Michigan.
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What do Tuesday’s primaries signal about where the Democratic Party is headed?
Then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina speaks during a press conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Jan. 6, 2014.
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Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP
Dr. Erica Schwartz, who appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in July, was confirmed Wednesday as CDC director.
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Dr. Erica Schwartz confirmed as CDC director, a new leader for a beleaguered agency
A Palestinian scans a valley with a flashlight as people gather around a bonfire during a volunteer night watch to help prevent Israeli settler attacks in the West Bank town of Sinjil, Monday, July 27, 2026
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Leo Correa/AP
Israeli settler activity increases in the West Bank
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Stewart Rhodes, founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group, attends a hearing with the House Select Subcommittee on January 6th in January 2026 in Washington, D.C.
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Motorcyclists navigate through a road barricaded with concrete blocks set up by supporters of the outlawed Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) during a protest demanding greater political rights and the abolition of 12 legislative refugee seats, in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026.
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M.D. Mughal/AP
Kalsang Lhamo, a 73-year-old retired nurse, practices Tibetan calligraphy at the Chengguan District Day Care Center for the Elderly in western China’s Tibet autonomous region on July 20, 2026, during a government-organized visit for foreign journalists.
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Ng Han Guan/AP
People vote in the primary election at Northwestern High School in Detroit, Tuesday.
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Nic Antaya/AP
A U.S.-made MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile is launched during a live fire exercise at the Chiupeng missile base in Pingtung County on Aug. 20, 2024.
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Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images
Primary Election Results, US Missile Stockpiles Running Low, New Flu Vaccine
Firefighters put out a fire after Russian missiles hit a warehouse in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026.
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Dan Bashakov/AP
Voters go to the polls to cast their ballots in the Michigan primary election on Tuesday in Lansing Mich.
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Bill Pugliano/Getty Images
The FDA allowed some Zyn nicotine pouches to be marketed as “lower risk” than cigarettes.
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Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
Like many miners with advanced black lung disease, Tim Balthis looks healthy, sitting with his wife Fran Balthis on their porch in Pound, Va. But a scan of his lungs shows so much fibrotic tissue a doctor told Balthis he was surprised he was still alive.
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Roger May for NPR
Appalachia’s black lung rates highest in nearly 50 years as miners’ protections stall
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World Tour 5: Sand heists and property rights in the Caribbean
Jackie Lay
World Tour 5: Sand heists and property rights in the Caribbean
Should you pay for Instagram Plus?
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The questionable new ways to surveil your friends
A barber cutting hair in his barbershop located in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami, Florida.
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Joe Raedle/Getty Images
How ending TPS is squeezing workers, businesses and (soon) consumers
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SCI POD – Twinkle encore
Los Angeles FC co-owner Larry Berg has been tapped to be the next commissioner of Major League Soccer.
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Richard Drew/AP
The entrance to Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., July 2020.
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John Antczak/AP
A view of the Nasdaq MarketSite after SpaceX company executives rang the opening bell to celebrate the launch of SpaceX’s initial public offering (IPO) in New York on June 12, 2026.
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TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images
SpaceX’s revenue rises as its once-soaring stock price drifts back to Earth
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What are the implications of a shrinking supply of U.S. missiles?
Israeli jeep patrols along the ceasefire line with Syria in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, southwest of Damascus, on June 6, 2011, the day after Syrian protesters trying to breech the line were shot at.
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