Hear reporting on commitments to Missouri State football, news of a public hearing on data centers in Jeff City this September and free bus rides from Springfield's CU during this August's election.
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Tony Gutierrez/APJust ahead of closely contested midterms, Texas is about to get a new top voting official. Many locals there fear the frontrunner is a state lawmaker and pastor with no election experience. -
Gregory Bull/APThe U.S. is easing its restrictions on Iran's World Cup team. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday the squad could travel into the country two days before its next match.
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Rob Schmitz/NPROn the waterfront in Lucerne, Switzerland, soccer fans watched jumbo TVs showing a World Cup match played an ocean away. But the air felt more like the tropics. -
Kyodo News/via APThe head of the U.N.'s nuclear agency has signaled that Iranian nuclear enrichment sites would be visited by his inspectors, a day after the U.S. and Iran offered contradictory remarks about the issue.
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Soccer superstars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have set new World Cup records.
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Several wildfires have broken out in the Beehive state. One required an entire town to be evacuated for nearly a week now.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jennifer Francis, senior scientist at the Massachusetts-based Woodwell Climate Research Center, about the impact of Europe's heat wave and its links to climate change.
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The U.S. is changing the way food aid is distributed to starving children around the world. It is now using aid as a diplomatic tool as nutrition bars pile up in U.S. factories.
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It's tick season, but how do you avoid the little arachnids? NPR asks two experts in tick bites and behavior.
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The most expansive affordable housing legislation in decades has passed both chambers of Congress and is now headed for a presidential signature.
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NPR's A Martinez speaks with Republican Congressman Mike Lawler of New York, co-sponsor of the bi-partisan housing legislation that passed Congress Tuesday night.
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After President Trump and his allies seized on vote counting delays to make voter fraud claims, California election officials are considering ideas to speed up counting.
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The Democratic Party is facing questions about its future after democratic socialist candidates prevailed in New York primaries and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani demonstrated his political clout.
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Texas has been flooded with data center requests to join its power grid. The state seeks to sort out who actually wants to do business in Texas -- and which projects are purely speculative.
