Drake Baldwin, former catcher for Missouri State will be making his All-Star Game debut with the Atlanta Braves
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Palestinians are mourning Mohammed al-Wahidi, a beloved aid worker in Gaza. He was killed by as Israeli airstrike while en route to a World Cup screening which he organized.
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The European Union recently implemented a new security system to better monitor foreigners who enter and exit. But its messy rollout has upended the summer travel season.
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NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with Ariane Tabatabai, Vice President of Research, Security and Defense, at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, about developments in the war between the U.S. and Iran.
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When Bill Hillmann was 19 years old, he read Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. That book inspired him to pursue two dreams: a career in literature and to run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain.
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People are reading fewer and fewer books. The Atlantic's Rose Horowitch discusses what a post-literate world might look like.
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Ketch Secor of the band, Old Crow Medicine Show, says his group's latest album, Union Made, is a love letter to the United States. It's full of stories from the country's past and present.
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For Reporter's Notebook we hear about what it takes to cover conflict over a decades-long career as a foreign correspondent.
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The Times says federal agents turned up on the doorsteps of several of its journalists to force grand jury testimony next week over their coverage of the Air Force One plane gifted to Trump by Qatar.
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Huge crowds of train fans turn out as the 1940s era Big Boy steam locomotive is making a rare trip cross country.
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Populist British MP Nigel Farage resigned from Parliament over questions about his finances, and is running for re-election in his constituency. His biggest rival? Count Binface.
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In some towns in India, a visitor to the post office who's squinting at fine print might be asked: Do you want an eye test?
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The nation's oldest continuously operated weather observatory in Milton, Massachusetts, keeps track of a surprising climate indicator: the date the first blueberry ripens.
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President Trump refused to sign a housing bill, now law, in protest over Congress not passing new restrictions on voting.
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NPR's Scott Simon asks Republican strategist Liam Donovan about his party's approach to November's Senate races.