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  • Theater

'Hamilton' producer Jeffrey Seller traces his journey from 'Theater Kid' to Broadway

Seller has been a key behind-the-scenes figure for some of Broadway's biggest hits including, Hamilton and Rent, but he got his start on a much smaller scale. He looks back in a new memoir.

June 30, 2025
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  • Terry Gross
Andrew Roth (left) stands up from his wheelchair to give Jack Moran a hug at the Shoah Foundation at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Roth was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp, which Moran helped liberate while serving in the U.S. Army.<br><br><br><br>

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  • World

80 years later, a Holocaust survivor meets an American soldier who helped free him

Andrew Roth survived the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. Jack Moran helped liberate the camp while serving in the U.S. Army. Decades after liberation, the two met and shared their stories.

June 30, 2025
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  • Tom Dreisbach
A Harvard sign is seen at Harvard University's campus in May.

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  • Education

Federal investigation finds Harvard violated civil rights law

The Trump administration has issued a notice of violation accusing Harvard University of "deliberate indifference" toward Jewish and Israeli students.

June 30, 2025
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  • Elissa Nadworny
President Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 6, 2025. Carney's government said on Sunday it would scrap a tax on U.S. tech companies after Trump threatened higher tariffs on Canadian goods.

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  • Business

Canada ditches digital tax after tariff threat from Trump

Canada scrapped a digital services tax that would have hit U.S. tech companies such as Google and Amazon after President Trump halted trade talks and threatened higher tariffs on Canadian imports.

June 30, 2025
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  • Scott Horsley
Phillip McKenzie, who was paralyzed from the neck down in a fall in 2012, uses a brain-computer interface developed by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh to navigate complex virtual tasks that simulate everyday activities,

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  • Science

Click, speak, move: These brain implants are poised to help people with disabilities

People who can no longer move or speak may soon have a new option: an implanted device that links their brain to a computer.

June 30, 2025
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  • Jon Hamilton
The Department of Justice logo is displayed before U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi arrives for a news conference at the agency on May 6 in Washington, D.C. The department announced in a June memo that it is aggressively prioritizing efforts to strip some Americans of their U.S. citizenship.

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  • USPS

DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship

Denaturalization is a tactic heavily used during the McCarthy era and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's a tool usually used in only the most serious and rare of cases: dealing with Nazis or war criminals.

June 30, 2025
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  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Juliana Kim
Matthew Galeotti, head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, delivers remarks during a press conference at the Department of Justice on June 30. Galeotti is shown with Assistant Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency Thomas Prevoznik and Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz.

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  • Law

DOJ announces a record-breaking takedown of health care fraud schemes

The Justice Department announced charges in what officials describe as the largest health care fraud bust in DOJ history.

June 30, 2025
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  • Ryan Lucas
An electric vehicle sits parked at a Tesla charging station in Sausalito, Calif., in June. The tax and spending package under consideration in the Senate could eliminate federal tax credits for buying and purchasing an EV at the end of September — even sooner than a House version of the same bill proposes.

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  • Business

Senate considers ditching the EV tax credit even earlier than planned

As the Senate debates the giant tax and spending bill, lawmakers are weighing a Sept. 30 end date for the EV tax credits. The bill still needs to pass the Senate and then go through reconciliation.

June 30, 2025
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  • Camila Domonoske
Bobby Vylan of Bob Vylan crowdsurfs in front of the West Holts stage during day four of Glastonbury festival 2025 on June 28 in Glastonbury, England.

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  • World

After Glastonbury, Bob Vylan faces U.K. criminal investigation and U.S. visa revocation

British punk-rap duo Bob Vylan led chants against the Israeli military in a live BBC broadcast on Saturday. Irish-language rappers Kneecap also are being investigated.

June 30, 2025
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  • Fatima Al-Kassab
A sign is posted in front of the 23andMe headquarters on February 01, 2024 in Sunnyvale, California.

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  • Technology

Judge OKs sale of 23andMe — and its trove of DNA data — to a nonprofit led by its founder

The DNA data of millions of people who used 23andMe's services won't be sold to a pharmaceutical company. A bankruptcy judge greenlighted the sale of the remnants of the firm, including its wealth of genetic data, to a nonprofit led by co-founder Anne Wojcicki.

June 30, 2025
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  • John Ruwitch
An armored police vehicle travels towards an area where multiple firefighters were attacked when responding to a fire in the Canfield Mountain area on the outskirts of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, on Sunday.

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  • National

A gunman lured firefighters into an ambush in Idaho. Here's what we know

Two firefighters were killed and a third wounded in northern Idaho, police say, when an armed man ambushed them after intentionally setting a brush fire to lure them to the scene.

June 30, 2025
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  • Kirk Siegler and
  • Scott Neuman
Hurricane Erick hit Oaxaca, Mexico, in June. Hurricane forecasters used data collected by Department of Defense satellites to monitor the storm as it intensified more rapidly than computer models had suggested it would. Such DoD data will no longer be shared with forecasters.

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  • Climate

Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data

Hurricane forecasters rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. That data will no longer be available as of Monday, June 30.

June 30, 2025
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  • Rebecca Hersher

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  • Health

The best support for a friend with cancer? Presence, listening and space to vent

People who get cancer say their friends often disappear when they hear the bad news. Don't be that person! Here's advice for what to do and say — and what not to say — when a loved one faces cancer.

June 30, 2025
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  • Yuki Noguchi
An employee works on a solar panel inside a Qcells factory in Dalton, Ga.

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  • Climate

Solar manufacturing is booming. Advocates say it could go bust without incentives

Abruptly ending tax incentives that encourage solar developers to buy American could upend a booming manufacturing sector.

June 30, 2025
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  • Michael Copley
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., a member of the Senate Finance Committee, speaks to reporters about the meeting he and Republican senators had with President Donald Trump yesterday on how to craft his bill of tax breaks and spending cuts, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 5.

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  • Politics

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson 'satisfied' with Trump's bill after initial opposition

Ahead of the final push to pass President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," the Wisconsin senator said federal spending needs to be cut and that proposed changes to Medicaid preserve its original purpose

June 30, 2025
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