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Benson Boone at the 2025 Governors Ball Music Festival held at Flushing Meadows Corona Park on June 06, 2025 in New York, New York. (Photo by Nina Westervelt/Billboard via Getty Images)

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Benson Boone and Karol G can't displace Morgan Wallen on the charts

This week's highest debuts on the Billboard 200 albums chart — Benson Boone's American Heart, Karol G's Tropicoqueta and the soundtrack to Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters — all land in the top 10. But they don't come anywhere near displacing Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem.

July 02, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
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.

July 02, 2025
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
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.

July 02, 2025
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  • Tom Dreisbach
Alexis Ratcliff, 19, (right) moved into her own apartment this week after living in a North Carolina hospital since she was 13. She was a baby when a car accident left her with significant disabilities.

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  • Health Care

The disabled teen stuck in a hospital for six years finally gets her own home

When a disabled young woman moved out of a hospital to her own apartment, the Trump administration celebrated — even though it's ending the federal program that made it possible.

July 02, 2025
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  • Joseph Shapiro
Waffle House has dropped a temporary surcharge on eggs, as prices return to more normal levels. The chain had added the charge in February as an outbreak of avian flu caused egg prices to soar.

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  • Economy

Waffle House drops egg surcharge as prices fall back to Earth

Waffle House has dropped its 50 cent surcharge on eggs as supplies rebound. The chain added the temporary charge in February, when avian flu sent egg prices to record highs.

July 02, 2025
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  • Scott Horsley
Travelers go through security at San Francisco International Airport the Friday before Memorial Day. AAA predicts Fourth of July weekend will be even busier.

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  • National

Whether you're driving or flying, here are travel tips for the Fourth of July weekend

AAA anticipates that a record 72.2 million people will travel this holiday weekend. Here's how to prepare if you're one of them.

July 02, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
President Trump attends a press conference in Hanoi on Nov. 12, 2017, during his first term in office.

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  • Politics

Trump announces trade deal with Vietnam

The announcement came after President Trump in April proposed a steep 46% tariff on Vietnamese imports; he later paused those tariffs while talks continued.

July 02, 2025
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  • Nga Pham and
  • Danielle Kurtzleben
Timothée Chalamet, Donald Glover and Benson Boone sporting just a mustache, no beard.

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  • Arts & Life

Are we in the midst of another mustache renaissance?

Mustaches are having a moment. Here's what it's like living with one.

July 02, 2025
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  • Claire Murashima and
  • Barry Gordemer
Paramount Global's controlling owner Shari Redstone, shown last year at a gathering of media and tech titans in Sun Valley, Idaho.

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  • Media

Paramount agrees to pay $16 million to settle Trump's CBS lawsuit

Paramount Global will pay $16 million to settle President Trump's lawsuit over 60 Minutes' interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris — a lawsuit that many legal experts considered spurious.

July 02, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
The United States is gearing up for a big birthday: July 4, 2026, is the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Above, Independence Hall in Philadelphia where the declaration was debated and adopted.

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  • History

America has a major birthday coming up — here's what to expect for the big 2-5-0

It's the nation's semiquincentennial! July 4, 2026, is the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Here's how the United States of America is planning to party.

July 02, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
The Wisconsin Supreme Court listens to arguments during a redistricting hearing at the state Capitol, Nov. 21, 2023, in Madison, Wis. The court decided Wednesday, July 2, 2025, that the state's 176-year-old law does not ban abortion.

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  • National

Wisconsin's 1849 law does not ban abortion, the state Supreme Court rules

After years of litigation following the Dobbs decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court justices, with their liberal majority, ruled that the state's 176-year-old law does not ban abortion in the state.

July 02, 2025
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  • Maayan Silver
The entrance of the U.S. Department of Education headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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  • Education

The Trump admin is withholding over $6 billion in education grants for schools

The federal grant funding traditionally goes out by July 1. It includes support for migrant education, after-school programs and English language learners.

July 02, 2025
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  • Sequoia Carrillo

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  • World

Greetings from Alishan, Taiwan, whose red cypress forests offer timeless beauty

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares snapshots of moments from their lives and work around the world.

July 02, 2025
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  • Emily Feng
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama presides over an event celebrating his 90th birthday in Dharamshala, India.

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  • Religion

The Dalai Lama announces plans for a successor, signaling China won't have a say

The Dalai Lama said he will be reincarnated after he dies, and no one can interfere with the matter of succession. The Chinese government, however, claims authority over the his succession.

July 02, 2025
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By:
  • Omkar Khandekar and
  • Anthony Kuhn
"Ghost guns" seized in federal law enforcement actions are displayed at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) field office in Glendale, Calif. on April 18, 2022. Former President Joe Biden imposed a host of restrictions on gun sellers. Some of those will be eased or eliminated as the Trump administration restructures the ATF.

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  • National

Trump administration targets ATF, with plans to cut jobs and ease gun restrictions

DOGE staffers have been working on changes at the ATF that would roll back dozens of gun restrictions. The DOJ wants to downsize the agency — a move some fear will hinder criminal investigations.

July 02, 2025
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  • Meg Anderson
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