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Debris, rubble and a damaged car in North Plainfield, N.J. on Tuesday, July 15, 2025 after flooding from heavy rains in the area. Climate change is causing heavier rain across the United States.

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  • Climate

Floods are getting more dangerous around the country

New York, North Carolina, New Mexico and Texas have all suffered serious flooding this month. Climate change is causing even more rain to fall during the heaviest storms.

July 15, 2025
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher and
  • Lauren Sommer
A view along the Kennet and Avon Canal near Newbury Lock, Newbury, Berkshire, England.

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  • Europe

In Britain, hopes are mounting to finally clean up sewage-polluted waterways

After years of polluting by the water industry, a report planned for release in the coming days could lead to tightened regulation while also prompting an expensive modernization drive.

July 15, 2025
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By:
  • Willem Marx
The Department of Education building in Washington, DC, March 24, 2025.

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  • News

SCOTUS allows dismantling of Education Dept. And, Trump threatens Russia with tariffs

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue with mass firings. And, Trump has threatened Russia with tariffs over its war with Ukraine.

July 15, 2025
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By:
  • Brittney Melton
Sun shines on the U.S Capitol dome on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in 2022.

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  • Politics

Will Congress cut funds to NPR/PBS and foreign aid this week?

The Trump administration has asked Congress to rescind funds for NPR/PBS and foreign aid. Congress has until the end of the week to approve the cuts.

July 15, 2025
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By:
  • Deirdre Walsh
A research project run by the Department of Veterans Affairs that analyzes genetic data has led to medical breakthroughs.  Yet critical steps to keep the research going are stalled out.

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  • Health

A million veterans gave DNA for medical research. Now the data is in limbo

Retired service members donated genetic material to a DNA database to help answer health questions for all Americans. The Trump administration is dragging its heels on agreements to analyze the data.

July 15, 2025
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By:
  • Darius Tahir
This image provided by NASA shows Axiom Space crew members from the Ax-4 mission from second left, Poland's Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski, Axiom Space's Peggy Whitson, India's Shubhanshu Shukla and Hungary's Tibor Kapu aboard the International Space Station, on June 26, 2025.

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  • Space

4 astronauts splashdown on SpaceX capsule to end Axiom Space's private Ax-4 mission

The private crew included Ax-4 mission commander and former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson. It was her fifth trip to space and extended her record-setting duration to 695 days, the most of any American.

July 15, 2025
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By:
  • Russell Lewis
GOP Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky, left, poses during a ceremonial swearing-in with House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, at the U.S. Capitol in January. On Monday, Rogers led Republican members of the House Appropriations Committee in releasing one of the latest bills in Congress that call for excluding millions of people living in the states without U.S. citizenship from a set of census counts that the 14th Amendment says must include the "whole number of persons in each state."

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  • Politics

Republicans renew a bid to remove noncitizens from the census tally behind voting maps

GOP lawmakers are trying again to exclude millions of non-U.S. citizens living in the states from census counts that the 14th Amendment says must include the "whole number of persons in each state."

July 15, 2025
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
An illustration picture taken in London on May 8, 2022, shows a souvenir Tether (USDT) coin, which is one of the world's biggest stablecoins.

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  • Business

Why there's so much excitement around a cryptocurrency called stablecoin

Stablecoins are meant to be a safer type of cryptocurrency. Now, Congress is preparing some rules around it.

July 15, 2025
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By:
  • Rafael Nam
A view of high-voltage transmission towers in Houston. The law President Trump signed on July 4 ends tax incentives for wind and solar projects and is expected to drive up electricity bills across the U.S., according to a nonpartisan think tank.

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  • Climate

Power prices are expected to soar under new tax cut and spending law

In states without policies to drive renewable energy, power prices could surge as federal tax incentives for clean energy disappear, according to Energy Innovation, a think tank.

July 15, 2025
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By:
  • Michael Copley

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  • Author Interviews

Her love life was in chaos. The solution? Giving up sex

After a bad breakup, writer Melissa Febos decided to abstain from sex and dating for a year. She didn't realize how much it would change her life. She tells her story in a new book, The Dry Season.

July 15, 2025
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By:
  • Marielle Segarra and
  • Margaret Cirino
Afghan refugees who returned after fleeing Iran to escape deportation and conflict line up at a UNHCR facility near the Islam Qala crossing in western Herat province, Afghanistan, on Friday, June 20, 2025.

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  • USPS

With temporary protections for some Afghans set to expire, appeals court steps in

An appeals court late Monday stepped in to keep in place protections for nearly 12,000 Afghans that have allowed them to work in the U.S. and be protected from deportation.

July 15, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
The Washington, D.C., headquarters of the U.S. Department of Education shown in March.

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  • Education

Supreme Court says Trump's efforts to close the Education Department can continue

The Trump administration had appealed a decision that had directed it to stop gutting the U.S. Education Department and to reinstate many of the workers the government had laid off.

July 14, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
A sign shows the location of an immigration court in New York City. In July, 15 more immigration judges were fired.

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  • USPS

More immigration judges are being fired amid Trump's efforts to speed up deportations

Several more immigration judges have been fired, even as the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement, and after Congress gave the Department of Justice $3 billion, in part to hire judges.

July 14, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
Construction work is done around the Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 17, 2024. The estimated cost of the project has jumped more than 30% in recent years, drawing criticism from the Trump administration and its allies.

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  • Economy

Why the Federal Reserve's building renovations are attracting the White House's ire

The Fed's $2.5 billion headquarters renovation is attracting mounting criticism from the Trump administration, which had been already attacking the central bank for not cutting interest rates.

July 14, 2025
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By:
  • Scott Horsley
Billy Joel in 1973.

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  • TV Reviews

HBO's new Billy Joel documentary is revelatory — even if it pulls some punches

The new two-part documentary, which premieres Friday on HBO, is a good example of the tension between access and objectivity that filmmakers face in making documentaries on celebrities.

July 14, 2025
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  • Eric Deggans
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