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The ZiG is Zimbabwe's latest currency — yet another attempt to unravel the economic catastrophes of the past decades. According to many there, it's every bit as baffling as its predecessors.
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Phoenix, Ariz., area leaders are opening cooling centers that are open all night. About a third of heat related emergency calls happen after most centers close.
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Israeli authorities have seized broadcasting equipment of The Associated Press. It had been used to create a live feed into Northern Gaza filmed from the Israeli border.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Cindy MCcain, executive director of the World Food Programme, about her current trip to Zambia, where people are enduring a severe drought and going hungry.
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President Biden called it outrageous that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Israel's prime minister and defense minister and three Hamas leaders.
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Actor and first-time director Chris Pine joins NPR's Rachel Martin to draw a card from the Wild Card deck.
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Jenny Erpenbeck's novel, translated by Michael Hofmann, follows a couple in 1980s East Berlin and their tumultuous relationship, while Germany undergoes its own political transformation.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Jamila Wignot, the filmmaker behind a new documentary series called Stax: Soulsville USA, about the story of the legendary record label.
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Witness testimony has concluded in Donald Trump's hush money trial. The defense has rested without calling the former president to the stand.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with author Stephen King about his new collections of short stories, You Like It Darker.
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Regardless of what courts rule regarding Texas immigration enforcement law SB4, a climate of fear and distrust has permeated among immigrant and mixed-status families in Texas.
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