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WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner sits in a cage at a court room prior to a hearing, in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)
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WNBA’s Griner says poor translation clouded arrest in Russia

Griner said that a language interpreter translated only a fraction of what was said during her questioning.

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Pope Francis sits on stage with Indigenous leaders from Canada.
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Pope apologizes for ‘catastrophic’ school abuses in Canada

Pope Francis has apologized for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools.

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Grain fields backdropped by a power plant in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 22, 2022.
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Russia hits Ukraine’s Black Sea port despite grain deal

Russian missiles have struck Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa just hours after Moscow and Kyiv signed deals to allow grain exports to resume from there.

4 years ago

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Health

UN health agency chief declares monkeypox a global emergency

The chief of the World Health Organization says the expanding monkeypox outbreak is an “extraordinary” situation that now qualifies as a global emergency.

4 years ago

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen attends a meeting in Seoul, South Korea on Tuesday. She spoke to Morning Edition about some of the initiatives she's been promoting on her trip overseas. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
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Yellen believes U.S. will get on board with global minimum corporate tax — eventually

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is wrapping up a weeklong trip to the Indo-Pacific, her first since taking over the role.

4 years ago

Image of gas clouds in space
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The James Webb telescope had 344 ‘single point failures’ before launch. Then, success

Bill Ochs, the project manager for the James Webb telescope, shares the trials and tribulations of the launch and what it's like having the images out in the world.

4 years ago

A helicopter sprays water, as forests are visible below.
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Weather

Parts of the U.S. and Europe are bracing for some of their hottest temperatures yet

Parts of the Great Plains are forecast to hit record-breaking temperatures this week, while in Europe, extreme heat has fueled wildfires and contributed to hundreds of deaths.

4 years ago

A group of women in burqas are sitting outside of a bakery.
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Community

In Kabul, a new ritual: Hungry women wait for bread outside bakeries

Since the Taliban came to power, food insecurity has risen. Women in blue burqas sit in front of the city's upscale bakeries, silently waiting for bread.

4 years ago

Police drive their car over a barricade set up by taxi drivers to protest fuel shortages in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
Politics & Policy

UN decries rising death toll, rights violations in Haiti

Agencies are again warning of rising violence around Haiti’s capital, saying 99 people have been reported killed in recent gang fighting in the Cite Soleil district alone.

4 years ago

Allyson Felix, of the United States, gives her daughter Camryn her bronze medal after the 4x400-meter mixed relay final at the World Athletics Championships Friday, July 15, 2022, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Arts & Entertainment

Allyson Felix gets a bronze on her farewell at world championships

The 19th medal, the third bronze of her 10 trips to the championships, extends the record she already held.

4 years ago

In this image released by the Saudi Royal Palace, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, greets President Joe Biden with a fist bump after his arrival at Al-Salam palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Friday, July 15, 2022. (Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP)
Politics & Policy

Biden’s Saudi visit aims to balance rights, oil, security

This was Biden's first meeting with the Saudi crown prince, who is the presumed heir to the throne held by his father, King Salman.

4 years ago

File photo: This undated file photo provided by Mexico's government shows fugitive drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero in an unknown location. (Mexico's government via AP/File)
Courts & Law

Mexico captures infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero

Caro Quintero walked free in 2013 after 28 years in prison when a court overturned his sentence for the 1985 kidnapping and killing of U.S. DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena.

4 years ago

WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner speaks with her lawyers at a court room prior to a hearing in the Khimki district court, just outside Moscow, Russia, Friday, July 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov)
Courts & Law

Griner lawyer: WNBA star had doctor’s note for cannabis use

Last week, Griner pleaded guilty and acknowledged possessing the canisters but said she had no criminal intent.

4 years ago

(photo credit Jason Schneider, St. Martin's Press)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Malcolm Nance on violent extremism and the war in Ukraine

Malcolm Nance warns of the rise in violent extremism and the threat it poses to American democracy. And we talk about his experience fighting for Ukraine against Russia.

Air Date: July 15, 2022 10:00 am

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President Joe Biden, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid address the media following their meeting in Jerusalem Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Politics & Policy

Biden, Lapid agree to stop Iran nuke program, differ on how

Biden says he still wants to give diplomacy a chance while Lapid insists that tough words alone won’t thwart Tehran nuclear ambitions.

4 years ago

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