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NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Médecins Sans Frontières Secretary General Chris Lockyear about the view from Gaza, and how the organization is operating there. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Famine is imminent in northern Gaza – that’s just one of the findings of a U.N.-backed report out this week. Humanitarian organizations are struggling to get aid in,…

Michael Corey Jenkins, right, follows a friend as he enters the federal courthouse in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, for sentencing on the third of the six former Rankin County law enforcement officers who committed racially motivated, violent torture on him and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker in 2023. The six former law officers pleaded guilty to…

TikTok, a popular video platform, is suing the Trump administration following the President’s executive order that would ban the app in the United States. LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty Images Some 170 million Americans use the social video app TikTok, according to the company. And scrolling through it – you’ll see everything from discussions about economics,…

Mayor Adams holds one off-topic press conference per week, where reporters can ask him questions on any subject. Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, recaps what he talked about at this week’s event, including on subway safety, a sexual assault allegation against the mayor and more news. Read the full article here

“Y.B.P.” (feat. Bruiser Wolf) Danny Brown started his career in 2007 by handing out mixtapes in Detroit, where he’s from. In 2011, he put out his acclaimed second album, XXX. Since then, he’s collaborated with rappers like Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Rocky and JPEGMafia, but he’s also worked with electronic bands like Purity Ring and The…

Ada Limón joins Kevin Young to read “You Belong to The World,” by Carrie Fountain, and her own poem “Hell or High Water.” Limón is the current United States Poet Laureate and the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. She’s the author of six books—including “The Carrying,” which won the National Book Critics Circle Award…

Steel manufacturing was at one point the most important industry in the United States. It was one of the biggest employers, a driver of economic growth, and it shaped our national security. Cars, weapons, skyscrapers… all needed steel. But in the second half of the 20th century, the industry’s power started to decline. Foreign steel…

Coming up on today’s show: Dartmouth’s men’s basketball team recently decided to form a labor union, but the school announced it will not negotiate. Billy Witz, reporter covering college sports for The New York Times, reports on the story in New Hampshire, and the larger implications any decision on it could have for student athletes…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday gave final approval to a bill that would outlaw paid assistance with absentee ballot applications and another that would restrict diversity, equity and inclusion programs at universities and state agencies. Republicans had named the bills as priorities for the legislative session. The Senate, in votes divided along party…

Tuesday on the NewsHour, an immigration ruling from the Supreme Court means Texas police can now arrest and deport migrants. Experts warn of famine in Gaza as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fights to keep his grip on power. Plus, how social media influencers are playing an outsized role in this presidential election. Read the…