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In a landmark 2015 settlement, the National Football League promised to compensate former players who developed dementia and other brain diseases tied to concussions. The NFL has since awarded $1.2 billion to more than 1,600 athletes. But The Washington Post

Iowa lawmakers have declined to advance a bill that would have stripped “gender identity” from the state’s civil rights law. The proposal has been floated in recent years without success.

Iowa lawmakers have declined to advance a bill that would have stripped “gender identity” from the state’s civil rights law. The proposal has been floated in recent years without success.

Primary season is in full swing as a seemingly unstoppable GOP nomination approaches for former President Trump. Judy Woodruff explores what another Trump nomination and presidency could mean for the Republican party and for the country. It’s part of her

The U.S. envoy to the United Nations urged it to “take quick and decisive action” over Israeli allegations that 12 employees of UNRWA, the main aid agency for Palestinians, had taken part in the Oct. 7 attack.

Senate negotiators are struggling to finalize a bipartisan deal that would pair policy changes at the U.S. southern border with wartime aid for Kyiv as they run into strong resistance from House Republicans and Donald Trump.

Vladimiro Montesinos, the controversial intelligence chief of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, has been sentenced to 19 years and eight months in prison for the 1992 massacre of six farmers in the town of Pativilca.

NPR visits an emergency hotline center in the West Bank assisting first responders in the Gaza Strip.

Senate GOP split threatens bipartisan border deal as Trump looms large  NPR Mike Johnson stands by opposition to Senate immigration deal and Biden’s border policy in first floor speech as speaker  CNN Dead, not on arrival: Where the bipartisan border deal stands

Senate Republicans demanded that border security be added to a White House request for aid to Ukraine and Israel, but they are now balking at the details of a potential border deal. (Image credit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)