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Riot police fired back with tear gas and rubber bullets at protests in a poor Rio neighborhood upset over the money being spent on the Olympic games. The protests are highlighting complaints that Brazilian authorities aren't doing enough to help the poor.

Former President Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association convention in Houston — days after a deadly school shooting in another part of Texas.

French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children) returns with a gorgeous, hilarious and slyly warm-hearted sci-fi satire about a machine uprising in a suburb of the future.

Gunmen killed at least 15 people in a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday. At least 42 people have been hospitalized.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to journalist Jon Wertheim about tennis star Naomi Osaka's decision to withdraw from the French Open after facing penalties and fines for her decision to boycott media.

Pro-Palestinian protesters turned out in Dearborn, Mich., to criticize U.S. support for Israel as President Biden visits a local Ford electric vehicle plant.

Joe Biden's speech Thursday night to the Democratic convention will not be his first. He's done several, most recently four years ago when Hillary Clinton was the party's presidential nominee.

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with Evan Drellich of The Athletic the faceoff between the upstart Atlanta Braves and the hated Houston Astros in game 1 of the World Series Tuesday.

Nine of the 13 council members, a veto-proof majority, pledged to "rebuild with our community a new model of public safety that actually keeps our community safe," in the words of one council member.

A Minnesota county voted to allow new refugees under a Trump order giving local officials a say in immigration policy. It has been grappling with anti-Islam sentiments.