The CDC is helping states address gun injuries after years of political roadblocks (www.npr.org)
OceanGate suspends its commercial and exploration operations after Titan implosion (www.npr.org)
A vaginal ring that discreetly delivers anti-HIV drugs will reach more women (www.npr.org)
Women in a growing number of African countries will soon have access to a vaginal ring to help reduce their risk of acquiring HIV from an infected partner. And they can use it discreetly, without their partner or anyone else knowing. The ring is inserted and slowly releases the antiretroviral drug dapivirine for a month, when it...
A Disney World water slide caused a painful 'wedgie' and severe injuries, suit says (www.npr.org)
A woman was hospitalized after a ride down Typhoon Lagoon's tallest water slide left her with severe vaginal lacerations and internal organ damage, according to the lawsuit.
Mitch McConnell appears to freeze again while talking to reporters in Kentucky (www.npr.org)
Sen. Mitch McConnell appeared to freeze momentarily at an event in Covington, Ky. McConnell also froze in July at a news conference on Capitol Hill, going silent before being escorted away.
Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars (www.npr.org)
An SUV strikes 6 migrant workers in Walmart parking lot in North Carolina (www.npr.org)
Six migrant workers were struck Sunday afternoon by an SUV in a Walmart parking lot in North Carolina from what police are calling “an intentional assault with a vehicle.”
Taco John's has given up its 'Taco Tuesday' trademark after a battle with Taco Bell (www.npr.org)
Taco Tuesday has been freed from the shackles of trademark law!
Megachurches are getting even bigger as churches close across the country (www.npr.org)
Tunnels once connected Egypt and Gaza. Here's what they looked like 10 years ago (www.npr.org)
MARTIN: There’s a report that the military was using artificial intelligence to try to map these tunnels. Do you have any sense of how that would work?...
Alabama's congressional map is struck down again for diluting Black voters' power (www.npr.org)
A panel of three federal judges has struck down Alabama’s latest map of congressional election districts for not following a court order to comply with the landmark Voting Rights Act....
5 million bees fall off a truck near Toronto; drivers asked to close windows (www.npr.org)
How scientists engineered a see-through squid with its brain in plain view (www.npr.org)
As a fellow member of order decapodiformes, I am, of course, mortified.
The breakout song by an artist who goes by Oliver Anthony laid the groundwork to open the first Republican presidential debate for the 2024 election. But the song has notes of conspiracy theories. (www.npr.org)
gotdam frickin milkshake duck is undefeated
Target says backlash against LGBTQ+ Pride merchandise hurt sales (www.npr.org)
The world is now officially 'free' of chemical weapons (www.npr.org)
The death toll in Gaza surpasses 10,000 as the conflict enters a second month (www.npr.org)
Israeli forces have reached the coast of Gaza, splitting the besieged area in half and essentially cutting off the north from the south.
In France, workers build a castle from scratch the 13th century way (www.npr.org)
Deep in a forest of France’s Burgundy region, a group of enthusiasts is building a medieval castle the old-fashioned way — that is, with tools and methods from the late 13th century.
A popular nasal decongestant doesn't actually relieve congestion, FDA advisers say (www.npr.org)
Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Tuesday against the effectiveness of the key drug found in popular versions of Sudafed, Dayquil and other medications stocked on store shelves....
Thousands stranded at burning man (www.npr.org)
An Iowa teenager receives life for the beating death of his high school teacher (www.npr.org)
FTC sues Amazon for 'tricking and trapping' people in Prime subscription (www.npr.org)
“Federal regulators have sued Amazon, alleging the company for years “tricked” people into buying Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel....
A (US) federal agency wants to give safety tips to young adults. So it's dropping an album. (www.npr.org)
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Pennsylvania inmate escaped by crab-walking up a prison wall, video shows (www.npr.org)
A murderer made a brazen escape from a suburban Philadelphia jail yard by scaling a wall, climbing over razor wire and jumping from a roof in a breakout that wasn’t detected by guards for a full hour, authorities said Wednesday as the killer eluded a widening manhunt for a seventh day....
CNN plans to start a new digital service called CNN MAX (www.npr.org)
CNN's parent company is launching a new streaming service in September, more than a year after the nascent CNN+ went bust.