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A migrant walks along a rocky shoreline near the border with Morocco after swimming towards Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta on July 31, 2026.
Jorge Guerrero
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Spain's Pedro Sánchez was a hero of migrants. After Ceuta, he faces his biggest challenge
Miguel Macias, Ruth Sherlock
The pro-immigration leader is facing backlash at home and abroad after roughly 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave.
Pooja Gawali and her family left the tin shack in which they'd live and moved into a new apartment building. She helped design their unit, which, she says, gives her much needed privacy and the space to take on a hobby. Her sewing machine occupies pride of place in her living room. The construction project has won an award for its innovative spirit.
Viraj Nayar for NPR
How these slum dwellers went from one-room shacks to beautiful new apartments
Kamala Thiagarajan
Moderna will soon learn the regulatory fate of its mRNA-based flu shot.
Maddie Meyer
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FDA weighs a new kind of flu shot based on technology RFK Jr. has questioned
Sydney Lupkin
Jackie Lay
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NPR
Dead After Death
Isabella Gomez Sarmiento, Felix Contreras
Texas Standard
AUSTIN, TEXAS- August 1, 2016. The American flag was lowered at a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the UT Tower Shooting. Miguel Gutierrez Jr. /KUT News.
60 years ago, the University of Texas tower shooting opened a grim chapter of shared tragedy
In 2016, Texas Standard collected the oral histories of dozens who lived through that tragedy. Today, we revisit those stories.
Texas officials order contractor on Big Bend area border wall to halt land clearing
State finds some registered Texas voters were wrongly flagged as potential noncitizens
Big new power lines could prevent blackouts in Texas, but landowner opposition is fierce
Trump says he may pull Blanche AG nomination until Sens. Cornyn, Tillis leave office
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