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NPR
Greetings from Paris, where the 2024 Olympics balloon rises again
Hannah Bloch
The floating Olympic cauldron, held aloft by a giant glowing balloon, is still making regular appearances two years after the 2024 Paris Games, showing up all summer long in the nighttime Paris sky.
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude assistant, has created an interactive tool to show how AI might affect the U.S economy a little or a lot in the next few years.
Imen Ben Youssef
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AFP
A new Anthropic model seeks to test how AI could impact the U.S. economy
Scott Horsley
The measles ward at Dhaka Shishu Hospital is full, even five months after the start of a massive outbreak in Bangladesh.
Ali Asif Shawon for NPR
Whatever happened to the measles outbreak that shocked a country this year?
Ali Asif Shawon
Demonstrators holding signs saying "EVERY PERSON COUNTS" rally outside the Supreme Court in 2019 in Washington, D.C., as the justices hear arguments over the first Trump administration's failed push to ask about U.S. citizenship status on the 2020 census.
J. Scott Applewhite
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AP
Trump officials propose sweeping changes to the census that would reshape voting maps
Hansi Lo Wang
Texas Standard
Arturo Garcia, 80, carries his beloved dog through his home in La Lomas Colonia, where the faithful companion remains a constant source of comfort and companionship Wednesday July 29,2026 in Rio Grande City. (Delcia Lopez | dlopez@themonitor.com)
Senior citizens in the Rio Grande Valley are paying the price for oppressive heat
Summer heat is becoming more deadly for the elderly in South Texas with record-breaking temperatures and rising costs for electricity.
Texas cities say Abbott’s proposal to disband their electric companies won’t lower costs
A ‘Monarch Highway’ in the central US stalled. But states are still planting butterfly rest stops
Why Texas Republican donors give — and why the state matters to GOP fundraising
GOP’s first midterm convention kicks off Wednesday, putting Dallas at center of national politics
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