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Democrats unveiled what they hope will be the final version of their health care overhaul bill after days of closed-door meetings, setting the stage for a showdown vote in the House on Sunday. With his top domestic priority hanging in the balance, President Obama again postponed an overseas trip that has already been pushed back once.

Florida residents brace for Hurricane Idalia, which is expected to become a hurricane before landfall. COVID cases are rising in the U.S. The NPR international desk's best tips for beating jet lag.

Reading a story by Lydia Davis is like watching a magic trick: She shows you a top hat that's obviously empty, and then she pulls out of it something enormous and oddly shaped.

Michel Martin talks to Daniel Levy, head of the U.S./Middle East Project and onetime adviser in the government of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, about the fighting between Hamas and Israel.

The United Nations' top court in The Hague stopped short of ordering a cease-fire in Gaza. But demanded that Israel do more to contain the death and damage its military operation has wrought there.

The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee has released a transcript of the panel's interview with Glenn Simpson. He's the founder of the political research shop Fusion GPS, which commissioned the infamous, unverified dossier ostensibly documenting connections between the Trump camp and Russia. In the interview, Simpson stands by the document.

President Biden huddled with Democratic governors at the White House Wednesday, as he tries to contain the fallout from his bungled debate.

International aid organizations say Sudan is at risk of famine. NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Alan Boswell from the International Crisis Group about the impact of the country’s civil war.

The bells of Notre Dame Cathedral rang on Saturday evening in Paris for the first time since a fire heavily damaged the Paris landmark in 2019.

An Israeli strike on a Lebanese army center on Sunday killed one soldier and wounded 18 others, the Lebanese military said.