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'The Premonitions Bureau' considers whether some can sense future events

Though winding at times, Sam Knight's book is thought-provoking and deeply researched, presenting the oddity of realized premonitions while allowing readers to come to their own conclusions.

'Family Of Liars' reveals secrets at the core of the Sinclair family

E. Lockhart's prequel to We Were Liars works perfectly well, too, as a standalone coming-of-age novel about grief, addiction, young love, and learning to navigate the world.

Joey Reed, the father of former US Marine Trevor Reed, stands next to a placard of his son during a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 29, 2021.

U.S. Marine veteran Trevor Reed is released from Russia in a prisoner swap

Reed had been held in Russia since 2019. He was exchanged for pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was serving a 20-year sentence for conspiring to import cocaine into the U.S.

Israeli police in riot gear confront mourners and the journalists on Friday covering the transfer from the hospital of slain Al Jazeera veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to her final resting place in east Jerusalem. Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American reporter, was shot dead Wednesday during an Israeli military raid in the West Bank town of Jenin.

Israeli police beat mourners at a slain Al Jazeera journalist's funeral

Dozens of people tried to march the casket of Shireen Abu Akleh from a hospital to a nearby Catholic church, but Israeli police hit them with batons, causing pallbearers to briefly drop the casket.

Border Patrol agents detain a group of migrants in El Paso, Texas, near the border wall after they entered the U.S. from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in February.

Immigration advocates warn of midterm risks for Democrats if Title 42 isn't lifted

With voter enthusiasm among Democrats already lagging going into the midterms, immigration advocates say they will dampen it more by not calling for the 2020 public health order to be lifted.

Activists hold posters against the execution of Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, sentenced to death for trafficking heroin into Singapore, outside the Singapore High Commision in Kuala Lumpur on March 9, 2022.

A man with a mental disability loses his appeal and will be hanged in Singapore

The Malaysian man recognized as having an intellectual disability has been on death row since 2010 for trying to smuggle less than 1.5 ounces of heroin into Singapore.

Editor-in-chief of Russia's last remaining independent TV station on media's role now

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Tikhon Dzyadko, editor-in-chief of TV Rain, Russia's last remaining independent TV station that recently went off air. He and his family fled to Tbilisi, Georgia.

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Korsakov (from left), Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveyev are seen wearing yellow and blue during a welcome ceremony after arriving at the International Space Station.

Russian cosmonauts board Space Station wearing blue and yellow, the colors of Ukraine

Wearing the colors Ukraine's flag has widely been seen as a way to support that country and oppose Russia's invasion.

Kristina Kvien is the U.S. charge d'affaires in Kyiv, the top American official on the ground in the Ukrainian capital. She estimates that there are more than 100,000 Russian troops at the border to Ukraine, and that number is growing.

Russia has just two options in front of it, says the top U.S. official in Ukraine

It Russia takes the path of aggression, it will face "extremely severe consequences immediately," says the U.S. charge d'affaires Kristina Kvien.

A man wearing a face mask to curb the spread of coronavirus walks past a health campaign poster in the Westminster underground train station, in London.

COVID remains a public health emergency for now, the WHO and Biden administration say

The WHO and the Biden administration extended the public health emergency for COVID-19, saying the virus is still considered a serious health threat.

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