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USA's Sylvia Fowles goes to the basket past Japan's Evelyn Mawuli (R) in the women's preliminary round between Japan and USA during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on Friday.

U.S. Women's Basketball Continues Olympic Dominance Against Japan

The U.S. defeated Japan 86-69 in group play. It's a record 51st straight win for the top-ranked U.S. dating to the 1992 Games. The Americans are going for their 7th straight Olympic gold medal.

Mohammad Bilal, 17, from Afghanistan, plays on a swing at Bogovadja asylum center in central Serbia. He reached Serbia alone after smugglers in Iran put him in the trunk of a car alongside four other children with no water and amid scorching temperatures. "I thought that was my last day on earth," he says.

Afghans Are Among Thousands Of Migrants Hoping To Reach Europe Via Serbia

Some 5,000 refugees and migrants are in Serbia, trying to reach European Union countries. With EU leaders fearing an influx of refugees, "Serbia is in a difficult position," says a refugees' advocate.

Bags of heroin, some laced with fentanyl, are displayed before a press conference regarding a major drug bust, at the office of the New York attorney general in New York City on Sept. 23, 2016.

Opinion: 2020's Other Medical Crisis

Scott Simon notes the 30 percent increase of drug overdose deaths in the U.S. during the first year of the pandemic.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection mounted officers attempt to contain migrants as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, into Del Rio, Texas, on Sunday

U.S. Begins Flying Haitian Migrants Home From Texas In Mass Expulsion

Thousands of Haitians are gathered in a Texas border city after crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. Some of them were flown back to Haiti in an effort to deter others from crossing into the U.S.

San Diego Man Says He Experienced ‘Banking While Black’ In Local Bank of America Branch

A Black lawyer walked into a branch in Pacific Beach hoping to cash an insurance settlement check. He said the bank’s assistant manager not only refused to cash the check, but also accused him of stealing.

Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on Oct. 9 in Des Moines. The GOP agenda now includes the false notion that the 2020 election was somehow stolen.

Decades before Trump's election lies, McCarthy's anti-communist fever gripped the GOP

The former president threatens that GOP leaders must match their priorities to his or face a mass defection by the party's most reliable voters. It's without precedent, but there is a parallel.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the legal blows it has taken, are central to the current political fight over voting access.

How The Voting Rights Act Came To Be And How It's Changed

The most effective civil rights legislation in U.S. history has been upended by two recent Supreme Court decisions. States are moving to pass new voting restrictions nationwide.

U.S. soldiers enter a compound for a security meeting in Shah Joy District, Zabul Province, Afghanistan in the fall of 2010.

Watching Afghanistan Fall Reminds These Veterans Of Who They Left Behind

U.S. veterans reflect on their time in Afghanistan as they watch the Taliban take power, uncertain of the fate of the people they know from their time at war.

President Joe Biden speaks about the end of the war in Afghanistan at the White House on Aug. 31, 2021.

Biden Lays Out The Costs Of War To Defend His Decision To Leave Afghanistan

"I was not going to extend this forever war," President Biden said from the White House, "and I was not extending a forever exit."

How An Anti-Vice Crusader Sabotaged The Early Birth Control Movement

The Comstock Act, which passed in 1873, virtually outlawed contraception. In The Man Who Hated Women, author Amy Sohn writes about the man behind the law — and the women prosecuted under it.

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