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On Monday, Gambian lawmakers rejected a bill that would have overturned its ban on female genital mutilation. The vote marks a victory for women's rights activists and comes after months of intense debate.

More than a dozen fake electors, indicted for crimes related to attempting to overthrow the 2020 election, are delegates at the RNC to nominate Donald Trump as he tries, again, to win a second term.

Pink slime is a derisive term used to describe the filler meat producers put in their products. It’s also used to describe websites that purport to produce unbiased news but actually have a partisan agenda.

When students miss lots of school without an excuse, it's known as truancy — and in Madison County, Ind., it can lead to a visit from truancy investigator Mitch Carroll.

A volunteer curator in Philadelphia puts on art exhibits to raise awareness of lives lost to gun violence.

China has long quashed any memory of the killings, when the government ordered in the army to end the months-long protests and uphold Communist rule. The death toll remains unknown to this day.

Alex Jones, who spread lies about the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, has dropped efforts to declare bankruptcy and avoid paying $1.5 billion in damages he owes the victims' families.

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Watching the WNBA, celebrities throwing first pitches, the novel The God of the Woods, and the Criterion sale at Barnes & Noble.

Israeli forces said they launched a large operation in the occupied West Bank overnight and into Wednesday, killing at least 10 Hamas militants, carrying out arrests and sealing off the city of Jenin.

Both men brought an end to their presidencies by declining the nomination of their party for another term.