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Baton Rouge Rocked By Shooting Deaths Of 3 Police Officers

In Louisiana, Baton Rouge is mourning 3 police officers who were shot and killed Sunday. The shooting comes after days of protests in response to video of police shooting and killing Alton Sterling.

UAW Vote At Mississippi Nissan Plant Begins Aug. 3

Workers at Nissan auto assembly plant in Canton, Miss. begin two days of voting Thursday on whether to join United Auto Workers union. This is the third bid by UAW to unionize a southern auto plant.

Pakistan Observes 3 Days Of Mourning After School Attack

Author Ahmed Rashid talks to Steve Inskeep about how Pakistan's political climate helped to foster Tuesday's horrific attack on a school in Peshawar. More than 140 people were killed.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks in Wilmington, Del., during Night 3 of the Democratic National Convention. She spoke about her upbringing and her family and her background as a prosecutor.

4 Takeaways From Night 3 Of The Democratic National Convention

Kamala Harris used her prime-time speech to introduce herself and excoriate President Trump. Former President Barack Obama launched a rare attack on his successor. And Democrats urged people to vote.

A New York City police officer looks over the center of Columbia University ahead of a large graduation ceremony in May, following weeks of pro-Palestinian protests.

3 Columbia deans ousted for texts about Jewish students

The three were texting each other during a panel discussion on Jewish life on campus last May, mocking and disparaging students’ complaints of antisemitism.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is earmarking more taxpayer dollars for popular environmental issues in the state, including the massive Everglades restoration, during his second term than he did in his first term

DeSantis unveils $3.5 billion in new spending on the environment

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stopped in Collier County on Tuesday to announce $3.5 billion in future spending on a variety of environmental protections during his second term.

Marie Curie (left), French physicist and winner of the 1903 Nobel Prize for physics, Canadian Donna Strickland (middle), who won the 2018 prize for her work with lasers, and physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer (right), who won for her work in atomic physics in 1963.

The Nobel Prize In Physics: 117 Years, 3 Women And Counting

Donna Strickland is the first woman to win the prize in a generation. Other women in physics are not surprised, but some hope change may be coming.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz high-fives presidential nominee Kamala Harris at a campaign rally at the Fiserv Forum on Tuesday in Milwaukee.

Here’s who’s speaking on Day 3 of the DNC

Tim Walz is the main event, but former President Bill Clinton, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg are also speaking in Chicago on Wednesday.

In this May 23, 2020 image from Louisiana State Police body camera video, Troopers Jacob Brown (left), George Harper (center) and others restrain motorist Antonio Harris after a high-speed chase in Franklin Parish, La.

3 Louisiana state troopers are charged in the beating of a Black motorist

The battery charges in the 2020 arrest of Antonio Harris come amid mounting scrutiny of the state's top law enforcement agency over allegations of excessive force — particularly against Black people.

Should It Take 2 Or 3 Years To Earn A Law Degree?

President Obama, a Harvard Law grad and former law professor, has suggested that students can learn all they need to take the bar exam in two years. That would save them tens of thousands of dollars. But it would also cost law schools millions of dollars in tuition revenue.

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