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An Egyptian court has issued a mass death penalty sentence for 529 members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

On his first full day as chief whip, Michael Grove couldn't get out of the bathroom. The chief whip's job is to make sure members of his party are in place to vote.

A reputed Ku Klux Klan member is charged with the murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. NPR's Michele Norris talks about the case with Jerry Mitchell, a reporter for the Clarion Ledger in Jackson, Miss.

Family members of those killed in the Sept. 11 attacks express concerns that the commission studying U.S. intelligence before Sept. 11, 2001, won't answer vital questions in its final report, due this week. NPR's Robert Smith reports.

Though they are held in stark isolation, gang members remain active at a California prison. And once a prisoner is in a gang, it's tough to get out. Hear the second part of an American RadioWorks report on the gangs of Pelican Bay State Prison.

A former senior member of the Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein has been found dead. Denis Donaldson, expelled by the party in December after admitting he spied for Britain, had been shot in the head. Melissa Block talks with Gerry Moriarty, Northern Ireland editor for the Irish Times.

"It is cruel and terrible that her life was cut short," Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said of Jo Cox, who died Thursday.

Breakthrough infections continue to hit Capitol Hill, with vaccinated members announcing positive coronavirus cases amid a surge caused by the delta variant.

The new policy and others come from a new memo from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin aimed at addressing concerns of service members about abortion access after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.