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NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Michele Steele talk about the first week of Wimbledon, soccer's Gold Cup final between the U.S. and Mexico, and Joey Chestnut's return to the hot-dog-eating big stage.

The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.

The U.S. dollar's long dominance as the world's currency is fraying as global investors warm to a "sell America" trading strategy.

The dollar has just posted its worst first-half of a year since 1973. And now investors wonder — is it a sign that America is losing its financial standing?

The immigration detention center in Florida's Everglades will soon be empty. State officials expect the facility to have no detainees "within a few days."

An elephant ranch in Florida is offering yoga classes for veterans to help them with trauma. From the other side of a fence, retired elephants eat and mosey around.

Trump administration lawyers defended the weekend flights that deported hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members despite a federal judge's order to turn the planes around.

Large-scale compounding facilities have to stop making tirzepatide, the main ingredient in blockbuster obesity drug Zepbound, Wednesday.

The Trump administration's massive aid cuts have implications for humanitarian workers around the globe. USAID was a bedrock for non-profits and UN agencies, who are now trying to figure out a way to work without US leadership.

Rwanda is widely believed to be backing the rebel group that's taken over much of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in the past two months. The DRC has asked groups to sever ties with Rwanda.

The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.

Following his multi-generational, statement-making novel Afterlives, Abdulrazak Gurnah's new book Theft is a quieter, more intimate look at friendship and power.