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Examining presidential campaign rhetoric. Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin faces tight reelection race. Drone attack by Hezbollah on an Israeli army training base killed four Israeli soldiers.

Israel plans to respond after four Israeli soldiers were killed in the attack. NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Daniel Byman at the Center for Strategic and International Studies what form that could take.

Britain has closed it's last coal-fired power plant, making the country that pioneered coal power, the first to give it up in favor of cleaner options. We hear about the transition. And a small town in Wales has become the unlikely site of a world-renowned Elvis festival.

Baba Siddique was close to several Bollywood superstars and known for throwing lavish parties.(Image credit: Rafiq Maqbool)

The assault, which took place in the central Israeli city of Binyamina, is one of the most serious mass casualty attacks the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group has caused in Israel.(Image credit: Amir Levy)

If you eat salmon, there's a good chance that it comes from a salmon farm in Norway. The country has been farming salmon for over 50 years. The industry is touted as a key producer of sustainable, low carbon footprint protein. But there are still negative environmental impacts. Each year, an average of 200,000 farmed salmon escape from their open net pens and breed with wild salmon. Interbreeding with these […]

President Biden touched down in St. Pete Beach, on one of Florida's barrier islands hit hard by the storm. He announced a $600 million investment in shoring up parts of the nation's electric grid.(Image credit: Manuel Balce Ceneta)

In the town of Juntas, in the city of Buenaventura, Colombia, the community gathers for Holy Week every year to celebrate the Manacillos festival, an ancestral ritual originating in the upper part of the Yurumangui River.(Image credit: Nathalia Angarita for NPR)

The Pentagon said it will deploy the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense battery and crew to Israel after recent Iranian missile attacks.(Image credit: Ariel Schalit/AP)