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Despite a handful of states in the West where overdose deaths are surging, overall street drug fatalities in the U.S. continued to drop at a historic rate in 2025, falling roughly 14 percent compared with 2024. In all, 69,973 people died from fatal overdoses last year nationwide, according to the latest preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While that toll is painful, it means roughly 11,300 fewer people lost their lives to drugs compared with the year before.

In 1956, a Hungarian teenager named Istvan packed up his most important possessions, wrote a letter to his parents and fled the country in the dead of night. He told no one he was going, and said nothing about his destination. All he left behind was a letter of explanation and a secret codename, to be used to communicate through an illegal radio station.

U.S. forces shot down Iranian drones near the Strait of Hormuz and struck an area along Iran's coast overnight, according to a U.S. official who spoke to NPR. In retaliation for the attack on Bandar Abbas, Iran's Revolutionary Guard says this morning it targeted the American base that launched the attack. U.S. and Iran peace talks continue.

“I went down and I just told the Lord, I said, if you want me to be a pastor, I'll be a pastor,” Click recounted in an interview. He did become a Baptist pastor and later, a lawmaker. Click, 60, is a three-term Ohio legislator. God created three institutions, he says: the family, the home and the government. “As good stewards, we should be involved in all of those, to one extent or the other,” Click says.

Jacobs charged with battery (domestic abuse, criminal damage to property), domestic abuse, disorderly conduct (domestic abuse, strangulation and suffocation) and intimidation of a victim. Records obtained by ESPN indicated at the time that Jacobs was held without bond. The report continued: The Hobart-Lawrence PD was dispatched to the alleged disturbance involving Jacobs on Saturday. This remains an active and ongoing investigation. No further information will be released at this time, Michael Renkas, chief of the Hobart-Lawrence PD said in a statement.

NPR has laid off 10 journalists, including some veteran reporters, in an attempt to save money and reorganize the newsroom. It also is buying out at least 18 news staffers who voluntarily accepted offers to depart, according to three people with direct knowledge. (The people spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of speaking publicly about internal network matters) The network intends to leave eight empty positions unfilled.

Biden’s lawyers said in a lawsuit filed in Washington’s federal court that the Justice Department plans to release the files to Congress and a conservative group, the Heritage Foundation, after the department had previously argued that they were exempt from disclosure under the public records law. Biden’s lawyers argued that the disclosure would “constitute an unwarranted invasion of President Biden’s privacy.”

The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its capacity to scan irises as part of its mass deportation efforts, a move that has raised concerns among privacy experts that the agency, flush with an influx of funding, is gathering biometric data from people it detains. The agency awarded a $25 million no-bid contract last week to BI2 Technologies, a company that specializes in iris scanning. The new contract is more than five times the amount of the company's last DHS contract, awarded last fall.

The new film Pressure is a lightly fictionalized version of the actual lead-up to the D-Day invasion of France by Allied troops during World War II, and the crucial role of meteorologists in deciding when that battle would happen. And it stars some big names. Andrew Scott, most recently of Ripley fame, plays James Stagg, a Scottish meteorologist who is tasked with pulling together a D-Day weather forecast for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, played by Oscar-winner Brendan Fraser.

“The Prayer at Valley Forge” is a poignant portrayal of George Washington during one of the most critical moments in the American Revolution. In the harsh winter of 1777-78, amidst the immense hardships faced by the Continental Army at Valley Forge, many believe Washington knelt in a moment of solitary prayer, seeking guidance and strength from God.”

He was taken to the execution chamber, where the state of Tennessee began the process of putting him to death, but it failed to finish what it started. Carruthers was not killed and he lived to tell about it. He became the ninth person to survive a failed execution in the last 80 years. Botched executions are by now quite common in the United States. But on most of those occasions, the people whose executions go awry end up dead. But not Tony Carruthers.

Sean Brewer, 58, is also charged with illegally owning a firearm and ammunition in connection with the shooting death of Jacklyn Berry, 47. He appeared in an East Boston courthouse Tuesday and was ordered held at Suffolk County Jail in lieu of posting $100,000 cash bail, court records show. Brewer's defense attorney was not immediately available for comment.

Isai “N” - who was wanted in the U.S. - was arrested in the border city of Nogales, Secretary Omar Harfuch, the head of Security and Citizen Protection, said in a post on X.

Karl Anthony-Towns had 19 points and 14 rebounds, OG Anunoby scored 17 and the New York Knicks routed the Cleveland Cavaliers 130-93 Monday night to complete a four-game sweep of the Eastern Conference finals and advance to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999. Landry Shamet scored 16 off the bench while Mikal Bridges and Jalen Brunson had 15 apiece for the Knicks, who became the fourth team to have an 11-game winning streak during their postseason run. The last to do it was Golden State, which had a 15-game run en route to its second title in three seasons in 2017.

Davis works for Delta Air Lines on the ramp, as airlines call the bustling area of pavement between the terminal and the taxiway. He's waiting when the jet pulls up, and bags start rolling down the conveyor belt. Davis grabs two suitcases off the belt, pulls out a handheld computer that looks like an extra-rugged iPad, and scans the bar codes on the luggage tags. "Now I take it, I scan it, it gives me a green scan sign saying it's A-okay," Davis said.

Justice Department news releases that detailed guilty pleas, jury verdicts and prison sentences abruptly disappeared from government websites last week. The removals mark the latest phase of Trump's effort to rewrite the history of the violent riot. A review by NPR found that the deleted material included information about some of the most serious assaults on law enforcement that occurred that day. NPR maintains the most complete database and visual archive of the Jan. 6 prosecutions.

“For me it's important to call it women's empowerment in public spaces, ” she says. “After two weeks I felt I was changing - not just in sports but my mental health and everything,” says Aisha Saqqa, 18, and a first-year business management student in college. “Mirella told us to act differently.” That includes noticing their surroundings in public instead of striving to not be noticed, keeping their heads up and making eye contact. It also includes using their voices, a challenge for some girls raised to be quiet.

Leaders of the California State University system, the CSU, want it to become the nation's first artificial intelligence-powered institution of its kind. It entered into a $17 million no-bid contract with OpenAI last year to provide students, faculty and staff with a new resource: ChatGPT Edu a version of the popular generative AI chatbot intended for use by educational institutions. The system recently renewed that contract for another $13 million a year for the next three years.

On a recent morning, sitting at a quiet table in his suburban restaurant, he pointed to the number at the top of the column: $5.56. That's the price he pays for a pound of the most important item on any barbecue menu in Texas. Over the past year, that number has risen 28percent, a reflection of the spiking meat prices that have dented the pocketbooks of average grocery store customers nationwide.

The Vitality program from life insurance company John Hancock rewards policyholders with points for healthy behaviors such as going to the gym, buying healthy foods, tracking sleep, getting preventive screenings and check-ups. Points translate into tangible perks such as discounts on a new smartwatch, Amazon or Starbucks gift cards, hotel deals, savings at retail stores and discounts when purchasing fruits and vegetables.

The Secret Service said the bystander, who has not been identified, suffered a gunshot wound described as not life-threatening. It was not clear how he was shot. Authorities have released few additional details about the early Saturday evening shooting. The District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department said the suspect, identified as 21-year-old Nasire Best, started shooting toward a White House security checkpoint when Secret Service officers returned fire.

Colbert posted the hour-long parody a day after being ousted from his nearly 11-year-long run at “The Late Show.” “It’s been an excruciating 23 hours without being on TV,” Colbert joked during the program. The deadpan appearance, which featured rockstar Jack White as an even more deadpan sidekick, quickly went viral. The program was reposted widely on Youtube and other social media platforms, leading CBS to initially fire off copyright protection notices.

“I have no doubt in my mind that we can win in a knockout stage game. I have no doubt that we can win multiple games in the knockout stages,” Ream said in an interview with All Things Considered host Juana Summers.

“It's tragic that we have to be thinking about this in the same way that TSA protects airports and businesses protect their premises, but we have to,” said Eric Fingerhut, president and CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America, the group leading the lobbying effort this week. The advocacy push on Capitol Hill happened to come just one day after two teenagers attacked a San Diego mosque, killing three men and themselves.”

A Florida man walked into a Wawa bathroom in Palm Beach County, Florida, carrying a black fanny pack that contained proceeds from selling his Pokémon collectibles: $30,023 in cash, according to a police report. The man planned to use the money to help pay for a medical procedure for his sister, the report said.

“We have a lot of fixed and movable counter-UAS capabilities, but not really anything that would follow a patrolling soldier,” Gen. Gregory Guillot, the commander of US Northern Command, said during a panel discussion at the annual SOF Week conference in Tampa, Florida. “The cartels are flying over our soldiers and Marines all the time.”

Driving the news: Video posted to social media by ABC reporter Selina Wang features the sound of what appears to be dozens of shots going off, followed by TV crews diving for cover.

"Climate scientists think this could be the hottest summer on record or at least close to it," says Mark Wolfe, who heads the National Energy Assistance Directors Association (NEADA). "So families need to use more of an increasingly expensive product to stay cool this summer. And that's going to be tough." NEADA is projecting that electricity bills will be 8.5% higher this summer than last, on average, with residents in some Southern states seeing even bigger increases.