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Caption The Central Arizona Project canal winds through Phoenix on March 26, 2026. The 336-mile canal system pumps water from the Colorado River to the Phoenix and Tucson areas. Water supplies for the canal's users will be cut under a new plan for managing the Colorado River. / KJZZ Under the searing desert sun, Max Wilson watched water flow through a canal in north Phoenix. This unassuming strip of blue next to a busy road is the city's lifeline to the Colorado River.

Caption Children wait to play football in the minor leagues of Newell's Old Boys, where Argentine football star Lionel Messi used to play in Rosario, Argentina, 2018. / AFP via Getty Images ROSARIO — Newell's Old Boys is one of the most popular soccer clubs in Rosario — Argentina's third-largest city. It also runs one of the country's most successful youth academies.

Caption A young boy is helped by a women to put up a photograph of her missing relative on a wall alongside photographs of missing and deceased people displayed outside a government hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. / AP As the possibility of more mudslides threaten towns along the Nepal-China border, the search continues for more than 2,400 people missing, including dozens of U.S. citizens, after last week's catastrophic floods.

Caption NPR and NewsGuard developed queries for AI chatbots and search engines using false narratives spread by China, Iran and Russia and compared their performances. / Photo illustration by Emily Bogle/NPR Since AI chatbots exploded in popularity and Google started offering AI-generated answers, people who research foreign influence campaigns have expressed concern that some governments may poison AI-generated answers with false narratives.

Caption Ontario Premier Doug Ford, right, and Niagara West Member of Provincial Parliament Sam Oosterhoff unveil a sign for Lake Ontario at the Fifty Point Conservation Area in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada, on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026.

Caption A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope on board is seen transiting the sun during its Aug. 30 launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Roman telescope, named after the agency's first chief astronomer, will help scientists study dark energy, exoplanets and the evolution of the universe.

Caption The first ever Fat Marmot Week ends on August 30, 2026. Annnnd there's a winner in the first-ever Fat Marmot Week! The competition was among eight yellow-bellied marmots in Colorado vying to gain the most weight before winter hibernation. The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory's Marmot Project hosted Fat Marmot Week as a way to hype up these cat-sized alpine rodents, in the face of cuts to research funding. Yellow-bellied marmots hibernate to survive the snowy high-mountain winters.

Caption NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, perched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, is seen at sunrise at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. / NASA A new NASA space telescope launched Sunday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida that will help scientists probe the nature of dark matter, dark energy, and other mysteries of the universe. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is about the size of a tour bus, lifted off at 7:26 a.m. ET on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket.

Caption NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, perched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, is seen at sunrise at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. / NASA A new NASA space telescope launched Sunday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida that will help scientists probe the nature of dark matter, dark energy, and other mysteries of the universe. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is about the size of a tour bus, lifted off at 7:26 a.m. ET on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket.

Caption Sunday Puzzle / NPR On-air challenge I'm going to name some things. For each one you tell me something the thing has that starts with the same first two letters that the thing does. Ex. TRee —> TRunk (A tree has a trunk, and both tree and trunk start with TR) 1. Dresser 2. Bird 3. Play 4. Stairway 5. Lettuce 6. Makeup kit 7. Skeleton 8. Week 9. Quiz 10. Petunia 11. Rodeo 12.