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SCOTT DETROW, HOST: When it comes to Xbox, Microsoft is doing a hard reset. This week, the company began reducing its gaming division by 3,200 jobs. Microsoft calls it the most significant restructuring in Xbox history. From member station KUOW, Monica Nickelsburg has been speaking with workers who feel like the gaming industry has become an impossible gauntlet. MONICA NICKELSBURG, BYLINE: Autumn Mitchell has been an avid gamer since she was 5.

Graham Platner, Maine's Democratic nominee for Senate, is officially out of the race. The Maine Secretary of State said Platner filed the necessary paperwork to withdraw his candidacy two days after he announced he planned to do so following an accusation of rape by a former romantic partner. Platner denies the allegation. The Maine Democratic Party has until July 27 to pick Platner's replacement.

One night last month, President Ronald Reagan's voice floated above music from his film career at his presidential library and museum in Simi Valley, Calif. He is the star of a new orchestral and video work highlighting episodes from his colorful life. A regional group, the New West Symphony, created "The Ronald Reagan Overture" as part of a bigger concert marking the country's 250th anniversary.

Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Washington Post national immigration reporter Arelis Hernandez about the three immigrants who say Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was not trying to ram Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents when the agents shot and killed him in Houston on Tuesday. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Updated July 10, 2026 at 2:57 PM EDT In its dash to build President Trump’s signature border wall, the federal government is drilling unpermitted wells into already-depleted aquifers in New Mexico, according to state officials. The New Mexico Office of the State Engineer told Here & Now it counted at least six wells under development along the border, but none have the necessary permits required by state law.

HOUSTON — Despite the sweltering heat, María Guadalupe Rodriguez kneeled in front of the makeshift memorial for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a man killed Tuesday by federal immigration agents. Rodriguez, a U.S. permanent resident and a longtime neighbor of Magnolia Park, the Houston neighborhood where the shooting happened, wiped her tears as she prayed. "I feel rage," Rodriguez told NPR in Spanish. Salgado Araujo was a 52-year-old Mexican national who worked in construction for more than three decades.

GAZA CITY, Gaza, and DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — On a small rickety table, under a tent made of worn-out tarps, four friends meet for a game of cards. One of the older men gripes to the others: "Life is so boring." Like most in Gaza, the group of men are unemployed with no hope on the horizon as President Trump's peace plan, which calls for Israeli withdrawal, new governance in Gaza and Hamas' disarmament, stalls nine months after the ceasefire was brokered.

Updated July 10, 2026 at 10:49 AM EDT A press conference is expected today by the family of Nolan Wells, a Black teenager who was found dead on a barrier island off of Mississippi's coast following the Fourth of July weekend. The case is getting national attention, and the family has retained civil rights attorney Ben Crump. Nolan Wells, 18, was the only friend in his group who didn't return from an Independence Day trip to Horn Island, off the coast of Mississippi.

Sign up for alerts on breaking news and exclusive reporting from NPR Democrats in Congress hailed it as the biggest housing bill in decades. Republicans called it a win for families across the country. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt described it on X as "one of the most significant pieces of housing legislation in American history." And in June, both houses of Congress passed it with broad bipartisan support.

Updated July 10, 2026 at 8:35 AM EDT MADRID — One of Spain's deadliest wildfires on record killed 12 people overnight into Friday, authorities said, as soaring temperatures grip much of the country. Several victims of the fire in the southern province of Almeria, a popular holiday destination, were found inside burnt-out vehicles and were thought to have died while trying to flee the flames.