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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.

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.

A 31-year-old Iron County man died in a rollover crash Thursday afternoon. The Iron County Sheriff’s Office says it responded the single-car rollover on County Highway D in the Town of Kimball just after 1:00 p.m. Deputies found the Gile man unresponsive and trapped in the vehicle. The man was pronounced dead after he was extracted. The Sheriff's Office says early investigations shows the man was speeding north on Highway D when he lost control of the car. The vehicle rolled over into the ditch.

Aliens from outer space come in basically two kinds. The first are murderous invaders that need to be destroyed — think Alien or Predator. In more complex stories like The Man Who Fell to Earth or Arrival, the E.T.s don't come to wreak havoc, but to engage with our world, often discovering what it means to be human. The latter is what you get in Sugar, the seductive Apple TV series whose second season is now unfolding.

Netflix is presenting a new version of Little House on the Prairie, a story from our nation's early frontier history, based on the popular series of books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. When Wilder started writing the book series in the early 1930s, it was as a fond salute to her own childhood memories.Wilder was born shortly after the Civil War, in 1867, in the very log cabin she describes in her first book, Little House in the Big Woods.

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 12:06 PM CDT The family of Nolan Wells, the Black Teenager whose body was found on a barrier island off the coast of Mississippi, says they want honesty and transparency in the investigation into their son's death. At a press conference in New York City on Friday, Wells' parents remembered their son. "This is not how I wanted the world to meet my son," said Wells' mother, Christine Wells-Wonsley. "Nolan was – is – the kind of soul, he never met a stranger.

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.

For yet another week, the top of the pop charts feel familiar — country star Ella Langley holds at No. 1 with "Choosin' Texas," while the K-pop boy band ATEEZ lands atop the albums chart yet again. But if you look just outside the top 10 on this week's Hot 100, a few intriguing songs seem poised to crash the chart's uppermost reaches. The year's biggest hit, "Choosin' Texas," has held the Billboard Hot 100's top spot for 12 nonconsecutive weeks.