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Texas’s GOP platform is getting more extreme — and influential

Washington Post Jun 13, 2026

Texas's new Republican Party platform breaks new conservative ground, calling for bans on sharia law.

4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved

NPR Jun 13, 2026

The Food and Drug Administration approved a new sunscreen ingredient in the U.S. for the first time in 20 years. It's been used for decades in Europe and Asia.

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A plan to get lifesaving food to malnourished kids was working -- until it wasn't

NPR Jun 13, 2026

Through an innovative program, parents in Senegal had easy access to a therapeutic food that's a boon for malnourished kids. Now there are shortages. Health specialists say U.S. aid cuts are to blame.

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'Cool Ladies Club' is directed by 10 working-class women. They live up to the title

NPR Jun 13, 2026

They gave smartphones to 10 women from a working-class Indian community to make a documentary about their unseen and unheralded lives. The results are .... pretty cool.

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COMIC: How excessive heat kills and how to stay safe

NPR Jun 13, 2026

Human bodies have a natural cooling system, but it can do only so much in high temperatures and humidity. Here's the science behind how heat kills. And how to protect yourself.

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Linkin Park to make Download Festival history

BBC Entertainment Jun 13, 2026

Linkin Park will make history as the first female-fronted band to headline Download Festival.

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Married at First Sight Australia stars not told partners had drug and violence convictions

BBC Entertainment Jun 13, 2026

Stars of the hit TV show say they did not know their on-screen husbands had previous convictions.

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Pope Leo XIV's flight home from Spain was grounded so the king came to his aid

NPR Jun 13, 2026

Leo's Iberia charter, due to take him back to Rome after a weeklong visit to Spain, was grounded by a technical problem Friday, prompting Spain's king to offer his private jet instead.

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VAR makes 'mistaken identity' history as strange booking confuses fans

BBC Front page Jun 13, 2026

The United States open their World Cup campaign with a fine win - but not before a sequence of events that left everyone scratching their heads.

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Trump says U.S. military strike killed leader of Tren de Aragua gang

NPR Jun 13, 2026

President Trump said Friday that a U.S. strike has killed Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, whom he called "the infamous leader" of the Tren de Aragua gang in Venezuela.

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US kills leader of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang in airstrike, Trump says

BBC Front page Jun 13, 2026

Niño Guerrero was killed in a "swift and lethal kinetic strike," the US President wrote in a social media post.

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Warner Bros $111bn sale to Paramount approved by US justice department

BBC Entertainment Jun 13, 2026

The approval marks a key development in the merger that will reshape media, allowing the continue of the takeover of the Hollywood studio, which owns CNN and HBO.

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Warner Bros $111bn sale to Paramount approved by US justice department

BBC Front page Jun 13, 2026

The approval marks a key development in the merger that will reshape media, allowing the continue of the takeover of the Hollywood studio, which owns CNN and HBO.

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Topuria shoves Gaethje in front of Lincoln Memorial before UFC Freedom

BBC Front page Jun 13, 2026

Ilia Topuria shoves Justin Gaethje in front of the Lincoln Memorial in the final news conference before the UFC's unprecedented show at the White House on Sunday.

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