Some Republican-led states are going against a broader trend and restricting who can participate in primary elections, in an effort to have more ideological purity among their nominees.

Israel and Hamas are trying again this week to reach a cease-fire deal. There are some encouraging signs: Hamas appears to have shifted its position on at least one key issue.

At least three deaths were reported after Beryl's landfall. In Houston, the storm flooded roads and took down traffic lights. Cleanup could take weeks, officials said.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Vali Nasr, Middle East Studies professor at Johns Hopkins University, about the election of a reformist president in Iran, and prospects for policy changes.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Tom Florsheim, one of the business leaders who signed an open letter calling on President Biden to step aside from his 2024 reelection campaign.

A new study finds that people tend to partner up with people of similar attractiveness.

Chad Machado and his son, Xavier, live in Kekaha — a small town on Hawaii's western island of Kaua'i. Xavier never took to school, but had been obsessed with cooking from a young age. So when Chad lost his job during the Covid-19 pandemic, they decided to take a risk and open up a pizza shop.

The announcement on Canada follows a flurry of updates around trade talks and a suggestion by President Trump that the upcoming July 8 deadline for countries to make deals with the U.S. is moveable.

Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the "Twitter killer," was sentenced to death in 2020 for the killings in 2017 of the nine victims, most of whom had posted suicidal thoughts on social media.

The object was likely either a meteor or space junk, with most sightings of the streak of light and fireball coming from Georgia and South Carolina, the National Weather Service said.

On Thursday, the government delivered closing arguments in the sex trafficking trial of Sean Combs. The rapper and executive is accused of coercing multiple women into sexual encounters with male escorts.