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Ten-year-old Keashaanth, with a notebook and chessboard in front of him, follows along as his coach Selvabharathy leads a class at the Madras School of Chess in Chenna Viraj Nayar for NPR hide caption

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A city in India is training Gen Z to take over the chess world

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Forensic experts work at the crime scene where Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot and wounded in the Modelia neighborhood in Bogota on June 7, 2025. RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP hide caption

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Embedded's The Network: Saint-o-tec

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Top row (left to right): Ayla Ludwig and her husband, Alia and Donovan Campbell, two hands showing matching tattoos on the ring finger, and Nina and Daniel Solis. Bottom row (left to right): Stacey Manley and his family, Isaiah Schauer and his wife, Craig Wiesner and his husband, Derrick Kikuchi, and Lynnea and David Hutton. Top row (left to right): Ayla Ludwig, Jenna Light Photo, delanoscott.com, and Nina Solis. Bottom row (left to right): Stacey Manley, Isaiah Schauer, Craig Wiesner, and Lynnea Hutton with the image taken by Miles Louison. hide caption

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Top row (left to right): Ayla Ludwig, Jenna Light Photo, delanoscott.com, and Nina Solis. Bottom row (left to right): Stacey Manley, Isaiah Schauer, Craig Wiesner, and Lynnea Hutton with the image taken by Miles Louison.

A truck is stuck in water and mud following flooding from Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina. FRONTLINE hide caption

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Unprepared Part 1: Helene's Deadly Warning

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Women embrace before a community vigil at the Boulder Jewish Community Center to mark an attack in Boulder, Colo., Wednesday, June 4, 2025. Andy Cross/Pool The Denver Post hide caption

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Recalled organic and cage-free brown eggs distributed by August Egg Company have the plant code number P-6562 or CA5330 printed on their carton or packaging. U.S. Food and Drug Administration hide caption

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President Donald Trump, center, and Vice President JD Vance, right, and Elon Musk met backstage prior to a presidential campaign event at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pa., on Oct. 5, 2024. Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption

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Coco Gauff celebrates after winning her women's singles final match against Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris on Saturday. Thibuad Moritz/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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This combo of images released by the Arkansas Department of Corrections shows the recapture of escaped inmate Grant Hardin, an ex-police chief and convicted killer, by Arkansas law enforcement officers and the U.S. Border Patrol on Friday, near Moccasin Creek in Izard County, about 1.5 miles northwest of Calico Rock prison. Arkansas Department of Corrections/AP hide caption

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Ukrainian troops prepare to launch a drone in eastern Ukraine on April 30. Throughout the war, Ukraine has carried out innovative drone attacks never seen before in combat. Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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UKRAINE-RUSSIA-DRONES

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Becca Morris in the home she's in the process of buying in Harrington, Delaware, on May 14, 2026. She found it just a few months before her federal housing subsidy was set to end. Wesley LaPointe/for NPR hide caption

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Erin Patterson, pictured at her home in Leongatha, Victoria, Australia, in August 2023. Three people died of death cap poisoning after eating a meal she had cooked the previous month. Jason Edwards/Newspix via Getty Images hide caption

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Kenyan journalist and human rights activist Boniface Mwangi (R) and Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire (L) during a joint press conference in Nairobi on June 2, 2025 following their three-day detention and alleged torture by Tanzanian authorities. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Juan Vega Paredes, a Dominican man who was arrested by immigration authorities in Puerto Rico in January, poses for a portrait in his home in San Juan, Puerto Rico on June 3, 2025. Keren Carrión/NPR hide caption

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of 20 Starlink satellites is seen in the evening sky above Lawndale, Calif., after being launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 18, 2024. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Nicky Sundt of Washington, D.C., celebrates with the crowd during the WorldPride festivities in Washington, D.C. Tyrone Turner/WAMU for NPR hide caption

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WorldPride caps off its first D.C. celebration with a weekend parade

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