Vanessa Zoltan describes herself as a Jewish atheist whose outlook on the world and her spiritual life is defined by the Holocaust.
Read more ...Russia's unmanned robot lander crashed after it had spun into uncontrolled orbit, the country's space agency Roscosmos reported.
Read more ...Yellowknife residents wonder if wildfires are the new normal as western Canada burns National News
Nearly all 20,000 residents of Yellowknife, the capital city of the Northwest Territories, have evacuated, while thousands more in neighboring British Columbia have fled, too.
Read more ...Lolita, oldest orca held in captivity, dies before chance to return to the ocean National News
After years of pressure to set the Miami Seaquarium orca free, Lolita was scheduled to spend her final days in her natural habitat sometime next year. On Friday, she died of a "renal condition."
Read more ...Why are the Republican candidates meeting in Milwaukee? No, it's not for the beer National News
Milwaukee has often had visits from presidents of both parties who find it a convenient point of contact with voters proud to be part of either the middle class or the working class.
Read more ...Russian missile kills 7 and injures 90 in northern Ukrainian city amid local holiday National News
Many residents had just finished a morning of festivities and were leaving church in Chernihiv, north of Kyiv, when a Russian missile struck the city's center, heavily damaging a theater building.
Read more ...Opinion: Corporate ballpark names just don't have that special ring National News
NPR's Scott Simon ponders stadium naming rights: how relatively inexpensive it is for companies to link their brands to major league ballparks and football fields.
Read more ...PHOTOS: Global heat hacks, from jazzy umbrellas in DRC to ice beans in Singapore National News
We asked photographers around the world to make pictures of how the locals cope with this year's record heat. They created some really cool images.
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