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Sarah McBride and Katie Couric speak onstage during the Women In The World summit on April 11, 2019 in New York City.

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If elected, Sarah McBride, 32, would be the first transgender person to serve in Congress. She is running for the at-large seat held by Democratic Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester.

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The decision lets stand a lower court ruling that the North Carolina charter school's dress code violated federal law.

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Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a failed rebellion in Russia. Activists in Atlanta hold a week of action against a police training facility. An Alzheimer's drug could be approved soon, but hurdles remain.

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It is easy to act as if fiction and history were separate. But they cannot be completely divided. Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos and Oksana Lutsyshyna's Ivan and Phoebe help readers connect with time past.

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Australia's government, which announced earlier this month that it would be moving refugees off of Nauru, confirmed to media that it will pay $350 million annually to keep the Nauru facility open.

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Kristie Fields, a cancer patient in Virginia was urged to go public to seek help for her medical bills. But she worried about feeding hurtful stereotypes.

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The Food and Drug Administration is expected to grant full approval to the Alzheimer's drug lecanemab by July 6. But access to the drug may still be limited.

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This is the year that a lot of the money from Biden's 2021 infrastructure law starts flowing to states and local governments. Mitch Landrieu is tasked with implementing and promoting the effort.

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