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The contest is only for "vetted hackers," the Department of Defense says, which means that anyone hoping to find vulnerabilities in its systems will first need to pass a background check.

NPR's History Podcast Throughline looks at the outsized role of the mosquito on the outcome of the American Revolution.

In what's been hailed as a major victory by reform advocates, last week the Ohio Supreme Court in a pair of 4-3 rulings held that Ohio's congressional district maps, as well as the maps for the state legislature, were unconstitutional. We are taking a look at what the rulings mean for redistricting in Ohio.

Prices for goods and services spiked 5.4 percent in June from the previous year, marking the highest rate of inflation since 2008 and stoking fears of a reboot of 1970s runaway inflation. Today we'll discuss what is inflation and why do we fear it?

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Sune Engel Rasmussen, who covers Afghanistan for the Guardian, about the latest on the siege of Sangin in southern Afghanistan, which the Taliban attempted to overrun. U.S. aircraft have carried out two attacks there in support of Afghan government forces fighting to push the Taliban back.

The U.S. has reached out to foes that include Cuba, Iran and Myanmar. Now the State Department weighs in with its annual report on human rights around the globe.

David Greene talks to Bill Bishop, writer of the Sinocism Chinese Newsletter, about what's on the agenda for this year's U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Annita Lucchesi, head of the Sovereign Bodies Institute, about the number of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the U.S.

Where exactly did the coronavirus first emerge? Months after it erupted in central China, this question remains a mystery. U.S. intelligence teams working to make their own assessments.

At a World Health Assembly summit in Geneva in May, the U.S. led a charge against pro-breastfeeding language. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with New York Times reporter Andrew Jacobs about what's happening and why.