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A new NPR probe found low-income areas in dozens of major U.S. cities are more likely to be hotter than wealthier ones, and people with severe mental illness are impacted by that increase in heat.

Greg Craig, a long-serving Democrat who epitomized the Washington insider power lawyer, was acquitted in one of the cases to spin out of the Russia investigation.

Joichi Ito has resigned as director of the MIT Media Lab after a New Yorker article detailed the lengths to which the Lab concealed funds received from Jeffrey Epstein.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to Myron Ebell, who led President Trump's EPA transition team, about the departure of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.

The United States still buys a lot of products from China, but overall China is a lot less dependent on trade than it used to be. And Beijing now has leverage over the U.S. that it once lacked.

The head of Cleveland Public Power (CPP) is apologizing for the utility's role in a blackout last Saturday. The outage, which started at another company's electrical substation, left an estimated 40,000 customers on the city's west side in the dark for nearly seven hours. Speaking to reporters at CPP's office on Monday, Commissioner Ivan Henderson said the agency is working "feverishly" to restore a power line that would have provided the west side with a backup electricity feed but has been out of service since December 2016.

Outrage over the administration's policy of family separations at the border prompted an outpouring of donations to bond funds. People are giving so detained immigrants can post bond and be released.

The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota, once notorious for nudity and brawls, eases into its 78th year.

Over the weekend an angry mob attacked Venezuelan migrant camps in a Brazilian town near the border. Ecuador has declared a state of emergency, and closed its borders to those without passports.

A female employee says her audio recordings show that Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Melvin Watt held up her pay raise as he pressed her for a sexual relationship.