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The roots of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift in “the world order.”

Here are some helpful stories to make sense of it all.

The roots of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift in “the world order.”

Here are some helpful stories to make sense of it all.

Brittany Apgar (from left), Maggie Foxx and Mo’ne Davis, of the Los Angeles Queens, joke around in the dugout prior to the start of the Women’s Pro Baseball League’s inaugural game in Springfield, Ill., on Saturday, Aug. 1.

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President Trump has once again warned Fed Governor Lisa Cook that he wants to remove her from the central bank’s governing board, over untested allegations of mortgage fraud. An earlier effort to fire Cook was blocked by the Supreme Court.

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Before his death, Lindsey Graham was one of the most vocal advocates in Congress for new sanctions on Russia. The South Carolina Republican helped champion legislation that was passed by the Senate on Friday.

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Dr. Mara Gordon, a family physician in Camden, N.J., answers reader health questions monthly. Send in your question to: thrive@npr.org.

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, in Washington.

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WASHINGTON — Yesterday, Speaker Johnson joined Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent and Rep. Juan Ciscomani at the PepsiCo-Frito Lay manufacturing facility in Casa Grande, Arizona to discuss how the Working Families Tax Cuts have benefitted American workers and manufacturers.

For days, we met farmers as they prepared for the spring rice sowing season in central Sri Lanka. They told me and my Sri Lankan colleague Susitha Fernando about elephants trampling their crops, and how they tried to push them back with firecrackers and lit torches. They were losing their livelihoods — and sometimes their lives.

Anthony Fauci, a former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during a hearing with the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on July 29.

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