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What the US garment industry looks like today, and can it grow? : Planet Money : NPR

What the US garment industry looks like today, and can it grow? : Planet Money : NPR

A garment factory in Los Angeles. Garment Worker Center hide caption toggle caption Garment Worker Center A garment factory in Los Angeles. Garment Worker Center What people might picture when they think of “Made in America” … might not look like the “Made in America” we have today. The U.S. does have a domestic manufacturing industry, including a garment manufacturing …

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Israeli settlers beat U.S. citizen to death in West Bank : NPR

Israeli settlers beat U.S. citizen to death in West Bank : NPR

Concrete blocks placed by Israeli soldiers after October 7, 2023, according to local residents, are seen at one of the entrances to the West Bank village of Sinjil, impeding access for Palestinians, on July 9, 2025. Leo Correa/AP hide caption toggle caption Leo Correa/AP Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank beat a U.S. citizen to death, according to local …

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FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show : NPR

FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show : NPR

Debris at Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, Monday, July 7, 2025, after a flash flood swept through the area. Eli Hartman/AP hide caption toggle caption Eli Hartman/AP Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing …

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Goats and Soda : NPR

Goats and Soda : NPR

This plaque inside a medical facility in Pretoria states that it was funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Phill Magakoe/AFP hide caption toggle caption Phill Magakoe/AFP JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Decades of progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS are in danger of unraveling, the United Nations Aids Agency (UNAIDS) warned Thursday in its annual report, …

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Amanda Anisimova stopped playing in 2023. Now she may win Wimbledon : NPR

Amanda Anisimova stopped playing in 2023. Now she may win Wimbledon : NPR

American tennis player Amanda Anisimova celebrates her Wimbledon quarter-final victory against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova this week at the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club in London. Clive Brunskill/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Asked by a reporter this week to describe the journey of her tennis career, Amanda Anisimova paused, then laughed. “I guess a bit of …

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