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It lifted membership restrictions or bans on gay and transgender students, gay adult leaders, and girls.

As of May 2024, more than 6,000 girls earned the Eagle Scout rank.

Coal-fired power plants released more air pollution last year than in the past, according to a new analysis of federal data.

NPR's Rebecca Herscher reports the Trump administration explicitly allowed pollution from the plants to increase.

The Dow is down nearly 600 points, or 1.2 percent.

The S&P has fallen more than half a percent.

The Nasdaq down more than 1 percent.

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Former President Bill Clinton is testifying before the House Oversight Committee at a closed-door hearing in New York.

It's part of the panel's investigation into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in jail in 2019.

NPR's Sage Miller reports Clinton's interactions with Epstein included meetings when he was president.

The father, charged with giving his teenage son access to the firearm used in a 2024 Georgia school shooting, has taken the stand in his own trial.

Colin Gray says he had no indication his child could be responsible for a massacre.

The 55-year-old has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, among other charges.

The shooting at Apalachee High School killed four people.

A group of congressional Democrats says the U.S.

military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone.

The Federal Aviation Administration closed an area around Fort Hancock about 50 miles from El Paso.

No commercial flights were affected.