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NPR's Joanna Kikisis reports from Kiev.

The Veterans Affairs Health System is now banning abortion and abortion counseling.

NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin reports on the change in VA policy after a Justice Department opinion issued Friday.

French seximal Brigitte Bardot has died.

She became an international star in 1956 in the movie And God Created Woman.

She appeared in more than two dozen films and later became an animal rights activist.

Here's how she viewed her career in a BBC interview heard here through an interpreter.

The animal rights group she founded said she died today in southern France.

She was 91.

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Guinea is holding its first presidential election since General Mamadi Doumbouya seized power in a coup in 2021.

He's running for election and is expected to win over eight other candidates.

More audiences watched movies at the movies in 2025 than the previous year.

That's according to the theater owner's trade association, Cinema United.

Today is the last day for Florida's black bear hunt.

Since December 6th, hunters were allowed to kill black bears with a rifle or a crossbow, one bear each.

The state issued 172 bear hunt permits by lottery.

Some went to opponents of the hunt who never intended to use them.

The state has not provided information on how many bears have been killed.

I'm Nora Rahm, NPR News in Washington.