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House is set to vote today on a bipartisan bill to restore collective bargaining rights for most federal employees.

As NPR's Andrea Hsu reports, a majority of House lawmakers have signed a petition to force a vote.

For the past two months, the Trump administration has carried out deadly strikes on small suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.

As NPR's Ryan Lucas reports, it is a huge departure from decades old U.S.

policy.

NPR's Ryan Lucas reporting.

Indiana's Governor Mike Braun is ordering state lawmakers to return to work to redraw the state's congressional map.

From member station WFYI, Ben Thorpe reports that Indiana lawmakers say they don't have enough votes to do that.

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Security Council has endorsed President Trump's 20-point peace plan for ending the war in Gaza.

Russia and China abstained from Monday's vote.

Under the plan, an international stabilization force would be deployed to Gaza for two years to protect civilians and to destroy Hamas military infrastructure.

New research finds that drinking arsenic-contaminated water can significantly raise the risk of death from some chronic diseases.

But as NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports, reducing exposure can cut that risk in half even after years of consuming contaminated water.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is trying to preserve PBS programming in her state.

Ivey wants the board overseeing Alabama public television to delay any decision on severing ties with the public broadcaster.

Alabama Educational Television Commissioners plan to meet today to consider dropping PBS.

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