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Nevada is a crucial state in the presidential elections due to close competition for 270 electoral votes. And, the United Nations is convening to discuss the world's most significant crises.

JD Vance and Tim Walz will have their first vice presidential debate tonight as both parties aim to win over swing state voters. And, Israel invades Lebanon for the first time since 2006.

After Hamas militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7, the military incarcerated thousands of Palestinians in Gaza. Some are being released and recounting their ordeal and what they describe as torture.

Some think the path to college for students of color changed after affirmative action was repealed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2023. Preliminary data from the University of Connecticut, MIT, Yale, Harvard and others remain inconclusive.

The Artist became the first silent film to triumph at Hollywood's highest honors since the original Oscar ceremony 83 years ago. The film's lead actor Jean Dujardin also took home an Academy award for best actor while Michel Hazanavicius, the film's director, also won.

The American Conservation Coalition has held events in Manchester ahead of the primary to get Republican presidential candidates on the record about their views on climate change.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Alexander Yui, Taiwan's top diplomat to the U.S., about the tensions with Beijing. Taiwan is preparing for the possibility of war with China.

A rebel onslaught Thursday on a neighborhood where snipers loyal to Moammar Gadhafi had holed up in residential buildings left bullet-riddled bodies in the streets, houses in flames and sewers running red with blood. Gadhafi, on the run with his regime in tatters, still tried to rally his followers to kill the rebels.

Since the war started on Oct. 7, 25,105 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, while another 62,681 have been wounded, the Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip said.

At least 68 people were killed by an Israeli strike in central Gaza, health officials said Sunday, while the number of Israeli soldiers killed in combat over the weekend rose to 17.