As the world experiences more and more extreme weather, climate experts recommend mitigating measures. With Russia not cooperating, Ukraine scrambles to keep its grain supply route operating. And plaintiffs are back in court challenging abortion bans in Texas.

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Michigan's attorney general has announced charges against 16 people who served as fake electors following the 2020 election. Former President Trump says he's been notified that he's a target in the special counsel's investigation of the January 6 insurrection. And President Biden's immigration policy on asylum seekers is challenged in court.

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Former President Trump has a pre-trial hearing for his alleged mishandling of classified documents. The world's two biggest polluters are meeting in Beijing hoping to revive efforts to address climate change. And Europe is offering much-needed money to Tunisia in an effort to stem a wave of migration.

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Russia is blaming Ukraine for an attack on a key bridge that links Russia to occupied Crimea. President Biden's re-election campaign raised more money than his rivals in the second quarter of the year. And Alabama's state legislature begins a special session to consider a new congressional voting map.

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What can middle and high school students teach us? What do they care about? And how do they observe their communities and themselves?

NPR's Student Podcast Challenge results are in. It's time to hear what the kids have to say.

Today on The Sunday Story, Ayesha Rascoe sits down with producers Janet Woojeong Lee and Lauren Migaki, who run the contest, to discuss the 2023 edition. We hear from Dylan McDonald of Massachusetts who's in the midst of a gender transition and from Jiah Hwang on the heartbreaking moment that reinvigorated her relationship with her sister. Amelia Hankinson brings us an ode to growing taller, and undocumented students talk about the way they see their lives now.

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The House passed the National Defense Authorization Act, leaving Senate to fight over its policies on transgender health care, diversity and abortion. Also, two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court shut down President Biden's student loan relief program, the Education Department has approved another relief program, one that targets certain low-income borrowers. Plus, we bring you the latest on the deadly floods and landslides in India.

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The Hollywood actors' union votes to strike. Extreme heat chokes Phoenix, Arizona. And the federal government's budget deficit nearly tripled in the first nine months of the fiscal year.

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GOP lawmakers want to amend the defense authorization bill. Social media newcomer Threads seeks to downgrade news and politics on its platform. And Guatemala's presidential election faces more chaos.

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President Joe Biden meets his Ukrainian counterpart. New inflation numbers are set to show easing inflation. And major Hollywood studios' contract with the actors' union is set to expire.

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Sweden is set to join NATO after Turkey withdraws objections, protests sweep Israel over judicial overhaul plans and flash floods force evacuations in Vermont.

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