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Police arrest a suspect in the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico; The founder of the African People’s Socialist Party, a racial justice group, says the FBI is targeting the group for its political work; Immigrant justice activists cheer the end of the “Remain in Mexico” policy.

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FBI agents raid former President Trump’s home in Florida seeking documents; A look at Democrats’ sweeping climate, healthcare and tax bill; Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is ordered by a court to pay nearly $50 million in damages to the parents of a child killed at Sandy Hook.

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Dozens of Palestinians are killed in Gaza after days of fighting between Israel and the militant group Islamic Jihad; Highlights from the historic inauguration of Colombia’s new leftist president and vice president; Princeton professor and expert on Hungary, Kim Lane Scheppele, on CPAC and U.S. conservatives’ embrace of right-wing authoritarianism.

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The DOJ brings criminal charges against four former and current Louisville police officers for their role in Breonna Taylor’s death; The life and legacy of Albert Woodfox, a Black Panther activist who was held in solitary confinement longer than any prisoner in U.S. history.

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The nuclear crisis grows at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia plant and abroad; Kim Lane Scheppele on the rise and fall of Hungary’s constitutional democracy.

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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s controversial trip to Taiwan; We look at the vote to expand health benefits to veterans affected by toxic “burn pits” in Iraq and Afghanistan and how local residents have been impacted, as well; Kansas voters defeat an anti-abortion constitutional amendment.

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The U.S. kills al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul; Update from Kansas, where voters will decide a constitutional amendment that could end abortion access in the state; LGBTQ+ scholar and journalist Steven Thrasher on monkeypox and his new book, “The Viral Underclass.”

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We spend the hour with Weather Underground leaders Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, and their son Zayd, who chronicles the family’s activism in his new award-winning 10-part podcast series, “Mother Country Radicals.”

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Congressmember Andy Levin on facing AIPAC’s big-money campaign in Tuesday’s primary race; As key Senate Democrats reach a deal on climate funding, we speak with one of their advisers and with a congressional staffer arrested this week urging lawmakers to address the climate crisis; Two threats facing incarcerated people this summer: intensifying heat waves and monkeypox.

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As top U.S. and Russian diplomats talk for the first time since February, we look at the latest developments in the Russian war on Ukraine; The Taliban crackdown on women and girls since taking power.

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Tensions between the U.S. and China mount ahead of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned trip to Taiwan; Economists Jayati Ghosh and Richard Wolff on the risks of a global debt crisis and how to handle rising inflation.

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Indigenous activists respond to Pope Francis’s apology tour in Canada for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s policy of residential schools that forcefully assimilated Indigenous children; The Puerto Rico Status Act would give residents a say in the future status of the territory; Burma’s military government executes four democracy activists.

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The World Health Organization declares monkeypox a global health emergency; Congressmember Ro Khanna on the ongoing baby formula shortage; “Aftershock” is a new documentary that examines the crisis of maternal mortality among Black people in the United States, which could get worse as states struggle to cope with abortion access after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

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