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Meta's new app Threads aims to be a friendlier alternative to Twitter by deemphasizing news and politics. But for many people, partisan brawls are a big part of Twitter's appeal.

Much of the U.S. continues to be gripped by extreme heat — especially Phoenix. That's where temperatures have been at or above 110 degrees every day for two weeks now.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with the group's co-founder Ayo Tometi about the movement's history and future.

Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan, confirms plans to end her eight-year, self-imposed exile. She says she'll be flying to Karachi, and from there she plans to lead her Pakistan's People's Party (the largest opposition party in the country) in parliamentary elections in January.

The union representing Hollywood actors has agreed to mediation in its ongoing negotiations. This came a day before the contract is set to expire. A strike is possible if an agreement isn't reached.

The state is on track to spend a billion dollars refurbishing 40-year-old Winter Olympic sports and tourism sites near Lake Placid. Critics ask why? (Story aired on ATC on July 10, 2023.)

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with the Mayor Jack McCullough of Montpelier < >, Vermont, about the latest on catastrophic flooding in the city's downtown.

Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's former prime minister and opposition leader, calls on President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to resign after she was placed under house arrest for a second time. She had threatened to lead a motorcade from Lahore to the capital Islamabad to protest emergency rule.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Christopher Skaluba, head of the Transatlantic Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council, about NATO as it seeks members amid threats from Russia and challenges from China.

President Biden is in Europe this week. He first talked climate change with King Charles. Then he's meeting NATO leaders in Vilnius, Lithuania to talk about the war in Ukraine.