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The Los Angeles Fire Department depends on help from amateur radio volunteers when fire threatens communications infrastructure. NPR looks at how ham radio operators are keeping residents safe.

The ease with which the attacker gained such close access to the Library of Congress on Thursday raises new questions about security, just seven months after the Jan. 6 insurrection.

After the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, Washington sent a team of researchers to interview eyewitnesses. Only one interview was conducted in English. A Russian woman living near the destroyed city tells her tale of seeing people caught by the blast. Hear a part of her story.

Parts of Antarctica were more than 70 degrees warmer than average, and areas of the Arctic saw temperatures that were more than 50 degrees warmer than average.

Extremism researchers say online rhetoric from the far right has heated up since Trump was indicted. But they're not seeing signs that it will translate to collective violence.

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, says the Senate's immigration overhaul will cost the country more than $6 trillion over 50 years. A similar report six years ago helped sink that attempt at changing immigration. Critics argue that both reports are fundamentally flawed, and fail to account for the economic benefits of restructuring the immigration system.

Scott Simon talks about Wimbledon with Howard Bryant of ESPN.com. They also talk about the second half of the 2017 Major League Baseball season and the dominance of the Milwaukee Brewers.

Police say a man drove a 2016 Dodge Dart into the 6,000-pound granite slab less than a day after it was installed on the grounds of the state Capitol. The man reportedly took video as he accelerated.

The social media platform Parler this week returns to Apple's app store. It was kicked off Apple and Google's app stores and Amazon's web hosting services after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Congresswoman Liz Cheney is facing a likely primary defeat in Wyoming. She has spoken out against former President Donald Trump and is down by 20 points in primary polls.