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Orlando Rises To Meet The Challenges Of An Awful Week

People show their support for Javier Jorge-Reyes, who died in the attack at Pulse, after it was learned that a hate group was possibly going to disrupt his wake. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption

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Orlando Rises To Meet The Challenges Of An Awful Week

With the mass shooting, the Christina Grimmie's murder and the toddler killed at a resort, Orlando has suffered lately. NPR's Scott Simon highlights the grace Orlando residents are showing each other.

National

Competing Gun Control Proposals That Could Reach Senate Floor

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Europe

Colleague Remembers British MP Jo Cox: 'It's That Hatred That We Will Continue To Fight'

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Orlando Rises To Meet The Challenges Of An Awful Week

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Orlando Rises To Meet The Challenges Of An Awful Week

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Juliet Matthew Bourne

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Sept. Gnossiennes: Gnossiennes No. 1 Eric Satie, Bruno Fontaine

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In 'Obama's Guantanamo,' Detainees' Lawyers Share Stories Of Disappointment

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Animals

After Protests, National Aquarium To Move Dolphins To Oceanside Site Under Human Captivity

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Europe

Russia Aims To Profit Big From Arktika, World's Largest Icebreaker Ship

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Russia Aims To Profit Big From Arktika, World's Largest Icebreaker Ship

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Duckpond Midwest Product

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Never Mind The White Dress, Turns Out Emily Dickinson Had A Green Thumb

Dickinson vividly described flowers and plants in her poetry. Click here to read her poem, "It will be Summer — eventually." Courtesy of the Emily Dickinson Museum hide caption

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Never Mind The White Dress, Turns Out Emily Dickinson Had A Green Thumb

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Never Mind The White Dress, Turns Out Emily Dickinson Had A Green Thumb

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Sun Will Set Zoe Keating

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Total Eclipse of the Heart

Sports

Violent Russian Soccer Fans Take Inspiration From England's 'Football Hooliganism'

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Springfield, Mass., Wrestler Hopes To Win Haiti's First Olympic Medal In 88 Years

Wrestler Asnage Castelly training in a Springfield, Mass. gym. He will compete in freestyle wrestling for Haiti — the island's first competitor in the sport — this summer at the Rio Olympics. Craig LeMoult/WGBH/Craig LeMoult/WGBH hide caption

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Springfield, Mass., Wrestler Hopes To Win Haiti's First Olympic Medal In 88 Years

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Springfield, Mass., Wrestler Hopes To Win Haiti's First Olympic Medal In 88 Years

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Artist June Leaf, Still Moving Fast At 86

Mother/Ballroom, by June Leaf c. 1978. Pen and ink, fiber-tipped pen, graphite pencil, rubbing, and colored pencil on paper, 27 × 21 in. Collection of the artist. Alice Attie/June Leaf hide caption

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Artist June Leaf, Still Moving Fast At 86

by Karen Michel

Artist June Leaf, Still Moving Fast At 86

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Luke Bell Returns To Wyoming In Debut Album

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The Bullfighter Luke Bell

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Carroll County Blues Ricky Skaggs & Brian Sutton

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National

Orlando Shooter Update: Few Warning Signs Point To Radicalization

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What Clinton, Trump Responses To Orlando Say About Their Foreign Policy

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Sports

Russian Athletes Banned From Rio Olympics

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Russian Athletes Banned From Rio Olympics

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Aurelian Way Land Observations

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Appian Way Land Observations

National

Scenes From Orlando: Residents Band Together In Wake Of Tragedy

by Debbie Elliott

Scenes From Orlando: Residents Band Together In Wake Of Tragedy

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Asia

Shanghai To London: What It's Like To Raise A Family Overseas

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The Week In Sports

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Awake Tycho

Vermont Insurers Must Now Cover Vasectomies

Though the federal Affordable Care Act requires health insurers to cover many types of contraception, a vasectomy is not one of them. Charles Thatcher/Getty Images hide caption

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Shots - Health News

Vermont Insurers Must Now Cover Vasectomies

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Vermont Insurers Must Now Cover Vasectomies

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Canoe Canoa Populous

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Both Targets Of Discrimination, How To Unite Muslims And LGBT Communiy

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A New Opera Illuminates The 'Lavender Scare,' A Little-Explored Era In Gay History

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Deceptive Cadence

A New Opera Illuminates The 'Lavender Scare,' A Little-Explored Era In Gay History

by Naomi Lewin

A New Opera Illuminates The 'Lavender Scare,' A Little-Explored Era In Gay History

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Music

As Led Zeppelin Faces Copyright Charges, The Line Between Plagiarism And Homage

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My Funny Valentine Chet Baker

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Set Adrift on Memory Bliss (as made famous by PM Dawn) Future R&B Hitmakers

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