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Overwhelming majorities want to see universal background checks, raising the age to buy any kind of gun to 21 and red flag laws. But just a quarter trust the government to look out for them. (Image credit: Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images) Read More at NPR

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims from around the world raised their hands to heaven and offered prayers of repentance on the sacred hill of Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia on Friday. (Image credit: Amr Nabil/AP) Read More at NPR

Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in heart failure after apparently being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, NHK public television said. (Image credit: Eugene Hoshiko/AP) Read More at NPR

Florida plans to eradicate the giant African land snail, again. The recent discovery of a population of the invasive snail, which carries a disease-causing parasite, has one county under quarantine. Read More at NPR

A Georgia monument that some conservative Christians called satanic and others dubbed “America’s Stonehenge” was demolished Wednesday after a bombing turned one of its four granite panels into rubble. Read More at NPR

NPR’s Juana Summers speaks with ESPN editor Dale Johnson about FIFA’s announcement that artificial intelligence cameras will help make offsides calls at the upcoming World Cup. Read More at NPR

Pacific Northwest tribes are pressuring President Biden to make good on his pledge to uphold treaties in Indian Country and remove four large dams on the Snake River. Read More at NPR

Russian troops have taken Luhansk and are headed for Donetsk, pounding cities along the way. When Donetsk falls, which seems likely, Putin will have “liberated the Donbas.” But will he be satisfied? Read More at NPR

A litter of endangered red wolves was recently born in captivity. There are about 250 red wolves in the U.S. and these four were an unexpected surprise because the male was thought too old to breed. Read More at NPR