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NBA:In the NBA playoffs, Klay Thompson scored 23 points and the Golden State Warriors set an NBA playoff record by draining 21 3-pointers in a 121-94…

Girl Scout cookies have risen in price as inflation takes its bite. But it's not all bad news: Customers still seem to be willing to pay up.

Inflation has a new victim: Girl Scout cookies

Many Girl Scout councils are raising the price of their popular cookies from $5 to $6 a box. The increase offers Girl Scouts and their customers a bittersweet lesson in inflation.

Devastating earthquake in Afghanistan leaves locals displaced, aid workers scrambling

NPR's Juana Summers talks with the International Rescue Committee's country director of Afghanistan, Sherine Ibrahim, about the 6.0 magnitude earthquake that hit the eastern mountainous region.

Arefa with Jami Valentine (left) and Staci Freeman. Arefa, who first stayed with the sisters while receiving medical care last year, came back to the U.S. this summer for follow-up treatment.

A Young Afghan War Survivor Touches Two American Lives

Last year, two sisters took in Arefa, a badly burned Afghan girl, while she received medical treatment in the U.S. The sisters were ecstatic to host a goofier and wigglier Arefa during a return visit this summer, but they say the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan may make future reunions difficult.

Krzystof Przadak, a Polish builder who has lived in Britain for 12 years, at a house he's renovating in a London suburb. Przadak says he now earns 10 times what he did in Poland, but he's uncertain what will happen to him and other Poles in Britain if the U.K. votes to leave the EU on June 23.

If Britain Leaves The EU, What Happens To The 'Polish Plumber?'

About one million Poles live in Britain, but they won't be able to vote in the June 23 referendum that will decide if Britain stays in the EU.

Hassan Shibly, attorney for the family of Hoda Muthana, says she was a "vulnerable young woman who was brainwashed and manipulated."

Father Of Alabama Woman Who Joined ISIS Sues Trump Administration For Her Return

Hoda Muthana was 20 when she moved to Syria and started posting ISIS propaganda online. Now she wants to come back, but the government claims she is not a U.S. citizen. Her father argues she is.

Oneita Thompson prays in the sanctuary of the First United Methodist Church of Germantown. She and her husband, Clive, are from Jamaica and were living in South Jersey since 2004 before receiving deportation orders and seeking sanctuary at the church.

Fugitives From ICE, A Family Finds Sanctuary In A Pennsylvania Church

Under the Obama Administration, immigrants with strong family and community ties were not prioritized for deportation. That has changed and now and some families are seeking refuge in churches.

Megan Neely's email to Duke University graduate students in biostatistics was circulated in a tweet.

Duke Professor Is Sorry For Urging Chinese Students Not To Speak Chinese

A professor sent an email instructing Chinese students at Duke to speak only English in certain campus buildings. An uproar and an apology followed.

Some House Republicans Want To Push Through DACA Measure

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Republican Rep. Mike Coffman of Colorado about the effort to force a vote on the Deffered Action for Childhood Arrivals — people brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

Papers, Please casts you as an immigration inspector whose goal is to keep those who don't belong out of the fictional nation of Arstotzka.

Papers, Please: A Game That Puts Your Sympathy To The Test

In the "dystopian document thriller," you are an immigration agent on the border of the fictional nation of Arstotzka. Will you follow the rules? Or will you aid those fighting against the establishment?

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