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Some 25,000 dockworkers at East and Gulf Coast ports may strike just after midnight on October 1 if their union doesn't reach a contract deal with shipping companies and port operators.

The Iranian airstrikes come in the wake of stepped-up Israeli military operations in Lebanon against Hezbollah, a group backed by Iran for decades. Israel says it shot down most of the Iranian missiles.

Missouri executed Marcellus Williams yesterday, a man prosecutors believed was innocent. And, why FAFSA’s launch was so disastrous.

Industry is less concerned with whether its characters are “likable” and more interested in how they get what they want. In the Season 3 finale, those ambitions reached their inevitable – sometimes gruesome – conclusions.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Negar Mortazavi, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, about Iran’s role in the conflict in Lebanon.

The State Department urged Israel to move quickly to investigate the death of a U.S. woman during a protest against Israeli settlements in the West Bank last week. Eyewitnesses said she was shot in the head by Israeli forces policing the protest. Israeli authorities have said they are investigating the incident.

The military wants to reduce the deafening, chaotic roar of firefight noise so that front-line commanders can communicate with their troops.

U.S. employers added 206,000 jobs in June — a modest slowdown from the previous month. The unemployment rate inched up to 4.1%.

Chestnut ate 57 hot dogs in five minutes, beating a team of four soldiers who downed 49 total. He not only broke his own record, but nearly tied the Coney Island winner, who ate 58 dogs in 10 minutes.