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After years of promises and more than $1 billion of investment, Paris’s once-filthy river is finally swimmable. And the mayor proved it just days before the July 26 Olympic deadline.

The Paris mayor and the head of the French Olympic committee swam in the river Seine. France has spent millions to clean up the iconic river so athletes can compete in it during the Summer Games.

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A New York City jury convicted the New Jersey senator of accepting bribes to benefit businessmen in his home state and the governments of Egypt and Qatar.

Peter Buxtun has died at age 86. He is known as the whistleblower who revealed the U.S. government was leaving Black men untreated for syphilis during a study in Tuskegee, Ala.

Nicholson says when strangers recognize her on the street, they're never quite sure how they know her: "They might think I sold them kittens, or I work in the ice cream shop."

Special Counsel Jack Smith says he will appeal a federal judge's decision to dismiss all the charges against former President Trump for mishandling classified documents.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump and the Secret Service, an agency of the DHS.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Caroline Sunshine, deputy communications director for the Trump campaign, about the convention and if the assassination attempt on ex-President Trump changed its plans.

In recent history, labor unions overwhelmingly back Democrats. President Biden calls himself the most pro-union president ever. But at the RNC, the head of the teamsters had a prime speaking slot.