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NPR's Emily Harris reports on today's Supreme Court decision reaffirming that states may keep sexual predators incarcerated after they have served their sentences. The court reinforced its 1997 decision, saying that even when a state fails to provide treatment, the extended confinement is still not unconstitutional.

Former Iraqi Defense Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmed surrenders to U.S. forces in Mosul after weeks of negotiations. Ahmed remains a popular figure with many Iraqis, and that affects the manner in which American officials are dealing with him. Hear NPR's Emily Harris.

Three American soldiers die and two others are wounded in an ambush near Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit. Meanwhile, U.S. officials appear on Iraqi television asking Saddam's former defense minister, Sultan Hashim Ahmed, to surrender. Hear NPR's Emily Harris.

A car bomb kills at least 47 and injures 50 more as it explodes near an army recruitment center in Baghdad. The attack is the second in as many days to target Iraqis seeking to work with the U.S.-led coalition. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

NPR's Emily Harris in Baghdad reports on U.S. military plans to reduce the American troop presence in Baghdad. U.S. soldiers will be moving to bases on the outskirts of the capital, leaving security duties in the hands of Iraq's police force and the fledgling civil defense corps.

With tensions rising over Arab attacks on Israeli Jews, an Eritrean asylum seeker was mistaken for an assailant and killed — shot by a security guard and beaten by a mob.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Emily Wagster Pettus of The Associated Press about a rare, long-track tornado that left a trail of devastation across western Mississippi on Friday night.

There's a hit movie getting rave reviews on TikTok — except it is not a real movie. The movie Zepotha doesn't exist. What does this say about the sway, and of viral culture?

In Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon's new rom-com, girl meets boy, girl contracts a mysterious illness and boy's Pakistani parents struggle to accept the relationship.

On Sunday morning Emily Underhill and her family had to evacuate their home in Baton Rouge because of flooding.