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NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with Sarah Al-Charif, Lebanon director of the Ruwwad Al-Tanmeya organization, about the displacement that people there are experiencing as a result of Israeli strikes.

In San Diego, about 12% of child care centers have closed since March 2020. City Heights, a lower-income, high-minority neighborhood, has been hit particularly hard.

At least hundreds of people have died and thousands are feared missing in eastern Libya after Storm Daniel swept in, destroying dams and unleashing a torrent of muddy water that carried homes away.

The U.S. Open in New York City is approaching its semifinals in sweltering conditions. Organizers partially closed the roofs on stadium courts to offer more shade but couldn't do much about the heat.

NPR's Scott Simon Speaks to Democratic strategist and chair of the Democratic National Convention Committee Minyon Moore, about the upcoming convention in Chicago.

There's a loneliness epidemic in the United States according to the U.S. Surgeon General. One woman works to change that by organizing monthly get togethers in a small city in Vermont.

Gaza health officials say dozens of people were killed while waiting for an aid shipment in Gaza City. Witnesses say Israeli troops opened fire. Israel says some victims were crushed by aid trucks.

An Israeli strike on a school in Gaza killed at least 80 people, according to Palestinian health officials. Israel says it hit a Hamas command center.

In Ukraine's second-largest city, near the Russian border, grade-schoolers attend classes in a subway station that doubles as a bomb shelter.

A Mexican Independence Day parade went on as planned, despite fears of increased immigration enforcement from the Trump administration in Chicago this weekend. There were also some protests in Chicago, where the president has threatened federal intervention.