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A bill introduced for the upcoming session has a vision. But one renewable energy leader says it could introduce hurdles for the state’s budding solar industry.

Summer Boismier resigned from Norman High School after a student's parent complained. Now, Oklahoma's secretary of education wants to revoke her teaching certificate.

Trump's speeches are now more erratic and profane. Israel bans U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees. Former police detective in Kentucky is on trial again for violating Breonna Taylor's civil rights.

Migrants crossing Croatia are on dangerous ground. NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Megan Burke of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines about the thousands of landmines there.

The countries challenged a quota system adopted by the EU to help Italy and Greece during the 2015 migration crisis. Hungary's foreign minister vowed to fight any imposed relocation of refugees.

Iowa's tight-knit Burmese community is inundated by the coronavirus. Many work at meatpacking plants and estimates are as high as 70% being infected, with entire families struggling to cope.

The Trump administration has halted the U.S. refugee program, Pakistan is taking steps to force Afghans out — and their lives may be at risk if they return to their own country.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that President Clinton has agreed in principle to contribute as many as several thousand US troops to a proposed multinational effort to get food and medicine to about a million refugees in eastern Zaire. A White House spokesman said that once such a force is established, perhaps one thousand American troops would deploy in Zaire, helping provide security at a key airport and along special corridors set up to get aid to the mostly Rwandan refugees cut off by recent fighting. The spokesman said most of the US forces would be outside of Zaire, acting in support of the aid operation.

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Liz Halloran joined NPR in December 2008 as Washington correspondent for Digital News, taking her print journalism career into the online news world.