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It's not just energy supplies that have been disrupted by the Iran war. It's also hitting frankincense, a commodity that's been defining trade routes in the Middle East for thousands of years.

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday said it had approved the merger of local television giants Nexstar Media Group and rival Tegna, the same day that two lawsuits trying to block the deal were announced.

In South Africa, as taps run dry in Johannesburg, Africa's richest city, a tone deaf remark by a senior politician there unleashes fury.

The World Cup resumes today with two quarterfinal matches as the thrilling tournament resumes. Both will showcase soccer royalty: Brazil v. Croatia and Argentina v. Netherlands.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Rick Martínez about his new cookbook Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in Mexico.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Daniel Béland, director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, about the snap election called by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Washington Post reporter Kelyn Soong about the rigorous fitness standards for World Cup referees.

While both candidates diverge vastly on many issues, they also have some surprising areas of agreement.

There were no requests for bids. Other than the giant for-profit Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), the board of Mission Health held substantive discussions with only two other potential partners: Novant and Atrium. Only Novant was invited to make a formal offer to counter the one Mission executives had solicited from HCA six months earlier.“In the end," a North Carolina Department of Justice investigator wrote, "an outside observer could conclude that HCA rose to the top among a limited number of bidders because the deck had been stacked in its favor from the beginning" by Dr. Ronald A. Paulus, then Mission Health's president and CEO, and Philip D. Green, Paulus's long-time friend and strategic advisor.Watchdog managing editor Peter H. Lewis and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sally Kestin found those revelations — and many, many more — among more than 6,000 records released by the office of Attorney General Josh Stein in partial response to public records requests filed by Asheville Watchdog over the past two years.

Glitter, vocal gymnastics, on-stage flames — the show goes on on the Eurovision stage in Vienna, even though five countries are boycotting this year's contest due to Israel's participation.