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A new Trump presidency and the Ukraine war have pushed Germany to change its constitution to spend more on its military. "Building up our military is our top priority," said Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

Instead of weekly injections, patients will soon be able to swallow a daily pill to lose weight. Novo Nordisk's pill form of Wegovy is the first to gain Food and Drug Administration approval.

North Carolina is a national leader with more than 8 million hogs and close to a billion chickens and turkeys in production. Most are raised on an industrial scale, in what are known as "concentrated animal feeding operations," or CAFOs. They produce tons of waste, alter the landscape, and present new environmental challenges. Environmental reporter David Boraks has more, in the first of four stories in WHQR's series "CAFO Country."

Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, the Kakataibo Indigenous Guard patrols their ancestral land armed with spears, machetes and a drone — risking their lives to keep cocaine producers out of the forest.

Tangier Island in Virginia — one of the last inhabited islands in the Chesapeake Bay — is under threat from rising sea levels and climate change.

Tangier Island in Virginia — one of the last inhabited islands in the Chesapeake Bay — is under threat from rising sea levels and climate change.

This story starts with a bag of potato chips — but there were no chips inside. A city hall reporter was handed an empty bag with a red envelope filled with money from someone working for Mayor Eric Adams' re-election campaign. NPR's Juana Summers speaks to Katie Honan, the reporter at the center of the incident, about what happened.

The Border Patrol's aggressive immigration operation in Charlotte, N.C., took the city by surprise. It lasted about a week, but immigrants and other residents say their city won't ever be the same.

Vaccine advisers to the CDC took action on vaccination of newborns against hepatitis B and questioned the overall childhood vaccination schedule and ingredients that boost some vaccines' potency.

The pop charts this week are full of milestones, from a trio of K-pop acts crashing the top of the album chart to the year's biggest hit matching the longest-ever run atop the singles chart.