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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

This next story takes us to East Africa to the waters of Lake Victoria. The lake is enormous, just a little smaller than Lake Superior, spread across three parts - spread across parts of three countries.

The U-S ordered troops out of Syria, but Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insists the Trump administration is not backing off.

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont held his first rallies as a 2020 presidential candidate over the weekend. He's raised more than $10 million and signed up a million volunteers.

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For the first time in three days, Brett Kavanaugh does not have to sit in front of senators deciding whether he is fit to be the next Supreme Court justice.

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California Sen. Kamala Harris is running for president in 2020. The first-term Democratic senator made the announcement on ABC's Good Morning America Monday morning.

"I love my country, and this is a moment in time that I feel a sense of responsibility to fight for the best of who we are," Harris said.

Sen. Kamala Harris, a candidate for president, is floating a new idea: funding for mental health treatment as a form of reparations for slavery. She talks with NPR's Steve Inskeep.

NPR's Noel King talks to Michael Daniel, ex-cybersecurity coordinator and special adviser to President Obama, about interference in the 2016 elections all the way down to the state and local level.

Senator Amy Klobuchar says, as a presidential candidate, she is a "progressive who wants to see change.

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions is expected to meet this morning with a group of state attorneys general. Republicans originally wanted a meeting to discuss claims for which there is no evidence of anti-conservative bias on social media.

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Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep with a tale of human endurance. A 19-year-old was working on a boat off the coast of Indonesia.

Former Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz is considering a 2020 White House run - as an independent candidate.

President Trump says a border wall would address a humanitarian crisis. But the wall would cut through Native American land on the Arizona-Mexico border.

At his inauguration two years ago, Donald Trump promised voters a long list of things he would do as president.

When President Trump met with Kim Jong Un in Singapore earlier this year, he called the talks - and the plan to denuclearize North Korea in exchange for better relations with the U-S - a great success.