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  • Wednesday was reporting day for the presidential campaigns. The candidates and the superPACs supporting them turned over details about how they raised their money last month. But don't expect much information about some of the biggest players in the race — social welfare organizations don't have to report where they get their money.
  • City officials said Sunday that as many as 150,000 city residents could be at risk of infection, days after New York state called monkeypox an "imminent threat to public health."
  • The online company Threadless makes funny and satirical T-shirts. But they are a little different from those made by other T-shirt companies. All Threadless shirts are designed and approved by the site's members.
  • Cities prepare for nationwide protests on Saturday.
  • As Congress moves forward with a $4.5 billion humanitarian aid bill to address the border crisis, migrants still arrive each day. But U.S. policy is beginning to shift the crisis to the Mexican side.
  • More than 300 films screened this past week at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Audience Choice Award went to 12 Years A Slave, directed by Steve McQueen. Host Jacki Lyden talks with NPR's Linda Holmes and Bob Mondello about what was hot and what was not.
  • On Aug. 6, 1945, Setsuko Thurlow was a 13-year-old girl living in Hiroshima, Japan. Thurlow survived the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima that day and has since become an activist for nuclear disarmament. NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Thurlow about her experience and her reaction to President Obama's visit to Hiroshima.
  • Madeleine Brand talks with Slate legal analyst Emily Bazelon about some more U.S. Supreme Court rulings handed down Monday morning. The decisions include the reversal of a murder conviction for a black inmate in Texas who claimed that prosecutors illegally stacked his jury with whites, and the court's refusal to expedite a hearing for "dirty bomb" terrorist suspect Jose Padilla.
  • A surprising election season is nearing its end. The political winds clearly favor the Democrats, with the GOP playing defense across the country.
  • Campaign aides and administration officials have said the 2016 campaign was so frantic that things happened almost too fast to consider. Does that strengthen their case in the Russia investigations?
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