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As the chief official White House photographer for President Obama, Souza sometimes shot more than 2,000 photos a day. "I was there all the time," he says. His new book is Obama: An Intimate Portrait.

President Biden made the pitch for a larger federal role, framed new programs aiding children as essential for the middle class and marked history in the House chamber with two top women.

Country artist George Birge saw a popular TikTok skewering the way men in his genre write music and decided to issue himself a songwriting challenge. The result? "Beer Beer, Truck Truck."

The 23-year-old trespasser, whom police have yet to identify, spent eight hours casually walking around on top of the Palace of Westminster.

The top five finishers all pulled off their best runs in the second half of the competition – none more so than White, who stood in 11th place after the first run with a score of 35.

On this week's All Songs Considered we share NPR Music listeners' picks for the top new artists from the first half of the year.

On today’s newscast: She soars off the same jumps, skis the same grueling trails and she's the top-ranked woman on the U.S. Nordic combined team — but Nordic Annika Malacinski's Olympic dream stops at the starting line; a new proposal at the statehouse would create a coordinator position to help reduce Colorado’s backlog of sexual-assault evidence kits; and a regional airport in Wyoming is the first to officially commit to dimming its lights to protect dark skies. Tune in for these stories and more.

On today’s newscast: As wildfire season looms, Colorado’s wildland firefighters gear up — and for the women in their ranks, the fireline isn’t the only place they’re breaking barriers; Carbondale Arts organized a Pride Parade on the town’s First Friday last week; and as high-stakes talks over the Colorado River continue behind closed doors, a rare public appearance by a top water official hints at the federal push to unite the West. Tune in for these stories and more.

It's Derby Day in Kentucky, where days and weeks of anticipation will culminate in a race that lasts just over two minutes. When the starting gates open at 6:24 p.m. EDT, 19 horses will race on a wet Kentucky Derby track.

The CDC says the guidelines were posted to its website in error. The now-deleted updates were notable because so far the agency has stopped short of saying that the virus is airborne.