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TikTok's American future is now up to the Supreme Court.
The Chinese owned company wants the high court to stop a ban of the app from taking effect next month.
What does this mean for the tens of millions of TikTok users?
I'm Steve Inskeep with Michelle Martin, and this is up first from NPR News.
Seven thousand Syrian refugees have been living in a makeshift camp on the Jordanian border for the past nine years.
Now, after the fall of the Assad regime, most of them want to go home.
But what will wait for them there?
NPR's Janaraf is one of the first journalists to have visited the campsite.
Also, judges delivered verdicts in a French rape case that shocked many people around the world.
The victim has become a feminist hero.
But will the trial make a difference for others?
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