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Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence will debate Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine on Tuesday. Here's what you need to know about Pence before they face off.

Patti Niemi has been a percussionist for the San Francisco Opera Orchestra since 1992. She speaks with Fresh Air's Sam Briger about performance anxiety, muscle memory and her memoir, Sticking it Out.

The economy is not growing fast enough to keep up. A mother of nine children talks about her failed efforts to control her family's growth or provide for her kids.

Lots of names appear on Hillary Clinton's vice presidential vetting lists. One name sits atop the most buzzed about list: Tim Kaine. A U.S. senator and former governor from Virginia, Kaine is an easy campaigner, fluent in Spanish and popular in his critical swing state. He and Clinton campaigned together Thursday.

The Cyber Mission Force is the largest single unit dedicated to operating in computer networks, both for defense and offense. It will reach "initial operating capability" by the end of September.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Vivienne Walt, a reporter for Time Magazine in Paris, about the truck attack in Nice that left more than 70 people dead. The mayor said the truck was full of explosives.

President Obama has been briefed on the unfolding situation in Nice, France. At least 60 people were killed after a truck drove through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day.

Muslim youths in Denmark were leaving to join ISIS in Syria, feeling they were being persecuted in Europe. Then the police in Aarhus responded in a completely unexpected way: They apologized.

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