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The Nkamira Transit Camp is home to more than 6,000 refugees fleeing violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The decades-long conflict is a legacy of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Across Pennsylvania, 49 projects received Multi-Purpose Community Facilities grant totaling $45 million from the Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority. The funding is from the federal American Rescue Plan Act. In Northeast and Central PA, five organizations received a total of $6.8 million.

A former Scranton Police Officer will serve jail time after being paid for overtime shifts he claimed he worked. Paul Helring, who was at one-time the president of the city’s police union, was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to 6 months imprisonment and two years supervised release. From March 2021 to May 2022 Helring served as coordinator of Scranton Police Department’s extra duty overtime program, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. During that time, he reported that he worked an extra 526 hours patrolling lower-income housing complexes — but he did not. Helring pleaded guilty in January for theft concerning programs receiving federal funds. The Scranton Housing Authority used federal funding to pay for the extra-duty police patrols. The former cop, who retired on a disability pension in 2022, was ordered to pay almost $18,000 in restitution and a $5,000 fine. Helring was also ordered to complete 100 hours of community service as a condition of his supervised release. The case was investigated by the FBI with assistance by the Office of Inspector General within the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Assistant United States Attorneys Jeffery St John and Phillip J. Caraballo prosecuted the case. Former Scranton Police Sgt. Jeffrey Vaughn was also charged and sentenced for the same crime.

In a 6-to-3 vote — along ideological lines — the court overturned limits on how much political parties can raise and spend in coordination with candidates.

An investigation by NPR and ProPublica finds a string of poorly managed projects, questionable spending and dubious claims of success, according to a review of the charity's internal documents.

In the July 2009 National Geographic, Garrison Keillor, host of public radio's A Prairie Home Companion, listed the Top 10 joys of the State Fair. Keillor talks about what made the list, from food on a stick to oversized swine.

Illia Vitiuk is a top Ukrainian intelligence official. For him, the war with Russia is primarily in cyberspace — and in a rare exclusive interview with NPR, he says it's far from over.

The former representative says a second Trump presidency would be an "existential threat" to democracy: "There's simply no defense, no excuse for putting that power back in the hands of Donald Trump."

Declaring a public health emergency can free up resources to help the administration respond to the monkeypox outbreak. So far more than 6,000 people in the U.S. have been infected.

President Biden named Kim Cheatle, a veteran Secret Service official, to be the agency's next director as it faces controversy over missing text messages around the time of the Jan. 6 insurrection.