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California Gov. Gavin Newsom defeated a Republican effort to recall him. It appears his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic was the No. 1 issue for voters. Newsom said he was humbled by the results.

Earlier this month, Republican Larry Elder refused to promise to accept the recall election results. His campaign had set up a website where people could report suspicious election activity.

On Sept 15, 2001, a causeway bridge leading from Port Isabel to South Padre Island collapsed and killed eight people. Twenty years later, survivors and rescuers can talk about it for the first time.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports. At the end of President Clinton's trip that covered Portugal, Germany, and now Russia, he gave the first speech by a US president to the Duma, Russia's Lower House of Parliament, and he met with former president Boris Yeltsin.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports on how many U.S. math teachers are turning to Singaporean textbooks. Unlike most American math texts, the books from Singapore use the metric system, plenty of sample problems, and step-by-step instructions. Teachers say the books help students grasp mathematical concepts better and faster.

Batting slumps can be all too common in professional baseball, as many frustrated players from the Aberdeen Arsenal have discovered. In the fourth of a series of summer commentaries about this new minor league team, NPR's Neal Conan talks about the physical and psychological forces behind a batting slump.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Roger Diwan of the Petroleum Finance Company in Washington, DC, about the prospect that Saudi Arabia will increase its oil production by 500-thousand barrels a day. The production increase will have implications for the price of gasoline. Diwan says that, if Saudi Arabia decides to go ahead and start pumping that much more oil, crude oil prices could fall within a short period of time and lower gasoline prices could follow later this summer.

This #NowPlaying discovery of Neffy comes to us from this year's Tiny Desk Contest.

The longlist nominees for this year's National Book Awards are being announced over the course of the next few days — we'll have them all right here in a continuously updated post.

Reporters around California share how the recall election vote against Gov. Gavin Newsom is unfolding Tuesday night.