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Journalist George Weller was in Nagasaki shortly after the Japanese city was hit by an atomic bomb in 1945. He wrote newspaper stories on what he saw, but military censors prevented their publication. The writer's son recently found carbon copies of the originals.

Journalist RAY BONNER cricises WWF for exaggerating the problem pay more attention to animals than people need to think about the economic needs of Africans and give them an economic reason for keeping the elephants alive.We also talk with Jinette Hemley, director of the Wildlife trade monitoring program of the World Wildlife Fund.

Human Rights Watch offers new photographic and video evidence that shows Iraqi militias looting property and burning homes and villages of Sunni civilians in areas formerly controlled by ISIS.

The Labor Department announces the number of jobs added in July and the national unemployment rate Friday. NPR's Scott Horsley joins Renee Montagne to talk about the report and the consequences for the presidential race.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with reporter Matthieu Aikins in Kabul about Thursday's deadly explosions at the airport as thousands were in line, hoping to evacuate.

Leaders from around the world are renewing their call to eradicate polio. The disease has been eradicated in all but Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. Of those three countries, Nigeria is the only one reporting an increase this year in the number of cases of the disease.

In a much needed sign of hope for the U.S. economy, the Labor Department reported Friday that the country gained 163,000 jobs in July, which was better than expected. Still, unemployment rose a bit to 8.3 percent. NPR's Chris Arnold reports from an annual economics retreat in Maine with reaction from some of the country's top economists and analysts there.

In Oregon, the armed militants that took over a federal wildlife refuge almost two weeks ago had planned a public meeting Friday evening to address the community's concerns and apparently outline their exit strategy. Federal law enforcement remains mum on a response. There is precedent for these types of armed, anti-government protests going south quick, such as in the 1990s in Waco, Texas, and Ruby Ridge, Idaho. There is also precedent for these confrontations to drag on for months.

In just the past 24 hours he has mused about why group sex might be better than "one-on-one" and has been video taped flying a motorized hang glider in an attempt to lead some cranes on their migration south.

The announcement comes five years after the International Union for Conservation of Nature officially removed giant pandas from its endangered list.