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April 16, 2025
Protesters were stun-gunned and arrested at Marjorie Taylor Greene's town hall
By the end of Greene's Tuesday town hall in Acworth, Ga., three people were arrested and two were hit with stun guns. Greene is one of many...
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April 16, 2025
Trump administration says it is suing Maine over transgender athletes in girls' sports
The DOJ says Maine is violating Title IX, the 1972 law that prohibits sex-based discrimination at schools that receive federal funding. Gov....
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April 16, 2025
Jazz tenor saxophonist Gene Ammons would have turned 100 this week
Born on April 14, 1925, Ammons was a second-generation jazz musician from Chicago, who earned attention for his fiery work in Billy Eckstine...
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April 16, 2025
New book explores the real-life KGB spy program that inspired 'The Americans'
In The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West, Shaun Walker shares how agents were tr...
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April 16, 2025
Nvidia discloses that U.S. will limit sales of advanced chips to China after all
NPR reported that the company would be allowed to keep selling chips used for artificial intelligence tools to China. After NPR's reporting,...
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April 16, 2025
Judge: 'Probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations
The government sent several planeloads of alleged gang members to El Salvador, including 137 people under the act, the White House said at t...
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April 16, 2025
Judge: 'Probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations
The government sent several planeloads of alleged gang members to El Salvador, including 137 people under the act, the White House said at t...
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April 16, 2025
'Homegrowns are next:' Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad
Trump hopes to deport and imprison U.S. citizens abroad. Critics say the concept is unconstitutional and dangerous.
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April 16, 2025
Retail sales jump as people rush to buy cars ahead of tariffs
The key driver of the economy saw the biggest increase in over two years in March, as car buyers tried to get ahead of President Trump's tar...
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April 16, 2025
China reports 5.4% GDP growth in 1st quarter, but analysts say tariffs will bite soon
Growth was driven partly by strong industrial activity and exports, before President Trump's punishing tariffs. Experts say these levies wil...
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April 16, 2025
Francis Davis, a figurehead of jazz criticism, has died
His wife, Fresh Air host Terry Gross, said the longtime contributor to The Village Voice and NPR had been living with emphysema and Parkinso...
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April 16, 2025
Party vice-chair David Hogg wants to unseat some fellow Democrats by funding primary challengers
Hogg says he wants to fund primary challenges against Democratic lawmakers who he feels are "out of touch" and not fighting President Trump...
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April 16, 2025
Could polio be poised for a comeback?
Cases have been rising in Afghanistan and Pakistan — and global health specialists are worried that this year's U.S. foreign aid cuts could...
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April 16, 2025
A Harvard professor calls Trump's federal funding cuts appalling
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Nikolas Bowie, a professor at Harvard School of Law, about how federal funding cuts will impact his work and...
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April 16, 2025
Trump’s Tariffs Could Wreck California’s Economy. The State Is Suing.
California is once again challenging the Trump administration in court — this time to halt tariffs and avert harm to the state’s economy.
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April 16, 2025
Trump aims to lower drug prices. And, Harvard's tax-exempt status threatened
Trump has signed an executive action aimed at lowering prescription drug prices. And, the president threatened to revoke Harvard University'...
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April 16, 2025
Study highlights cancer risk from millions of CT scans performed annually
They can be life-saving but radiation from the scans also contributes to cancer risk. The authors of a new study estimate overuse of CT scan...
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April 16, 2025
Panda Bear: Tiny Desk Concert
Panda Bear's wondrous music comes to life with the help of four additional friends who provide sweet, multi-layered harmonies.
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April 16, 2025
Photos: Scientists trace a butterfly migration route that is millions of years old
Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back, the world's l...
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April 16, 2025
Families say school civil rights investigations have stalled after federal cuts
The U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights investigates discrimination in schools. It recently lost more than 40% of its staff.
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April 16, 2025
How psychiatric patients get caught in a cycle of homelessness and spotty care
Montana is investing $300 million to help those with severe mental illness from cycling through ERs, state psychiatric facilities, jails and...
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April 16, 2025
Word of the Week: A brief history of Coachella — the festival and the place
When you think of Coachella, you probably picture the festival. But there's much more to know about the place it calls home.
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April 16, 2025
Trump orders coal revival, but market favors natural gas
The president signed four executive orders to reverse the trend away from coal-fired electricity in the U.S., but there's little economic in...
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April 16, 2025
Wink Martindale, the genial game show host and early interviewer of Elvis, dies at 91
The legendary TV host of game shows "Tic-Tac-Dough" and "Gambit" died at his home in Rancho Mirage, California. He had been battling lymphom...
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April 16, 2025
U.K. Supreme Court to rule on landmark challenge over legal definition of a woman
The court is scheduled to rule whether a transgender person with a certificate that recognizes them as female can be regarded as a woman und...
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April 16, 2025
Hong Kong post office will stop shipping parcels to the U.S. over tariffs
Hong Kong is caught in the middle of the trade disputes between the U.S. and China despite being a free port. The former British colony has...
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April 16, 2025
Records show Gene Hackman's wife researched symptoms of illness days before her death
Photos, hours of footage and other documents were made public Tuesday after a recent court order that mandated any depictions of the decease...
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April 16, 2025
Former President Biden unleashes on Trump, Musk over Social Security cuts
Joe Biden’s remarks on Tuesday in Chicago marked his first public rebuttal of the Trump administration in the early days of his post-preside...
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April 15, 2025
White House must answer whether it's helping wrongly deported Maryland man
The hearing is the first about Abrego Garcia's case since El Salvador's president told reporters he is not going to "smuggle a terrorist int...
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April 15, 2025
Trump signs executive action to lower drug prices
The action is intended to build upon the existing program for Medicare drug price negotiations, which was created by the Inflation Reduction...
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April 15, 2025
Top House Democrat says DOGE data access at NLRB may be 'technological malfeasance'
A top House Democrat is asking independent agency watchdogs to investigate after NPR reporting revealed DOGE may have taken sensitive data f...
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April 15, 2025
New Israeli ceasefire offer demands Hamas discuss disarming, but group rejects it
Hamas is rejecting a new Israeli proposal to pause the war in Gaza, a Hamas official told NPR. Earlier, officials mediating talks had expres...
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April 15, 2025
Higher ed war heats up as Trump threatens Harvard's tax-exempt status
The president's comments came after the administration froze $2 billion in federal grants for Harvard after the university rejected what it...
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April 15, 2025
U.S. Army libraries target books with a focus on DEI or 'gender ideology' for removal
Books "overtly promoting DEI, gender ideology, and critical race theory" are under new scrutiny following a memo issued by acting Assistant...
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April 15, 2025
When an earthquake struck San Diego, these elephants formed an 'alert circle'
When a 5.2 earthquake hit near San Diego yesterday, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park caught its elephants on video taking action to protect the...
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April 15, 2025
A colossal squid is filmed in its natural habitat for the first time
Colossal squid are known to be elusive and likely avoid the bright and loud research equipment used underwater.
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April 15, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg defends Meta in court against monopoly claims
In Zuckerberg's second day of testifying in the federal antitrust trial, he defended Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The U.S....
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April 15, 2025
Three wildly different artists crack the top 10 for the first time
Surprises nevertheless abound in the top 10, as a vinyl reissue lands cult singer-songwriter Ethel Cain on the Billboard 200 for the first t...
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April 15, 2025
Trump moves to speed up asylum cases without court hearings
The memo could result in immigration judges deciding someone is not eligible for asylum without a hearing, and based solely on a lengthy and...
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April 15, 2025
Photos: Two years of war in Sudan
Images of Sudan, after two years of civil war have led to the world biggest humanitarian crisis.
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April 15, 2025
Here are the songs World Cafe's spinning this week
Stream the official World Cafe playlist.
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April 15, 2025
'The biggest we've ever gone': Savannah Bananas partner with ESPN for 10-game broadcast schedule
Games will include marquee matchups at MLB ballparks and NFL stadiums.
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April 15, 2025
What the SAVE Act could mean for millions of voters, according to a Brennan Center expert
The SAVE Act would require proof of citizenship to be able to register to vote. NPR's Michel Martin asks Sean Morales-Doyle of the Brennan C...
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April 15, 2025
The risk Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case poses for citizens, according to legal scholar
NPR's Michel Martin talks with constitutional scholar Kim Wehle about President Trump's refusal to demand the return of a wrongly deported S...
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April 15, 2025
'Black Mirror' remains a thought-provoking treasure in its 7th season
Netflix's near-future anthology series draws on classic film/TV for inspiration but its strongest episode, "Common People," takes on subscri...
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April 15, 2025
Melinda French Gates on what billionaires with 'absurd' wealth owe back to society
In a new memoir, French Gates writes about the end of her marriage to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and her ongoing philanthropic work, d...
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April 15, 2025
Trump plans order to cut funding for NPR and PBS
HFR: President Trump and GOP members of Congress have accused the public broadcasters of biased and "woke" programming. The president plans...
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April 15, 2025
Sudan's war is 2 years in and shows no signs of slowing, as talks take place
As "pathway to peace talks" are held in London - minus the main protagonists - Sudan tips into a third year of catastrophic civil war, as vi...
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April 15, 2025
States push Medicaid work rules, but few programs help enrollees find jobs
Some lawmakers are pushing to require that Medicaid recipients work in order to get or keep coverage, and some states already try to help th...
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April 15, 2025