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Aug 19, 2025
A growing number of 20-somethings are trying to stop wrinkles from forming on their face with a preventative treatment known as "baby Botox," which freezes facial muscles to limit movement.
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Aug 19, 2025
Friends remember Dale Webster, who surfed every day for decades, and who died this month at the age of 76.
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Aug 19, 2025
Mexico City is not known for its tropical fruits. But climate change is causing some garden surprises.
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Aug 19, 2025
The International Association of Chiefs of Police has issued two resolutions focused on ICE agents' use of face masks and heated comments around policing coming from influential leaders. Ari Shapiro speaks with Terrence Cunningham, a retired police chief and head of the IACP.
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Aug 19, 2025
A Kenyan immigrant voluntarily left the U.S. this weekend. He has no criminal record but a prior marriage made him deportable, and he worried staying in the US would put him at risk.
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Aug 19, 2025
American tennis player Taylor Townsend is gearing up for the U.S. Open. She'll take to the court as the top-ranked doubles player. Her story is one of resilience and overcoming preconceived notions.
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Aug 19, 2025
The politics of air conditioning in France, as the country basks in yet another heatwave.
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Aug 19, 2025
No one wants rats scurrying about their neighborhood. But they're a cunning and evasive foe. Now, a community near Boston is trying their luck with a different approach: rat birth control.
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Aug 19, 2025
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to poet Raymond Antrobus about his new memoir, The Quiet Ear, and how he has navigated between the worlds of hearing and hearing loss.
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Aug 19, 2025
A historic 113-year-old church is being moved a few miles down the road -- in one piece.
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Aug 19, 2025
The 50-year-old casual dining chain Chili's has posted five straight quarters of double digit sales increases. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Slate's Dan Kois about what's behind the brand's turnaround.
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Aug 19, 2025
Every 10 Years, New York City counts all its trees.
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Aug 19, 2025
A new person has joined the last active Shaker community in the U.S, bringing the Christian, communal, and celibate group to a total of three. They once numbered in the thousands.
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Aug 19, 2025
A Gaza scholar at Yale lost his wife, children and mother in Israeli airstrikes. He's fighting to stay in the United States.
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Aug 19, 2025
President Trump has threatened Democratic-run cities, like Chicago and Oakland, that if they don't "learn their lesson" and "clean-up" crime, he will get involved. But leaders of these cities say they are doing the work to reduce crime in ways that will make a lasting impact.
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Aug 19, 2025
President Trump hosted Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy and key European leaders at the White House. But questions still remain around serious peace negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
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Aug 19, 2025
Parade, the Tony Award-winning musical about the 1915 lynching of a Jewish man, begins its run in Washington, D.C., amid an antisemitic backlash against the show's subject.
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Aug 18, 2025
President Trump says he wants to ban mail-in voting and voting machines ahead of next year's midterms. Is it legal?
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Aug 18, 2025
At Vermont's famed Middlebury Language School, opera singers perfect their German — right down to mastering the elusive umlaut.
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Aug 18, 2025
Scientists say that the water in Boston harbor is getting cleaner, leading to an increase in the number of sand tiger sharks using the area as a nursery habitat.
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Aug 18, 2025
After two decades of left wing dominance, Bolivia swings to the right as their presidential election heads for a runoff vote.
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Aug 18, 2025
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Susan Rice, national security advisor to President Obama, about today's White House talks between President Trump and President Zelenskyy.
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Aug 18, 2025
A new study finds that AI may be causing some doctors to become less adept at screening for unusual lesions in the colon.
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Aug 18, 2025
Federal authorities are clearing homeless encampments across Washington, D.C. as part of President Trump's efforts to crack down on crime and blight in the nation's capital. Where are the unhoused going?
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Aug 18, 2025
President Trump meets his Ukrainian counterpart and European leaders as he tries to broker an end to Russia's war on Ukraine.
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Aug 18, 2025
In 1974, Surinder Gupta and his young family had just moved to New Orleans, a city where they knew no one.
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Aug 18, 2025
A new study shows access to birth control has increased following the FDA's approval of an over-the-counter birth control pill. In the two years since the pill went on the market, there's a 31.8% percent increase in people who chose this option after having used no contraception at all.
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Aug 17, 2025
After talks with Russia's Vladimir Putin in Alaska, President Trump plans to meet on Monday with Ukrainian leader Volodymr Zelenskyy.
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Aug 17, 2025
Heavy rainfall across South Asia this summer has taken hundreds of lives. Experts say it's a combination of climate change, poor infrastructure and industrialization.
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Aug 17, 2025
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with political scientist EJ Fagan about the president's nominee for the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the relationship between the Trump administration and the Heritage Foundation.
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Aug 17, 2025
NPR's Bob Mondello, Aisha Harris and Scott Detrow discuss the compulsion to make movies about the movies and when they work best.
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Aug 17, 2025
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Mackenzie Martin about her reporting for KCUR's podcast 'A People's History of Kansas City', commemorating the 35th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Aug 17, 2025
Cotoni-Coast Dairies National Monument was designated in 2017 but has been closed as federal officials planned out how to integrate humans into the historic dairy grazing landscape. Their solution: high-tech collars for the cows to herd them away from no-go areas.
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Aug 17, 2025
Creator Noah Hawley talks about his new show, Alien: Earth, and the creatures bringing primal fear to the small screen.
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Aug 16, 2025
European leaders are reacting to the aftermath of the Trump-Putin summit with concern.
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Aug 16, 2025
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be meeting President Trump at the White House on Monday. However, Trump suggests he favors Vladimir Putin's approach to dealing with the war in Ukraine.
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Aug 16, 2025
NPR's White House correspondent takes stock of the meeting President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had about the war in Ukraine in Anchorage.
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Aug 16, 2025
It's been 100 days since Pope Leo XIV's election. In that short span, we have learned a lot about his plans and priorities.
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Aug 16, 2025
Eleanor Beardsley shares what it's like to report from Paris, which is experiencing extreme heat due to climate change.
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Aug 16, 2025
NPR's Life Kit has tips on how to manage lending money to friends and loved ones.
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Aug 16, 2025
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Craig Schulz and Erik Wiese about their new special, "Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical."
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Aug 16, 2025
While atomic bomb survivors warn the catastrophic risks, leaders of nuclear-armed states and self-proclaimed 'realists' argue that the deterrence of nuclear weapons is what keeps them from being deployed.
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Aug 15, 2025
After all the buildup the Alaska summit between Presidents Trump and Putin ended quickly — just brief statements from both leaders, no questions from reporters and more questions left hanging than answers provided.
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Aug 15, 2025
Nearly every week this summer, there's been an immovable object at the top of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart: It's "Ordinary" by the singer Alex Warren. That changed this week.
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Aug 15, 2025
Nearly every week this summer, there's been an immovable object at the top of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart: It's "Ordinary" by the singer Alex Warren. That changed this week.
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Aug 15, 2025
Spike Lee's kidnapping drama Highest 2 Lowest reimagines Akira Kurosawa's 1963 police procedural High and Low, relocating the action to New York City and starring Denzel Washington.
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Aug 15, 2025
Polls point to a defeat for the leftist party that has ruled Bolivia for the past two decades. Voters overwhelmingly say they want a change as the nation suffers from high inflation and shortages.
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Aug 15, 2025
The District of Columbia sued the federal government in a clash over home rule as the Justice Department moved to install a new city police leader.
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Aug 15, 2025
President Trump and Putin are meeting to discuss the end of Russia's war in Ukraine without Ukrainian President Zelenskyy. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Ukrainian journalist Iuliia Mendel.
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Aug 15, 2025
Home Depot stores have been the location of dramatic federal raids targeting day laborers. But the company has largely been quiet.
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Aug 15, 2025
After two state lawmakers and their spouses were shot in Minnesota, other politicians in the state have signed a pledge to seek out common ground and cool their rhetoric.
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Aug 15, 2025
About 500 harmonica players have descended onto the San Antonio River Walk for a convention with a single purpose: preserve and promote the fading use of harmonica in popular music.
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Aug 15, 2025
A year ago, the WHO and Africa CDC triggered the highest health alert for the mpox outbreak. experts say the response has been an indicator of how poorly prepared the world is for a future pandemic.
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Aug 15, 2025
A new brain-computer interface can decode a person's inner monologue. That could help paralyzed people communicate, but also suggests scientists are one step closer to reading a person's thoughts.
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Aug 15, 2025
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with former State Department official Ned Price about the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Trump and what it could mean for global security.
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Aug 15, 2025
Sometimes online, there's a character everyone's talking about: someone or something the internet has decided they're obsessed with. This week it has to be Taylor Swift and her fanbase - the Swifties.
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Aug 15, 2025
The Energy Star program has saved Americans more than a half-trillion dollars in energy costs and has reduced climate pollution. Now the Trump administration wants to eliminate or privatize it.
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Aug 15, 2025
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he doesn't agree with federal subsidies for high-speed EV chargers, but that his department "will respect Congress' will" and release the funds.
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Aug 15, 2025
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting at a military base outside Anchorage, Alaska. We've got the latest.
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Aug 15, 2025
Last week, President Trump signed an executive order that would make it easier to include "alternative assets" like crypto, private equity, and real estate in retirement accounts. Is that a good idea?
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Aug 14, 2025
Crime in D.C. is at a 30-year low, according to the DOJ. But violent crime persists in some neighborhoods. How much of a law enforcement presence is there now amid Trump's crackdown?
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Aug 14, 2025
Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays. A Shakespeare festival in St. Louis has found a way to make kid friendly as well with the help of a famous puppet designer.
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Aug 14, 2025
President Trump will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss an end to Russia's war in Ukraine. Trump has long said that his relationship with Putin will help him strike a deal.
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Aug 14, 2025
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with the David Kirkpatrick of The New Yorker about his investigation into how much the Trump family has profited from both presidencies.
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Aug 14, 2025
A free camp for low-income high schoolers aims to close the digital divide around AI know-how. Campers work on AI solutions to real-world environmental and medical challenges.
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Aug 14, 2025
Presidents Trump and Putin will be landing to discuss a possible end to Russia's war in Ukraine. A war that — at the moment — is not letting up. In fact, it's seen in increase in drone warfare.
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Aug 14, 2025
Alaska has a long relationship with Russia -- both positive and negative. In advance of Trump and Putin's meeting in Anchorage, we get reactions from Alaskans about the summit in their state.
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Aug 14, 2025
Activists and former officials are alarmed by the way the Trump administration is changing the way the U.S. promotes human rights around the world.
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Aug 14, 2025
David M. Lubin's book Ready for My Close-Up: The Making of Sunset Boulevard and the Dark Side of the Hollywood Dream looks at how the film's poison-dipped love letter to Hollywood endures 75 years later.
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Aug 14, 2025
Bad Bunny's 30-concert residency in Puerto Rico this summer has become an immense source of local pride unlike any cultural event in the island's modern history.
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Aug 14, 2025
Corporate America doesn't want to fight with President Trump in public. But as a result, it's ceding him an unprecedented amount of control over the shape — and future — of U.S. business.
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Aug 14, 2025
In taking over the Washington, D.C., police force, President Trump returned to a familiar playbook: blaming progressive policies for crime. It's a strategy that Democrats have struggled to overcome.
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Aug 14, 2025
Even many voters who support the president questioned the lengths his administration is going to to remove people from the country.
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Aug 14, 2025
The left-leaning media outfit has surged in Donald Trump's second term, appealing to progressives outraged by the president. Still, the online streaming world remains dominated by right-wing voices.
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Aug 13, 2025
Perspectives on crime in Washington, D.C., differ depending on where you are. Overall, though, residents seem to think President Trump's approach isn't the right one.
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Aug 13, 2025
Many Ukrainians want an end to years of war, but are reacting with wariness to President Trump's upcoming meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin.
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Aug 13, 2025
Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics head. In Argentina, the government manipulated the inflation rate. Economists went rogue to calculate the real rate, and people lost trust in the numbers.
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Aug 13, 2025
The Trump administration's decision to end Temporary Protected Status for people from a number of countries has rattled health care workers who tend to the sick and elderly.
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Aug 13, 2025
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with former US trade representative and Council on Foreign Relations President Michael Froman about how global trade moves forward in the midst of President Trump's tariffs.
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Aug 13, 2025
When more humans participate in a game of tug-o-war, each individual puts in less effort. But the opposite is true in weaver ants, according to new research in the journal Current Biology.
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Aug 13, 2025
Within Israel's prime minister pushing for a full occupation of Gaza, some of Israel's exhausted soldiers are pushing back and calling for an end to the war.
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Aug 13, 2025
The Boston Public Library is launching a project in collaboration with Harvard University and OpenAI to increase public access to hundreds of thousands of historically significant documents.
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Aug 13, 2025
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Dr. Catherine Crosland, who works directly with people experiencing homelessness in Washington, D.C., following President Trump's law enforcement actions in the capital.
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Aug 13, 2025
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to actor Daniel Dae Kim about his upbringing and training for action scenes in his new TV series, Butterfly.
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Aug 13, 2025
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with author David Levithan and singer-songwriter Jens Lekman, creators of the new novel and album Songs for Other People's Weddings.
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Aug 12, 2025
What if you could set up some panels in your backyard or hang them off your balcony and start making a dent in your power bill? Organizations are trying to bring "balcony solar" to the U.S.
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Aug 12, 2025
She recorded a magical debut album on Blue Note and was later named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment of the Arts.
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Aug 12, 2025
The president will meet with Putin on Friday in Alaska. A former secret service agent shares how the service plans last minute trips like this, especially one with major geopolitical implications.
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Aug 12, 2025
A new effort led by Hollywood composer John Frizzell seeks to connect people with autism to each other through bluegrass.
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Aug 12, 2025
Ford announced they're putting billions into a Kentucky automotive plant to retool it to make EVs, starting with a midsize pickup that they say will be in the $30k price range.
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Aug 12, 2025
For four decades, an English professor at San Jose State University has run a fiction contest for a single opening sentence to "the worst of all possible novels." He has decided to retire the contest.
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Aug 12, 2025
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with chair of the Council of the District of Columbia, Phil Mendelson, about President Trump's emergency declaration and National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C.
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Aug 12, 2025
For multiple days, more people are killed trying to get food in Gaza than in Israeli air strikes, medics say.
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Aug 12, 2025
For multiple days, more people are killed trying to get food in Gaza than in Israeli air strikes, medics say.
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Aug 12, 2025
Karin Slaughter talks about her 25th book -- "We are All Guilty Here" - with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly. It's a small town murder mystery - that twists and turns until the end.
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Aug 12, 2025
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.
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Aug 12, 2025
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with former Trump national security advisor Ambassador John Bolton about the President's upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Aug 12, 2025
The TV prequel to the Alien movies calls back to the best elements of those original films — including questions about corporate exploitation and technological advancements.
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Aug 12, 2025
Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.
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Aug 12, 2025
Trump's expansion of federal authority over Washington, D.C., is in many ways unprecedented, but calls to mind other times the city has been under tighter federal control.
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