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Our picks for the 2025 movies you should watch this holiday season

30 Dec 2025

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Hollywood had another quiet year at cinemas. Box office income hasn’t bounced back to pre-pandemic highs. But ticket sales aren’t always an indica...

Daniel Day-Lewis was retired. His son is just getting started

29 Dec 2025

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Eight years ago, Daniel Day-Lewis announced he was retired from acting. He offered no further comment. Retirement notwithstanding, in October, Daniel ...

How Trump is leveraging sports and sports culture for his political brand

28 Dec 2025

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President Trump is using his position to access sporting events across the country and embed himself with teams and fans. And he’s leveraging sports...

'It's a calling,' says Korva Coleman on reporting the facts every hour, every day

27 Dec 2025

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Day in and day out - it’s NPR’s Newscast team delivering the most immediate news to our audience more than anyone else. NPR's Tamara Keith talks ...

U.S. foreign aid changed in 2025 – and it was felt around the world

26 Dec 2025

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On the night of his inauguration, President Trump signed an executive order that froze almost all international assistance.What followed was the termi...

Remembering the World War I Christmas truce

25 Dec 2025

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In the months after World War I erupted, young men in Europe were killing each other by the tens of thousands. Yet on a frozen Christmas Eve in 1914, ...

Singer Brenda Lee on her enduring Christmas classic

24 Dec 2025

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Singer Brenda Lee reflects on the enduring power of her Christmas classic "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree." For sponsor-free episodes of Consider ...

Science funding was hit in 2025. What does that mean for the future?

23 Dec 2025

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2025 was a hard year for science. The Trump administration upended federal funding for all kinds of scientific pursuits, slashing budgets across agen...

How the Trump administration stripped legal status from 1.6 million immigrants

22 Dec 2025

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The Trump administration has removed over 600,000 people without legal status from the U.S. through deportation this year, according to the Department...

We use our smartphones for just about everything - why not voting?

21 Dec 2025

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Entrepreneur, political strategist and philanthropist Bradley Tusk argues his new online voting tech could revolutionize participation in American ele...

The U.S. spent billions to rebuild Afghanistan. Was it successful?

20 Dec 2025

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A new report from U.S. government watchdog SIGAR gives us the fullest accounting yet of U.S. efforts to rebuild Afghanistan.In short, they call it "a ...

The cream of the slop: this year's AI highlights

19 Dec 2025

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2025 has proved that artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping online reality and that the “slop” is here to stay. NPR’s Geoff Brumfiel and ...

Rob Reiner loved America. He thought it could be better

18 Dec 2025

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Rob Reiner spent his life trying to fix what he saw as America’s shortcomings. In an interview shortly before his death he explained why he was opti...

What's Trump's Venezuela endgame?

17 Dec 2025

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The Trump administration is ramping up pressure on Venezuela and its leader.  What is the ultimate goal?President Trump says he’s imposing a ban on...

The U.S. is interested in Venezuelan oil, but that's not all

16 Dec 2025

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Tensions between Venezuela and the U.S. have been growing over the past few months. And last Wednesday, the pressure point was oil. The U.S. governme...

What we know about the rise in antisemitic attacks in Australia and around the world

15 Dec 2025

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On Sunday, during a celebration for the first day of Hanukkah, a father and son opened fire on Bondi Beach near Sydney. Killing or wounding dozens of...

'She's going to return to Venezuela,' says daughter of Maria Corina Machado

14 Dec 2025

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Venezuelan leader and activist Maria Corina Machado’s perilous journey to Oslo made headlines this week, but that was just the start of a new phase ...

Why some U.S. citizens are being kicked off voting rolls

13 Dec 2025

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Trump’s SAVE tool is looking for noncitizen voters. But it’s flagging U.S. citizens too. Host Miles Parks speaks with NPR reporter Jude Joffe-Bloc...

Afghan CIA fighters face stark reality in the U.S.

12 Dec 2025

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They survived some of the Afghanistan War's most grueling and treacherous missions. But once they evacuated to the U.S., many Afghan fighters who ser...

How a once fringe idea became a Trump administration mantra

11 Dec 2025

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The Trump administration is leaning into the once fringe idea of "reverse migration." For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Conside...

Chicago's Archbishop weighs in on immigration enforcement

10 Dec 2025

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The Catholic Church is wading into a deeply partisan issue. The Archbishop of Chicago weighs in.This fall, the Trump administration launched Operation...

View from Venezuela

09 Dec 2025

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Venezuela dominates the headlines, but very little attention is paid to what life is like inside the country.In September, the Trump administration be...

The fight for the future of Warner Bros. just got messier

08 Dec 2025

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There's a growing fight in Hollywood over some of the biggest characters on screen, like Tony Soprano, Daenerys Targaryen and Harry Potter. All featur...

Focusing on care not just coverage; economist argues for bigger solutions

07 Dec 2025

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New research from the Aspen Economic Strategy Group argues that the subsidies-or-no-subsidies approach to the Affordable Care Act debate is too narrow...

To AI or not to AI? Do college students appreciate the question?

05 Dec 2025

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Students are using AI tools more than ever. An Angelo State University professor designed a way to figure out if his students were using artificial i...

After 50 years, is the future of special education in jeopardy?

04 Dec 2025

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Fifty years ago, special education in America was born.In 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the landmark law known today as the Individuals with Disa...

Trump attacks Somali immigrants ahead of expected Minnesota immigration enforcement

03 Dec 2025

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Roughly 80,000 people of Somali descent now live in Minnesota. The vast majority of them are American citizens.This week, President Trump attacked Som...

The White House keeps firing immigration judges. He is one of them

02 Dec 2025

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President Trump is purging the immigration court system. About 140 immigration judges have been fired by the administration or resigned. Meanwhile, t...

Did the U.S. commit a war crime in the Caribbean?

01 Dec 2025

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More than 80 people have now been killed by U.S. strikes on suspected drug boats.There are growing questions about an order to kill two of those peopl...

Is MAHA influencing health policy?

30 Nov 2025

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At the recent Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, summit - which was attended by the U.S. Secretary of Health and the Vice President - the agenda sho...

What can a 90s kids’ movie tell us about the redistricting battle?

29 Nov 2025

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When the Missouri legislature began to redraw maps mid-decade, it reminded a reporter of a very specific movie scene. The film was Air Bud, and altho...

How parking explains everything

28 Nov 2025

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No matter how you measure it, there is a lot of parking in the U.S. According to some estimates there are as many as six parking spaces for every car....

What's motivating volunteers across the country, especially this Thanksgiving

27 Nov 2025

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From building homes to ushering theater-goers to re-enacting medieval history for middle-schoolers – yes, you read that right – acts of volunteeri...

AI is transforming crime, too

26 Nov 2025

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By the midpoint of 2025, the U.S. was on track to set a new yearly record in the number of reported data breaches.That’s according to data compiled ...

Sen. Kelly says Trump doesn't “understand the Constitution”

25 Nov 2025

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Facing the threat of a potential military court martial and possible questions from the FBI, Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona spoke to NPR's Scot...

Navigating vaccine misinformation with a pediatrician

24 Nov 2025

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The CDC recently rewrote its vaccine guidance to suggest shots might cause autism, renewing false claims about vaccines and causing anxiety among pare...

Can progressive mayors save the Democratic Party?

23 Nov 2025

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New York City’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani built a coalition of voters who were engaged by his charisma and his campaign’s focus on key issues suc...

Trump moves closer to closing the Education Department

21 Nov 2025

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When President Trump nominated Linda McMahon as education secretary, he told her to put herself out of a job. She moved one step closer to that this w...

Expensive and exhausting: Why caregivers need to care for themselves, too

20 Nov 2025

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Caregiving services for seniors can easily cost more each year than what the average American makes. And health insurers, both government and priv...

How Chicago's ICE resistance was born

19 Nov 2025

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Activists in Chicago have been tracking federal immigration enforcement agents' movements, following their cars and alerting neighbors with whistles. ...

When it comes to the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia, it's complicated

18 Nov 2025

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President Trump is deepening the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia, despite the government coming under fire for human right abuses, despite the con...

Republicans targeted abortion providers. Some Mainers lost primary care

17 Nov 2025

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Maine Family Planning clinics treat STDs, bronchitis and tick bites. Because they also provide abortions, they've been hit by a new federal law that c...

Tornado recovery in St. Louis is a mess. The city blames Trump's FEMA changes

16 Nov 2025

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It's been six months since a tornado hit St. Louis and damaged more than five thousand buildings and homes. Residents and local officials say the Tru...

What it takes to make a Tiny Desk Concert

15 Nov 2025

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NPR's concert series Tiny Desk, first launched on a whim in 2008, attracts millions of viewers. We hear from two members of the NPR music team on what...

A Rolex, a gold bar, a trade deal and the ethics of presidential gifts

14 Nov 2025

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At a recent gathering of Swiss business executives in the White House, the CEO of Rolex presented President Trump with a gold-plated desk clock.The CE...

'Is this really happening?' National Guard Members on Trump Deployments

13 Nov 2025

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A group of National Guard members in Ohio are using an encrypted group chat to work out how they're feeling as President Trump deploys Guard troops to...

Democrats have released more Epstein emails. What next?

12 Nov 2025

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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released emails to and from Jeffrey Epstein that suggest Donald Trump may have known about Epstein’s...

Why Fetterman still thinks his party is wrong on Israel, shutdown & the working class

11 Nov 2025

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When John Fetterman won Pennsylvania's senate seat in 2022, Democrats across the country treated him as a hero and an example of a path forward for th...

FDA reverses decades of guidance on hormone therapy for menopause

10 Nov 2025

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The FDA is removing the black box warning on estrogen therapy after two decades. Should it?Women who want to use estrogen to treat menopause symptoms ...

'Affordability,' and the repercussions of the increasing global wealth gap

09 Nov 2025

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‘Affordability’ was the word that resonated across America during elections last week, reflecting voters’ demand for elected officials to addres...

What this week’s elections could mean for the midterms

07 Nov 2025

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Tuesday’s election was the first time voters registered how they’re feeling since President Trump entered the White House.And after Democratic can...

Nancy Pelosi announces end to nearly four decades in Congress

06 Nov 2025

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Nancy Pelosi is arguably the most powerful woman in American history. After her election to Congress in 1987, she accumulated more and more power, eve...

Tariffs aren't a presidential power, says California Attorney General

05 Nov 2025

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Next year, the Supreme Court will decide whether the President can use a five decade old emergency powers act to shape the U.S. economy.Trump invoked ...

Tariffs are going to the Supreme Court. What's at stake?

04 Nov 2025

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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a major case about the administration’s use of tariffs. President Trump has long touted the ...

Trump is slashing the number of refugees. What does that mean?

03 Nov 2025

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Every year the President of the United States determines how many refugees can enter this country. The law says he must consult Congress on this numbe...

Trump calls alleged smugglers 'unlawful combatants'. That term has a history.

02 Nov 2025

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The legal definition of the term 'unlawful combatants' was used to justify detaining people at Guantanamo indefinitely, without ever charging them wit...

Why this episode wouldn't work in print

01 Nov 2025

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From recording a snoring elephant to figuring out how to be a mime during an interview, three former print journalists talk about how telling an audio...

Could next week's elections predict the political future?

31 Oct 2025

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Voters head to the polls next week in California, Virginia and New Jersey among other states. Senior national political correspondent Mara Liasson an...

Here's what could happen if Obamacare subsidies aren't extended

30 Oct 2025

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It’s a critical week regarding the Affordable Care Act, which is at the center of the government shutdown impasse. “Window shopping" began for som...

Unpacking The U.S. Economy’s ‘Cockroach’ Problem

29 Oct 2025

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When companies need a loan, traditionally they turn to a bank.But increasingly they’re turning to financial firms that are not really banks, but do ...

Can the global economy handle a world with fewer kids?

28 Oct 2025

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Ashley and Nick Evancho say raising their 3-year-old, Sophia, is one of the most joyous things they've ever done. But the Evanchos also made a decisi...

What happens if Antifa is labeled a foreign terrorist organization

27 Oct 2025

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In a public roundtable, President Trump asked his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, to apply the designation to Antifa.NPR's Ryan Lucas reports that it...

Netanyahu's political future and what the 'BibiSitters' want from him

26 Oct 2025

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A delegation of high-level US officials were recently sent to Israel to try to hold the fragile Gaza truce together. The Israeli press called them the...

Congress is investigating cases of U.S. citizens detained in immigration raids

24 Oct 2025

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U.S. citizens have been arrested in the Trump Administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown. According to ProPublica, at least 170 have been arr...

Was this NBA betting scandal inevitable?

23 Oct 2025

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The FBI arrested multiple people tied to the NBA in a wide-ranging illegal gambling probe. The NBA and other major sports leagues have been deepening ...

The Trump administration says left-wing terrorism in the US is on the rise. Is it?

22 Oct 2025

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For many years, the far right has been the most lethal and persistent source of domestic terrorism in the U.S. But the assassination of right-wing inf...

Philadelphia is solving homicides at the fastest rate in 40 years. Here's how

21 Oct 2025

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It's getting harder to get away with murder in Philadelphia.Violent crime has fallen sharply -- like it has in many other cities.And Philadelphia poli...

When ICE offers job opportunities in small towns

20 Oct 2025

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The Trump administration's push to expand immigration enforcement -- as part of its deportation efforts -- has created job opportunities in small town...

A rare bipartisan move to rein in Donald Trump on Venezuela

19 Oct 2025

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Following repeated U.S attacks on boats off the coast of Venezuela, Senator Tim Kaine has partnered with fellow Democrat Senator Adam Schiff and Repub...

What is needed to keep the ceasefire on track?

18 Oct 2025

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Veteran Middle East correspondent Jane Arraf has seen peace deals fall apart many times in her decades covering the region. She talks about what she i...

Farmers already had it bad. The shutdown made it worse.

17 Oct 2025

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America’s farmers are getting walloped by the federal government shutdown.The closing of government offices means they’ve lost access to data and ...

We may be in an AI bubble. What does that mean?

16 Oct 2025

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Is the AI boom an AI bubble? Wall Street and Silicon Valley increasingly think so.This week JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said "a lot of assets" appe...

The fighting in Gaza has stopped. But dire conditions persist.

15 Oct 2025

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“A New and Beautiful day is rising.” That’s what President Trump told a gathering of world leaders this week.He was speaking of the ceasefire be...

The targets of Trump's DOJ are already paying a price

14 Oct 2025

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At President Trump’s public urging, the Justice Department has brought criminal charges against some of his perceived political enemies. NPR Justice...

Justice Anthony Kennedy's book is not boring

13 Oct 2025

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As a justice on the Supreme Court, Anthony Kennedy wrote some big opinions.He was appointed by President Reagan, and most often voted with conservativ...

Hostage's brother-in-law: we haven't matured enough as a region to coexist peacefully

12 Oct 2025

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NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with Moshe Lavi, the brother-in-law of Omri Miran, who has been held hostage by Hamas since October 7, 2023. Lavi explains...

Jake Sullivan tried to get a Gaza peace deal. Here's what he thinks of Trump's

10 Oct 2025

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A ceasefire is now in effect between Israel and Hamas, and the Israeli military has pulled back from certain positions in the Gaza Strip. In the comin...

Will a ceasefire deal move forward after two years of war between Israel and Hamas?

09 Oct 2025

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After two years of bloodshed, Israel and Hamas have agreed to phase one of a ceasefire deal.It’s a moment of hope — and some skepticism — am...

A week into the shutdown, federal workers are stuck in limbo

08 Oct 2025

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It's been a week since a federal shutdown ground work at numerous government agencies to a halt. There's no indication that an agreement could come so...

The National Guard arrives in Chicago. What now?

07 Oct 2025

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The clock is ticking for Chicago and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker.President Trump has deployed the National Guard to the country’s third largest ci...

Trump calls cartels terrorists. Is that enough to go to war?

06 Oct 2025

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Nearly a quarter century after the September 11th attacks, the Trump administration is using the language of terrorism to target a new enemy: Latin Am...

When will sufficient aid be allowed into Gaza? UNICEF says Gazans need more

05 Oct 2025

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As peace negotiations between Israel and Hamas made significant progress over the weekend, many in the region are expressing some cautious optimism ab...

Federal workers reaffirming loyalty to the Constitution, not politics

04 Oct 2025

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Federal workers across the United States are feeling the impact of the government shutdown. This comes after months of turmoil for federal workers as ...

Daniel Day-Lewis was retired. His son is just getting started

03 Oct 2025

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Eight years ago, Daniel Day-Lewis announced he was retired from acting. He offered no further comment. Retirement notwithstanding, the three-time winn...

Here's how the shutdown is playing out across the U.S.

02 Oct 2025

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The government shutdown is on. Already, it’s being felt across the country.National Parks are preparing to scale back or close. Furloughed federal w...

Trump’s economy is marked by uncertainty. What could more tariffs mean for you?

01 Oct 2025

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When President Trump came into office, he promised to fuel an economic boom with a magic bullet: tariffs. They're taxes added to a wide range of impor...

Ukraine's scrappy wartime innovation

30 Sep 2025

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NPR’s National Security Correspondent Greg Myre spent the summer reporting on the war in Ukraine. He saw the devastation of the conflict. But he als...

Why the stakes for this shutdown are higher

29 Sep 2025

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The deadline for a government shutdown is quickly approaching. If Democrats and Republicans can't make a deal, the government will run out of money af...

The world commits to new climate goals without the U.S.

28 Sep 2025

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More than a hundred countries have committed to fresh plans to curb pollution, with one big holdout: the U.S.NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with the EU C...

Goodbye, Ari Shapiro

26 Sep 2025

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After 25 years at NPR and 10 years hosting All Things Considered and the last few years hosting Consider This, Ari Shapiro is moving on to his next ad...

They warned about AI before it was cool. They're still worried

25 Sep 2025

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A superhuman artificial intelligence so smart it can decide to get rid of slower-witted humans is a pretty terrifying concept.What was once strictly t...

Trump is changing public health guidance. What's it mean for you?

24 Sep 2025

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The federal government’s approach to public health has changed more in the last eight months than it has in decades.  Since President Trump returne...

Does Trump's plan to get homeless people off the streets violate civil liberties?

23 Sep 2025

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President Trump is promising to sweep homeless people off America’s streets. One controversial part of his plan could force thousands of people into...

One of ICE’s biggest detention facilities is plagued by problems

22 Sep 2025

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The Trump administration is moving fast on a plan to create several holding centers around the country for people detained in a nationwide immigration...

Did Charlie Kirk's killing shatter Spencer Cox's vision of politics?

21 Sep 2025

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Governor Spencer Cox of Utah, who has been in the national headlines just about every day since Charlie Kirk's killing, has long wanted to bring commu...

How to really listen in today's America

20 Sep 2025

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NPR's Don Gonyea reports from across the country, engaging with a wide range of people and in places as distinct and different as political rallies an...

Trump used the military to target a Venezuelan vessel. Is it legal?

19 Sep 2025

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A 30 second video clip shows a boat bobbing in the water.Then, a fireball and a huge plume of smoke.President Trump posted the footage on social media...

Kimmel cancellation renews questions about free speech

18 Sep 2025

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President Trump has said for years that he wants Jimmy Kimmel off the air. Now, ABC and its parent company Disney have put the show on indefinite hia...

The U.K.'s response to Trump, like America's, is divided.

17 Sep 2025

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The first day of President Trump’s historic trip to the UK was dominated by ceremony.A carriage procession around the grounds of Windsor Castle with...

Robert Redford was his own kind of Hollywood icon

16 Sep 2025

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Robert Redford died early Tuesday morning, according to his publicist. He was 89 years old.Redford was a golden child of Hollywood, starring in dozens...