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NPR News: 01-30-2026 8PM EST

31 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: What challenges are people facing in the housing market?

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It is hard to get a house. Getting that down payment together? Brutal. You shipped off to Djibouti to afford a down payment for a house? Yes, sir. 100%. On Planet Money, the high price of housing, what the Trump administration is trying to do about it, and will it work? Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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21.952 - 48.482 Dua Halisa-Cautel

Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua Halisa-Cautel. For the second Friday in a row, in single-digit temperatures, thousands of protesters took to the streets in downtown Minneapolis, calling for an end to the federal immigration surge in the city. The march was part of a nationwide day of protest, as NPR's Kat Lonsdorff reports. Crowds filled the city streets for blocks, chanting.

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Minnesota, make it clear, immigrants are welcome here, was one common refrain. The scene was reminiscent of last Friday, when thousands also marched in sub-zero temperatures, just hours before 37-year-old Alex Preddy was shot and killed by two Border Patrol agents as he resisted arrest after videotaping deportation action in the street.

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The Justice Department has said it will conduct a civil rights investigation into that incident. Music legend Bruce Springsteen also made a surprise appearance at a benefit concert nearby, singing his new song, Streets of Minneapolis, inspired by recent events in the city. Kat Lonsdorff, NPR News, Minneapolis.

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NPR has begun to review millions of pages of Epstein files released by the Department of Justice today. NPR's Stephen Fowler reports.

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Like other releases, these files are heavily redacted.

Chapter 2: What recent protests are occurring in Minneapolis regarding immigration?

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DOJ says part of the delay in releasing the files was to protect victims, but NPR has found examples of Epstein victims' names in photos that were not redacted, while in at least one case, President Trump's face was blocked out.

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There are more court records, unvetted tips to the FBI, and more of Epstein's private correspondence, including messages with Elon Musk, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and other powerful figures from across the ideological spectrum. Being mentioned in the files is not a sign of wrongdoing or association with Epstein's crimes. Stephen Fowler, NPR News.

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Artificial intelligence is flooding the job market, transforming the job hunt. And with competition heating up this quarter, NPR's Windsor Johnston reports, AI is increasingly pitting machines against machines, leaving humans caught in the middle.

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After losing his job at Amazon and CrowdStrike, Dre Jankowski turned to online applications and quickly noticed something felt off. Rejections were coming in almost instantly, often at all hours, long before a human could realistically review his resume.

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164.207 - 176.023 Dre Jankowski

I always make a joke that sometimes I'll apply to a job and within a second of applying and hitting that button, I receive a rejection saying, sorry, we've moved on. And it's like, there's no way a person looked at this and rejected me.

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Many job seekers are now using AI to generate and optimize applications, while companies rely on AI to screen them, turning the hiring process into an arms race where algorithms talk to algorithms and real people struggle to break through. Windsor Johnston, NPR News.

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On Wall Street, the S&P 500 closed down 29 points. This is NPR News from New York. Canadian-born actress and comedian Catherine O'Hare has died in Los Angeles after a brief illness. She was best known for her movie roles in Home Alone, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Where the Wild Things Are.

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The two-time Emmy winner grew up in Toronto and was a member of the influential sketch comedy show Second City Television Records. from the mid-1970s. One of her Emmys was for writing comedy on SCTV. The other was for her role as Moira Rose in the acclaimed television comedy Schitt's Creek.

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On his Instagram, Macaulay Culkin, who played Kevin McAllister in Home Alone, wrote, Mama, I thought we had time. I wanted more. I love you. I'll see you later. New research gives scientists an unprecedented look at something called dark matter, a substance that makes up much of the universe. It's long been a mystery, as NPR's Katie Riddle reports.

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