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Jan 28, 2025
A new exhibition featuring four ancient Thai statues points to a burgeoning trend: museums are starting to engage the general public more openly and creatively around efforts to repatriate artifacts looted from other countries.
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Jan 28, 2025
The year 2025 puts us one quarter of the way through the 21st century. We'll spend the year looking back at some of the amazing advances we've experienced. In this episode: privatized space travel.
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Jan 28, 2025
President Trump has ended so-called humanitarian parole for people from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, jeopardizing the legal status of nearly 1.5 million immigrants in the U.S.
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Jan 28, 2025
Loneliness is at epidemic levels across the U.S. and is correlated with higher risks of many chronic diseases. Some doctors and therapists are writing their patients prescriptions for socializing.
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Jan 28, 2025
New York's state prison system is under scrutiny after guards fatally beat an inmate in December, prompting protests and calls for reforms.
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Jan 28, 2025
Readers can now shop for e-books through an online retailer called Bookshop.org, which exclusively supports local bookstores.
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Jan 28, 2025
Readers can now shop for e-books through an online retailer called Bookshop.org, which exclusively supports local bookstores.
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Jan 28, 2025
Why are U.S. tech investors so worried about DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence company whose new chatbot is now among the most-downloaded free apps in the U.S.?
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Jan 28, 2025
NPR speaks with Maria Fernanda Bozmoski of the Atlantic Council's Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center about the current state of relations between the U.S. and its Latin American neighbors.
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Jan 28, 2025
A federal appeals court will hear arguments today over whether the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and two accomplices should get plea deals. Family members of 9/11 victims weigh in.
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Jan 27, 2025
President Trump is moving ahead on his promise to deport record numbers of migrants. NPR speaks with John Sandweg, former acting director of ICE in the Obama administration, to discuss Trump's plans.
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Jan 27, 2025
Ceasefires in Israel's conflicts with Hamas and Hezbollah hit snags. A disagreement over a hostage prevented Palestinians' return to northern Gaza. In Lebanon, Israeli troops clashed with protesters.
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Jan 27, 2025
The world's biggest iceberg, known A23a, is on a collision course with a tiny island in the South Atlantic, which is home to millions of seals and nearly half the world's population of king penguins.
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Jan 27, 2025
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with MSNBC presenter Chris Hayes about his new book, "The Siren's Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource."
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Jan 27, 2025
A 74-year-old Minnesota man aims to become the oldest runner to ever complete the Arrowhead 135, an infamously grueling and chilly race ultramarathon across northern Minnesota.
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Jan 27, 2025
More than 80 days after Election Day, a race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court remains unresolved. That's because the Republican candidate is contesting some 65,000 ballots.
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Jan 27, 2025
A war of words and threats of tariffs brought Colombia and the U.S. to the brink of a trade war, after the Latin American ally initially said it would not take U.S. planes carrying deported migrants.
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Jan 27, 2025
After Trump halted the U.S. asylum system, thousands who were waiting to reach safety after years of vetting found themselves in limbo. They include Afghans who worked with the U.S. in Afghanistan.
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Jan 27, 2025
President Trump fired more than a dozen inspectors general at federal agencies. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Glenn Fine, who was an inspsector general for more than a decade, about why it matters.
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Jan 24, 2025
The U.S. claims the hacking was commissioned by a lobbying firm working on behalf of one of the world's biggest oil companies.
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Jan 24, 2025
President Trump is heading to LA to tour fire-ravaged areas. But first, he's making a stop in Asheville, N.C. Both communities are grappling with disaster recovery. But there is some politics at play.
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Jan 24, 2025
Donald Trump is back in office and already flexing executive authority in unprecedented ways. NPR hears analysis from Bowdoin University's Andrew Rudalevige, who studies presidential power.
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Jan 24, 2025
A rare fossil find suggests that young pterosaurs may have been hunted by the ancestors of crocodiles.
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Jan 24, 2025
In his album Amours Interdites (Forbidden Love) French pianist David Kadouch explores music by gay composers who concealed their sexuality in 19th and 20th century societies that wouldn't accept them.
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Jan 24, 2025
Taylor Johnatakis is one of about 1,500 people granted clemency by President Trump for his actions on Jan. 6. NPR's Steve Inskeep spoke to him after his release from prison.
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Jan 24, 2025
Taylor James Johnatakis of Washington state was convicted of assaulting police on Jan. 6. Would he mobilize again if President Trump asked?
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Jan 24, 2025
The Minnesota Supreme Court could rule any day in a pair of cases that could uproot the power structure in the state House. Democrats had, until recently, controlled the entire state government.
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Jan 24, 2025
After the fall of Syria's despotic Assad regime, life is slowly returning to one Damascus neighborhood, where the violence and painful memories of the past are still literally being unearthed.
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Jan 24, 2025
After a 15-month absence, giant pandas will be back on public display this morning at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
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Jan 24, 2025
President Trump spoke remotely at the World Economic Forum Thursday, pitching to global business leaders lower taxes for companies that bring manufacturing to the U.S. and tariffs on those who don't.
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Jan 23, 2025
Climate scientist Ben Hamlington works on understanding the impacts of climate change. Losing his house in the Eaton Fire has given that work new meaning.
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Jan 23, 2025
The number of students in undergraduate and graduate programs rose above pre-pandemic levels for the first time.
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Jan 23, 2025
Bad Bunny, who had the most-streamed album of both 2022 and 2023, seems to have another potential juggernaut on his hands. But to top the chart this week he had to hold off an unlikely challenger.
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Jan 23, 2025
President Trump campaigned on a promise to carry out the largest-ever deportation of migrants in the U.S illegally. Chuck Jenkins, sheriff of Frederick County in Maryland, says he is ready to assist.
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Jan 23, 2025
The Songwriters Hall of Fame inducted a new class on Wednesday, including funk legend George Clinton and writers for The Beach Boys and The Doobie Brothers.
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Jan 23, 2025
Renee Montagne co-hosted Morning Edition for a dozen years, and after more than 40 years in public radio, she is retiring.
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Jan 23, 2025
President Trump says he wants the U.S. to take "ownership" of Greenland. One proposal is to buy it in a "sovereignty purchase," which has shaped the U.S. That's more complicated now than it once was.President Trump says he wants the U.S. to take "ownership" of Greenland. One proposal is to buy it in a "sovereignty purchase," which has shaped the U.S. That's more complicated now than it once was.
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Jan 23, 2025
County governments often play an essential role in providing health care services for older adults. However more counties, like one in Wisconsin, hope to get out of the nursing home business and let private operators take over
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Jan 23, 2025
Oscar nominations were revealed Thursday morning. We get reaction from NPR critic Linda Holmes.
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Jan 23, 2025
Oscar nominations will be announced this morning. They had been delayed twice by the wildfires in Los Angeles.
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Jan 23, 2025
Japan's century-old Mingei, or folk art, movement celebrates the everyday work of anonymous artists. It stands in contrast to both fine arts and industrially mass-produced goods. And it's having a yet another revival.
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Jan 22, 2025
Satirical cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter Jules Feiffer has died at the age of 95. He was the illustrator of the children's classic "The Phantom Tollbooth."
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Jan 22, 2025
Prince Harry has agreed to settle his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids. The deal ends a years' long battle to hold the newspapers accountable for invasions of privacy.
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Jan 22, 2025
The Trump administration is "twisting itself in knots" in trying to limit birthright citizenship and focus on deportations, argues New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin.
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Jan 22, 2025
President Trump signed an executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship. New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin discusses why he believes the president's action is unlawful.
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Jan 22, 2025
Israel has begun a military operation in the occupied West Bank focused on the city of Jenin. Palestinians there worry the focus of the conflict is shifting over to them following a ceasefire in Gaza.
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Jan 22, 2025
A winter storm is shutting down part of the deep South not used to dealing with record snowfall or icy roads, but people are trying to make the best of the rare event.
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Jan 22, 2025
Deyra Barrera, the mariachi voice heard on Kendrick Lamar's new album "GNX," shares the story behind their collaboration and a song that moves her.
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Jan 22, 2025
Deyra Barrera, the mariachi voice heard on Kendrick Lamar's new album, GNX, shares the story behind their collaboration and a song that moves her.
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Jan 22, 2025
What would it mean to classify Mexican drug cartels as "foreign terrorist organizations"? NPR speaks with Mike Vigil, former chief of international operations for the DEA.
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Jan 22, 2025
Former Japanese star Ichiro Suzuki headlined inductees in the 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame. He became famous as a Seattle Mariner, and his election comes as Japanese players are more popular than ever.
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Jan 22, 2025
A resident of Paradise, a town that wildfire virtually leveled in 2018, explains what it takes to build a home in California after the disaster.
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Jan 22, 2025
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jen Goodlin, executive director of the Rebuild Paradise Foundation, about what it takes to build a home in California after wildfire.
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Jan 22, 2025
An executive order to rename an Alaskan mountain with the highest peak in North America wouldn't be the first name change for Denali.
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Jan 22, 2025
Former Palestinian peace talks adviser and human rights lawyer Diana Buttu talks about the the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and what Trump's election will mean for U.S. involvement in agreement.
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Jan 21, 2025
Here's what to expect from President Trump's first full day in office, as well as a recap of the executive actions he took on Monday.
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Jan 21, 2025
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says the city will defend residents "whether you're undocumented, whether you are seeking asylum or whether you're seeking a good paying job."
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Jan 21, 2025
NPR's A Martínez asks Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson how his city is preparing for the so-called mass deportation raids now that Donald Trump is back in office.
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Jan 21, 2025
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Eric Dezenhall about "Wiseguys and the White House," a new book on the interplay between organized crime and our presidents.
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Jan 21, 2025
Before leaving office, President Biden issued preemptive pardons for five family members. Legal expert Kim Wehle discusses the move and what it means for future presidential powers.
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Jan 21, 2025
President Trump issued sweeping executive actions on immigration, including suspending an app that allowed migrants to seek asylum at the border. It left migrants in Mexico facing despair.
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Jan 21, 2025
A public radio investigation has found that Midwest schools are struggling to serve students who experience housing instability, despite a federal law intended to ensure equal access to education.
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Jan 21, 2025
Trial begins in Brunswick, Ga. for a former district attorney accused of interfering with the police investigation into the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, nearly five years after he was murdered while jogging in a residential neighborhood.
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Jan 21, 2025
President Trump kicked off a slew of executive actions related to immigration in a signing ceremony at the Oval Office on Monday evening. Hear the latest on on those policies.
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Jan 21, 2025
Palestinians get a first glimpse at the destroyed southern city of Rafah in Gaza after Israeli troops withdrew following the ceasefire agreement with Hamas.
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Jan 20, 2025
President-elect Donald Trump is set to announce a series of executive actions on immigration after he is sworn in on Monday.
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Jan 20, 2025
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland talks about how Democrats may approach working with the new U.S. president.
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Jan 20, 2025
Rep. Raskin is one of the people Biden pardoned before he left office. Raskin says it's strange to be pardoned for doing his job.
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Jan 20, 2025
Thousands of visitors came to Washington, D.C., to see Trump's inauguration but won't get to see the ceremony in person after it was moved indoors. We get an inauguration day view from the streets.
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Jan 20, 2025
Thousands of visitors came to Washington, D.C., to see Trump's inauguration but won't get to see the ceremony in person after it was moved indoors. We get an inauguration day view from the streets.
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Jan 20, 2025
NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donalds, a Trump campaign surrogate, about how the new Trump administration would fulfill its promises to voters.
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Jan 20, 2025
In a statement, Biden said the pardons "should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing." President-elect Trump has criticized many officials Biden pardoned.
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Jan 20, 2025
President-elect Donald Trump takes office Monday and Democratic organizers are not seeing the mass-scale opposition they witnessed in 2017. So, they're adjusting with a focus on Trump's agenda.
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Jan 20, 2025
Sen. Raphael Warnock holds the same pulpit Martin Luther King Jr. once preached from. He told Morning Edition that "your life's project should be longer and larger than your lifespan."
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Jan 20, 2025
Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock is also a pastor at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, where MLK Jr. held the same position. Warnock talks about what he's learned about Rev. King's teachings there.
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Jan 20, 2025
College football will get a new national champion tonight. Notre Dame takes on The Ohio State University in the first expanded playoffs of college's top division.
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Jan 20, 2025
Many Latinos hope Trump will help them economically, but some immigration lawyers say those in the U.S. without legal status should worry. Hear what Latinos in two Massachusetts communities are saying.
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Jan 20, 2025
TikTok is back online in the U.S. after going dark for about 14 hours. The blackout affecting 170 million American users was lifted after President-elect Trump vowed to pause the federal ban.
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Jan 20, 2025
President-elect Trump has promised to end two foreign conflicts. NPR correspondents in Israel, Russia and Ukraine asked people about their hopes and fears as Trump takes office.
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Jan 20, 2025
President-elect Trump will get sworn in today for his second term in the White House. We preview what we know about the day.
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Jan 20, 2025
What will resistance to Trump's education policy look like this time around? NPR hears from Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.
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Jan 20, 2025
Victor Willis of the Village People says their music is for everyone, defending the group's choice to perform at Trump's inaugural celebrations as a message of inclusivity.
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Jan 17, 2025
Maine Public reporter Ari Snider heads out on a couple of Maine's lakes to explore the burgeoning sport of "wild ice skating." (Story aired on All Things Considered on Jan. 16, 2025.)
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Jan 17, 2025
Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., joins NPR's Michel Martin to discuss Israel's security cabinet approving a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal. The agreement still needs the full cabinet's OK.
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Jan 17, 2025
On its last weekday in power, the Biden Administration has chosen the next batch of drugs up for price negotiation in Medicare.
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Jan 17, 2025
The state has been slow to adopt rules to protect Florida's endangered springs. While a boom in residential construction has increased the amount of groundwater being taken from the aquifers.
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Jan 17, 2025
The National Park Service stays out of the debates about crowd sizes — including for President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.
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Jan 17, 2025
The Apple TV series emerged as an engrossing puzzle box of a show when it first debuted three years ago. And it just got even more surreal.
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Jan 17, 2025
Inauguration Day marks the first time in more than 20 years that Kamala Harris will not be in public office. "It is not my nature to go quietly into the night," she told allies on Thursday.
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Jan 17, 2025
Israeli Security Cabinet meeting to vote on ceasefire deal with Hamas, Supreme Court expected to rule on law banning TikTok in U.S., LA residents and insurance companies hiring private firefighters.
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Jan 17, 2025
Mustafa Barghouti, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, joins to discuss the latest developments on the Gaza ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.
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Jan 17, 2025
At any time, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on law that will ban TikTok in the U.S. on Jan. 19. Nobody knows what to expect from incoming President Donald Trump on this issue.
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Jan 17, 2025
The law mandates that TikTok be banned in the United States on Jan. 19, unless Chinese company ByteDance divests itself of ownership. Attorneys for TikTok had challenged the law's constitutionality.
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Jan 17, 2025
Analysts say the country will burn a lot more natural gas in the coming years to meet soaring electricity demand, potentially locking in decades of heat-trapping emissions.
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Jan 17, 2025
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with the outgoing U.S. ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns. He says China faces certain challenges, like a slowing economy and a declining population.
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Jan 17, 2025
Mortgage rates have hit 7%. Mark Hamrick, Washington bureau chief for Bankrate, talks about what this means for borrowers and how this will affect the housing market.
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Jan 17, 2025
David Lynch created off-kilter classics such as "Blue Velvet," "Wild at Heart," "Mulholland Drive" and the innovative TV series "Twin Peaks." He was 78.
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Jan 16, 2025
NPR's Leila Fadel asks longtime diplomat and former Mideast peace negotiator Aaron David Miller about the U.S. role in a phased execution of the Gaza ceasefire agreement.
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Jan 16, 2025
After half a century in politics, President Biden bids farewell to public life in a speech from the Oval Office, warning about the concentration of power in the hands of a few ultrawealthy people.
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Jan 16, 2025
For our series Seeking Common Ground, a landlord and a man seeking Section 8 housing find they agree on something mundane but maddening: the amount of paperwork required to find and manage housing.
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