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May 28, 2025
The Atlantic writer George Packer calls JD Vance the most interesting figure in the Trump administration: "He's capable of complex thought, and I also think he may be the future of the MAGA movement."
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May 28, 2025
The goal of the changes, which head to the Senate next week, is to save money and send a signal that Republicans are tough on immigration.
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May 28, 2025
Developing countries owe billions to China, which threatens to undermine poverty reduction efforts and fuel instability, according to a new report from Australia's Lowy Institute.
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May 28, 2025
A small team of researchers responsible for keeping clinicians up to date on contraception research has been cut. Doctors say they rely on the team's guidance when advising women about contraception.
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May 28, 2025
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international correspondents share snapshots of moments from their lives and work around the world.
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May 28, 2025
When President Trump talks about his foreign policy, he often frames it as a business deal. He says much less about conventional diplomacy, like ending the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
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May 28, 2025
Speaking on Wednesday in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, Netanyahu said that Sinwar was killed in an Israeli airstrike, but did not provide specifics.
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May 28, 2025
A judge has denied a request to dismiss a lawsuit alleging Elon Musk and DOGE are wielding unconstitutional power within the government. Separately, Musk also criticized a Trump-backed spending bill.
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May 28, 2025
In his forthcoming book, The Party's Interests Come First, American University professor Joseph Torigian writes about Xi Jinping's father, Xi Zhongxun, a noted Chinese politician himself.
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May 28, 2025
Mariam Mohammed says her younger son died when she could not get treatment for him at a U.S.-funded clinic that had temporarily closed. Researchers say that are many thousands of cases like his.
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May 28, 2025
Todd and Julie Chrisley, who rose to fame in a reality show highlighting their lavish lifestyle, had been serving yearslong prison sentences after 2022 convictions on bank and tax fraud offenses.
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May 28, 2025
The federal government's latest guidance for COVID-19 vaccines is raising concerns among some independent experts. And, dozens of Palestinians hurt during first day of new Gaza aid distribution plan.
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May 28, 2025
Would-be homebuyers are finding lots of reasons to wait.
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May 28, 2025
Medicaid plays a vital role in many rural communities that favored President Donald Trump in the 2024 election. But residents still seem open to Republican plans to cut perceived waste in the program.
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May 28, 2025
The word pride has shifted over the millennia, from being first used to describe one of the seven deadly sins in Roman Catholic theology to becoming a global symbol for LGBTQ strength and empowerment.
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May 28, 2025
The State Department has halted the scheduling of new visa interviews for foreign students while it prepares to expand the screening of their activity on social media, officials said.
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May 28, 2025
Law officers searched Arkansas' rugged Ozark Mountains for an ex-police chief and convicted killer who escaped prison by impersonating a guard and walking out through a gate a guard opened for him.
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May 28, 2025
The Conservative Political Action Conference held its first meeting in Poland on Tuesday, just days before a presidential election between a liberal mayor and a conservative backed by President Trump.
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May 27, 2025
In an Arizona county that voted for Trump 2-to-1, many people rely on Medicaid, would hate to lose it, and are persuaded that there is fraud that can be cut from the program.
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May 27, 2025
In Colombia, former soldiers accused of atrocities during the countrys guerilla war are helping to locate and exhume remains of their civilian victims.
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May 27, 2025
Israel has ordered tens of thousand of Gazans to move to zone in the south
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May 27, 2025
Israel has ordered tens of thousand of Gazans to move to zone in the south
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May 27, 2025
In 1975, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape explored pernicious cultural and legal attitudes about rape and helped debunk the long-held view that victims were partly to blame.
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May 27, 2025
Macron said that the video depicts the couple "joking" and dismissed it as part of a disinformation campaign. Experts say Russian accounts are trying to undermine his image as a strong advocate for the West.
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May 27, 2025
Lumping his 31 feats together, Kami Rita Sherpa has climbed nearly 90,000 feet above sea level on the famous peak. He first climbed to the top of the world's highest mountain in 1994.
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May 27, 2025
Several dummy satellites were supposed to be launched, but a door on the ship did not open as planned.
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May 27, 2025
Several dummy satellites were supposed to be launched, but a door on the ship did not open as planned.
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May 27, 2025
After two spectacular failures, SpaceX is hoping this test flight will go more smoothly for the behemoth rocket.
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May 27, 2025
After two spectacular failures, SpaceX is hoping this test flight will go more smoothly for the behemoth rocket.
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May 27, 2025
A 90-day pause on triple-digit U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods has left exporters and importers in a high state of uncertainty. Factory owners in China tell NPR that orders are down overall.
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May 27, 2025
Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. announced that CDC recommendations for COVID vaccines will no longer include healthy pregnant women and healthy children.
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May 27, 2025
A letter from the U.S. General Services Administration, which is dated Tuesday, tells agencies to submit a list of contracts they have terminated with the university by June 6.
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May 27, 2025
NPR and three Colorado public radio stations are suing the Trump administration over the president's executive order seeking to ban the use of federal money for NPR and PBS.
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May 27, 2025
Harvard University President Alan Garber sits down with Morning Edition, where he doubles down on his decisions. And, a look at job losses within the DEI field among Corporate America.
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May 27, 2025
More than half of American workers don't have a college degree. Is manufacturing a ticket for them to the middle class?
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May 27, 2025
More than half of American workers don't have a college degree. Is manufacturing a ticket for them to the middle class?
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May 27, 2025
Although largely paused, President Trump's tariffs present a major threat to Japan's already flagging economy.
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May 27, 2025
Hells Canyon is the deepest river canyon in the United States. Now scientists have solved the mystery of when it formed.
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May 27, 2025
Cutting off research funding for Harvard University might hurt the school, its president Alan Garber told NPR, but it also potentially sets back important work that benefits the public.
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May 27, 2025
Schools in Maine have been at the center of a political battle with the Trump administration. Now, many fear after-school programs, critical for low-income communities, could be lost.
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May 27, 2025
Photographer Kavya Krishna documented Indian American communities across the United States, highlighting the shared threads and regional differences.
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May 27, 2025
"I just didn't think it would take this long," one veteran head of diversity, who's been job-hunting since last summer, tells NPR.
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May 27, 2025
Schools in Maine have been at the center of a political battle with the Trump administration. Now, many fear after-school programs, critical for low-income communities, could be lost.
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May 27, 2025
Years after their son left the U.S. to join ISIS, a Minnesota couple learned they had two young grandsons trapped in a Syrian desert camp. Bringing them home was more than a family matter.
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May 27, 2025
Lewis Pugh wants to change public perceptions and encourage protections for sharks — which he said the film maligned as "villains, as cold-blooded killers."
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May 27, 2025
Three more of the 10 inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail earlier this month were re-arrested Monday in two different states after more than a week on the lam, authorities said.
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May 26, 2025
A 53-year-old man is in police custody. He is from the Liverpool area and is believed to be the driver, police said.
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May 26, 2025
Dan Bongino, the deputy director of the FBI, says the bureau is refocusing on cases that pointed to "potential public corruption."
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May 26, 2025
It's a classic Washington power move — the late-on-Friday news dump.
This past Friday, at 4:30pm, start of a long holiday weekend, about half the staff of the National Security Council got emails asking them to leave by 5pm. Dozens of people abruptly dismissed.
The restructuring of the NSC as Secretary of State and National Security advisor Marco Rubio has characterized it — continues a trend in this second term for President Trump, of radical downsizing.
The Trump administration plans to cut thousands of intelligence and national security jobs across the government.
The US Government has long relied on scores of intelligence officials across the government to keep America safe. Trump wants many of them gone - what could that mean for security at home and abroad?
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May 26, 2025
The king's visit is being seen in Canada as an opportunity for the nation to bolster its sovereignty amid threats by President Trump to turn the United States' northern neighbor into the 51st state.
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May 26, 2025
Trump's remarks were a rare rebuke of the Russian president and followed a storm of drone and missile attacks on Ukrainian cities on Sunday evening.
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May 26, 2025
Efforts to improve officers' mental health have grown over the past five years. They were sparked in part by the death of George Floyd, which prompted a wave of anti- police protests.
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May 26, 2025
It's Memorial Day. To honor the fallen military service members this year, the Up First newsletter asked readers to share stories of their loved ones.
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May 26, 2025
In 2016, Tulika Prasad was at the grocery store checkout line with her seven-year-old son, who is non-verbal and autistic. A woman understood what was going on when Prasad's son had an outburst.
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May 26, 2025
Under the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule barring medical debt from appearing on credit reports. Now, the agency is siding with the credit industry groups suing to have the rule vacated.
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May 26, 2025
A performance of the masterpiece will be transmitted into space on Saturday. The waltz has been associated with space travel since its inclusion in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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May 26, 2025
Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.
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May 26, 2025
Food apps can help you figure out what's in your food and whether it's nutritious. Just scan the barcode on the packet with your phone. But different apps can give very different results. Here's why.
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May 26, 2025
President Trump has ordered a Veterans Affairs campus in West Los Angeles to house 6,000 homeless vets by 2028, but details are elusive.
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May 26, 2025
A dual U.S.-German citizen has been arrested on charges that he traveled to Israel and attempted to firebomb the branch office of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, officials said Sunday.
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May 26, 2025
Grant Hardin was the police chief of Gateway, Ark. for about four months in 2016. Corrections officials did not provide any details about how he escaped.
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May 25, 2025
President Donald Trump said Sunday that the U.S. will delay implementation of a 50% tariff on goods from the European Union from June 1 until July 9 to buy time for negotiations with the bloc.
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May 25, 2025
The 28-year-old rocketed past Andretti Global's Marcus Ericsson in the final laps of the contest and held onto the top position until the end.
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May 25, 2025
The bishop of Rome is one of many titles held by the pope. Duties related to the title are usually delegated to an auxiliary or assistant bishop, known as a vicar.
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May 25, 2025
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the home countries of some of Harvard's international students are "not at all friendly to the United States" and "pay NOTHING toward their student's education."
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May 25, 2025
It's a working-class staple. And it could be priced out of the market by government efforts to make bakeries change from wood-fired ovens to other fuels to curb air pollution.
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May 25, 2025
NPR visits a hospital in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, in a town where many residents have fled but some young couples are holding on and hoping to raise their children one day in peace.
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May 25, 2025
Five years after George Floyd's death sparked worldwide protests over police brutality and racism, NPR's Michel Martin reflects on Morning Edition's return to Minneapolis to examine what has changed.
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May 25, 2025
Hundreds more prisoners were exchanged Saturday in the largest swap since Russia's invasion. Drone strikes in Kyiv, meanwhile, left at least three people dead.
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May 25, 2025
At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured in strikes that hit more than 30 cities and villages across Ukraine.
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May 25, 2025
A section of California's scenic Pacific Coast Highway that has been closed since January's deadly Palisades Fire reopens in time for holiday weekend traffic, to mixed emotions and high hopes for Malibu businesses.
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May 24, 2025
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration late Friday to facilitate the return of a Guatemalan man it deported to Mexico in spite of his fears of being harmed there.
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May 24, 2025
The Pentagon restrictions on media covering the military follow a series of moves by the Trump administration to curtail press access. The changes overhaul historic access for the press.
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May 24, 2025
The singer canceled his summer tour dates and revealed he has a brain condition called normal pressure hydrocephalus. It's treatable but tricky to diagnose, doctors say.
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May 24, 2025
Your state DMV probably won't text you about unpaid fees — but scammers will.
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May 24, 2025
The latest criticism from the Trump administration of Harvard University highlighted the number of international students entering the United States each year for higher education.
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May 24, 2025
Cerro San Cristobal in the heart of Chile's capital offers stunning views of wildflowers, pine forests and the soaring Andes.
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May 24, 2025
Character actor George Wendt was known to a generation as Norm, the beleaguered, lovable everyman on the sit-com "Cheers." He died this week at the age of 76.
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May 24, 2025
Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.
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May 24, 2025
Trump's misleading video of a 'burial site' for white South African farmers reopened 'new wounds,' victim's son tells NPR.
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May 24, 2025
Memorial Day, observed on the last Monday in May, is a day to honor and mourn fallen military service members. NPR readers share stories of the loved ones they've lost.
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May 24, 2025
The sometimes uncomfortable sensations we feel in our teeth may be an evolutionary holdover from the scaly exteriors of ancient armored fish.
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May 24, 2025
Khalil's lawyers are trying to convince an immigration judge that if he's deported, Israel could target him over his advocacy for Palestinian rights.
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May 23, 2025
The NSC has traditionally played a pivotal role in advising the president for his biggest diplomatic and security decisions. But in Trump's second term, it has seen its influence shrink.
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May 23, 2025
A new study details the evolutionary change of Anna's Hummingbirds, finding their beaks have grown longer and more tapered to get the most from common feeders.
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May 23, 2025
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem got a pop quiz at a senate hearing this week. The question came from Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan, of New Hampshire.
Hassan asked Noem to to explain habeas corpus.
For the record, habeas corpus is the legal principle, enshrined in the Constitution, that protects people from illegal detention.
The reason that this bit of Latin is under discussion - is because the Trump administration says it's considering suspending habeas corpus.
This core constitutional protection has been an obstacle to the President's mass deportation plan.
Habeas corpus is a principle that's hundreds of years older than America itself.
What would it mean if the President suspended it? And could he, under the Constitution?
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May 23, 2025
Remains of the "Scattered Man John Doe" began washing ashore in New Jersey in 1995 and went unidentified for the next three decades. Students at Ramapo College set about to solve the mystery.
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May 23, 2025
A series of executive orders aims to promote new kinds of nuclear reactors while restructuring the body in charge of nuclear safety.
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May 23, 2025
The Justice Department says it has reached an agreement in principle with Boeing to drop a criminal case over two fatal crashes of 737 Max jets, despite objections from some victims' family members.
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May 23, 2025
Throughout the more than three years since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, drones have been a key tool and weapon used by both sides in the conflict. Because of this, Ukraine is at the cutting edge of drone innovation, churning out some two million unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, last year. These flying drones come in all sizes and they're produced in factories large and high-tech, as well as small and shoestring. In today's episode, NPR's Eleanor Beardsley takes us inside a drone-making operation in Kyiv.
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May 23, 2025
DOGE's push to cut some federal surveys conducted by the Census Bureau may be duplicating a White House agency's oversight work and weaken U.S. data infrastructure, experts warn.
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May 23, 2025
Shira Perlmutter's termination came shortly after the Copyright Office published a long-anticipated report on artificial intelligence.
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May 23, 2025
This comes in response to a lawsuit Harvard filed on Friday morning, challenging the Trump administration's abrupt move to revoke the school's ability to enroll foreign students.
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May 23, 2025
The White House budget office rejected the conclusion of a nonpartisan congressional watchdog that said the Trump administration is breaking the law by not spending funds as directed by Congress.
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May 23, 2025
Five years after George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer, the future of the intersection where it happened is uncertain. Today, a memorial is set up in the partially blocked street. But some want to move on. How does a community reckon with its past and confront its future?
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May 23, 2025
Ukraine and Russia have begun the exchange of 1,000 prisoners of war, the largest such swap since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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May 23, 2025
While tornadoes can obliterate communities, hailstorms cause damage across much larger areas.
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May 23, 2025
AAA predicts a record-breaking 45.1 million Americans will travel between Thursday and Monday, mostly by car and plane. Here's what to know if you're one of them.
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May 23, 2025
Trump said on social media that he had recommended 50% tariffs on European Union products starting June 1 — and warned Apple's CEO to move manufacturing of iPhones to the United States.
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May 23, 2025
A verdict is expected in the Paris trial of 10 people accused of robbing Kim Kardashian at gunpoint in 2016. French media nicknamed them "the Grandpa Robbers" — most were in their 60s when the heist took place.
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