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Feb 05, 2026
Turmoil continues at the U.S. Attorney's office in Minneapolis. This week another attorney was removed from a special assignment dealing with immigration cases after telling a judge she hates her job.
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Feb 05, 2026
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with NPR's Geoff Brumfiel and Greg Myre about the upcoming meeting between Iran and the United States.
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Feb 05, 2026
To get ready to watch the Winter Olympics, we talk to former Olympian Tricia Byrnes about some snow boarding terminology.
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Feb 05, 2026
Several athletes are objecting to the International Olympic Committee over sponsorship of the Games by major oil companies. They say fossil fuel use threatens winter conditions needed for snow sports.
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Feb 05, 2026
President Trump recently signed an executive order targeting large institutional investors that buy up homes. But in some circumstances, those large investors have led to more housing affordability.
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Feb 05, 2026
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons says transgender youth should wait until age 19 to have any surgeries. Surgery is already rarely performed for transgender young people.
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Feb 05, 2026
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Father James Martin about his new book Work in Progress: Confessions of a busboy, dishwasher, caddy, usher, factory worker, bank teller, corporate tool, and priest.
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Feb 05, 2026
NPR's Short Wave talks about babies' perceptions of rhythm, how sleep may help us solve puzzles and why snakes may be able to fast so long.
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Feb 05, 2026
NPR Music's Stephen Thompson reports on new music shaping the charts.
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Feb 05, 2026
A once anonymous R. Kelly survivor, Reshona Landfair is now ready to reclaim her voice.
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Feb 05, 2026
A once anonymous R. Kelly survivor, Reshona Landfair is now ready to reclaim her voice.
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Feb 05, 2026
In Kyiv, dance parties on a frozen river keep spirits — and bodies — warm after Russian strikes shattered Ukraine's energy grid.
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Feb 05, 2026
Medical professionals say the Trump administration's reversal of a policy that kept immigration enforcement from happening in or near medical facilities is having an impact on people's health.
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Feb 05, 2026
In the search for Nancy Guthrie, law enforcement says they are investigating ransom notes that were sent to media.
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Feb 05, 2026
The latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll shows what Americans think of President Trump and his policies.
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Feb 05, 2026
Italy's Winter Olympics promised sustainability. But in Cortina, environmentalists warn the Games could scar these mountains for decades.
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Feb 04, 2026
Ron Teasley, one of the last remaining veterans of the Negro Leagues, has died. A native of Detroit, Teasley sparkled on the baseball diamond. He was 99.
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Feb 04, 2026
"Mudlarking" is the hobby of searching for keepsakes along muddy creek banks. An old marble is enough to get people outdoors for this pursuit best performed in the winter.
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Feb 04, 2026
A young French tennis coach who once lived the American dream describes being detained, shackled and expelled under the Trump administration's tightened border rules.
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Feb 04, 2026
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Ron Lieber, financial columnist for The New York Times, about the ins and outs of the newly created Trump Accounts.
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Feb 04, 2026
South Carolina released the newest numbers on its measles outbreak, and there's news of other cases around the country.
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Feb 04, 2026
The bipartisan budget that Trump just signed is a 180-turn from how funding for health agencies were slashed in 2025. But grantees and people in the agencies remain suspicious.
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Feb 04, 2026
Parkinson's disease can affect sleep, thinking and smell, as well as movement. A new study may explain why.
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Feb 04, 2026
The Trump administration is pulling hundreds of ICE agents from Minnesota — and allowing for the possibility of further drawdowns. Border czar Tom Homan says about 2-thousand officers will remain.
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Feb 04, 2026
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's efforts to revoke Temporary Protected Status for some 330,000 Haitian immigrants in the U.S., for now.
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Feb 04, 2026
Relatives of two Trinidadian men killed in a U.S. airstrike last year are suing over what they call extrajudicial killings. It's the first such case to land in an American courthouse.
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Feb 04, 2026
The Washington Post is cutting a third of its staff, leading some to say owner Jeff Bezos should sell the company.
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Feb 04, 2026
The last major arms control treaty between Russian and the U.S. will expire on Thursday, but experts are cautiously optimistic that there won't be another arms race. At least not right away.
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Feb 04, 2026
The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner is trying something new — instead of a musical for Broadway, he's written an opera, now playing in Philadelphia.
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Feb 04, 2026
Russia escalates hybrid attacks across Europe, threatening infrastructure, civilians, NATO.
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Feb 04, 2026
Despite issues with her heart, this octogenarian still competes in triathlons. She's proof that preventive medicine paired with smart lifestyle choices help seniors stay active longer.
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Feb 04, 2026
Ski mountaineering is a new sport in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy and mogul skiing, gets an additional twist; skiers now participate in pairs.
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Feb 04, 2026
A new message board for artificial intelligence agents has prompted some strange conversations, and existential questions about the inner lives of bots.
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Feb 04, 2026
Kid, meaning a young goat, is a word that was borrowed from the Vikings around the 9th century. Centuries later, it came to mean a child and a teasing joke.
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Feb 04, 2026
The Trump administration's immigration efforts have led some Democrats to call for abolishing ICE. Others won't go as far, wary of appearing out of step with voters who want immigration laws enforced.
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Feb 03, 2026
A massive tunnel project that would link New York and New Jersey could run out of money by the end of the week. Developers are suing the Trump administration in an effort go get the funding flowing.
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Feb 03, 2026
Epstein's photos and emails have already prompted King Charles to strip his brother Andrew of his title "prince." Now, they've prompted one of Britain's top diplomats — Peter Mandelson — to step down.
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Feb 03, 2026
A Muslim school near Birmingham, Ala., was thriving — winning academic awards, increasing enrollment and looking to expand. Then came the lawn signs, the first warning that trouble was on the way.
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Feb 03, 2026
A coyote was spotted swimming to Alcatraz and now appears to be thriving. Ecologist Christopher Schell at the University of California Berkeley has been following this saga.
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Feb 03, 2026
NPR's history podcast Throughline speaks with Ken Burns about his latest documentary, The American Revolution.
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Feb 03, 2026
NPR's history podcast Throughline speaks with Ken Burns about his latest documentary, The American Revolution.
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Feb 03, 2026
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with David Graham of The Atlantic about President Trump's vision for the Kennedy Center and the intersection of art and politics.
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Feb 03, 2026
Kimberly Blaeser, a former poet laureate of Wisconsin, will accept a prize from the National Book Foundation next month for her collection of poems, Ancient Light.
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Feb 03, 2026
A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends detainees to other states and, eventually, other countries.
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Feb 03, 2026
President Trump said in an interview he wants Republicans to "nationalize" elections. It's the latest instance of Trump's willingness to meddle in election administration.
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Feb 03, 2026
Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse at the VA Hospital in Minneapolis. Some staff feel the VA Secretary hasn't done enough to honor their colleague.
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Feb 03, 2026
A Jewish heritage foundation has set out to help restore private property appropriated after Syrian Jews left the country.
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Feb 03, 2026
Better engineering has made the front seat much safer in head-on collisions. But the back seat hasn't kept pace. It's a problem one vehicle safety group is trying to solve.
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Feb 03, 2026
The House has approved a spending bill to end a short-lived partial government shutdown. Now lawmakers will begin contentious negotiations over new guardrails for immigration enforcement.
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Feb 03, 2026
The 41-year-old's remarkable comeback from retirement was thrown into jeopardy after she hurt her knee during a crash in competition last week. But that won't keep her from racing in the Olympics.
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Feb 03, 2026
A period drama, a Supreme Court case and voice our film critic hadn't heard in decades.
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Feb 02, 2026
While winter storms caused major power outages in Nashville, its downtown music scene saw a lot more locals who took up hotel rooms usually occupied by tourists.
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Feb 02, 2026
Of all the relationships Trump has had with world leaders, the one with Colombia's President has perhaps been one of the most volatile - but for the first time on Tuesday, President Petro will hold a face to face meeting with President Trump at the White House.
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Feb 02, 2026
Dark matter makes up most of the universe, yet we have very little understanding of it. Scientists recently released a map that gives the clearest picture yet of what dark matter looks like.
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Feb 02, 2026
A growing body of research on dinosaurs' closest living relatives suggests the method that's been used to estimate how old a dinosaur was when it died may be leading paleontologists astray.
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Feb 02, 2026
More than 3 million newly-released pages of the Epstein files show more about the life and relationships of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. They also contain unredacted names of his accusers.
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Feb 02, 2026
In the wake of Minnesota, several Democratic-led states are looking for ways to limit immigration agents' activities. Some Republican-led states are ordering local governments to cooperate with them.
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Feb 02, 2026
Bad Bunny made history Sunday night at the Grammys, taking home the most coveted prize: album of the year.
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Feb 02, 2026
Olympic gold medalist and winningest US cross country skier ever Jessie Diggins is hanging up her ski boots at the end of this season. Her openness about struggling with eating disorders has won her fans off of snow, too.
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Feb 02, 2026
Immigration attorneys and advocates see Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case as a symbol of the bigger travails of mass deportation.
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Feb 02, 2026
Gaza's key border crossing with Egypt opened briefly for the first time in a year. Only a handful Palestinians were able to leave, but it's an important step in an undertaking to rebuild Gaza.
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Feb 02, 2026
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Annie Farmer, one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims, about what may be in the final release of the Epstein files by the Department of Justice.
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Feb 02, 2026
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with music journalist and mental health advocate Kiana Fitzgerald about the latest public apology from the artist formerly known as Kanye West.
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Feb 02, 2026
After President Trump announced plans for a "Complete Rebuilding" of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., what exactly did he mean, and what does it mean for the arts?
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Feb 02, 2026
The Trump administration says it's reviewing thousands of cases to look for potential fraud. A judge ordered a temporary pause, saying refugees cannot be arrested "without warrants or cause."
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Feb 02, 2026
Eight years ago, Joann Moschella was injured after her bicycle was hit by a car. That's when her unsung hero appeared, dressed in a furry lavender bunny suit.
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Feb 01, 2026
House Speaker Mike Johnson predicts the partial shutdown will be over by Tuesday.
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Feb 01, 2026
A Minnesota woman says that after she filmed immigration agents, the officers chased her, detained her at gunpoint, and later dropped her off with local police.
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Feb 01, 2026
Nearly a month after U.S. forces seized Nicolás Maduro, Caracas is settling into an uneasy normal, with major changes and lingering questions about what lasts and what comes next.
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Feb 01, 2026
Immigration crackdowns may be slowing U.S. population growth and reshaping the economy, says Luke Pardue, policy director at the Aspen Institute Economic Strategy Group.
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Feb 01, 2026
Two Memphis pastors, Stephen Cook and Latif Salar, are working to protect Afghan church members after the Trump administration halted asylum processing.
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Feb 01, 2026
Silicosis is an often deadly lung disease linked to inhaling toxic dust from cutting engineered stone. California has passed new safety measures for workers in the last few years, but doctors say they aren't enough.
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Feb 01, 2026
Hezbollah is being squeezed in Lebanon as Iran's economic crisis limits support, and the U.S. presses Beirut to force the group to disarm while Israel keeps bombarding Lebanon.
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Feb 01, 2026
An NPR panel looks at how movies portray Americans abroad, from romantic self discovery to culture clash and stereotypes.
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Jan 31, 2026
A partial government shutdown is now underway. How long it will last depends on congressional agreement over a DHS funding deal that proposes new guardrails on immigration enforcement.
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Jan 31, 2026
NPR congressional correspondent Barbara Sprunt watched U.S. lawmakers attempt a diplomatic rescue mission in Denmark amid the Greenland crisis.
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Jan 31, 2026
Losing democracy once can make it harder to restore it, even after a democratic government returns to power. University of Birmingham professor Nic Cheeseman analyzed three decades of data.
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Jan 31, 2026
What does it mean to have faith, and where do our moral codes come from? Scott Carter of 'Ye Gods' podcast tries to tackle these big questions.
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Jan 31, 2026
Dorothy Brown, a Georgetown University law professor, lays out a case for reparations in her new book Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past.
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Jan 31, 2026
Who are the Bnei Menashe, an ethnic group from India that has been immigrating to Israel? Judy Maltz of Ha'aretz has covered the community for more than a decade.
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Jan 31, 2026
Madison Beer talks about her new album 'Locket', and growing up in the public eye since age 13.
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Jan 30, 2026
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Paul Schnell, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Corrections, over his agency's dispute of Homeland Security claims around arrest numbers.
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Jan 30, 2026
Borders between Pakistan and Afghanistan have been closed since October, disrupting trade around the region. It's part of a broader dispute over how to handle increasingly active militant groups.
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Jan 30, 2026
Scientists have discovered what they say is the earliest known rock art, in a cave in Indonesia. They say the image dates to more than 67,000 years ago.
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Jan 30, 2026
On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Oprah opens up about how she stayed grounded when she first rose to fame.
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Jan 30, 2026
We look at the potential for conflict between local police and federal immigration agents as Democratic states consider banning law enforcement from wearing masks or otherwise concealing their IDs.
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Jan 30, 2026
Actor Catherine O'Hara has died at the age of 71. She had a long career, winning an Emmy for her role on the sitcom Schitt's Creek, and spent years as a featured player in Christopher Guest movies.
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Jan 30, 2026
O'Hara observed people closely; she found the tics, the mannerisms, the specific beats of drunkenness and used them to open us up to her characters' frailty, their vulnerability, their humanity.
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Jan 30, 2026
Residents of Nashville are still struggling to recover from a winter storm as more freezing weather is expected this weekend.
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Jan 30, 2026
The government is set to shutdown at the end of the day Friday. Shutdowns have evolved in recent years from rare collapses of government function to increasingly frequent political tools.
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Jan 30, 2026
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz about the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in his state.
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Jan 30, 2026
The Justice Department says it has released more than 3 million pages of materials tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, to comply with the law.
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Jan 30, 2026
President Trump announced he plans to nominate Kevin Warsh to succeed Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve. Gene Sperling, former director of the National Economic Council, weighs in.
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Jan 29, 2026
Senators have reached a deal they hope will avoid a lengthy government shutdown and allow time to negotiate reforms to the Department of Homeland Security.
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Jan 29, 2026
The Department of Justice and FBI are ceding their traditional role leading investigations in the wake of shootings in Minneapolis to the Department of Homeland Security.
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Jan 29, 2026
Destin Conrad went from teen social media star to a musician touring the world on some of its biggest stages. In 2025, he put out both an R&B and jazz album and earned his first Grammy nomination.
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Jan 29, 2026
A year after the midair collision near Washington, D.C., families of the victims are pushing for action on aviation safety, including crash-avoidance technology. And they're digging in for a fight.
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Jan 29, 2026
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin about the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis and the impasse over Department of Homeland Security funding on Capitol Hill.
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Jan 29, 2026
As tensions simmer between the European Union and the U.S. over the Trump administration's trade policies and its play for Greenland, we've been hearing about the EU's economic "bazooka." What is it?
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