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Mar 30, 2025
NPR's Emily Kwong speaks with clinical social worker Marie Clouqueur on what it's like to be a solo caregiver and how to navigate the challenges.
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Mar 30, 2025
Writer and YouTuber John Green plays a game of Wild Card with NPR's Rachel Martin.
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Mar 30, 2025
Major League Baseball fields take months to prepare to ensure they're in top shape to wow audiences and minimize injury. We go to Baltimore to see how the Orioles prepare for their home opener.
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Mar 30, 2025
We investigate how the tech industry is thinking about its environmental footprint as it invests in energy-consuming new AI models.
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Mar 30, 2025
NPR's Emily Kwong speaks with writer Laila Lalami about her new book, "The Dream Hotel."
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Mar 29, 2025
The FDA's top vaccine regulator says he was forced out by the Trump administration and criticizes HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "misinformation and lies" about vaccines.
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Mar 29, 2025
We catch up on what's happened this week with the Signal chat group controversy, immigration enforcement actions, and new executive orders.
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Mar 29, 2025
The modern shopping cart — as we know it — didn't always exist, which meant it had to be invented. The How Curious podcast explores the history of the shopping cart.
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Mar 29, 2025
For this week's Reporter's Notebook segment, NPR Addiction Correspondent Brian Mann explains the reasons behind the surprise drop in overdose deaths across the country.
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Mar 29, 2025
Springtime is the season of flowers, but it's also a time for new music. Who is putting out interesting projects this season?
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Mar 29, 2025
From painting over a Black Lives Matter mural to temporarily scrubbing web stories of Navajo Code Talkers, scholars and activists say the Trump administration is trying to erase non-white history.
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Mar 28, 2025
Measles spreads quickly in communities where vaccination rates are low - and vaccine hesitancy has been on the rise for years. But amid a growing outbreak in Texas, vaccine enthusiasm is growing, as parents try to get their kids vaccinated early.
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Mar 28, 2025
Australian researchers say they are concerned about the future of scientific collaboration with the United States after its sudden withdrawal of funding for some of the country's top universities.
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Mar 28, 2025
Cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration could reduce the number of scallops harvested this season. Less data about the health of the fishery forces lower limits on harvesting.
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Mar 28, 2025
One week after a mass shooting with teenage victims and suspects, the small city of Las Cruces is figuring out how to move forward.
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Mar 28, 2025
Paul Whelan was part of the largest prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Russia since the end of the Cold War. But since coming home, Whelan says he's still imprisoned — by bureaucracy.
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Mar 28, 2025
Elon Musk is hoping his role in the White House will give a big boost to Starlink, his fast-growing satellite broadband network. And Musk may have the allies he needs in the Trump administration. Critics of Musk fear the billionaire could be poised for huge giveaway in the form of broadband and radio spectrum contracts.
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Mar 28, 2025
Movies adapted from books have a reputation for falling short. NPR's Scott Detrow talks with NPR's Barrie Hardymon and Andrew Limbong about what's good and bad about books turned into movies.
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Mar 28, 2025
A science experiment aboard NASA's Curiosity rover has found tantalizing traces of possible past life on Mars. But there could be other explanations for where these compounds came from.
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Mar 28, 2025
The World Trade Organization has long served as the referee for global trade disputes. But recently, it has been sidelined by the U.S. and others. So who referees the trade wars now?
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Mar 28, 2025
The southern Indian city of Chennai is known for its high achievers. In recent years, it has produced some of the world's most formidable chess players — and the youngest world champion.
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Mar 28, 2025
The Smithsonian Institution, a vast complex of research centers, museums and galleries, is the latest culture target of President Trump's executive orders.
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Mar 28, 2025
For the first week of Ramadan, Palestinians in Gaza marked the holy month with a respite from war. Then Israel broke a ceasefire with Hamas. The fighting and blockade mean there's little to celebrate.
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Mar 27, 2025
Thirty years after the death of Selena Quintanilla, Texas Standard's Raul Alonzo visits places in Corpus Christi where the icon of Tejano music is remembered and memorialized.
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Mar 27, 2025
Study in the Lancet finds that with US and European cuts to foreign assistance programs the provide AIDS treatments and medicines there will be millions of news cases and deaths from AIDS in the coming years. Reporter: Emanuel; Editor: Davis
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Mar 27, 2025
Wildfires in Los Angeles destroyed the only mosque in the Altadena area. As the community prepares to celebrate the end of Ramadan, it's finding ways to give kids — and adults — a sense of normalcy.
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Mar 27, 2025
The war between Russia and Ukraine is now largely being fought with drones. Ukraine is at the cutting edge of wartime drone innovation, producing over 2 million in 2024 -- but Russia is close behind.
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Mar 27, 2025
With a recurrence of cancer, famed conductor Michael Tilson Thomas is ending his musical career. One of his final concerts is in Miami Beach, where he'll lead the orchestral academy he helped found.
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Mar 27, 2025
The Major League Baseball season kicks off on Thursday. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to Keith Law, a senior baseball writer for The Athletic, about what fans should look out for.
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Mar 27, 2025
A newspaper on the rural Colorado-New Mexico state line says new tariffs on Canadian newsprint could be the straw that breaks their back financially. Many newspapers are barely hanging on.
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Mar 27, 2025
Friends and family of Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was arrested by U.S. immigration officials, are frightened and concerned for her safety.
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Mar 27, 2025
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Deann Borshay Liem, who was born in South Korea and adopted into an American family, about the Korean government admitting adoption agencies engaged in malpractice.
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Mar 27, 2025
Some prominent conservative media figures suggested that adding a prominent journalist to the group chat was evidence of the "deep state" though others said it was a security breach.
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Mar 27, 2025
Conservative media figures are responding to the news that top officials shared sensitive military information over texts. Some claim it's a hoax, others that it was a brilliant ploy.
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Mar 26, 2025
President Trump announced new tariffs of 25% on imported autos. The move is intended to encourage auto manufacturers to build factories in the United states.
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Mar 26, 2025
Muslims have been observing Ramadan, a time known for increased generosity. But in Pakistan's largest city, the spirit of Ramadan has also fueled a migration trend among charity seekers.
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Mar 26, 2025
In just 7 years, Peanut the Squirrel went from being an anonymous street rodent, to a famous influencer, to a billion dollar cryptocurrency. His story is a parable of the modern attention economy.
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Mar 26, 2025
The news of the leak to a reporter of life-and-death operational details lands differently with veterans and active duty troops, who can be prosecuted for much less significant "spillage" incidents.
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Mar 26, 2025
Each spring, hundreds of thousands of swans, geese, cranes and other waterfowl descend on a Montana lake on their way to the Arctic. A small town festival draws thousands of bird fans.
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Mar 26, 2025
More than three-quarters of U.S. oil wells, collectively, make just 6% of the country's oil. They're called marginal wells because of how small their output is. But they're a big deal.
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Mar 26, 2025
President Trump has signed an executive order requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. Voting rights advocates argue the order doesn't allow birth certificates to be used as documentation.
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Mar 26, 2025
On Wild Card, famous guests answer the kinds of questions we all think about but don't often talk about. Actor Uzo Aduba tells us about a moment when she realized her mom was only human.
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Mar 26, 2025
The markets have fallen lately. Your knee-jerk reaction might be to sell. NPR's Life Kit host Marielle Segarra explains why that's not a good idea -- and what to do instead.
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Mar 26, 2025
The Atlantic magazine published a group chat with the defense secretary that had details on U.S. airstrikes in Yemen. Democrats called for resignations while many Republicans said it's no big deal.
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Mar 26, 2025
The euphoria of Syria's new dawn has turned to violence. Alleged massacres of minority Alawites have sent a fresh wave of refugees into neighboring Lebanon.
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Mar 25, 2025
NPR's Juana Summers talks with John Verdi, senior vice president for policy at the Future of Privacy Forum, about 23andMe's bankruptcy filing and what a potential sale could mean for customers' data.
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Mar 25, 2025
The race for one seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court has become a test of how voters are feeling about President Trump's first months in office. It's also broken judicial race fundraising records.
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Mar 25, 2025
In March, the World Health Organization announced more than 200 health care facilities had shut down, or suspended operationsin Afghanistan as a result of the Trump administration's funding freeze.
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Mar 25, 2025
President Trump has vowed tariffs on Mexico and Canada, but the U.S. has a trade deal with its North American neighbors, one that Trump crafted in his first term. So what's the point of the deal now?
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Mar 25, 2025
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Emma Pattee. Her debut novel, Tilt, is about a devastating earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, and one pregnant woman's quest to get back home after it.
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Mar 25, 2025
NPR's Juana Summers talks with David Cole, who represented eight activists threatened with deportation for their pro-Palestinian views in 1987, about similar cases now, like that of Mahmoud Khalil.
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Mar 25, 2025
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia about questioning top Intelligence officials today on Capitol Hill about war plans being leaked in a group chat with a journalist.
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Mar 25, 2025
Lawmakers were split by party at a hearing Tuesday over how much attention they paid to sharing of sensitive military information with a journalist on Signal.
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Mar 25, 2025
The NCAA Women's Sweet 16 is set. NBC Sports Insider Nicole Auerbach breaks down the matchups ahead, the domino effect of the game's BIGGEST star JuJu Watkins' injury.
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Mar 25, 2025
Europeans react with surprise and humor to the report that U.S. defense officials discussed a military operation in Yemen via a group chat on the Signal app.
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Mar 25, 2025
The Senate confirmation hearing for Mike Huckabee, President Trump's pick for ambassador to Israel, is being held Tuesday after it was delayed by controversy over his appointment.
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Mar 25, 2025
Mia Love, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, defied stereotypes as the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, representing Utah from 2015 to 2019. She died on Sunday at age 49.
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Mar 25, 2025
The wildfires in LA were so large, they burned areas that weren't considered at risk. That means as residents start the process of rebuilding, thousands of them won't be required to use fire-resistant building materials. Experts say those materials dramatically reduce the chance a house will burn. But now, Los Angeles officials are changing the rules to require more homeowners to use these materials - a rare example of tightening the rules post-disaster, instead of loosening them.
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Mar 25, 2025
Following court decisions restricting the Trump administration's policies on immigration enforcement and cuts to federal agencies GOP lawmakers are pushing back. But they're split on how to respond.
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Mar 25, 2025
A tour of a grow facility in Maryland reveals the wide variety of scents from different cannabis strains.
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Mar 25, 2025
Hamdan Ballal, who won an Oscar for No Other Land about Palestinians under Israeli occupation, was attacked by Israeli settlers and later detained by Israeli security forces, his lawyer tells NPR.
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Mar 25, 2025
Eleanor Heginbotham was at the post office on New Year's Eve 2022 when her car wouldn't start. For 40 minutes, a group of strangers came to her aid, including someone who would later become a friend.
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Mar 25, 2025
Some are offering sanctuary to immigrants, others are ministering to families in different ways.
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Mar 24, 2025
Under the Trump administration, federal agencies are calling employees into the office. At the VA, therapists and doctors say this change is more than inconvenient — it could compromise patient care.
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Mar 24, 2025
As negotiators try to hammer out a partial ceasefire, NPR's Juana Summers talks to Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy about Russia's history of broken promises to Ukraine.
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Mar 24, 2025
Mama Nous writes children's lullabies and simple songs that acknowledge universal emotional truths and help people process their feelings. Kids love them, but so do adults.
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Mar 24, 2025
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with activist and astronaut Amanda Nguyen on her new book, Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope,
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Mar 24, 2025
The case is nearly identical to a case the court ruled on two years ago from Alabama, though the outcome could make it more difficult for minorities to prevail in redistricting cases.
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Mar 24, 2025
Israel's war against Hamas has killed tens of thousands of people, with the latest strikes targeting a hospital and journalists.
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Mar 24, 2025
Fighting growing wildfires in western North Carolina is hampered by debris left over from Hurricane Helene-related flooding, which was 6 months ago this week.
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Mar 24, 2025
K-pop group NewJeans, also known as NJZ, announced in Hong Kong on Sunday that they would be taking an indefinite break. The decision comes amid an ongoing legal battle with the group's record label.
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Mar 24, 2025
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Rachel Cohen, who wrote that she was resigning from her major law firm if it would not stand up to threats from the Trump administration.
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Mar 24, 2025
President Trump is banking on the public caring more about the politically popular things he is trying to do than how he is going about doing them in his fights with the judicial branch.
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Mar 24, 2025
How are churches and other houses of worship reacting to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown? Some are offering sanctuary to immigrants, others are ministering to families in different ways.
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Mar 24, 2025
A new study shows that the quality of a person's microphone in a video meeting affects how the speaker is perceived by others.
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Mar 24, 2025
Democrats need to flip three seats to take back the House next year - and the path to a majority likely runs through districts President Trump carried. Democrats who won alongside Trump offer their prescription for a party they say needs to make big changes.
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Mar 23, 2025
Pope Francis was released from the hospital in Rome where he's been held since mid February.
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Mar 23, 2025
How the self described "world's coolest dictator," El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, has been embraced by the Trump administration.
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Mar 23, 2025
LIfe Kit has tips on how to improve your resume.
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Mar 23, 2025
A team from All Things Considered recently went to Greenland for a reporting trip.
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Mar 23, 2025
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Christine Wenc, author of the new book Funny Because It's True: How the Onion Created Modern News Satire.
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Mar 22, 2025
Kitty Dukakis, the former first lady of Massachusetts and outspoken advocate for people with mental illness and addiction, has died.
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Mar 22, 2025
Hundreds of people were arrested during protests in Turkey overnight, as the main opposition party planned to nominate the imprisoned mayor of Istanbul as its presidential candidate.
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Mar 22, 2025
This weekend, maple producers throughout Maine are opening the doors to their sugarhouses. For one family of eighth-generation maple producers, this year has been a long time coming.
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Mar 22, 2025
Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet has performed with the world's most renowned orchestras on grand stages. He talks with NPR's Scott Detrow about his set at the Tiny Desk.
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Mar 21, 2025
The McNeese State University Cowboys beat out the Clemson Tigers on Thursday, marking its first March Madness victory in its 52-year history.
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Mar 21, 2025
European leaders gathering in Brussels agree to a massive defense fund that will "buy European" only.
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Mar 21, 2025
The new album from Belgian singer Tamino, Every Dawn's A Mountain, is a mysterious reflection on loss and change after he settled in New York City.
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Mar 21, 2025
Tech billionaire Elon Musk visited the Pentagon on Friday. Questions about the purpose of the visit ignited a firestorm.
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Mar 21, 2025
A look at the rise Israel's finance minister who has become perhaps the most influential man in the country, alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Mar 21, 2025
As the Trump administration invokes a decades old law in their pursuit of Tren de Aragua gang members, we find out more about their origins and their reach.
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Mar 21, 2025
Christie's held an auction for "The Bay of Eze," a painting by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. With fees and all, the painting ended up selling for 945,000 pounds.
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Mar 21, 2025
London's Heathrow Airport closed for after a nearby fire caused a major power outage at the facility. More than 1,300 flights were canceled, with hundreds of thousands of passengers affected.
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Mar 21, 2025
Amid mounting tensions between the White House and the judiciary, Federal Judge James Boasberg held a hearing on President Trump's push to use wartime powers to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members. Boasberg has been demanding answers from the Justice Department about whether the Trump administration violated his orders to halt removal flights to El Salvador, while families and lawyers for the men have come forward to dispute that they're gang members.
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Mar 21, 2025
This season of KALW's Uncuffed podcast features vignettes of the lives of people recently released from prison, called "Moments of Freedom."
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Mar 21, 2025
President Trump has remade the Oval Office, adding a copy of the Declaration of Independence behind a curtain, and lots of golden touches.
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