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Oct 13, 2025
James Franklin has been fired as the coach of Penn State's football team. He'll get a buyout of almost $50 million, reflecting a trend of coaches getting large golden parachutes.
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Oct 13, 2025
Many of the headlines marking the passing of actress Diane Keaton this weekend have mentioned Annie Hall, the film that earned her an Oscar and made her a distinctively haphazard fashion icon. But there was always more to her, and audiences sensed that.
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Oct 13, 2025
An Asian Grocery store in Florida may have to close after more than 40 years in operation, in part due to new import tariffs.
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Oct 13, 2025
The pachycephalosaurs were a unique group of dinosaurs with domed heads. But scientists haven't known much about them because their fossils have been so incomplete. A stunning discovery from southern Mongolia has changed that.
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Oct 13, 2025
There was no physical barrier between the U.S. and Mexico for decades -- until one critical battle at the border changed it all.
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Oct 13, 2025
At least 64 people are dead after torrential rains fueled by twin Pacific storms triggered mudslides and severe flooding across five Mexican states.
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Oct 13, 2025
Twenty hostages are released by Hamas and more than 1,900 Palestinian detainees and prisoners are released by Israel as President Trump visits Israel and Egypt to mark an end to the Gaza war.
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Oct 13, 2025
As part of the ceasefire deal, Israel released nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners on Monday. The majority were detainees and prisoners arrested in Gaza and returned there to a huge celebratory crowd.
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Oct 13, 2025
The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded today two three professors -- two in the U.S. and one in Europe -- for their research on how technology and "creative destruction" fuels economic growth.
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Oct 13, 2025
In Uvalde, a new school built with security upgrades is opening three years after the Robb Elementary shooting.
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Oct 13, 2025
Two years into office, Argentina's President Milei faces a faltering economy, corruption scandals, and sinking popularity.
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Oct 13, 2025
All 20 surviving Israeli hostages have been freed by Hamas after spending more than two years in captivity in Gaza.
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Oct 13, 2025
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who stepped down from the court in 2018, has written a book about his life on the court and off. It's far more revealing than most books written by justices.
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Oct 13, 2025
The ICE detention center in Folkston, Ga., is expanding to become the nation's largest immigrant detention facility. Operated by a private prison corporation, it will hold more than 4,000 detainees.
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Oct 12, 2025
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Ana Gonzalez and cellist Yo-Yo Ma about their new podcast 'Our Common Nature' from WNYC, which connects music with nature and place.
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Oct 12, 2025
The American sci-fi novelist Ken Liu talks about his new thriller All That We See or Seem and the blurred lines between technology, reality, and imagination.
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Oct 12, 2025
Fred Ramsdell was camping with his family in the Rocky Mountains when he missed the call telling him he'd won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Oct 12, 2025
As Halloween approaches slasher movies draw their biggest audiences as All Things Considered host Andrew Limbong talks with NPR's Brianna Scott and Ryan Benk about what keeps the genre alive and why it still fascinates audiences.
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Oct 12, 2025
NPR's Andrew Limbong talks to Moshe Lavi, brother-in-law of Omri Miran, who is an Israeli hostage held in Gaza. Miran is one of twenty living hostages expected to return to Israel.
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Oct 12, 2025
All living Israeli hostages are expected to be released Monday under the ceasefire brokered by President Trump. Palestinian families in Gaza return home to sift through what's left.
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Oct 11, 2025
Diane Keaton has died at 79 — the Oscar-winning actress was known for Annie Hall and The Godfather films. New Yorker critic Michael Schulman reflects on her career and enduring influence.
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Oct 11, 2025
Alt.Latino host Anamaria Sayre tells the story of how Chilean puppet show 31 Minutos became an international sensation after their Tiny Desk performance.
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Oct 11, 2025
Cynthia Abrams with NPR Member station WPLN reports from Humphreys County, where officials say at least 18 people are missing and feared dead after an explosion at a military explosives plant.
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Oct 11, 2025
Texas Public Radio's Camille Phillips reports from Uvalde, where a new school built with security upgrades opens three years after the Robb Elementary shooting.
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Oct 11, 2025
Author and critic Lincoln Michel talks about Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai's Nobel win and what it shows about who gets recognized in world literature.
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Oct 11, 2025
After surviving a dangerous sea crossing, many migrants who reach Spain's Canary Islands find themselves stranded for months, unable to work and clinging to the hope that life will be better once they reach mainland Spain.
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Oct 11, 2025
National security scholar Tom Nichols argues that Trump has taken control of the nation's intelligence and justice systems and is now testing the military's independence.
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Oct 11, 2025
President Trump is expected to arrive in Israel on Sunday night as both sides prepare for the release of Israeli hostages and nearly 2,000 Palestinian detainees and prisoners.
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Oct 10, 2025
In Maine, oyster farmer and military veteran Graham Platner has become something of a phenomenon in his bid to topple Republican Sen. Susan Collins in next year's midterm election.
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Oct 10, 2025
Nashville singer-songwriter Madi Diaz is out with her new album. Fatal Optimist an introspective album that is her most stripped down, acoustic record to date.
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Oct 10, 2025
Peru's Congress has ousted President Dina Boluarte for "moral incapacity," plunging the country's fragile democracy into deeper uncertainty.
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Oct 10, 2025
The creators of beloved political puppet shows in France and Russia feel déjà vu over the Jimmy Kimmel saga, as they recall being shut down for displeasing the powerful.
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Oct 10, 2025
A California-based firm plans to build the first privately funded uranium enrichment plant in Kentucky amid efforts to bolster the country's domestic uranium enrichment.
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Oct 10, 2025
Channing Tatum plays a real-life robber who hid out in a Toys"R"Us in the new movie Roofman.
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Oct 10, 2025
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with with Emilia D'Albero, the first American to win the title of "Best Cheesemonger in the World."
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Oct 10, 2025
Israeli forces have pulled back a line agreed in the Trump truce deal, allowing Hamas to start gathering hostages for release
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Oct 10, 2025
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Venezuela's leading opposition figure, Maria Corina Machado. The 58-year old democracy leader has been in hiding since 2024.
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Oct 10, 2025
As President Trump pushes to get National Guard troops patrolling American cities, his administration has, in effect, blurred the lines between traditional law enforcement and immigration enforcement.
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Oct 10, 2025
Fairbanks, Alaska, gets extremely cold and dark in the winter, and residents turn to all kinds of hobbies to keep seasonal depression at bay. For one man, that includes ornate balloon art projects.
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Oct 10, 2025
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Christopher Blevins, the first U.S. male winner of the World Cup for cross-country mountain biking in 34 years.
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Oct 10, 2025
Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the beloved chaplain for the Loyola Chicago men's basketball team who became an international celebrity during their 2018 Final Four run, has died.
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Oct 10, 2025
On Capitol Hill, there has been almost no sign of progress toward ending the shutdown. Senators say they aren't even formally negotiating, which begs the question: what are they actually doing?
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Oct 10, 2025
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Jake Sullivan, national security adviser to former President Biden, about President Trump's plan for peace in Gaza.
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Oct 10, 2025
The Trump administration says it has started the process of issuing reduction-in-force notices to federal employees. It's not clear how many agencies are affected or how many people.
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Oct 09, 2025
High-stakes legal arguments over President Trump's effort to deploy National Guard troops in Portland, Oregon and Chicago played out at the same time in two federal courthouses Thursday.
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Oct 09, 2025
The cost of health care for pets has been surging. It has almost doubled over the past five years. What is behind these rising costs?
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Oct 09, 2025
Meet a previously incarcerated mother who works with young people to prevent gun violence in Chicago, one of several American cities where the homicide rate has significantly dropped in recent years.
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Oct 09, 2025
The Attorney General in New York has been indicted on a bank fraud charge after President Trump urged the Justice Department to prosecute her.
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Oct 09, 2025
A food pantry inside Grand Canyon National Park is gearing up to again assist park employees missing paychecks due to the federal government shutdown.
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Oct 09, 2025
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Jacob Granger, emergency coordinator in Gaza for Doctors Without Borders, about the current humanitarian situation in Gaza amid news of a ceasefire agreement.
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Oct 09, 2025
A reporter reflects on two years and two days of war, and the mixed feelings of hope and skepticism now in Israel and Gaza.
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Oct 09, 2025
NPR Music's Stephen Thompson reports on a handful of newcomers to the pop charts.
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Oct 09, 2025
The newest Nobel literature laureate is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter who has been called "a master of the apocalypse."
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Oct 09, 2025
On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Brené Brown talks about trying to find the face of God in everyone she sees.
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Oct 09, 2025
Voters in three Colorado counties will decide in November whether to form a special tax district to fund childcare, which is becoming less affordable for families in the state.
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Oct 09, 2025
Pope Leo XIV released a major teaching document on Thursday about poverty. It's Leo's first major document since his election in May.
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Oct 09, 2025
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Jennifer Lopez, star of the movie musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, about her performance and how it makes her think about her own legacy.
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Oct 09, 2025
Would you pay $60 a pound for butter? Shoppers are spending big bucks for premium butter.
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Oct 09, 2025
A ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war could formally take effect today, and Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners could start going home as soon as this weekend.
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Oct 09, 2025
In a human body, cells are constantly making life-or-death decisions. If they make the wrong choice, the result can be cancer. It may be possible to treat diseases by influencing this behavior.
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Oct 09, 2025
Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them.
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Oct 08, 2025
President Trump announced that an agreement has been reached to end the war in Gaza — hours after his Secretary of State handed him a note during a White House event. He may travel to Egypt soon.
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Oct 08, 2025
One city that saw a surge of federal resources to crack down on crime is Albuquerque. The city is now taking a novel approach to dealing with crime without the use of federal resources.
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Oct 08, 2025
The struggling German auto industry turns to making weapons as the government spends billions on defense.
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Oct 08, 2025
NPR visits villages along the Lebanese-Syrian border where Israel has continued demolitions and attacks despite a ceasefire last year.
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Oct 08, 2025
In Italy, a super volcano outside of Naples is stirring in a way it hasn't for centuries. And hundreds of thousands of people live right by it.
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Oct 08, 2025
Jim Comey has pleaded not guilty on two felony charges and plans to argue he was improperly targeted by President Trump.
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Oct 08, 2025
Military Troops from Texas have started to arrive outside of Chicago as part of the Trump Administration's battle with Chicago over immigration enforcement.
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Oct 08, 2025
When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.
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Oct 08, 2025
When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame solar and wind power for the blackout. A new expert panel report finds the outage stemmed from high voltage.
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Oct 08, 2025
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Qassem Ali, an American citizen from Gaza. He left Gaza after war broke out two years ago.
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Oct 08, 2025
A Hindu nationalist group celebrates its centenary amid a remarkable trajectory: Once banned for its association with Gandhi's killer, a former follower now leads India.
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Oct 08, 2025
Today, federal and local law enforcement officials announced that they arrested a man for igniting the Palisades fire. It killed a dozen people and destroyed thousands of structures in January.
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Oct 08, 2025
Canadians who are usually drawn to New Orleans' French culture are staying away this year. Louisiana's lieutenant governor says that's because they're upset with President Trump.
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Oct 08, 2025
The White House is floating the possibility that some furloughed federal workers could be denied back pay once the government reopens. Some workers and experts say the law requires they get paid.
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Oct 08, 2025
Alysia Abbott's memoir about growing up in 1970s San Francisco with her gay, single father, has been adapted into a film directed by Andrew Durham and produced by Sofia Coppola.
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Oct 08, 2025
Ashleigh Brilliant has died. He was known for thousands of one-liners — witty statements or epigrams that he licensed and marketed as "pot-shots." He was 91.
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Oct 08, 2025
Many North Korean defectors in South Korea use a secret network of brokers to stay connected to those back home. But recently, South Korea investigated some of those brokers for espionage.
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Oct 08, 2025
Minutes before an important job interview, Oliver Muensterer realized he'd forgotten his dress shirt. A hotel employee offered a kind and unexpected solution — the literal shirt off his back.
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Oct 08, 2025
Nabarun Dasgupta, a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant for his work to understand the U.S. overdose crisis and help reduce deaths.
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Oct 08, 2025
A cartographer, a composer, a neurobiologist, and a novelist are among the recipients of this year's "Genius Grants." Each Fellow will receive a no-strings attached award of $800,000.
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Oct 07, 2025
Planned Parenthood in Wisconsin has stopped performing abortions even though they're legal in that state because of a new rule that stops Medicaid funding for clinics that provide abortion.
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Oct 07, 2025
After being lost in a Soviet vault for decades, the first feature film made in Idaho, in 1919, is now returning to screens. It includes significant depictions of Nez Perce tribal members.
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Oct 07, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical today about Colorado's ban on conversion therapy for minors. About half the states have such laws.
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Oct 07, 2025
More college students are using AI chatbots to help them with their studies. But data recently released by an AI company shows they're aren't the only ones using the technology.
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Oct 07, 2025
Now that the CDC has finally issued final guidelines for the updated COVID-19 vaccines, at least some of the confusion on eligibility should clear up.
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Oct 07, 2025
A shortage of air traffic controllers led to delays last night at airports serving New York, Los Angeles and Denver. It's one of several ways the government shutdown could impact commercial aviation.
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Oct 07, 2025
Israelis are paying heavy costs for the longest war in their history: a mental health crisis, trauma, unprecedented division during wartime, animosity abroad and apathy for Palestinian suffering.
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Oct 07, 2025
A huge threat to migrating birds is colliding with a building. Now birding groups are banding together with government agencies and others to form one united front to tackle the problem.
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Oct 07, 2025
Patients who want a deeper discount on obesity meds than compounding pharmacies can offer are turning to the gray market, where they buy the raw active ingredient from China and prepare it themselves.
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Oct 07, 2025
Some protestant churches in Texas are quietly embracing a new mission: providing ESL instruction to immigrants. Baptist churches in Plano, Waco and Austin say they're seeing rising enrollment.
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Oct 07, 2025
Attorney General Pam Bondi faced questions about her leadership of the Justice Department at a Senate hearing.
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Oct 07, 2025
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Illinois Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker about President Trump's efforts to deploy the national guard in Chicago.
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Oct 07, 2025
Increasing numbers of Americans rely on volunteer-run food pantries. But many of the volunteers are elderly. There's a shortage of young volunteers who can manage the physical work involved.
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Oct 07, 2025
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Mayci Neeley of Hulu's The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives about how her traumatic college days have shaped her relationship with her religion.
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Oct 06, 2025
Patricia Routledge, known for playing Hyacinth Bucket on the 1990s British television show Keeping Up Appearances, has died at age 96.
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Oct 06, 2025
In a memo obtained by NPR, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lays out details on the proposed deployment of Illinois National Guard to Chicago.
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Oct 06, 2025
John Yoo helped developed the legal framework for the post-9/11 wars in the George W. Bush Justice Department. He argues Trump trying to invoke war powers too extraordinary to be used against crime.
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Oct 06, 2025
The latest French government lasted just 18 hours as France's third prime minister in a year resigned. The two premiers before him were brought down in no confidence votes. He didn't get that far.
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Oct 06, 2025
The Picon Punch, a strong cocktail brought to Nevada by Basque immigrants, is having a big year. It just became the state's official drink, and a Nevada distiller is now making its main ingredient.
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