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Jul 01, 2025
Much of Europe, including France, is dealing with a brutal heatwave. Some people are better prepared than others in a country where most people do not have air conditioning.
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Jul 01, 2025
The budget bill passed by the Senate would roll back renewable energy incentives. That could short-circuit a manufacturing boom and increase electricity costs while making it harder to curb pollution.
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Jul 01, 2025
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled so far from Earth that the relative position of the stars is beginning to shift — a fact that could help future spacecraft navigate the galaxy on their own.
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Jul 01, 2025
The Trump administration has invoked antisemitism as a reason to cut university funds, ban travelers and deport student activists. But some from the Jewish community say these steps miss the mark in fostering safety and fighting antisemitism.
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Jul 01, 2025
Drowning is the number one cause of death for children ages 1-4 in the United States. NPR's Life Kit has water safety tips to keep young swimmers safe this summer.
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Jul 01, 2025
Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart has died at the age of 90, following a heart attack last month. The Pentecostal preacher had an audience of millions before a sex scandal in the late 1980s.
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Jul 01, 2025
Ahead of the July 4 holiday, a new poll from NPR/PBS News/Marist sheds light on how people are feeling about the state of democracy, the political parties and the job President Trump is doing.
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Jul 01, 2025
New research shows that certain bacteria in the microbiome soak up "forever chemicals," or PFAS. The findings raise the possibility that probiotics could help remove some PFAS from our bodies.
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Jul 01, 2025
This week, a disabled young woman moved out of a hospital to her own apartment. The Trump Administration celebrated its role in this. Even though it's ending the federal program that made it possible.
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Jul 01, 2025
President Trump toured a deportation facility in the middle of the Florida Everglades as the Senate passed the megabill.
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Jul 01, 2025
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Michael Ricci, who's worked with multiple congressional Republicans and is now a professor at Georgetown University, about the bill's prospects in the House.
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Jul 01, 2025
Under the Great Plains, there's an aquifer powering the region's agriculture system. But it's running out of water, prompting farmers in middle America to consider more environmentally friendly crops.
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Jul 01, 2025
Thimerosal has been a target of groups that question vaccine safety. What vaccines still contain the mercury compound, and what would happen if the recommendations against its use become official?
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Jul 01, 2025
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Tamara Yajia about her memoir, Cry for Me, Argentina: My Life as a Failed Child Star and growing up with her unconventional family in the U.S. and Argentina.
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Jun 30, 2025
The jury considering the charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation for prostitution against the music mogul Sean Combs began its deliberations.
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Jun 30, 2025
Authorities in Idaho are trying to learn more about the man they say started a fire, then ambushed and shot three responding firefighters, killing two. The suspect is dead and his motive is unknown.
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Jun 30, 2025
Work requirements for Medicaid are proposed as a way to cut costs in the big budget bill. Studies find they achieve cost savings by kicking off legitimate beneficiaries because of a paperwork burden.
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Jun 30, 2025
A punk duo is under investigation in the U.K. and banned from performing in the U.S., after its singer led anti-Israeli military chants during a BBC live broadcast of the Glastonbury arts festival.
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Jun 30, 2025
NPR'S Andrew Limbong and Anamaria Sayer review the latest album from Karol G, Tropicoqueta.
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Jun 30, 2025
After a meal some people experience high spikes in blood sugar followed by a crashing low. The dips can cause fatigue, moodiness and lead to overeating. Learning how to manage your blood sugar can help.
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Jun 30, 2025
With decisions from executive power to deportation authority, the conservative supermajority of the Supreme Court sided with President Trump most of the time.
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Jun 30, 2025
The court closed its latest term on Friday, but it will still be working on a steady stream of emergency appeals in the coming weeks and months.
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Jun 30, 2025
It may have come as a shock to the political world, but something about Zohran Mamdani's message resonated with Democratic voters for New York City Mayor.
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Jun 30, 2025
The Senate is holding amendment votes on the GOP tax and spending bill ahead of as self-imposed July 4 deadline for getting the bill to President Trump's desk.
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Jun 30, 2025
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sarah Jane Tribble, chief rural correspondent for KFF Health News, about how the Reconciliation Bill's cuts to Medicaid could impact rural hospitals.
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Jun 30, 2025
The Trump administration has issued a notice of violation accusing Harvard University of "deliberate indifference" toward Jewish and Israeli students.
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Jun 30, 2025
Canada scrapped a digital services tax that would have hit U.S. tech companies such as Google and Amazon after President Trump halted trade talks and threatened higher tariffs on Canadian imports.
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Jun 30, 2025
People who can no longer move or speak may soon have a new option: an implanted device that links their brain to a computer.
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Jun 30, 2025
Andrew Roth survived the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. Jack Moran helped liberate the camp while serving in the U.S. Army. Decades after liberation, the two met and shared their stories.
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Jun 30, 2025
As a college freshman, Karen de Boer was sometimes inconsiderate to her hallmate, Pam. So when Karen missed the bus to her choir performance, she was surprised — and moved — when Pam came to her rescue.
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Jun 29, 2025
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Tyler Kepner of the New York Times about the life and legacy of baseball writer Scott Miller.
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Jun 29, 2025
We discuss President Trump and Kim Jong Un's past negotiations and the difficulties of reporting on North Korea.
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Jun 29, 2025
During World War II, the United States arrested hundreds of Japanese, German and Italian immigrants and deported them to America where they lived in camps.
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Jun 29, 2025
A 1983 routine cleaning at Boerne High School in Texas yielded a rare and precious find: a thick, ornate Bible wrapped in cloth and written in low German. Now it will soon be seen online.
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Jun 29, 2025
The romance genre continues to grow rapidly, as readers flock to fantasy and dark romance love stories.
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Jun 29, 2025
Fans of fireworks may get a little less bang for their buck this Independence Day. Most fireworks are made in China, which means they're now facing an import tax of at least 30%.
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Jun 29, 2025
The race to create more powerful artificial intelligence applications has also created a huge demand in China for high quality training data.
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Jun 29, 2025
Senate Republican leaders are still negotiating details of their massive tax and spending bill and moving toward a final vote sometime on Monday.
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Jun 28, 2025
NPR's Anastasia Tsioulcas discusses the closing arguments in the sex trafficking and racketeering trial of hip hop mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs.
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Jun 28, 2025
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Bloomberg News Supreme Court reporter Greg Stohr about what we've learned about the makeup and direction of the court from this term's rulings.
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Jun 28, 2025
Former Minnesota Speaker of the House Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark are memorialized in a funeral in Minneapolis. They were assassinated in their home June 14 in an attack that shocked the nation.
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Jun 28, 2025
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Caryn Rose about the surprises and treasures in the new Bruce Springsteen box set release this week.
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Jun 28, 2025
KPBS's podcast Port of Entry about the borderlands between Tijuana and San Diego explores the complexities of "life on the line."
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Jun 28, 2025
NPR's Andrew Limbong leads a conversation about what constitutes a great premise for a movie - and why a good one sticks with you, even if the film doesn't.
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Jun 28, 2025
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Cristina Costantini, director of the new documentary, "Sally," about the life of astronaut Sally Ride.
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Jun 27, 2025
The Orthodox Christian tradition is strong in the tiny village of Kwethluk, Alaska. It recently welcomed clergy and pilgrims from around the world to canonize a local midwife and healer as a saint.
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Jun 27, 2025
A growing number of people who take SSRIs are saying they've suffered difficult withdrawal symptoms from long-term use, including dysphoria and sexual dysfunction.
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Jun 27, 2025
NPR's science podcast Short Wave shares how taking a nap can deliver a eureka moment, a new picture of a planet right after it was born, and how wildfires can affect water quality - after the fires stop burning.
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Jun 27, 2025
In the Bay Area, a number of drag artists have started incorporating climate action into their performances. They say the art form is a natural vehicle for the message, given its roots in activism.
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Jun 27, 2025
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to take steps aimed at implementing its ban on birthright citizenship. It has also made it far more difficult to challenge executive orders.
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Jun 27, 2025
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to take steps aimed at implementing its ban on birthright citizenship. It has also made it far more difficult to challenge executive orders.
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Jun 27, 2025
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Stanford law professor Jeffrey Fisher about the Supreme Court ruling that parents have the right to remove their kids from class when books with LGBTQ themes are used.
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Jun 27, 2025
Slain Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark will be buried Saturday as the public still grapples with the aftermath of the shocking political assassination a couple weeks ago.
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Jun 27, 2025
It usually happens to your computer right in the middle of something important: The dreaded Microsoft Windows blue error screen. Now Microsoft is retiring the blue screen of death for a new color.
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Jun 27, 2025
EDM mega-star Steve Aoki continues to break genre boundaries with his new album HiROQUEST 3: Paragon.
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Jun 27, 2025
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have signed what President Trump is calling a peace deal. But the text leaves lots of questions in a complicated war in a mineral rich region of Africa.
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Jun 27, 2025
President Trump said he has had a "big week" between Supreme Court rulings, a ceasefire in Iran and a new NATO pledge. But a couple major promises remain unmet.
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Jun 27, 2025
Ukraine tries to shield its cities from near-nightly Russian drone attacks using air defense systems and snipers in trucks on the ground - and, in the Black Sea, gunners on speedboats.
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Jun 27, 2025
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with the University of Virginia's Amanda Frost, who studies immigration and citizenship law, about the Supreme Court ruling that dramatically limits federal judges' power.
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Jun 27, 2025
Murders are falling dramatically in many U.S. cities, after a surge in 2020 and 2021. Crime analysts say a reinvestment in communities from both the government and private sources after the disruption of the pandemic is a key reason.
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Jun 27, 2025
An effort to privatize U.S. air traffic control in 2017 never took off. Now the aviation industry is uniting behind the Trump administration's plan to overhaul the system.
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Jun 26, 2025
Argentine pianist and composer Lalo Schifrin, best known for his scores for Mission: Impossible and more than 200 other films and TV shows, including Bullitt, Mannix and Cool Hand Luke, has died.
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Jun 26, 2025
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Dr. Allen Frances, about his piece in the New York Times titled, "Autism Rates have Increased 60-Fold. I Played a Role in That."
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Jun 26, 2025
In the 10 years since the legalization of same-sex marriage across the U.S., religious support for the right has increased significantly. But opposition among some religious groups persists.
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Jun 26, 2025
Former First Lady Michelle Obama says she's starting a new chapter of her life where she's saying "no" more often. It comes as she reassesses her priorities in life after her mother's death.
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Jun 26, 2025
Genetic testing company 23andMe never hit on a sustainable business model and went bankrupt. Now, it's being sold to a non-profit launched by the co-founder, delaying addressing data privacy concerns.
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Jun 26, 2025
President Trump has said anti-corruption law is crippling American businesses. Since taking office, his administration has reduced the number of investigators, killed some cases and changed the rules.
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Jun 26, 2025
It's always been hard to get accurate information about wars. But artificial intelligence tools are making it more challenging as social networks are flooded with fake videos and images.
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Jun 26, 2025
As extreme heat grips much of the country, some power grids may struggle to keep up with rising energy demand. But that is not the only challenge grid operators face in this heatwave.
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Jun 26, 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has defended the U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites, saying the attacks were the most complex and secretive military operation in history.
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Jun 26, 2025
Brad Pitt stars in F1, a film about a Formula One racing team from the director of Top Gun: Maverick.
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Jun 26, 2025
California has seen its Gray Wolf population grow quickly over the last decade. Now, ranchers say the wolves are killing and stressing their livestock. They advocate for more options to ward them off.
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Jun 26, 2025
Senators hit a snag in their plan to scale back Medicaid costs as part of a massive tax and spending bill, now they're hoping to regroup and move forward.
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Jun 26, 2025
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with actress Mariska Hargitay about My Mom Jayne, her documentary about her mom, Jayne Mansfield, and how her understanding of her mom's life changed through making it.
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Jun 26, 2025
Signs installed earlier in National Parks earlier in June asked for feedback on signs "that are negative about past or living Americans." Comments viewed by NPR didn't provide the requested feedback.
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Jun 26, 2025
The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted on the flu vaccine, raising concerns about a rarely used preservative. Medical groups worry this will "sow distrust" in vaccines.
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Jun 26, 2025
We take a hike in the Maine woods with high school students who've been given the option to hike instead of sit in detention.
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Jun 26, 2025
"I'm a die-hard Bond fan," Denis Villeneuve says. The Quebecois filmmaker's hiring comes as a relief to British 007 fans who had feared the worst when U.S. company Amazon MGM took control of Bond.
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Jun 26, 2025
The Supreme Court allowed South Carolina to remove Planned Parenthood clinics from its state Medicaid program, even though Medicaid funds cannot generally be used to fund abortions.
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Jun 25, 2025
A federal judge in Tennessee ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the man the government mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador — to be released from prison until his trial on federal charges.
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Jun 25, 2025
A federal judge in Tennessee ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the man the government mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador — to be released from prison until his trial on federal charges.
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Jun 25, 2025
In London, an actor playing Evita sings "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" from a balcony over the street. It's livestreamed back into the theater - frustrating ticket holders but delighting the public.
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Jun 25, 2025
A Salvadoran journalist was arrested in Georgia while covering a protest. He ended up in ICE detention and is awaiting a deportation hearing.
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Jun 25, 2025
In the South American nation of Peru, going to school can mean going up against gangsters. Criminals demanding extortion payments are threatening to blow up schools and kill their teachers.
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Jun 25, 2025
The Sacred Harp, a book of religious tunes first printed in 1844 is getting an upgrade. And shape note singers who use it are very excited.
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Jun 25, 2025
Parts of the Midwest and East Coast have seen record-breaking temperatures this week. Climate change is making heatwaves more intense.
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Jun 25, 2025
U.S. authorities continue to be on alert for any potential threat on U.S. soil stemming from President Trump's decision to bomb Iran.
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Jun 25, 2025
Congress designated money for building new EV chargers, but the Trump administration put a freeze on those funds. A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction ordering the program to resume.
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Jun 25, 2025
With the win of a progressive candidate over a former governor in New York's mayoral primary, Democrats are determining what — if anything — they should do moving forward to attract more voters.
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Jun 25, 2025
Siarhei Tsikhanouski, Belarus' key opposition figure, is free after spending nearly five years in jail. His wife, Sviatlena , talks about taking up her husband's mantle after his imprisonment.
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Jun 25, 2025
The Israel-Iran ceasefire that President Trump brokered is holding, for now. Here's what it's like in Israel, as the country opens back up without fear of Iran's missiles.
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Jun 25, 2025
Germany is aiming to field the largest army in the European Union with massive investment.
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Jun 25, 2025
President Trump was pressed on his assertion that U.S. strikes had obliterated Iran's nuclear program at the end of the NATO summit.
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Jun 25, 2025
The Pentagon is looking to rename ships named after civil rights icons, including the gay rights leader Harvey Milk. For LTBTQ sailors who saw the Navy as a refuge, it feels like a betrayal.
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Jun 25, 2025
Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assembly member and Democratic socialist, came in first in Tuesday's ranked-choice primary. Here's what to know about his policies, personal life and past.
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Jun 25, 2025
After long days focused on the facts, our newsroom reads a lot of fiction at home. We asked our NPR colleagues what they've enjoyed reading so far this year. Here's what they told us.
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Jun 25, 2025
Reaching Iran's most fortified nuclear enrichment site is a challenge, even for the world's biggest conventional weapons.
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Jun 24, 2025
President Trump says U.S. and Israeli forces destroyed Iran's nuclear program. Analysts say Iran may have moved its uranium stockpiles. There's little trust, by all sides, in diplomacy.
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Jun 24, 2025
South Africa's cricket and rugby teams have reached top spots in their sports under the leadership of Black captains. Fans are united in a nation still grappling with the legacy of racial division.
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Jun 24, 2025
Sotheby's in Paris is actioning off a collection of relics from Napoleon's private world, including rings, a travel throne and one of his iconic bicorn hats.
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