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From NPR. President Trump says he’s planning for a meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He made the comments after meeting with Zelenskyy and then several other European leaders at the White House yesterday. Trump also says he wants to set up a trilateral meeting between the Putin, Zelenskyy and…
From NPR. NPR’s “News Now” is a roundup of the top stories of the day. Click “Show More” for a list of today’s stories: 0:00 Today’s Top Stories 0:16 Trump Planning For Putin, Zelenskyy Meeting 1:03 Hamas Official Confirms Ceasefire Accepted 1:59 Texas Democrat Locked Inside State Capitol 2:59 DOJ Sharing Epstein Files With House…
From NPR. Kellogg is planning to get rid of artificial dyes from its all of its cereals by the end of 2027. The maker of Froot Loops, Frosted Flakes and Apple Jacks says it wants to give consumers “more of what they want and need” — like whole grains and fiber — “and less of…
From NPR. As artificial intelligence tools begin to handle more junior programming tasks — with routine tasks like writing basic code, running tests and creating documentation now often automated — some companies are re-thinking how and whether they need to hire entry-level software engineers.
From NPR. Hurricane Katrina exposed longstanding flaws in the New Orleans criminal justice system. In the 20 years since, there has been dramatic change in the public defender office.
From NPR. It may still feel like high summer, but for some students, it’s high time to hit the books — with students’ return to school now happening well before Labor Day in some places. A study by the Pew Research Center found substantial regional variations: The Southwest may start weeks before those in the…
From NPR. NPR’s “News Now” is a roundup of the top stories of the day. Click “Show More” for a list of today’s stories: 0:00 Today’s Top Stories 0:18 Trump Hosts Zelenskyy At The White House 1:17 Ex-Israeli Chief Calls Gaza Deaths ‘Necessary’ 2:23 Trump’s D.C. ‘Crisis’ Enters Its 2nd Week 3:20 Trump Pushes To…
From NPR. Each year for the past 89, Galax, Va., has hosted what it proclaims is the world’s oldest and largest fiddler’s convention. People come from all around to keep alive a rich American musical tradition.
From NPR. Teams representing the U.S., Germany and over a dozen other countries are in Beijing this weekend to prove themselves in boxing, soccer and several other contests. But the athletes aren’t human, they’re robots. The World Humanoid Robotics Games, which are cosponsored by the Beijing municipal government, got underway Thursday and run till Sunday.…
From NPR. NPR’s “News Now” is a roundup of the top stories of the day. Click “Show More” for a list of today’s stories: 0:00 Today’s Top Stories 0:15 Ukrainians Eye Today’s Summit 1:08 Newsom Pushes Redistricting Plan 2:02 D.C. Sues Over Federal Takeover 3:01 Supreme Court Allows Social Media Law 3:51 Construction Underway On…
From NPR. President Trump has ordered the removal of homeless encampments in Washington D.C., but advocates say there are few shelter beds and no affordable housing.
From NPR. NPR’s “News Now” is a roundup of the top stories of the day. Click “Show More” for a list of today’s stories: 0:00 Today’s Top Stories 0:17 Trump’s D.C. Takeover Ramps Up 1:34 Trump Defends His Kennedy Center Involvement 2:32 Newsom To Announce Redistricting Plans 2:53 Abbott Calls Another Special Session 3:40 Court Rules…
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From NPR. A legal filing to the Supreme Court by former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis looks to overturn its decision allowing same-sex marriage nationwide. Shortly after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision extending marriage rights to same-sex couples, Davis was briefly jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses on religious grounds. She’s appealing a…
From NPR. NPR’s “News Now” is a roundup of the top stories of the day. Click “Show More” for a list of today’s stories: 0:00 Today’s Top Stories 0:16 White House Manages Summit Expectations 1:00 Supreme Court Pressed To Overturn Obergefell 1:50 White House Orders Review Of Smithsonian Exhibits 2:47 ICE Ordered To Improve Conditions…
From NPR. Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif and four of his colleagues were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday night in Gaza City. They were sheltering outside the Gaza City Hospital complex. Reporters Without Borders says Israel’s lethal attacks on the media in Gaza have created the highest death toll for journalists ever recorded in…
From NPR. An explosion at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh killed two people and sent at least 10 others to the hospital. The steel plant, U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works, is considered the largest coking operation in North America. Rescue officials said a fire started at the plant shortly before 11 a.m. when an…
From NPR. NPR’s “News Now” is a roundup of the top stories of the day. Click “Show More” for a list of today’s stories: 0:00 Today’s Top Stories 0:17 Groups Protest Trump’s D.C. Takeover 1:20 U.S. Prepares To Host Putin In Alaska 2:29 Trump Taps Conservative Economist To Lead BLS 3:50 Swift Announces Her 12th…
From NPR. Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif and four of his colleagues were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday night in Gaza City. They were sheltering outside the Gaza City Hospital complex. Reporters Without Borders says Israel’s lethal attacks on the media in Gaza have created the highest death toll for journalists ever recorded in…
From NPR. In a news conference Monday morning, President Trump announced his administration would be deploying the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and asserting federal control over the city’s Metropolitan police department. He said the moves were necessary to quell what he has described as an epidemic of crime and homelessness in the nation’s capital.…
From NPR. NPR’s “News Now” is a roundup of the top stories of the day. Click “Show More” for a list of today’s stories: 0:00 Today’s Top Stories 0:07 Trump Federalizes D.C.’s Police 0:54 Preparations Underway For Summit 1:53 Netanyahu Defends Plan To Seize Gaza 2:10 Israel’s Military Kills Al Jazeera Journalist 3:14 Australia To…
From NPR. A new study has found that chimpanzee babies pick up communication styles from their mothers. This suggests that our ability to communicate using words and gestures could go back to over 6 millions years ago.
From NPR. The soundtrack of the animated film "KPop Demon Hunters" has launched two fictional bands into the Billboard top 10. The Netflix movie tells the story of a girl group called HUNTR/X, whose members moonlight as demon hunters. In the film, they do battle with a demon boy band called Saja Boys. The songs…
From NPR. The Trump administration is accelerating plans to place a nuclear reactor on the moon to power a base for humans. The reactor would launch to the moon by 2030, according to a directive by acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy that was sent to NASA officials in July and obtained by NPR. It’s an…
From NPR. NPR’s “News Now” is a roundup of the top stories of the day. Click “Show More” for a list of today’s stories: 0:00 Today’s Top Stories 0:16 Israeli Security Cabinet Approves Plan To Take Over Gaza City 1:22 Democrats Retaliate On Redistricting Efforts 2:11 Trump Moves To Omit Residents Without Legal Status From…
From NPR. There’s been an outpouring of grief around the world for Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist who was shot and killed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The suspect is a settler well-known for his attacks on Palestinians. The man who died helped make this year’s Oscar-winning documentary, "No Other Land," which is about settler…
From NPR. NPR’s “News Now” is a roundup of the top stories of the day. Click “Show More” for a list of today’s stories: 0:00 Today’s Top Stories 0:14 White House Claims Progress In Ending Russia-Ukraine War 1:18 Trump Threatens To Impose 100% Tariffs On Computer Chips 1:45 Trump Moves To Omit Residents Without Legal…
From NPR. Israel began allowing aid drops from cargo planes last week, but Palestinians say the aid, from countries like Egypt, Jordan, France and Germany, are not as helpful as they may seem. The airdrops land haphazardly, sometimes in the sea and sometimes the food is spoiled or unfit for human consumption. There are also…
From NPR. NPR’s “News Now” is a roundup of the top stories of the day. Click “Show More” for a list of today’s stories: 0:00 Today’s Top Stories 0:18 RFK Jr. Cancels Funding To mRNA Vaccine Research 1:05 Trump Says FBI May Arrest Texas Democrats After Walkout 1:59 Kristi Nome Working To Build Another Migrant…
From NPR. A new Trump administration plan will require travelers from certain countries to pay a bond of up to $15,000 before getting a tourist or business visa to enter the U.S. The move from the State Department may make the process unaffordable for many. The department said it would start a 12-month pilot program…
From NPR. NPR’s “News Now” is a roundup of the top stories of the day. Click “Show More” for a list of today’s stories: 0:00 Today’s Top Stories 0:19 Absent Texas Democrats Face Fines, Arrest After Leaving State 1:36 Pressure Growing In Israel To Allow Full Annexation Of Gaza 2:36 U.S. May Require Some Foreign…
From NPR. More than 50 Texas House Democrats left the state Sunday, one day after a bill that would dramatically redraw Texas’ congressional maps passed a state legislative committee in the GOP-led House of Representatives. The Texas House requires 100 members be present to conduct business, and the House only includes 88 Republicans. The Democrats’…
From NPR. NPR’s “News Now” is a roundup of the top stories of the day. Click “Show More” for a list of today’s stories: 0:00 Today’s Top Stories 0:19 Texas Democrats Flee State to Stop Redistricting Vote 1:35 Trump Says He’s Looking For ‘Fairness’ In Latest Tariffs Update 2:09 Trump Adviser Defends Firing Of BLS…
From NPR. The White House says it’s working to bring back a program that encourages kids to have a more active lifestyle. The Presidential Fitness Test for American schoolchildren was created back in 1966, and required kids to do sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups and the one-mile run as part of a test in school gym classes.…
From NPR. International pressure is growing for Israel to end the war in Gaza and allow much more food to enter the territory, where U.N. backed experts say a famine is unfolding.
From NPR. According to a new poll from the health research group KFF, most adults in the U.S. don’t plan to get another COVID-19 shot this fall, and many are confused about new federal vaccine policies. More than 1,200 adults were surveyed in July; 59% said they do not expect to get a COVID vaccine…
From NPR. NPR’s “News Now” is a roundup of the top stories of the day. Click “Show More” for a list of today’s stories: 0:00 Today’s Top Stories 0:20 Trump Orders New Tariffs 1:20 Judge Delays End To TPS 2:16 Witkoff, Huckabee In Gaza Today 3:10 Trump Renews Push To Lower Drug Prices 4:02 NTSB…
From NPR. "I combine my language with hip-hop so that, via hip-hop, my culture could continue living," says Eber Quisbert, a 40-year-old Bolivian rapper. Quisbert performs with his mentee and fellow Bolivian rapper, Carlos Orellana, 26, whose stage name is Andes Mc. The performers mix Spanish lyrics with Quechua and Aymara, two indigenous languages. One…
From NPR. “I think that chess is different from weightlifting and weightlifting is different from volleyball and middle school is different from the Olympics. So that’s exactly why I think that we shouldn’t be grandstanding on this as politicians,” the former presidential candidate told NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep. “We should be empowering communities…
From NPR. Palestinian officials have documented more than 1,000 Palestinians killed in the West Bank by Israeli settlers or soldiers and a sharp rise in settler attacks on Palestinians amid the Gaza war. Recently, a new wave of Israeli settler attacks has reached a Christian village there.
From NPR. The Department of Homeland Security is offering signing bonuses of up to $50,000 for new recruits who join ICE to serve as deportation officers, lawyers or investigators. The recruiting effort also involves recruiting posters similar to those from World War II.
From NPR. NPR’s “News Now” is a roundup of the top stories of the day. Click “Show More” for a list of today’s stories: 0:00 Today’s Top Stories 0:03 Witkoff Meets With Netanyahu 1:04 Trump: Canada Endangers U.S. Trade Deal 1:21 West Bank Death Condemned 2:14 ICE Offering $50,000 Sign-On Bonuses 2:31 Democrats React To…
From NPR. A magnitude 8.8 earthquake erupted in Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka peninsula on Wednesday morning — the region’s largest in 70 years. The powerful quake triggered tsunami waves and evacuation orders across the Pacific region, including in Alaska and Hawaii.
From NPR. NPR’s “News Now” is a roundup of the top stories of the day. Click “Show More” for a list of today’s stories: 0:00 Today’s Top Stories 0:03 Magnitude 8.8 Quake Hits Russian Peninsula 0:49 Israeli Minister On Palestinian State 1:48 U.S. GDP Grows 3% Amid Fed Meetings 2:29 Maxwell Seeks Immunity For Testimony…
From NPR. More than two million people living in Gaza are severely food insecure, with one in three going days without food, according to the United Nations. Doctors warn that prolonged and severe malnutrition is permanently damaging the health of children across Gaza.
From NPR. Authorities are looking into whether the gunman in Monday’s mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan was targeting National Football League offices in the building where police say he shot and killed four people and critically injured another.
From NPR. NPR’s “News Now” is a roundup of the top stories of the day. Click “Show More” for a list of today’s stories: 0:00 Today’s Top Stories 0:19 ‘Worst-Case Scenario’ Playing Out In Gaza 1:24 Death Toll Surpasses 60,000 In Gaza 1:39 Investigation Continues Into NYC Shooting 2:31 Shooter Opens Fire Outside Reno Casino…
From NPR. The tool is designed to be used by state and local election officials to ensure that only citizens are voting. But it was developed rapidly without a public process, and some of those officials worry the tool could be misused.
From NPR. Referring to the Department of Education and USAID, the former transportation secretary told NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep that “it’s wrong to burn these things down. But it’s also wrong to suppose that if Democrats come back to power, our project should be to just tape the pieces together just the way…
From NPR. Haenyeo women have genetic adaptations that make it safer to free dive even in near-freezing temperatures.
From NPR. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating an incident after one person was injured at Denver International Airport over the weekend. An American Airlines jet had just taken off Saturday when a mechanical problem sparked a fire. Passengers were forced to use an emergency slide to evacuate the plane.
From NPR. NPR’s “News Now” is a roundup of the top stories of the day. Click “Show More” for a list of today’s stories: 0:00 Today’s Top Stories 0:15 Trump, EU Agree To New Trade Deal 1:16 Tariffs Raising Prices As Students Return To School 1:54 Trump, Starmer Agree To Do More To Relieve Gaza’s…
From NPR. Pete Buttigieg says there’s been “rough and tumble politics” throughout U.S. history but what is happening today is “different in a way that offends every fiber of American civic values.” The one-time democratic presidential candidate tells NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep that “we have a president who really is attempting to become…
From NPR. NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep asked the former Transportation Secretary and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate whether he agrees that the country has changed and how Republicans captured the moment while Democrats have failed to do so. “I would mostly agree,” Buttigieg said. “I think democrats have been slow to understand the changes…
From NPR. Republicans won the 2024 election through a strategy that included an enormous number of podcast appearances. Now, Democrats are debating their future election strategy, and a lot of the discussion is taking place on podcasts. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut has been talking for months on NPR and elsewhere about a Democratic party…
From NPR. Don’t apply mosquito repellent like it’s perfume. To use mosquito repellent effectively, it’s helpful to understand how it works. So … how exactly does it work? Sammy Ramsey, an entomology professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, explains one theory. :mosquito: Click the link in our bio to listen to Life…
From NPR. Most North American shorebird populations are declining. But there are some success stories: Today, there are 45% more American oystercatchers than there were 17 years ago. That’s according to data from a coalition of more than 40 groups along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts that have spent nearly two decades collaborating on oystercatcher…
From NPR. “My partner and I both take a popular weight loss drug. She’s losing weight so much faster than me …” An anonymous letter writer asks how they can still celebrate their partner when they’re feeling jealous. Ronald Young Jr., host of the podcast “Weight For It” responds to this anonymous audience question.…
From NPR. Mosquitoes infect over 250 million people each year with the parasite that causes malaria, but new research in the journal "Nature" suggests those infections could be prevented with a tiny tweak to the mosquito’s genome. To infect a person, the parasite that causes malaria must travel from the mosquito’s gut to its salivary…
From NPR. NPR’s “News Now” is a roundup of the top stories of the day. Click “Show More” for a list of today’s stories: 0:00 Today’s Top Stories 0:07 Trump Tussles With Powell 1:07 France Will Recognize Palestine 1:57 Minister: Israel ‘Rushing’ Toward Wiping Out Gaza 2:56 Trump Leaves For Scotland Today 3:12 DOJ Questions…