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Judge demands to know if White House is helping return wrongly deported Maryland man

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 17:10

The hearing is the first about Abrego Garcia's case since El Salvador's president told reporters he is not going to "smuggle a terrorist into the United States."

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Trump signs executive action to lower drug prices

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 17:05

The action is intended to build upon the existing program for Medicare drug price negotiations, which was created by the Inflation Reduction Act that passed during the Biden administration.

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The White House is starting the process to eliminate funding for public media

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 16:22

The White House is proposing that virtually all federal funding for public media—that's NPR and PBS—be eliminated, starting a process that will reach Congress later in April.

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Top House Democrat says DOGE data access at NLRB may be 'technological malfeasance'

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 15:48

A top House Democrat is asking independent agency watchdogs to investigate after NPR reporting revealed DOGE may have taken sensitive data from the National Labor Relations Board.

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New Israeli ceasefire offer demands Hamas discuss disarming, but group rejects it

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 15:41

Hamas is rejecting a new Israeli proposal to pause the war in Gaza, a Hamas official told NPR. Earlier, officials mediating talks had expressed optimism that a deal could be reached within weeks.

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Higher ed war heats up as Trump threatens Harvard's tax-exempt status

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 15:34

The president's comments came after the administration froze $2 billion in federal grants for Harvard after the university rejected what it saw as illegal government demands.

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U.S. Army libraries target books with a focus on DEI or 'gender ideology' for removal

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 15:34

Books "overtly promoting DEI, gender ideology, and critical race theory" are under new scrutiny following a memo issued by acting Assistant Secretary of the Army Derrick Anderson.

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When an earthquake struck San Diego, these elephants formed an 'alert circle'

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 15:30

When a 5.2 earthquake hit near San Diego yesterday, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park caught its elephants on video taking action to protect their young, forming what experts call an "alert circle."

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Dismantling Democracy in Hungary

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 15:23

In his fifteen years as prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban has steadily chipped away at his country's democratic freedoms. We go to Budapest to see what the erosion of democracy looks like and we find that may of Orban's strategies are being studied by politicians elsewhere.

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A colossal squid is filmed in its natural habitat for the first time

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 15:00
Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, in its natural habitat. The team on Schmidt Ocean Institute's Research Vessel Falkor captured footage of the nearly one foot squid at a depth of 1,968 feet, using their remotely operated vehicle "SuBastian" on March 9, during an Ocean Census flagship expedition searching for new marine life.'/>

Colossal squid are known to be elusive and likely avoid the bright and loud research equipment used underwater.

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Mark Zuckerberg defends Meta in court against monopoly claims

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 14:53

In Zuckerberg's second day of testifying in the federal antitrust trial, he defended Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The U.S. government wants Meta to bust up the two companies.

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Trump moves to speed up asylum cases without court hearings

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 14:12

The memo could result in immigration judges deciding someone is not eligible for asylum without a hearing, and based solely on a lengthy and complex asylum request form.

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Photos: Two years of war in Sudan

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 14:09

Images of Sudan, after two years of civil war have led to the world biggest humanitarian crisis.

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Melinda French Gates on what billionaires with 'absurd' wealth owe back to society

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 12:07

In a new memoir, French Gates writes about the end of her marriage to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and her ongoing philanthropic work, directing funds and attention to women's health initiatives.

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Trump plans order to cut funding for NPR and PBS

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 11:18

President Trump and GOP members of Congress have accused the public broadcasters of biased and "woke" programming. The president plans a rescission, which would give Congress 45 days to approve the directive or allow funding to be restored.

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Sudan's war is 2 years in and shows no signs of slowing, as talks take place

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 11:09

As "pathway to peace talks" are held in London - minus the main protagonists - Sudan tips into a third year of catastrophic civil war, as violence surges in the Darfur region of the west of the country and activists warn of an unfolding genocide.

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States push Medicaid work rules, but few programs help enrollees find jobs

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 10:24

Some lawmakers are pushing to require that Medicaid recipients work in order to get or keep coverage, and some states already try to help them find jobs. But the effects of those efforts are unclear.

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How Trump's cuts to U.S. foreign aid are imperiling Syria's war crimes investigations

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 08:37

When former leader Bashar al-Assad fell, new Syria war crimes investigations began. But U.S. budget cuts have halted some work. For families of the disappeared, it means justice delayed or denied.

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DOGE cut a CDC team as it was about to start a project to help N.C. flood victims

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 08:00

The National Center for Environmental Health was hollowed out in the cuts of 10,000 federal health workers on April 1. That's the same day an assessment of people hurt in floods was set to begin.

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Whistleblower says DOGE took sensitive data. And, Harvard rejects Trump's demands

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 06:00

A whistleblower who works at NLRB says that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data. And, the Trump administration froze over $2 billion for Harvard after it rejected demands.

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