Opinion: Remembering Kevin Klose, former NPR president and broadcasting icon

Former NPR President Kevin Klose.

We remember Kevin Klose, former NPR president, who helped secure financial stability for the network while supporting and encouraging its journalism.

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NPR News58 minutes, 14 seconds ago

Tired of waiting for your EV to charge up? One Chinese company has a novel solution

An electric vehicle is seen at NIO battery swap station on March 9, 2025 in Yantai, Shandong Province of China.

Chinese car company NIO is putting up EV battery swapping stations all around the world. NPR took a ride in one car for the experience.

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NPR News2 hours, 28 minutes ago

Born in south Lebanon, displaced to Beirut, two grandmothers reflect on Israeli invasions

Mariam Allawiya, 60 (left), and Kafa Wehbe, 67, sit together in a vacant apartment building in central Beirut after they were displaced from southern Lebanon by Israel

They grew up amid olive groves in southern Lebanon. The son of one married the other's daughter. Now they're living temporarily in a vacant building in central Beirut, displaced many times.

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NPR News2 hours, 30 minutes ago

Caracas' iconic macaws threatened by vanishing palm trees

A pair of blue and gold macaws visit Mabel Carnago

In the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, flocks of colorful macaws that once brightened city skies now face disappearing nest sites — and with them, a unique urban bond.

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NPR News2 hours, 30 minutes ago

She invited her friends to come together to make her casket

MaddyChristine Hope Brokopp weaves the bottom of a burial tray. Brokopp enlisted her friends to weave her tray after a cancer diagnosis.

Friends gathered at a weaver's studio in Massachusetts to help MaddyChristine Hope Brokopp make her casket.

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NPR News3 hours, 14 minutes ago

Uncertainty over the Strait of Hormuz remains, as ceasefire nears its end

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press aboard Air Force One on April 17, 2026 just prior to landing at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.

Iran's military said on Saturday the Strait of Hormuz has "returned to its previous state." The announcement came after President Trump had said the blockade on Iranian ports would remain in place.

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NPR News3 hours, 29 minutes ago

What's it like to negotiate with Iran? We asked people who have done it

A Pakistani Ranger walks past a billboard for the U.S.-Iran peace talks in Islamabad on April 12, 2026. The talks, led by Vice President JD Vance, produced no concrete movement toward a peace deal.

Experts who spent months negotiating a 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran say mutual mistrust, starkly different negotiating styles, and the complexity of the issues make a quick deal unlikely.

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NPR News3 hours, 30 minutes ago

Sitting in a jail cell, alone and hopeless, a man's life is suddenly changed

Jay (not pictured) found himself alone and hopeless in a jail cell when a fellow inmate

Jay found himself sitting in a jail cell, alone and hopeless, after attempting to break into a building on his college campus. A fellow inmate's unexpected words brought him comfort — and changed the course of his life.

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NPR News3 hours, 30 minutes ago

Not just Trump: Redistricting race will hinge on what these state leaders did

Clockwise from top left: Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson, Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, Virginia state Sen. Louise Lucas, Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows, Indiana Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray and Utah District Judge Dianna Gibson.

An 82-year-old Virginia senator raising the stakes, an Indiana consensus builder and a Texas enforcer are among state officials who have shaped the course of the midterm redistricting race.

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NPR News10 hours, 5 minutes ago

Judge halts local TV giant Nexstar's takeover of rival Tegna until trial

Columbus, Ohio is one of the cities where Nexstar owns and operates two major television stations following its acquisition of rival TV group Tegna.

U.S. Judge Trevor Nunley ruled that consumers could suffer irreparable harm if Nexstar integrated Tegna's stations into its own operations ahead of an antitrust trial.

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NPR News11 hours, 50 minutes ago

Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump

Entrance to Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas.

Twenty-nine people have died in ICE custody since October, the start of the federal government's fiscal year, already surpassing 2004's toll of 28, the previous record, according to government data.

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NPR News14 hours, 3 minutes ago

Animal activists celebrate their first global 'Sanctuary Day'

It's been 40 years since animal advocates founded a sanctuary for farm animals in New York and California, and they say April 17 is their first global sanctuary day.

NPR News17 hours, 42 minutes ago

Gasoline could drop below $4 in coming days

Gasoline prices are displayed outside of a Shell gas station in West Hollywood, California on April 14. Prices vary around the country, and are highest on the west coast; the nationwide average has risen by more than $1 per gallon since the start of the Iran War, but is expected to drop if a decrease in crude oil prices is sustained.

Gasoline costs should start to fall soon, although a full recovery to pre-war prices is expected to take months. That's assuming that peace holds and traffic flows resume through the Strait of Hormuz.

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NPR News23 hours, 15 minutes ago

Why scientists are nervous about fungi

This is a strain of Candida auris cultured in a petri dish at a laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It

They can pose a threat to human health — yeast infections are but one example. Scientists say not enough attention is paid to their ability to develop resistance to medications that treat them.

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NPR News23 hours, 53 minutes ago

Leaders urge for restraint as 10-day Israel-Lebanon ceasefire takes effect

Displaced residents travel through the Qasmieh area as they gesture on the way back to their homes in the southern Lebanon, on April 17, 2026. A 10-day ceasefire deal struck between Lebanon and Israel took effect on April 17, sending displaced residents streaming south towards their homes, even as the Lebanese army warned of "a number of violations" in the area.

Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group, acknowledged the ceasefire, but did not say whether it would abide by it and urged people displaced by fighting in Lebanon to refrain from heading home.

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NPR News23 hours, 53 minutes ago

Leaders urge for restraint as 10-day Israel-Lebanon ceasefire takes effect

Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group, acknowledged the ceasefire, but did not say whether it would abide by it and urged people displaced by war in Lebanon to refrain from heading home.

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NPR News1 day, 1 hour ago

Israel starts a tense ceasefire in Lebanon. And, Trump nominates a new CDC director.

BEIRUT, LEBANON - APRIL 16: The Lebanese capital is seen from a viewpoint after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon that would commence at midnight local time on April 16, 2026 in Beirut, Lebanon. The statement made no mention of Hezbollah, the militant group that has been the purported target of Israel

A 10-day ceasefire to pause fighting between Israel and Hezb

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NPR News1 day, 3 hours ago

Who says they have no fear of the Trump administration? The quiz knows

From left: Fela, Pope Leo and friend, Queen Camilla.

Also: If you know what Eric Swalwell looks like, you'll get at least one question correct.

NPR News1 day, 3 hours ago

Families left reeling after hospitals in blue states drop transgender care for youth

J and her son, nicknamed Bug, share a hug at home in western Massachusetts.

Massachusetts passed laws and joined lawsuits to protect access to gender-affirming care for minors. But faced with the Trump administration's threats, some hospitals voluntarily stopped care.

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NPR News1 day, 3 hours ago

Logjam of U.S. immigration applications puts millions at greater risk of deportation

In June 2025, people line up outside the Los Angeles Federal Building, which houses offices for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

An NPR analysis shows how immigrants' attempts to live or work legally in the U.S. are caught in a bureaucratic morass.

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NPR News1 day, 3 hours ago

Do less, ask for more: How to make life easier as a working parent

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Going back to work after having a baby can be overwhelming. You're juggling all the emotions of being a new parent while getting up to speed at your job. Tips to help you make a smooth transition.

NPR News1 day, 3 hours ago

Human rights groups raise alarm over fate of Salvadorans deported from U.S.

For the past four years, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has extended a 30-day suspension of rights, effectively creating a police state that keeps Salvadoran deportees from the U.S. trapped in the Central American country

Migrants deported from the U.S. routinely disappear into El Salvador's prisons the moment they land or in the weeks that follow. Many remain incommunicado from family and lawyers for years.

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NPR News1 day, 3 hours ago

The Labor Department wants to teach you to use AI more. Here's what we found

A person walks by a banner depicting President Trump on the face of the Labor Department building near the Capitol in Washington, DC in February 2026

The short course provides solid basics for using AI. But it also misidentifies AI products, links out to bad advice and raises ethical concerns about the products it promotes

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NPR News1 day, 3 hours ago

Morning news brief

Israel and Lebanon agree to 10-day ceasefire, U.S. military officials say the blockade of Iranian ports and ceasefire is holding, Trump nominates former Coast Guard doctor as CDC chief.

NPR News1 day, 3 hours ago

Woman remembers her childhood babysitter -- Prince

For StoryCorps, a family that lived near Prince in Minnesota remembers the artist in his early years -- as their babysitter.

NPR News1 day, 4 hours ago

Trump rails against court decision that once again stalls his White House ballroom project

Work continues on the construction of the ballroom at the White House, Thursday, April 9, 2026, in Washington, where the East Wing once stood.

The federal judge's decision continues to block above-ground construction on the $400 million White House ballroom, allowing only below-ground work on a bunker and other "national security facilities" at the site.

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NPR News1 day, 4 hours ago

House extends surveillance powers for 10 days

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and fellow Republicans celebrate GOP tax policies at an event outside the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 15, 2026.

Earlier in the morning GOP leaders had pushed for either a five-year renewal or the 18-month renewal President Trump had demanded, but both votes tanked.

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NPR News1 day, 7 hours ago

ICE acting director Todd Lyons will resign at end of May, DHS says

FILE - Todd Lyons, senior official performing the duties of the director at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, listens during a Senate Homeland Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 12, 2026.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Todd Lyons, a key executor of President Donald Trump's mass deportations agenda, will resign at the end of May, federal officials announced.

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NPR News1 day, 10 hours ago

Singer D4vd is arrested months after a teen's remains were found in his car

D4vd arrives at Variety

The 21-year-old Houston-born singer, whose real name is David Burke, had been under a secret investigation by an LA County grand jury after a 14-year-old girl's decomposed body was found in his car.

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NPR News1 day, 12 hours ago

House passes bill extending protections for Haitian migrants in the U.S.

People chant during a rally in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in support of the extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian immigrants.

Ten Republicans voted alongside Democrats, in a rebuke to the Trump administration's immigration policies. Should it pass the Senate, the White House said President Trump would veto the measure.

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