Mexico City bans violent bullfighting, sparking fury and celebration

A young supporter of bullfighting joins a demonstration in support of bullfighting outside Mexico City

The decision sparked angry protests from bullfighting supporters and matadors, some of whom tried to breach a police barricade at the local Congress.

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NPR NewsMar 19, 2025, 12:58 AM

Federal judge blocks Trump effort to ban transgender troops from military service

President Trump departs after speaking with reporters in the Grand Foyer during a tour at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Monday.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes blocks the Department of Defense from carrying through with a policy directive designed to remove transgender servicemembers from the military.

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 11:30 PM

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty sues Trump administration over canceled contract

The Trump administration has put journalists at government-funded broadcasters, including Prague-based Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFERL), on leave on March 15 as it froze funding to them.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a government-backed overseas broadcaster, sued the Trump administration in an attempt to get it to release funds appropriated by Congress.

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 10:37 PM

Trump and Putin Talk about a Ceasefire in Ukraine

President Donald Trump (left) and Russia

President Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia held a lengthy phone call on Tuesday to discuss a possible ceasefire in Ukraine. This is part of Trump's efforts to end the Russia's war in Ukraine and while he didn't get a ceasefire agreement, some progress was made. We hear the latest.

And in Ukraine, people are watching these and other developments with concern, skepticism, and with dark humor.

NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 10:24 PM

Trump calls for the impeachment of a judge, as lawsuits pile up

The U.S. Supreme Court is likely to be the final arbiter of many of the challenges to the Trump administration

To date, 127 legal cases have been filed against the Trump administration's actions since President Trump took office. The cases challenge an enormous range of subjects.

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 9:56 PM

What is the U.S. Institute of Peace and why is Trump trying to shut it down?

A view of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) building headquarters on March 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump administration employees entered the building on Monday with the help of law enforcement officials after President Trump ordered the dismantling of the congressionally funded independent nonprofit.

Founded during the Cold War to project American soft power and foreign policy expertise, the federally-funded nonprofit think tank is now in the White House's crosshairs

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 9:37 PM

Vice President Vance has a new gig: fundraising for the Republican National Committee

Vice President Vance speaks at the American Dynamism Summit on supporting U.S. industry and workers, in Washington, DC, on Tuesday.

Vance will be the first sitting vice president to serve as party finance chairman, according to the RNC. The move places a top Trump ally within the party's campaign wing ahead of the 2026 midterms.

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 7:50 PM

A federal judge says the USAID shutdown likely violated the Constitution

Former U.S. Agency for International Development employees terminated after the Trump administration effectively dismantled the agency collect their personal belongings at USAID headquarters on Feb. 27 in Washington, D.C.

A federal judge has found that the Trump administration likely violated the Constitution when it effectively shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 7:12 PM

4 things to know about Judge Boasberg as he battles Trump over deportation flights

James Boasberg shown here on Monday, March 13, 2023.

Judge Boasberg's role overseeing a new case that challenges the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvadorhas cast an even brighter light on the longtime judge.

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 6:52 PM

Firing federal employees was swift. Unwinding the terminations is proving complicated

People demonstrate during a protest against federal employee layoffs at Yosemite National Park, California on March 1, 2025. Many workers at the U.S. Department of Interior and other agencies are being reinstated following court orders.

Two federal judges have ordered the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of probationary employees it illegally fired. Agencies report they are doing so but placing most of them on paid leave.

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 6:00 PM

Tensions mount as DOJ gives sworn response to judge's questions about deportations

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Trump administration lawyers defended the weekend flights that deported hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members despite a federal judge's order to turn the planes around.

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 5:46 PM

Trump and Putin agree to start talks for a ceasefire in Ukraine

President Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 28, 2019. The two men spoke Tuesday on matters including a ceasefire in the Ukraine war.

President Trump has said he wants to broker an end to Russia's war in Ukraine. This was his second call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the issue.

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 5:26 PM

Does the U.S. deserve the Statue of Liberty? Not anymore, one French politician says

The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the U.S. in the 1880s, celebrating their friendship and the anniversary of U.S. independence.

A French politician suggested the two countries no longer share the values that inspired the gift more than a century ago. The White House sharply rejected his request, which he described as symbolic.

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 4:27 PM

2 NASA astronauts head back to Earth after an unexpectedly long mission in space

This image taken from NASA video shows the SpaceX capsule carrying NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore and Nick Hague as well as Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov after it undocked from the International Space Station on Tuesday.

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were on the International Space Station more than nine months, despite launching into space in June for what was expected to be an eight-day mission.

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 4:14 PM

A cell pulls off one of the 'Holy Grails' of biotechnology

Members of the research team who helped identify a new cellular structure. (L - R) Tyler Coale, Kendra Turk-Kubo, Jon Zehr, Esther Wing Kwan Mak

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow.

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 3:23 PM

German lawmakers approve huge defense and infrastructure spending

German opposition leader and Christian Democratic Union party chairman Friedrich Merz, right, speaks during a debate about loosening the country

Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers' approval to loosen strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts mount about the strength of the trans-Atlantic alliance.

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 2:58 PM

4 things to know about the Alien Enemies Act and Trump's efforts to use it

In this photo provided by El Salvador

President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 against Tren de Aragua members, provoking a legal fight. Here's what to know about the controversial law, which was last used during World War II.

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 2:13 PM

New books this week: 'Hunger Games' is back, and young people navigate a new Tanzania

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This week brings a number of promising new reads — but none more eagerly awaited than Sunrise on the Reaping. We offer 5 books to consider picking up.

NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 1:54 PM

Last of the classified JFK assassination files to be released Tuesday

President John F. Kennedy is seen riding in his motorcade approximately one minute before he was shot in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

About 80,000 documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy are expected to be released, but presidential historians don't expect any bombshell revelations.

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 11:10 AM

New 'Hunger Games' prequel reminds that sometimes past truths aren't visible

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Sunrise on the Reaping recounts the 50th annual Hunger Games, telling the story of Haymitch Abernathy. It's themes and events conjure images of today's U.S. political climate.

NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 11:00 AM

Fast-er food: A productivity surge at U.S. restaurants

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A new study finds that after decades of stagnation, fast-food and other restaurants finally saw a surge in productivity.

NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 10:31 AM

Trump tests executive power. And, hundreds killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

A woman cries while sitting on the rubble of her house, destroyed in an Israeli strike, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Israel on Tuesday unleashed its most intense strikes on the Gaza Strip since a January ceasefire.

A federal judge is requesting the DOJ give a sworn declaration about deportations over the weekend. And, Israel launched surprise airstrikes in Gaza early Tuesday, killing over 400.

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 10:00 AM

At 83, Martha Stewart celebrates gardening with her 101st book

Martha Stewart working the soil at her Turkey Hill garden in circa 1988 in Westport, Conn.

Martha Stewart talks gardening, wanting to be "one of the girls" and her 101st book with NPR Morning Edition host Michel Martin.

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 9:00 AM

This is why Canada has plenty of eggs — and the U.S. doesn't

A grocery store in Lawndale, Calif., runs short on eggs on Jan. 2. Egg prices in the U.S. have soared to record highs as avian flu and efforts to contain it have killed millions of egg-laying chickens. But just across the border in Canada, eggs remain plentiful and affordable.

While the U.S. grapples with an egg shortage caused by avian flu, eggs remain plentiful and affordable in Canada. There are reasons for that, including that egg farms there tend to be smaller.

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 9:00 AM

'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts

A sign in Jackson, Miss., in May 1961. The contract clause deleted from federal regulations last month dated back to the mid-1960s and specifically said entities doing business with the government should not have segregated waiting rooms, drinking fountains or transportation.

The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 9:00 AM

In the Missouri Ozarks, residents struggle to rebuild after tornadoes

Tim Scott, right, gets a hug from friend Jorden Harris outside Scott

Twisters that tore through Union County, Missouri killed 6 people. One couple survived against incomprehensible odds in a trailer obliterated by the storm.

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 5:23 AM

Trump says he's ending Secret Service protection for Biden's adult children

Hunter Biden and Ashley Biden are shown attending Maisy Biden

President Trump said he was ending "immediately" the Secret Service protection details assigned to Democrat Joe Biden's adult children.

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NPR NewsMar 18, 2025, 3:55 AM

Israel launches deadly series of attacks on Gaza

Palestinians walk surrounded by the rubble of destroyed homes and building in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City on March 7, 2025.

Israel said the early Tuesday attacks were launched after Hamas refused to release more hostages held in Gaza.

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NPR NewsMar 17, 2025, 11:54 PM

He lost his first LA Marathon medal in the fires -- this weekend he got his second

Abel Rivera wears his medals after finishing the LA Marathon on Sunday in Century City.

15-year-old fire survivor Abel Rivera's home in Altadena burned down in January, and he lost everything — including his medal for finishing the 2024 LA Marathon.

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NPR NewsMar 17, 2025, 10:41 PM

A U.S. airman is charged in death of a South Dakota woman who had vanished in August

A plane takes off from Ellsworth Air Force Base in 2022. Quinterius Chappelle, an active-duty airman at the base, is accused of killing Sahela Sangrait.

Quinterius Chappelle was arrested on a federal charge of second-degree murder in the death of Sahela Sangrait, according to the Pennington County Sheriff's Office.

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