Vice President Vance is going to Greenland this week. The itinerary has shifted

Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance as seen at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, on Feb. 11, 2025.

Second lady Usha Vance announced on Sunday that she would visit Greenland and watch the territory's famed dog sled race. But now the vice president is joining, and they'll go to a U.S. base instead.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 9:10 PM

In new assessment, Trump team ranks fentanyl as a top threat to U.S.

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 25: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard appeared during a Senate Committee on Intelligence Hearing on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. Despite a decline in fentanyl overdose deaths, her team ranked smuggling and drug cartels as top threats to U.S. security.

Drug deaths are declining but the Trump administration's intelligence team has issued a new report describing street fentanyl as a top threat to the U.S.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 8:23 PM

Hill Republicans aim to rein in judges but divided on strategy

Republicans on Capitol Hill are divided over how they plan to address judicial actions that they say have unfairly targeted President Donald Trump and his administration.

Following court decisions restricting the Trump administration's policies on immigration enforcement and cuts to federal agencies GOP lawmakers are pushing back. But they're split on how to respond.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 8:01 PM

The Triumph of a Doctrine of Cruelty in El Salvador

More than 250 suspected gang members arrive in El Salvador by plane, including 238 members of Venezuela

For three years El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has proudly shown the world the terrible treatment given to the country's prisoners. The president and his defenders say barbaric treatment is necessary to combat a pervasive gang problem in the country. And now the U.S. is endorsing this view, sending hundreds of people removed from the U.S. to those same prisons. We hear about the triumph of Bukele's style of rule in El Salvador.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 7:23 PM

5 things to know as Dr. Oz gets one step closer to leading Medicare and Medicaid

Dr. Mehmet Oz at his confirmation hearing with the Senate Finance Committee on March 14. The committee voted to advance his nomination on Tuesday.

The former TV doctor made it through a tight vote in the Senate Finance committee with only Republican support.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 7:10 PM

'Heads are exploding': How security experts see the Signal war-plan breach

President Trump speaks alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office on March 21. Days earlier, Hegseth shared details about overseas war plans in a group chat on Signal, an encrypted, open-source messaging app, according to The Atlantic.

The breach left military and intelligence experts asking the same questions as the public: Why would top U.S. officials use a free messaging app to discuss classified military plans?

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 7:08 PM

A new study quantifies how a citizenship question would likely hurt census accuracy

Demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019 to protest the first Trump administration

The next U.S. head count's accuracy would likely be undermined by a census question about citizenship status that GOP lawmakers and President Trump have pushed to add, a new peer-reviewed study finds.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 6:48 PM

Lavender, citrus and candy: weed's signature aroma changes with the times

An assortment of aromas fill the air at the District Cannabis grow facility in Hagerstown, Md.

A tour of a grow facility in Maryland reveals the wide variety of scents from different cannabis strains.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 6:31 PM

Skin bleaching is terribly popular -- and takes a terrible toll

Susan Anderson began using skin lightening creams at age 12. Now 52, she has stopped using the products but her skin shows the damage they caused.

The government in Nigeria is warning about the health risks of skin lightening, where potent chemicals can thin and damage skin. It's a booming business in that country and others.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 5:56 PM

'Mad House' exposes Congressional disfunction, from petty feuds to physical threats

The 118th body of Congress was elected in 2022 and served from 2023 until 2025.

The MAGA-controlled 118th House passed only 27 bills that became law — the lowest number since the Great Depression. Journalists Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater examine the chaos in a new book.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 5:18 PM

Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian director beaten by Israeli settlers, is now released

Hamdan Ballal, an Oscar-winning Palestinian co-director of No Other Land, is released from a police station in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba on Tuesday, a day after being detained by the Israeli army following an attack by Jewish settlers.

Hamdan Ballal, who won an Oscar for No Other Land about Palestinians under Israeli occupation, was attacked by Israeli settlers and later detained by the Israeli military, witnesses tell NPR.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 5:09 PM

Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says

A sculpture of Aphrodite is displayed during an exhibition of ancient Greek art in 2007 in Beijing, China. The collection is from the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. Many ancient statues were scented, a researcher says.

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 4:49 PM

A Pentagon-wide email recently went out warning about Signal's vulnerability

The Pentagon in Arlington, Va., is seen from above.

A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 4:24 PM

How to delete your 23andMe data after the company filed for bankruptcy

The genetic testing company 23andMe is filing for bankruptcy.

When the California biotech firm filed for bankruptcy, there was one looming question for customers: What's going to happen to my data?

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 4:18 PM

NASA website axes a pledge to land a woman and a person of color on the moon

NASA engineers work alongside the tip of a solid rocket booster for the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) in NASA

In deference to President Trump's anti-DEI order, the space agency has removed a promise to send the "the first woman, first person of color" to walk on the moon aboard the Artemis III mission.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 3:30 PM

Why Israel's having some of its biggest protests since the war in Gaza began

People take part in a protest demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday.

They're demanding a deal between Israel and Hamas to release all the remaining hostages, and also demonstrating against government attempts to weaken the judiciary.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 2:43 PM

Pete Marocco tried to upend USAID in 2020 -- and failed. In 2025, he dismantled it

Pete Marocco (center), who served as deputy administrator for USAID in the new Trump administration until last week, arrives at Capitol Hill on March 5 to meet with members of Congress to discuss foreign assistance. He was on staff at the agency during the first Trump administration — and both times sought to cut many of its programs.

This Trump administration official was a key figure in the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development — and will help set the agenda for the future of foreign aid.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 1:59 PM

China releases staff of an American due diligence firm in move to woo investors

China has been trying to woo back investors to help revive its sagging economy. Photographer: Na Bian/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The release of the employees from the firm, the Mintz Group, comes as China is trying to woo back foreign investors to help revive its sagging economy.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 1:16 PM

Intelligence leaders will testify before Congress, fresh off the group chat fiasco

CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard are set to appear before hearings in the Senate on Tuesday and the House on Wednesday.

Some of the nation's top intelligence officials are due to appear before Congress in a pair of hearings this week. Two were participants in a widely-criticized war plans group chat on Signal.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 12:04 PM

Trump's back-to-office order will hurt veterans, VA docs and therapists say

Veterans marched in on the National Mall in D.C. on March 14 to protest President Trump and Elon Musk

The Department of Veterans Affairs embraced telehealth, especially for mental health care, in recent years. Now, staffers hired to give therapy and other health care remotely are ordered to do it from offices lacking privacy, VA clinicians told NPR.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 11:00 AM

What happens when a Chicago hospital bows to federal pressure on trans care for teens

A 17-year-old transgender boy from the Chicago suburbs was in the process of scheduling surgery at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children

Patients and parents speak out after Lurie Children's in Chicago joined other hospitals in stopping gender-affirming surgeries. President Trump's executive order threatened their federal funding.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 10:55 AM

How a journalist was sent the U.S. war plans. And, challenging the Alien Enemies Act

U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Waltz (L) and Deputy White House Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller (R) look on as U.S. Pres. Donald Trump speaks with reporters after signing two executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 04, 2025. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

A journalist at The Atlantic was unintentionally added to a group chat with top U.S. national security officials discussing war plans. And, the legal battle over the Alien Enemies Act continues.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 10:00 AM

Why Canada is holding an election that will be a first for its prime minister

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has set a snap election for April 28 — the first time he

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is running for elected public office for the first time, as the country is roiled by turbulence set in motion by President Trump.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 10:00 AM

Doctors still seeking cure for brain cancer that struck former Utah Rep. Mia Love

Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, speaks at a conference in National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 26, 2015. Love died on March 23, 2025, from an aggressive type of brain cancer called glioblastoma.

Mia Love, the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, died three years after being diagnosed with glioblastoma, a brain cancer that is nearly always fatal.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 9:00 AM

Facing a silver tsunami, Nevada home health care workers demand a $20 minimum wage

Regina Brown-Ross, a home care worker and union organizer with SEIU Local 1107, looks at a union flier at her home in Las Vegas.

Home health care workers in Nevada are lobbying the state legislature to raise caregivers' minimum wage from $16 to $20 an hour.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 9:00 AM

New books this week: Yoko, Elphaba, Amanda Knox and lost connections

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This week's new releases include a memoir from Amanda Knox reflecting on her murder case and exoneration, a biography of Yoko Ono, new fiction from Column McCann, and the latest Wicked book Elphie.

NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 9:00 AM

NCAA women's tournament reaches the Sweet 16 as one of its biggest stars falls

JuJu Watkins of the USC Trojans lies on the court after an injury against the Mississippi State Bulldogs in the first half during the second round of the NCAA Women

Southern California All-American star JuJu Watkins crashed to the floor Monday night against Mississippi State and grabbed her knee. She had to be carried off the floor at the USC Galen Center.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 9:00 AM

Feeling scatterbrained? 5 ways to focus your attention

What would you do if you had more hours in a day? Here

What would you do if you had more hours in a day? Here's how to carve out time for your interests and passions — even when you have a lot of responsibilities.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 9:00 AM

These churches offer shelter and sanctuary to vulnerable migrants. Here's why

Bishop Joseph Tyson (left) and the Rev. Jesús Mariscal (right) of the Yakima Diocese worry about how their parishioners will cope with broad changes to immigration policy, which have had a chilling effect on many religious communities.

Some are offering sanctuary to immigrants, others are ministering to families in different ways.

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NPR NewsMar 25, 2025, 5:00 AM

French actor Gérard Depardieu stands trial in Paris for alleged sexual assaults

Actor Gerard Depardieu arrives to face trial for the alleged sexual assaults of two women on a film set in 2021 on Monday.

Depardieu's long and storied career has turned the trial into a post- #MeToo test of the willingness of France and its movie industry to confront sexual violence and hold influential men accountable.

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