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

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'

Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-Va.) speaks during the House Oversight Committee meeting at the U.S. Capitol on March 25, 2025.

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

People walk by a tent shelter near the rubble of a collapsed building in western Gaza City on April 15.

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

President Trump threatened on social media to revoke the tax-exempt status of Harvard University.

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

Army Corp of Cadets march on the field before the Army/Navy game on Dec. 14, 2024 in Landover, Md.

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'

Elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, Calif., quickly formed an "alert circle" to protect their young following Monday

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

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks at a press conference at Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary, on February 17, 2025.

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

ThiMesonychoteuthis 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

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg departs E. Barrett Prettyman United States Court House on April 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has begun an antitrust trial against Meta over the company

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

An asylum seeker reacts while waiting for news on her appointment with U.S. authorities before crossing through El Chaparral port in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on Jan. 20, 2025.

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

A Sudanese army soldier in Omdurman, Sudan on 2024.

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

"It takes philanthropy in concert with civil society and government — massive government funding — to change things ... " says Melinda French Gates. "Philanthropy cannot do it on its own."

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

President Trump has ordered all federal funding of public media cease. In March, NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger testified such cutbacks would hurt local member stations that serve as a free source of news, education, entertainment, and disaster preparedness information for areas poorly served by corporately owned media.

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

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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 in the Darfur region of the west of the country escalates with paramilitary attacks on refugees in displacement camps there.

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

Congress could implement work requirements as part of revamping and downsizing Medicaid.

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

"The regime has fallen, and I need to transition to civilian life," says former opposition fighter Omar Halaby, 29, who lost his right leg during a 2017 attack by Syrian forces loyal to then-President Bashar al-Assad. "Part of that process is seeing my late friends one last time, to give them a dignified reburial."

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

Six months after Hurricane Helene, the landscape of western North Carolina is still scarred. A team of CDC workers was about to go door to door to check on people when they lost their jobs.

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

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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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Europe deplores America's 'chlorinated chicken.' How safe is our poultry?

Chicken is processed differently in the U.S. than the EU and U.K., causing Europeans to be skeptical of American "chlorinated chicken."

President Trump wants European countries to start buying U.S. chicken and eggs. But the U.K. and E.U. think American poultry is gross and chemically washed. Turns out, chlorine isn't really the issue.

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Bipartisan senators rebuke White House move to end legal aid for unaccompanied minors

Asylum seekers from Honduras walk towards a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico in 2021 near Mission, Texas.

The letter obtained by NPR marks a rare bipartisan critique from Capitol Hill of the administration's immigration policy.

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After delays, first vaccine advisory meeting under RFK Jr. set to start

An advisory committee of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention is set to meet Tuesday to discuss vaccines for RSV, COVID and others.

For the first time since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became health secretary, vaccine advisers to the CDC are meeting to discuss vaccines for RSV, HPV, COVID and more.

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The man accused in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump to appear in court

Law enforcement officials work at the crime scene outside the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., on September 16, 2024, following the attempted assassination on then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Ryan Routh is charged in the case and has a federal court hearing on Tuesday in Fort Pierce, Fla.

Ryan Routh, accused in the golf course attempted assassination of Donald Trump, will appear in a Florida federal courtroom Tuesday for a hearing involving evidence that will be presented in the case.

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Climate activists were hacked. There was a link between the victims and an alleged attacker

Climate change activists carry signs as they march during a protest in Philadelphia in 2016. Earlier that year, U.S. prosecutors allege hackers began targeting prominent American climate activists in an effort to gather information to foil lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over damage communities have faced from global warming.<!-- raw HTML omitted --><!-- raw HTML omitted -->

Prosecutors say the operation was aimed at gathering information to foil lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over damage communities have faced from climate change.

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5 takeaways about NPR's reporting on the whistleblower report about DOGE at the NLRB

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Here's a summary of NPR's findings about the report that a whistleblower filed to Congress about how DOGE violated security protocols and could have removed sensitive labor data.

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As special ed students are integrated more at school, teacher training is evolving

Kellen Hedler prepares to start his school day at Frontier Elementary School in Edmond, Okla.

General education teachers are more likely than ever to be working with students who have special needs.

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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data

The DOGE team may have taken data related to union organizing and labor complaints and hid its tracks, according to a whistleblower.

A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

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Once again, Harvey Weinstein goes on trial for sex crimes in New York today

Harvey Weinstein appears in court for a pre-trial hearing on Wednesday, April 9, 2025 in New York.

Weinstein's New York conviction was overturned last year. The new trial will retry the case alongside a brand new charge.

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Attack leaves at least 40 people dead in Nigeria, the country's president says

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Such attacks have become common in north-central Nigeria, where gunmen exploit security lapses to launch deadly raids on farmers in a fight over land resources.

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Hungary passes constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ public events

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The amendment bans public events held by LGBTQ+ communities and allows authorities to use facial recognition tools to identify people who attend prohibited events.

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Federal funding freeze halts key infrastructure projects in tribal communities

Homes in the Yupik Eskimo Village of Quinhagak on the Yukon Delta in Alaska are threatened by shoreline erosion as climate change makes the planet warmer. More than 22 tribes and nonprofits in the U.S., including Alaska, have had millions of dollars in federal funds for infrastructure projects frozen. Some of those projects were meant to help address the impacts of climate change.

Riverbank stabilization, lead and asbestos contamination are just some of the projects tribes planned to address before the Trump administration froze funds.

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