Judge refuses to block IRS from sharing tax data to identify people illegally in U.S.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers use a chain to more comfortably restrain a detained person using handcuffs positioned in front.

The decision comes after the acting IRS commissioner resigned over a deal allowing ICE to submit names and addresses of immigrants inside the U.S. illegally to the IRS for cross-verification.

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NPR NewsMay 13, 2025, 1:00 AM

Michael Jordan joins NBC as the network revives its NBA coverage

Basketball legend Michael Jordan speaks during a press conference ahead of an NBA basketball game between the Charlotte Hornets and Milwaukee Bucks in Paris, Jan. 24, 2020.

It has been over 20 years since NBC had rights to broadcast NBA games. Its last run was during the 90s, which coincided with Michael Jordan's reign over basketball.

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NPR NewsMay 13, 2025, 12:10 AM

Museum opens in Czech Republic at site where Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jews

A visitor takes a photo at the Museum of Survivors, located in a factory where Oskar Schindler saved some 1200 Jews during WWII, in Brnenec, Czech Republic, on May 10.

The former textile factory in the town of Brněnec was stolen by the Nazis from its Jewish owners in 1938 and turned into a concentration camp. This weekend it welcomed the first visitors to the Museum of Survivors.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 11:08 PM

Trump tried to fire Corporation for Public Broadcasting board members. Then came DOGE

A control room at the Arizona PBS offices in Phoenix is seen Friday, May 2, 2025. Earlier this month, President Trump issued an executive order claiming to direct CPB

DOGE staffers tried to assign a team to the independent Corporation for Public Broadcasting after President Trump's purported firing of three board members last month.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 11:06 PM

A trove of forgotten Nazi documents is found in Argentina's Supreme Court basement

Documents unearthed from wooden crates in the basement of Argentina

Inside boxes found in the basement were documents "intended to consolidate and propagate Adolf Hitler's ideology in Argentina," the court said. Supreme Court president Horacio Rosatti has ordered a review.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 9:05 PM

Texas Lottery faces scrutiny amid jackpot controversies and leadership shakeup

A Texas Lottery display promoting support for Texas education and veterans stands inside Lucky Rudy

The lottery recently banned online couriers, but some state legislators are considering more regulation.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 8:30 PM

The President has named a new Acting Librarian of Congress. It's his former defense lawyer.

Todd Blanche in May 2024 at the Manhattan Criminal Court during the hush money trial of President Donald Trump.

Todd Blanche, a former personal lawyer for President Trump, is now acting Librarian of Congress. According to his public profile, Blanche has no experience working in libraries or archives.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 7:58 PM

Gérard Depardieu faces verdict in sexual assault trial seen as #MeToo test

French actor Gérard Depardieu leaves for a break during his trial for the alleged sexual assaults of two women on a film set in 2021.

Women's rights advocates say the case is about whether France's justice system is truly ready to reckon with sexual violence.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 7:49 PM

India-Pakistan ceasefire holds for a 2nd day

A vendor pushes his cart across a road in Srinagar on Monday. The frontier between India and Pakistan had the "first calm night in recent days," the Indian army said on May 12, after a weekend ceasefire.

The ceasefire has halted what some analysts say was the most serious fighting between the two countries since a 1971 war. But India's recent suspension of a key water-sharing treaty remains in place.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 7:26 PM

Poland Prepares for War

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and President Trump's efforts to change the U.S. relationship with Europe and NATO have caused some European countries to rethink their own defense. One example is Poland, which shares a 500-mile border with Russia and Russian ally Belarus. Poland is preparing to repel a Russian invasion, including a plan to train every adult male in the country to be ready for war. We go to Poland to see what the preparations look like.

NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 7:05 PM

With immigration limits, the U.K. vows to end a 'failed experiment in open borders'

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during a news conference, ahead of the publication of the government

Taking a page from President Trump's playbook, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced visa restrictions, using language his critics said was dangerous.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 6:58 PM

Ethics experts worry about the implications of Trump accepting Qatar's luxury plane

President Trump walks off Air Force One on April 29 at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Michigan. Qatar has offered to replace Air Force One with a luxury Boeing 747 jet.

Experts tell NPR the gift violates the Foreign Emoluments Clause and raises questions about what Qatar might expect from Trump in return. It's not clear whether critics in Congress can stop it from happening.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 6:45 PM

Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition

White South Africans demonstrate in support of U.S. President Donald Trump in front of the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, on Feb. 15.

The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 6:29 PM

First Afrikaners arrive in U.S. under radically redrawn refugee program

Newly arrived South Africans listen to representatives from Homeland Security and the State Department deliver welcome statements in a hangar at Atlantic Aviation Dulles near Washington Dulles International Airport on May 12, 2025 in Dulles, Va.

The refugees were admitted to the U.S. after an executive order from President Trump, and under an expedited and unconventional process for the U.S. refugee resettlement program.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 5:20 PM

Is there a volunteer in your life worth spotlighting? NPR wants to know

We want to hear from you.

All Things Considered wants to highlight volunteers who are going above and beyond. Want to nominate someone, a group or share how volunteerism has made a difference in your life? Let us know.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 5:17 PM

Are you honoring a loved one this Memorial Day? Tell us about them

Some 37,000 US flags stand planted as part of a Memorial Day Flag Garden by the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Boston Common on May 25, 2024.

Have you lost a loved one in service to the U.S.? Share your story with NPR for Memorial Day.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 5:02 PM

Trump signs an order to reduce drug prices, but it's unclear how it would work

President Trump, joined by National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., talks about an executive order aimed at reducing the cost of prescription drugs.

President Trump wants to lower drug prices in the U.S. by tying them to the prices paid in other developed countries. The pharmaceutical industry has long opposed the approach.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 4:47 PM

Danny McBride sends a love letter to the South with 'The Righteous Gemstones'

McBride, a Georgia native, has seen how Hollywood traffics in stereotypes about the American South. His HBO show satirizes televangelists without making religious people the butt of the joke.

NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 4:19 PM

A Soviet-era space probe crashed back to Earth after more than 50 years in orbit

The planets Venus (bottom) and Jupiter are seen in the sky above Matthews, N.C., in 2015. A Soviet probe launched more than 50 years ago — and never reached Venus, its intended destination — likely crash landed in the Indian Ocean on Saturday.

Kosmos 482 rocketed into space in 1972 on a quest to reach Venus, but its journey was scuttled by an apparent engine malfunction.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 2:00 PM

Race to lead D.C. lawyers' association grows heated amid attacks on law firms

Attendees hold inverted U.S. flags, a sign of distress, during a rally organized by the Bar Association of San Francisco in support of attorneys and law firms targeted by President Donald Trump on May 1.

More than 30,000 people have already voted in the election for the president of the D.C. Bar Association, more than triple the previous record set in 1990.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 1:45 PM

Stocks soar after U.S. and China agree to temporarily slash tariffs

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell on May 8, 2025, in New York City. Stocks surged on Monday after China and the U.S. clinched a temporary deal on tariffs.

Stocks soared — and businesses breathed a sigh of relief — as the U.S. and China agreed to temporarily slash their triple-digit tariffs.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 11:45 AM

Catholics at Villanova University, where Pope Leo XIV once attended, celebrate Mass

Pope Leo XIV once attended Villanova University. Catholics packed the St. Thomas of Villanova church to celebrate Sunday Mass and the new pope.

NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 11:21 AM

Hamas to release Israeli-American hostage held in Gaza, Edan Alexander

A woman holds a poster bearing a portrait of an Israeli hostage held by Hamas in Gaza since October 2023 next to several portaits, including two (C) of Israeli-US captive Edan Alexander, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv as people wait for his release on May 12, 2025.

Alexander, a 21 year-old Israeli soldier raised in New Jersey, is the last remaining U.S. citizen captured by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023 and held in Gaza, who is believed to still be alive. The bodies of four other Americans are still held in Gaza, according to the U.S.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 11:20 AM

Pope Leo XIV asks journalists to use communication as a tool for peace

Pope Leo XIV arrives for an audience with thousands of journalists and media workers at Paul VI Hall in Vatican City. The audience with journalists has become a tradition among newly elected popes.

The remarks come just one day after calling for a ceasefire and access to humanitarian aid in Gaza and an end to the war in Ukraine.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 11:08 AM

Need help switching appliances from gas to electric? A 'coach' can help

Lindsey Williamson learned about efficient heat pump water heaters on a home improvement television show. However, "My main problem was finding somebody locally who could actually install what I was looking for," Williamson says.

Government incentives for climate-friendly upgrades are confusing to navigate, and it can be hard to find businesses that sell them. So a new industry is emerging to help: the decarbonization coach.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 10:42 AM

As Trump aims to deport millions, one pathway to legal status got bigger

A worker bathes a racehorses on the backside of a horse racing track in Louisville, Ky., on April 30, 2025.

A Biden-era rule eases the path for workers to be sponsored for U.S. permanent residency, an attractive option for those in horse-racing looking for a competitive edge.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 10:40 AM

The U.S. and China cut tariffs. And, what's expected from Trump's Middle East trip

Chinese and U.S. flags wave outside a technology company in Beijing, on April 17.

The U.S. and China ease the trade war with a significant cut to recently imposed tariffs. And, President Trump's trip to the Middle East is expected to involve a lot of commerce and cultural exchanges.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 10:39 AM

First group of Afrikaners granted refugee status are on their way to the U.S.

White Afrikaaner South Africans demonstrate in support of U.S. President Donald Trump in front of the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, Feb. 15, 2025.

The first group of white Afrikaner South Africans granted refugee status by Trump administration enroute to U.S. as most other refugee admissions still suspended.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 10:00 AM

Chimps' rhythmic drumming and complex calls hint at origins of human language

A team of researchers recorded thousands of vocalizations made by wild chimpanzees in the Taï National Park in Ivory Coast.

Two studies of wild chimps point to the evolutionary roots of human language. The studies found that chimp communication often relies on rhythmic structures and call combinations.

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NPR NewsMay 12, 2025, 9:00 AM

Trump is looking to use the IRS for his own political ends. Nixon tried it too

President Trump has threatened to strip Harvard University and other non-profits of their tax-exempt status. It

President Trump is looking to use the IRS to achieve some of his political goals. Some experts see parallels with Nixon's efforts to interfere with the agency.

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