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Harvard files legal challenge over Trump's ban as admitted foreign students wait

Yonas Nuguse, 21 years old, destined for Harvard University is shown working on a computer at Wemezeker National Library in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Friday, on May 30, 2025.

Admitted students around the world are anxiously tracking the school's feud with the Trump administration, which is seeking to keep it from enrolling international students.

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Private lunar lander from Japan crashes into moon in failed mission

People await the update on ispace

The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure several hours after communication was lost with the lander.

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Young offenders are often denied credit for "dead time" behind bars

Juvenile detention systems often deny young offenders credit for the time they spend waiting behind bars. This adds months to the duration that kids are confined away from their families.

Juvenile detention systems often deny young offenders credit for the time they spend waiting behind bars

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From bromance to breakup: How Elon Musk and Donald Trump blew up

Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Tex. shortly after Trump

The blow up marks the end of an alliance between the president and the billionaire that lasted far longer than many observers expected.

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World Reaction to the Latest U.S. Travel Ban

President Donald Trump has issued a new travel ban, barring travelers from 12 countries and partially restricting travelers from seven others from coming to the U.S. We hear from reporters in Asia, Latin America and Africa to hear how targeted countries might be affected.

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Israel says it's arming clans to fight Hamas in Gaza

Israeli shelling hits an area in the northern of Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, Tuesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged the government was arming factions in the Gaza Strip to combat Hamas, after accusations from an opposition politician.

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Trump's travel ban includes Afghanistan, where thousands await U.S. resettlement

In this file photo from 2024, Taliban military helicopters fly to celebrate the third anniversary of Taliban

President Trump's travel ban on a dozen countries includes Afghanistan. Since American troops left in August of 2021, many Afghans have already arrived in the U.S. but many more are still waiting.

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Trump says he and Musk 'had a great relationship. I don't know if we will anymore'

President Trump meets in the Oval Office on June 5.

Trump said he was surprised that his former adviser Elon Musk is scorching the Republican megabill, but said he thought Musk was wrong and conflicted in his criticism.

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Concerns over conditions in U.S. immigration detention: 'We're hearing the word starving'

People place white carnation flowers on the fence of the Krome Detention Center during a vigil protesting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and mass deportations in Miami on May 24, 2025.

ICE detentions surge while deportations lag. NPR found overcrowded facilities lacking food and medicine after speaking to dozens of detainees, families, and lawyers over the past month.

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Trump orders a probe into the Biden administration and its alleged autopen use

Then-President Joe Biden and President-elect Trump arrive for Trump

Trump alleges the Biden administration used a machine to sign key documents, as many presidents do. Biden says he made policy decisions himself: "Any suggestion that I didn't is ridiculous and false."

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FBI Director Patel, a longtime bureau critic, begins to put his stamp on the agency

FBI Director Kash Patel speaks with Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum last month.

Since taking the helm more than 100 days ago, Patel has yet to shutter the FBI headquarters and reopen it as a museum as he once said he would, but he has begun trying to remake the bureau.

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Why inflation data won't include prices from these cities in Utah, Nebraska and New York

Government price-checkers monitor prices around the country every month to compile the government

The federal government is scaling back data collection used to calculate the inflation rate. Economists warn that could make for less accurate cost-of-living measures.

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'Neglected tropical diseases' now face even more neglect

Ugandans in Kabale line up for treatment for river blindness, a "neglected tropical disease" caused by a parasitic roundworm and transmitted by the bite of the black fly. The drug ivermectin, donated by a pharmaceutical company, kills the roundworm larvae. But now there

U.S. aid cuts could jeopardize the supply of donated drugs that are hailed for their effectiveness in combating neglected diseases like river blindness, schistosomiasis and trachoma.

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Unanimous Supreme Court sides with Catholic Charities in Wisconsin case

The Supreme Court is seen on April 7 in Washington, D.C.

A unanimous Supreme Court ruled that Catholic Charities can opt out of participating in a state unemployment compensation program in Wisconsin.

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Unanimous Supreme Court rules against Mexico in guns case

A person rests in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 5 in Washington, D.C.

The Court dismissed Mexico's claim that U.S. gun manufacturers aided and abetted the pipeline of weapons from the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels.

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Unanimous Supreme Court sides with Ohio woman who claimed workplace discrimination

Marlean Ames in her lawyer

The court sided with an Ohio woman who claimed she was discriminated against at work because she is straight.

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China says Trump and Xi talked on the phone, their first call since the tariff war began

President Trump chats with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a visit to Beijing in 2017.

It's the first known call between the two leaders since Inauguration Day — and the first time they've spoken since tariffs began ratcheting up.

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Israel says it has recovered the bodies of 2 hostages

People take part in a protest demanding the end of the war and immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

The bodies of Judy Weinstein Haggai, 70, an Israeli who held U.S. and Canadian citizenship, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 72, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, were recovered, the country's military said.

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Trump issues a new travel ban. And, GOP raises concerns over the budget bill

President Donald Trump waves to guests from South Portico of the White House during an event on the South Lawn on June 04, in Washington, D.C.

Trump has signed a proclamation banning travelers from a dozen countries starting on Monday. And, Elon Musk's criticism of the budget bill is raising GOP concerns.

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FEMA was starting to fix long-standing problems. Then came the Trump administration

Homes destroyed by a 2020 wildfire in Talent, Ore. FEMA denied about 70% of assistance applications related to massive Oregon wildfires that year, an <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1010897265/as-western-wildfires-worsen-fema-is-denying-most-people-who-ask-for-help"target="_blank"   >NPR investigation<!-- raw HTML omitted --> found. The agency has a long history of failing to help vulnerable disaster survivors, but reforms under the Biden administration were starting to fix those long-standing problems.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has a long history of failing to help those who need assistance the most after disasters. Biden-era changes meant to fix some of those problems now face an uncertain future.

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Divorce lawyers say it's a seasonal business. Here's why

Kirk Stange, a family law attorney with 25 years in the business, told NPR that divorce filings hit their peak in March and April, then again in August and September.

Divorce lawyers know certain times of the year are much busier than others. They and researchers have found seasonal patterns around divorce filings.

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OpenAI takes down covert operations tied to China and other countries

Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during a conference in San Francisco this week. The company said it has recently taken down 10 influence operations that were using its generative artificial intelligence tools. Four of those operations were likely run by the Chinese government.

The company said China and other nations are covertly trying to use chatbots to influence opinion around the world. In one case, operatives also used the tools to write internal performance reports.

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Trump will meet German Chancellor Merz at the White House. Here's what to know

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz attends a news conference at the chancellery in Berlin, May 28.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is set to meet President Trump at the White House, where they are expected to discuss issues including the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, as well as tariffs and trade.

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International students look to the U.K. instead of the U.S. amid Trump's visa plans

A tour guide walks with a group of people attending an Uncomfortable Oxford Tour, in Oxford, on Oct. 20, 2023.

Planned U.S. visa restrictions are causing students around the world to consider going to the United Kingdom instead.

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Maryland fails to protect young inmates in adult jails

The mother of a 17-year-old boy detained in the Prince George

Some youth in Maryland spend more than a year in adult jails before seeing their day in court. Without a fix, the state may lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding every year.

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New Zealand Parliament suspends 3 lawmakers who performed Māori haka in protest

New Zealand lawmakers Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke, top left, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, bottom left, and Rawiri Waititi, bottom right, watch as other legislators debate their proposed bans in parliament in Wellington on Thursday, June 5, 2025.

The suspended lawmakers from the Māori Party performed the haka, a dance of challenge, last November to oppose a widely unpopular bill, now defeated, that they said would reverse Indigenous rights.

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3 World War II bombs are defused in a German city's biggest postwar evacuation

Ambulances drive to the Eduardus Hospital in Cologne-Deutz to evacuate the hospital before specialists defuse three unexploded U.S. bombs from World War II that were unearthed earlier this week in Cologne, Wednesday, June 4, 2025.

More than 20,000 residents were evacuated from Cologne's city center Wednesday after the bombs were unearthed on Monday during preparatory work for road construction.

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Trump issues new travel ban covering a dozen countries

President Trump announced a travel ban Wednesday on 12 countries and a partial ban on seven others.

The White House said the action was needed to protect the United States from terrorist attacks and other national security threats, and said the countries lacked screening and vetting capabilities.

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In hearings, McMahon faces questions about the shrinking federal role in schools and colleges

Linda McMahon, U.S. Secretary of Education, during a Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing in Washington.

In separate hearings on Capitol Hill this week, the Education Secretary answered questions about a range of issues, from student loans to mental health programs.

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Judge blocks deportation of Boulder attacker's family

A visitor offers a tribute after leaving a bouquet of flowers at a makeshift memorial for victims of an attack outside of the Boulder County, Colo., courthouse as a light rain falls Tuesday, June 3, 2025, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the government to immediately halt deportation proceedings against the wife and five children of a man charged in the firebombing attack in Boulder, Colorado, responding to what the judge called an urgent situation to ensure the protection of the family's constitutional rights.

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