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President Trump has said there is a “crime emergency” in the nation’s capital -- and has openly hinted at taking similar actions in other Democratic-led cities like Chicago, New York and Baltimore.
But while the president has unique authorities over the District...
The process is often chaotic. And for immigrants without legal status, it's also very risky.
NPR immigration policy reporter Ximena Bustillo went to ...
OpenAI founder Sam Altman floated the idea of an AI bubble, an MIT report found that 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing and tech stocks took a dip.
With the AI sector is expected to become a trillion dollar industry within the next decade, what impact might slowing progress have on the economy? ...
Normally, foreign policy summits between world leaders involve painstaking planning and organization days and weeks in advance. The hectic and last minute nature of the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska provided a window into how so much of what’s happening to try and end a brutal war in Ukraine, is being made up on the fly.
NPR’...
The people of Northern Gaza are starving. That’s according to an official declaration by a United Nations-backed group of experts, who comprise the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification or IPC. They say that famine has officially reached Gaza city and could soon reach other areas of the territory.
Still, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has says there is no famine in Gaza, ...
It was also a harbinger of what would happen to hurricanes in the years to follow, as climate change would make them an increasingly powerful and a regular threat.
NPR Alejandra Borunda explains how the devas...
President Trump says the administration’s takeover of DC is making life safer. But many of the city’s residents and business owners are questioning the administration’s moves? So what exactly is the goal of the federal takeover in DC?
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It's part of a sad history in Ireland ...
Today’s meeting at the White House between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy seemed to go much better than last time, when Zelenskyy left early after a heated argument in the Oval Office. In fact, Zelenskyy hailed today’s meeting as “the best one” yet.
President Trump turned to the Heritage Foundation help pick his appointee to lead a traditionally non-partisan agency. NPR’s Scott Detrow speaks with political science professor E.J. Fagan, author of “The Thinkers: The Rise of Partisan Think Tanks and the Polarization of American Politics” to understand why Trump’s close relationship with the conservative think tank matters.
Paris has increasingly found itself on the frontline of the climate crisis and covering the city and the rest of France now means regularly reporting on deadly climate events. NPR’s Scott Detrow speaks with Eleanor Beardsley about how climate has become core to the Paris beat.
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This summer, the island of Puerto Rico has been under the thrall of Bad Bunny.
His 30-concert residency at a stadium in San Juan is a homecoming for the global superstar.
It's also a homecoming for many thousands of people who left home – but are flocking back for the shows.
NPR’s Adrian Florido reports on how the concerts are resonating with Puerto Ricans on and off the island.
American Presidents have been trying to manage Russian President Vladimir Putin since the beginning of this century.
There was George W. Bush, who met with Putin 28 times.
Barack Obama and Putin sat down together 9 times.
Joe Biden met with Putin only once.
Past presidents had hoped to strike deals and push Russia toward a more democratic society.
”The global trading system as we have known it is dead.”
Those are the words of former US Trade Representative Michael Froman.
He’s now President of the Council on Foreign Relations.
If the era of global free trade is over, the question is…what comes next?
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Details are still scarce — but Putin and Trump are set to meet Friday in Alaska.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wasn’t invited.
What does Trump hope to achieve, and can he get it from Putin? Ambassador John Bolton, ...
And he made another big promise: that his administration would take control of the D.C. police.
The president also mentioned other cities across the country with what he says are high levels of crime.
As President Trump pledges to use his executive authority to control law enforcement in the natio...
The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful of countries worldwide that has begun permitting this type of exploration, called deep-sea mining.
Deep-sea mining is not regulated. There's no blueprint for how to do it safely, or responsibly. Which is why, for th...
It's also been the subject of numerous investigations.
But even though that question has been asked and answered, the current Trump administration is launching another investigation in an effort to reach a different conclusion.
These networks encourage kids to hurt themselves, other minors or even animals. In some countries, they have been tied to mass casualty and terrorism plots.
NPR's domestic extremism correspondent Odette Yousef has spoken with a family that experienced this firsthand.
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Katrina caused horrific destruction in New Orleans. It threw incarcerated people into a sort of purgatory - some were lost in prisons for more than a year.
But the storm also cleared the way for changes that the city's public defender...
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