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U.S. will run Venezuela after military seized Maduro, President Trump says
In early morning hours of January 3rd, the US military launched an operation in Venezuela that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicholas Mad...
Can the global economy handle a world with fewer kids?
Ashley and Nick Evancho say raising their young daughter, Sophia, is one of the most joyous things they've ever done. But the Evanchos also made a dec...
Tips to set yourself up for success in 2026
The new year is a time to set goals. But daily life often gets in the way of meeting our ambitions. NPR’s Life Kit podcast host Marielle Segarra give...
What Bad Bunny means to Puerto Ricans
This summer, the island of Puerto Rico was under the thrall of Bad Bunny. His 31-concert residency at a stadium in San Juan was a homecoming for the g...
Our picks for the 2025 movies you should watch this holiday season
Hollywood had another quiet year at cinemas. Box office income hasn’t bounced back to pre-pandemic highs. But ticket sales aren’t always an indication...
Daniel Day-Lewis was retired. His son is just getting started
Eight years ago, Daniel Day-Lewis announced he was retired from acting. He offered no further comment. Retirement notwithstanding, in October, Daniel...
How Trump is leveraging sports and sports culture for his political brand
President Trump is using his position to access sporting events across the country and embed himself with teams and fans. And he’s leveraging sports a...
'It's a calling,' says Korva Coleman on reporting the facts every hour, every day
Day in and day out - it’s NPR’s Newscast team delivering the most immediate news to our audience more than anyone else. NPR's Tamara Keith talks to Ko...
U.S. foreign aid changed in 2025 – and it was felt around the world
On the night of his inauguration, President Trump signed an executive order that froze almost all international assistance.
What f...
Remembering the World War I Christmas truce
In the months after World War I erupted, young men in Europe were killing each other by the tens of thousands. Yet on a frozen Christmas Eve in 1914,...
Singer Brenda Lee on her enduring Christmas classic
Singer Brenda Lee reflects on the enduring power of her Christmas classic "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree."
For sponsor-free e...
Science funding was hit in 2025. What does that mean for the future?
2025 was a hard year for science. The Trump administration upended federal funding for all kinds of scientific pursuits, slashing budgets across agenc...
How the Trump administration stripped legal status from 1.6 million immigrants
The Trump administration has removed over 600,000 people without legal status from the U.S. through deportation this year, according to the Department...
We use our smartphones for just about everything - why not voting?
Entrepreneur, political strategist and philanthropist Bradley Tusk argues his new online voting tech could revolutionize participation in American ele...
The U.S. spent billions to rebuild Afghanistan. Was it successful?
A new report from U.S. government watchdog SIGAR gives us the fullest accounting yet of U.S. efforts to rebuild Afghanistan.
In short, they call...
The cream of the slop: this year's AI highlights
2025 has proved that artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping online reality and that the “slop” is here to stay.
NPR’...
Rob Reiner loved America. He thought it could be better
Rob Reiner spent his life trying to fix what he saw as America’s shortcomings. In an interview shortly before his death he explained why he was optimi...
What's Trump's Venezuela endgame?
The Trump administration is ramping up pressure on Venezuela and its leader. What is the ultimate goal?
President Trump sa...
The U.S. is interested in Venezuelan oil, but that's not all
Tensions between Venezuela and the U.S. have been growing over the past few months. And last Wednesday, the pressure point was oil.
What we know about the rise in antisemitic attacks in Australia and around the world
On Sunday, during a celebration for the first day of Hanukkah, a father and son opened fire on Bondi Beach near Sydney. Killing or wounding dozens of...
'She's going to return to Venezuela,' says daughter of Maria Corina Machado
Venezuelan leader and activist Maria Corina Machado’s perilous journey to Oslo made headlines this week, but that was just the start of a new phase of...
Why some U.S. citizens are being kicked off voting rolls
Trump’s SAVE tool is looking for noncitizen voters. But it’s flagging U.S. citizens too. Host Miles Parks speaks with NPR reporter Jude Joffe-Block ab...
Afghan CIA fighters face stark reality in the U.S.
They survived some of the Afghanistan war's most grueling and treacherous missions.
But once they evacuated to the U.S., many Afghan fig...
How a once fringe idea became a Trump administration mantra
The Trump administration is leaning into the once fringe idea of "reverse migration."
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Chicago's Archbishop weighs in on immigration enforcement
The Catholic Church is wading into a deeply partisan issue. The Archbishop of Chicago weighs in.
This fall, the Trump administration laun...
View from Venezuela
Venezuela dominates the headlines, but very little attention is paid to what life is like inside the country.
In September,...
The fight for the future of Warner Bros. just got messier
There's a growing fight in Hollywood over some of the biggest characters on screen, like Tony Soprano, Daenerys Targaryen and Harry Potter. All featur...
Focusing on care not just coverage; economist argues for bigger solutions
New research from the Aspen Economic Strategy Group argues that the subsidies-or-no-subsidies approach to the Affordable Care Act debate is too narrow...
To AI or not to AI? Do college students appreciate the question?
Students are using AI tools more than ever.
An Angelo State University professor designed a way to figure out if his students were using...
After 50 years, is the future of special education in jeopardy?
Fifty years ago, special education in America was born.
In 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the landmark law known today as the...
Trump attacks Somali immigrants ahead of expected Minnesota immigration enforcement
Roughly 80,000 people of Somali descent now live in Minnesota. The vast majority of them are American citizens.
This week, President Trum...
The White House keeps firing immigration judges. He is one of them
President Trump is purging the immigration court system. About 140 immigration judges have been fired by the administration or resigned. Meanwhile, th...
Did the U.S. commit a war crime in the Caribbean?
More than 80 people have now been killed by U.S. strikes on suspected drug boats.
There are growing questions about an order to kill two...
Is MAHA influencing health policy?
At the recent Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, summit - which was attended by the U.S. Secretary of Health and the Vice President - the agenda sho...
What can a 90s kids’ movie tell us about the redistricting battle?
When the Missouri legislature began to redraw maps mid-decade, it reminded a reporter of a very specific movie scene.
The film wa...
How parking explains everything
No matter how you measure it, there is a lot of parking in the U.S. According to some estimates there are as many as six parking spaces for every car....
What's motivating volunteers across the country, especially this Thanksgiving
From building homes to ushering theater-goers to re-enacting medieval history for middle-schoolers – yes, you read that right – acts of volunteerism h...
AI is transforming crime, too
By the midpoint of 2025, the U.S. was on track to set a new yearly record in the number of reported data breaches.
That’s according to data comp...
Sen. Kelly says Trump doesn't “understand the Constitution”
Facing the threat of a potential military court martial and possible questions from the FBI, Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona spoke to NPR's Scot...
Navigating vaccine misinformation with a pediatrician
The CDC recently rewrote its vaccine guidance to suggest shots might cause autism, renewing false claims about vaccines and causing anxiety among pare...