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Automakers are eating the cost of tariffs — for now 📅 July 31, 2025 at 12:21AM | Camila Domonoske data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> Last quarter, tariffs cost the auto industry billions of dollars. So far, that's come out of profits instead of being passed along to buyers. But that could change. (Image credit: Martin Meissner) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Has NASA ceded its mission to Elon Musk? 📅 July 30, 2025 at 11:50PM | Tonya Mosley data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> The Atlantic journalist Franklin Foer explains how SpaceX and the Trump administration are changing the face of NASA, and why Musk's dream of Mars may come at the cost of the agency's mission. 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Trump's EPA wants to eliminate regulation for greenhouse gases 📅 July 30, 2025 at 12:51AM | Jeff Brady data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> The Trump administration proposes eliminating a 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. That would undermine the EPA's climate change regulations for power plants and cars. (Image credit: Tierney L. Cross) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

The EPA proposes gutting its greenhouse gas rules. Here's what it means for cars and pollution 📅 July 29, 2025 at 11:52PM | Camila Domonoske data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> The Trump administration has effectively eliminated two rules designed to promote cleaner cars. Now, as the EPA suggests not considering carbon dioxide to be pollution, the last is poised to fall. (Image credit: Justin Sullivan) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Trump's homelessness executive order is 'cruel,' says Alexandria, Va. mayor 📅 July 28, 2025 at 03:02PM | Destinee Adams data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> Alexandria, Virginia Mayor Alyia Gaskins discusses how a Housing First approach has helped her city — and why President Trump's executive order on homelessness could hurt efforts to house people. (Image credit: Gerald Herbert) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Tom Lehrer, influential musical satirist, dies at 97 📅 July 28, 2025 at 05:16AM | Art Silverman data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> The songwriter and math professor found a following with his satirical political songs. (Image credit: Evening Standard) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

The fascinating career of Ichiro Suzuki 📅 July 28, 2025 at 03:43AM | Jeffrey Pierre data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> Ichiro Suzuki has just been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. NPR's Scott Detrow talks to Shannon Drayer about one of the most fascinating careers in Major League Baseball history. 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

USA swim team members recovering from stomach bug at world championships 📅 July 28, 2025 at 03:35AM | Chandelis Duster data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> Some USA swim team members have missed events during the competition. (Image credit: Vincent Thian) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Trump sets EU tariff at 15%, lower than his original threat, after meeting in Scotland 📅 July 28, 2025 at 12:14AM | Franco Ordoñez data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> Trump had most recently threatened tariffs of 30% on imports from the European Union. But on Sunday, he met with the president of the European Commission, and they agreed to a lower level. (Image credit: Brendan Smialowski) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Questions about Epstein files follow lawmakers home 📅 July 25, 2025 at 01:44AM | Carmen Russell-Sluchansky data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> It's just the start of a summer recess for Congress, but already House Republicans are being asked questions back home about the push to release records related to the late Jeffrey Epstein. (Image credit: Tom Williams) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Supreme Court keeps a pause for now on a ruling that weakens the Voting Rights Act 📅 July 25, 2025 at 12:52AM | Hansi Lo Wang data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> The Supreme Court has extended a pause, for now, on a lower court ruling that struck down a key tool for protecting minority voters under the Voting Rights Act in seven states. (Image credit: Jemal Countess) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Trump's cuts to National Parks are real but many visitors aren't seeing them yet 📅 July 25, 2025 at 12:46AM | Kirk Siegler data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> DOGE cuts to the National Park Service spawned fears of widespread problems for park visitors during peak summer season, as parks continue to see record visit numbers. The cuts are real, but mostly invisible. (Image credit: Kirk Siegler) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Why ending 'The Late Show' is a Paramount error 📅 July 24, 2025 at 12:21AM | David Bianculli data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> CBS canceled Stephen Colbert's late night show last week. By not appreciating, defending and nurturing The Late Show Paramount is muzzling its best voices, and diluting its own broadcast future. 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Trump deflects from questions about Epstein probe with accusations about Obama 📅 July 23, 2025 at 12:05AM | Saige Miller data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> President Trump is facing questions about the death of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. On Tuesday, he deflected by pivoting to long-held accusations about his Democratic opponents. (Image credit: Chip Somodevilla) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Airline pilot was about to land in N.D. when he saw a B-52 'coming at us' 📅 July 22, 2025 at 01:22AM | Bill Chappell data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> A Delta Connection flight from Minneapolis was preparing to land in Minot, N.D., when the flight crew spotted a large military aircraft flying toward them. (Image credit: Screenshot by NPR) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

After his father died in the hospital, a nurse held him in his arms 📅 July 22, 2025 at 12:11AM | Ryan Katz data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> Alek Hermon didn't think much of his father's overnight nurse until his father died. (Image credit: Hermon family photo) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Beyond polo shirts and presidents, Martha's Vineyard has an indigenous past and present 📅 July 22, 2025 at 12:04AM | Tonya Mosley data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> In Nothing More of This Land, Aquinnah Wampanoag writer Joseph Lee takes readers past the celebrity summer scene and into the heart of Noepe, the name his people have called the island for centuries. (Image credit: Don Emmert) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

After plea deals are canceled, what happens next with the Guantanamo 9/11 trials? 📅 July 21, 2025 at 03:57AM | Sacha Pfeiffer data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> Georgetown University Law professor Stephen Vladeck explains where things stand with the 9/11 Guantanamo cases now that the plea deals have been canceled. 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp