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Chicago's mayor pushes back as Trump administration readies immigration crackdown 📅 September 01, 2025 at 12:21AM | Joe Hernandez data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> Brandon Johnson signed an executive order barring the city's police from collaborating with federal officers on civil immigration enforcement operations, and U.S. military personnel on police patrols. (Image credit: Nam Y. Huh) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Texas advances bill allowing citizens to sue makers and distributors of abortion pills 📅 August 30, 2025 at 05:44PM | Scott Simon data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> Texas lawmakers are on track to pass one of the toughest laws aimed at reducing the use of abortion medication, one way people still have abortions in a state that has banned them. 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

My son loved his first day of kindergarten. It brings up my own bittersweet memories 📅 August 30, 2025 at 12:04AM | James Kassaga Arinaitwe data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> When his son began kindergarten this week, educator James Kassaga Arinaitwe flashed back to his own initiation into school, growing up in Uganda under far humbler circumstances. (Image credit: Ben de la Cruz/NPR) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

The federal government is taking over D.C.'s Union Station. What does that mean? 📅 August 29, 2025 at 12:29AM | Rachel Treisman data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> The Department of Transportation says it will be "reclaiming management" of the transportation hub, which it has owned since the 1980s. D.C.'s mayor says that would be an "amazing initiative." (Image credit: Valerie Plesch) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Whatever happened to the women in the 'No Sex for Fish' group? 📅 August 29, 2025 at 12:26AM | Viola Kosome data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> NPR first wrote about the group "No Sex for Fish" in 2019 — Kenyan women out to end the practice of trading sex to a fisherman in exchange for his catch to sell. Since then they're faced tribulations. (Image credit: Julia Gunther for NPR) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Brands are loving Taylor Swift's engagement. Do they need to calm down? 📅 August 28, 2025 at 12:16AM | Rachel Treisman data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> Companies from Pillsbury to Invisalign to Olipop are cheering — and trying to cash in on — the couple's engagement. Experts spoke to NPR about how brands can strike a better balance. (Image credit: Ezra Shaw) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers 📅 August 27, 2025 at 12:02AM | Geoff Brumfiel data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> A whistleblower complaint says that the personal data of over 300 million Americans was copied to a private cloud account to allow access by members of the Department of Government Efficiency team. (Image credit: Wesley Lapointe) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Trump again calls for FCC to revoke ABC and NBC licenses 📅 August 26, 2025 at 03:28AM | David Folkenflik data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> President Trump lashed out on social media late Sunday against ABC and NBC, putting the nation's top broadcast regulator once more at the center of his culture wars. (Image credit: John McDonnell/Getty Images) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre's memoir will be published months after her death 📅 August 26, 2025 at 02:07AM | Bill Chappell data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> Virginia Giuffre was one of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's most outspoken accusers. Six months after her death, Giuffre's book detailing her life will be published. (Image credit: Bebeto Matthews) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Kennedy Center names new director of dance programming, days after former staff firings 📅 August 26, 2025 at 12:19AM | Anastasia Tsioulcas data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> Stephen Nakagawa, a former Washington Ballet dancer, will be the new director of dance programming. The announcement comes five days after the Kennedy Center's previous chief was dismissed. 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Millions in West facing dangerous heatwave amid multiple wildfires 📅 August 25, 2025 at 12:56AM | Chandelis Duster data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> Parts of California, Oregon and Washington state will experience extreme heat at least through Tuesday, forecasters said. (Image credit: Damian Dovarganes) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Illinois officials blast Trump's threat to deploy National Guard in Chicago 📅 August 24, 2025 at 11:58PM | Joe Hernandez data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> Earlier in August, Trump deployed hundreds of National Guard members to Washington, D.C., as part of what he touted as an effort to reduce crime and root out homelessness. (Image credit: Scott Olson) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

RAINBOW CROSSWALK PROTEST 📅 August 23, 2025 at 05:47PM | Joe Byrnes data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> The rainbow crosswalk in front of Orlando's Pulse nightclub was removed by Florida transportation officials. The crosswalk was a memorial for those killed in a 2016 mass shooting at the gay bar. 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Canada removes some of its retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. 📅 August 23, 2025 at 12:08AM | The Associated Press data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> Canada is dropping retaliatory tariffs to match U.S. tariff exemptions for goods covered under the United States-Mexico-Canada trade pact, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday. (Image credit: Darryl Dyck) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Trump says he's going on patrol in DC with the National Guard 📅 August 22, 2025 at 01:47AM | Franco Ordoñez data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> President Trump says he wants to see for himself how National Guard soldiers and police officers are cracking down on what he has described as rampant crime in Washington, D.C. (Image credit: Kevin Dietsch) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Artificial light has essentially lengthened birds' day 📅 August 22, 2025 | Nell Greenfieldboyce data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> Millions of audio recordings of hundreds of bird species have revealed that artificial light is making the birds wake up earlier and go to bed later. (Image credit: Rasit Aydogan) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

One civilian injured in crash with D.C. National Guard military vehicle 📅 August 21, 2025 at 02:17AM | Luke Garrett data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> The military vehicle, which is designed to withstand explosive attacks, collided with a "civilian vehicle" just after 6 a.m. on Wednesday in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. (Image credit: Jose Luis Magana) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp

Dependent on foreign sales, U.S. wheat farmers hoping longtime partners stick with them 📅 August 21, 2025 at 01:32AM | Kirk Siegler data-ad-slot="1234567890" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"> As President Trump's tariffs kick in, American companies that rely on imports are worried about rising costs and passing them onto consumers. But some U.S. exporters are worried too. (Image credit: Kirk Siegler) 🔗 Read Full Article → Share: Facebook | Twitter | WhatsApp